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Eoin O`Duffy`s role in Irish sport - event in Armagh
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18-Nov-2008 14:54
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The Cardinal Ó Fiaich Library & Archive, Armagh, is pleased to announce it’s latest Heritage Lottery Fund supported event, entitled, Eoin O’Duffy’s Role in Irish Sport: Ambassador or Embarrassment? on Wednesday 26 November 2008 at 7.30 pm.
It is now 75 years since the foundation of the Fine Gael party and of the Blueshirts movement in 1933, with Eoin O’Duffy at their head – a political involvement which accelerated his downfall as a sporting official. Previously O’Duffy, a Monaghan native, had been not only a leader of the IRA and subsequently the first Commissioner of An Garda Síochána. he had also been an officer of the GAA’s Ulster Council and for a period a Central Council member, president of the National Athletic & Cycling Association, and a patron of numerous diverse sporting bodies. He had even represented Ireland at international Olympic meetings, and proposed the reconstruction of Croke Park as a national stadium to host the Olympic Games. But today, mention of his name generally evokes derision and contempt.
In the first talk of the evening, Preaching the Gospel of National Virility, Dr Fearghal McGarry (Queen’s University ) , author of Eoin O’Duffy: A Self-Made Hero, will outline how O’Duffy’s rapid rise through the GAA ranks became a springboard for his (para ) military and political prominence, in which roles he ensured priority status for Gaelic games in the Free State. The lecture will then focus on his ascent to an ambassadorial role in Irish athletics, during which time he regularly extolled the physical and moral virtues of sport to the national well-being. As Dr McGarry will point out, however, O’Duffy’s conduct in private was often at variance with his public messages.
The second talk, by Dónal McAnallen of the CÓFLA outreach staff, is entitled, “The Best Man by far in Ulster”?: O’Duffy’s Legacy to Northern Sport, 1912-44. The title quotes a remark by Michael Collins about O’Duffy and will employ newly available sources at the library, including early minute books of the GAA’s Ulster Council. The talk will explain how O’Duffy became a martyr in the Ulster GAA – being arrested by “armed aliens” at one of its meetings in Armagh – and its external ambassador in the Dublin government in the 1920s, before opposition to his political role and alleged financial negligence caused his departure from sporting office in the early 1930s.
Admission to the event is free.
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General O`Duffy - a soft touch for hurlers? - Chronicles of An Fear Rua
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18-Nov-2008 17:34
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The family of Michael Joseph Staines might have something to say about your statement that Eoin O Duffy was the first Garda Commissioner.
Staines was a P.O.W. in Frongoch Camp with Michael Collins. He took the Pro Treaty Side and was appointed the first Garda Commissioner. He lasted three months. If I am not wrong he resigned after a mutiny in the Curragh Camp. I think that there was a lot of objections to former R.I.C. men being allowed back in to the police.
Apart from O Duffys Facist tendencies inlcuding rounding up a crew to support Franco in the Spanish Civil War he was a good sports administrator and was the main reason why Garda Boxers, Athletes etc did so well during the late 20s and early 30s.
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Originally posted by an bearna baoil:
The family of Michael Joseph Staines might have something to say about your statement that Eoin O Duffy was the first Garda Commissioner.
Staines was a P.O.W. in Frongoch Camp with Michael Collins. He took the Pro Treaty Side and was appointed the first Garda Commissioner. He lasted three months. If I am not wrong he resigned after a mutiny in the Curragh Camp. I think that there was a lot of objections to former R.I.C. men being allowed back in to the police.
Apart from O Duffys Facist tendencies inlcuding rounding up a crew to support Franco in the Spanish Civil War he was a good sports administrator and was the main reason why Garda Boxers, Athletes etc did so well during the late 20s and early 30s.
Apologies and thanks for the correction. I`ll pass your comment on to the people in Armagh Library.
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