Joseph O'Sullivan

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Joseph O'Sullivan
Lance Corporal
UnitRoyal Munster Fusiliers
London Regiment
London IRA
Battles/warsWorld War I

Joseph O'Sullivan (25 January 1897 โ€“ 10 August 1922), along with fellow

Wandsworth Prison.[2][3] The event provided the inspiration for the film Odd Man Out
.

O'Sullivan's father, John, was originally from

First World War and lost a leg at Ypres in 1917.[4]

On being discharged from the army in 1918, O'Sullivan was employed by the

Ministry of Munitions and, when the war ended, was transferred to the Ministry of Labour where he worked as a messenger. The Ministry of Labour was located in Montagu House, later demolished and replaced by the present day Ministry of Defence. Montagu House was located adjacent to Scotland Yard.[citation needed
]

He became a member of the IRA detachment in London, and was named by Rex Taylor as being responsible for the execution of Vincent Fovargue as a British spy at the Ashford Golf Links, Middlesex, on 2 April 1921 with a label pinned to his body stating "Let spies and traitors beware, IRA".[5] Fovargue had been an officer in the Dublin IRA.[citation needed]

O'Sullivan's brother, Patrick, the first Vice-Commandant of the London IRA during its early days in 1919 but was seconded to the Cork No. 1 Brigade during the

Anti-Treaty IRA
during the Civil War and was wounded ten days after his brother was executed. Shortly before that, he had crossed over to England to participate in an abortive attempt to rescue Dunne and his brother.[citation needed]

In 1923, John O'Sullivan tried to have the remains of his son and Dunne released for a funeral Mass. But it was not until after the abolition of capital punishment in the UK that Patrick O'Sullivan, with the assistance of the Irish Republican

Deans Grange Cemetery, County Dublin
, Ireland.

Notes

  1. ^ Times Literary Supplement, 4 May 2007, p. 12.
  2. ISBN 1-874675-85-6
  3. ^ "Ronan McGreevy, 'The Felon's Cap is the Noblest Crown an Irish Head Can Wear'". The Irish Times. 8 August 2022.
  4. ^ James Mackay. Michael Collins: A Life, pg. 261.
  5. ISBN 0-04-445258-6
    .
  6. ISBN 9780951117248
    .
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