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Eoin O'Duffy

1890 - 1944

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Eoin O'Duffy (born Owen Duffy; 28 January 1890 – 30 November 1944) was an Irish revolutionary, soldier, police commissioner and politician. O'Duffy 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eoin O'Duffy has received more than 530,819 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Eoin O'Duffy is the 555th most popular social activist (down from 485th in 2019), the 257th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 269th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Irish Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Eoin O'Duffy ranks 555 out of 840Before him are Roger Stone, Akira Amano, Octavia Hill, Veerappan, Lida Heymann, and Yelizaveta Chaikina. After him are Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Bill Haywood, Mamie Till, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Usha Mehta, and Urani Rumbo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Eoin O'Duffy ranks 214Before him are Benno Moiseiwitsch, Harry Babcock, Konstantin Vasilyevich Ivanov, Princess Victoria Margaret of Prussia, Ödön Tersztyánszky, and John Rupert Firth. After him are Konstantinos Georgakopoulos, Julie Vinter Hansen, Edward Arnold, Caesar ten Cate, Per Nilsson, and Béla Las-Torres. Among people deceased in 1944, Eoin O'Duffy ranks 282Before him are Merna Kennedy, Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Grigore Antipa, Carl Eduard Hellmayr, Juliette Atkinson, and Lev Shcherba. After him are Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Endre Steiner, John Dill, Katri Vala, Octav Băncilă, and Toni Merkens.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Eoin O'Duffy ranks 257 out of 549Before him are William Carr (1876), Andrew Scott (1976), Billy Whelan (1935), Owen Moore (1886), Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough (1779), and John Joly (1857). After him are William McGonagall (1825), Derek Daly (1953), Liam Brady (1956), Victor Herbert (1859), Michael Scott (1959), and Paddy Moloney (1938).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Ireland

Among social activists born in Ireland, Eoin O'Duffy ranks 4Before him are William Howard Russell (1820), Mary Harris Jones (1837), and Wolfe Tone (1763). After him are Robert Emmet (1778), and William Smith O'Brien (1803).