EOIN O'DUFFY

• Born: January 28, 1890
• Died: November 30, 1944
• Nationality: British, Irish
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Eoin O'Duffy was a fascist Irish nationalist politician, military commander and police commissioner. He was the leader of the Monaghan Brigade of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and a prominent figure in the Ulster IRA during the Irish War of Independence. In this capacity he became Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1922. He accepted the Anglo-Irish Treaty and served as a general in the National Army in the Irish Civil War, on the pro-Treaty side.