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Simon Donnelly (1891 - 1966) was a member of the Irish Republican Army and a founder member of both Córas na Poblachta and Clann na Poblachta. Donnelly was born in Dublin, the son of a master plumber.〔http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000193888/〕 He was the sixth of eight surviving children. The 1911 Census lists him living with his family at 34 Wexford Street.〔 Apprenticed as a plumber, he became involved in the Irish Volunteers. During the Easter Rising of 1916 he was the commander of C Company of Éamon de Valera's command in Boland's Mill. He was Vice-Commandant of the 3rd Battalion of the Dublin Brigade of the IRA during the War of Independence. On 10 February 1921 he was arrested. Four days later he escaped from Kilmainham Gaol along with Ernie O'Malley and Frank Teeling.〔(PRISONERS ESCAPE BY RUSE. - Uniforms of Captured Soldiers Smuggled In to Them. - View Article - NYTimes.com )〕 Returning to his command in the IRA, he was appointed chief of the Irish Republican Police in mid-1921 as part of an attempt to enforce law and order in those areas of the country where the Royal Irish Constabulary had been forced out. Donnelly took the anti-Treaty side in the Civil War. He founded the National Association of the Old IRA in an attempt to mend some of the rifts in the Republican Movement. He was a member of the provisional National Executive of the Republican Prisoners' Release Association.〔(The Secret Army: The Ira - J. Bowyer Bell - Google Boeken )〕 On 2 March 1940, he was one of the founders of Córas na Poblachta and served as its president.〔(Clann Na Poblachta - Eithne MacDermott - Google Boeken )〕 He became a founding member of Clann na Poblachta in 1946.〔 As one of the most senior surviving veterans of the Rising, he played a prominent role in the 50th anniversary commemorations in 1966. He died in December of that year.〔("simon donnelly" - The Irish Times - Search )〕 ==See also== Patrick Moran (Irish republican) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Simon Donnelly (Irish republican)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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