Eamon Broy

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Eamon "Ned" Broy
Olympic Council of Ireland

Eamon "Ned" Broy

Olympic Council of Ireland
for fifteen years.

Career

RIC / pre-independence

Broy joined the Royal Irish Constabulary on 2 August 1910, and the Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) on 20 January 1911.[4]

Broy was a

intelligence branch of the DMP. While there, he copied sensitive files for IRA leader Michael Collins and passed many of these files on to Collins through Thomas Gay, the librarian at Capel Street Library. On 7 April 1919, Broy smuggled Collins into G Division's archives in Great Brunswick Street (now Pearse Street), enabling him to identify "G-Men", six of whom would be killed by the IRA.[7] Broy supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and joined the National Army during the Irish Civil War, reaching the rank of colonel. In 1925, he left the Army and joined the Garda Síochána.[8]

Post-independence

Broy's elevation to the post of Commissioner came when Fianna Fáil replaced Cumann na nGaedheal as the government. Other more senior officers were passed over as being too sympathetic to the outgoing party.[8]

In 1934 Broy oversaw the creation of "The Auxiliary

Provisional IRA.[13]

Volunteer role

Broy was President of the

Standing Committee of the Irish Amateur Handball Association.[15]

Death and legacy

He died on 22 January 1972 at his residence in the Dublin suburb of Rathgar.[16]

On 17 September 2016, a memorial to Broy was unveiled in Coolegagen Cemetery, County Offaly, close to his childhood home. His daughter Áine was in attendance, as were representatives of the government, the Air Corps, and the Garda Síochana.[17]

In fiction

Neil Jordan's film Michael Collins (1996) inaccurately depicts Broy (played by actor Stephen Rea) as having been arrested, tortured and killed by SIS agents. In addition, G Division was based not in Dublin Castle, as indicated in the film, but in Great Brunswick Street. Collins had a different agent in the Castle, David Neligan.[18] Broy is also mentioned and makes an appearance in Michael Russell's detective novel The City of Shadows, set partly in Dublin in the 1930s, published by HarperCollins in 2012.

References

  1. ^ Spelt Eamon, not Eamonn: see for example "STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1937. No. 192. DUBLIN TAXIMETER AREA FARE BYE-LAWS". Government of Ireland. 1937. Archived from the original on 23 November 2007. Retrieved 4 January 2007. I, Eamon Broy, Commissioner of the Gárda Síochána
  2. ISBN 0-7735-0888-0
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  3. ^ "List of Garda Commissioners since 1922". Garda Síochána. Archived from the original on 23 August 2010. Retrieved 7 June 2010.
  4. ^ "Broy, Eamon ('Ned') | Dictionary of Irish Biography".
  5. ISBN 1-84603-023-4
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  6. ISBN 978-0801871177
    ), page 336
  7. ^ Cottrell, op. cit., pg 53.
  8. ^
    ISBN 0-19-924269-0
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  9. ISBN 0-19-927655-2
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  10. ^ "Bray Harriers website in 2016". Archived from the original on 3 December 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  11. ISBN 1-56000-901-2
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  12. ^ ""Cork Shootings"; Senate Debate, 6 September 1934". Archived from the original on 29 January 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  13. ^ http://www.irsp.ie/news/?p=960[permanent dead link]
  14. ISSN 0251-3498. Archived
    (PDF) from the original on 9 August 2010. Retrieved 4 January 2007.
  15. ^ Osborne, Chrissy (2010). Michael Collins: A Life in Pictures. Mercier Press. p. 80.
  16. ^ "Broy, Eamon ('Ned') | Dictionary of Irish Biography".
  17. ^ "Eamon Broy".
  18. ^ Neligan, David. The Spy in the Castle. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1968.
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