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The Staunchest Priest: Fr Michael O'Flanagan

The Staunchest Priest: Fr Michael O'Flanagan

Fr. Michael O’Flanagan was born in 1876 near Castlerea, Co. Roscommon. He went to school at Cloonboniffe and then attended secondary school at Summerhill College, Sligo. On graduating in 1894 he entered St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, where he was ordained for the Diocese of Elphin in 1900.

Following ordination he returned to Summerhill College and worked there as a teacher for a number of years. Between 1912 and 1914 he served in Rome.

He was appointed as curate to the parish of Ahamlish in North Sligo in 1914. Shortly afterwards he became involved in the first (of many) acts of social defiance. The incident came to be known as the Cloonerco Bog Fight where he agitated for turbary rights for the local people against the wishes of the Congested District Board and his own bishop.

In response Fr. O’Flanagan was transferred from Cliffoney to Crossna in Co. Roscommon from where he was to play a prominent role in the War of Independence during the following years. In 1917 his eloquence was a major contributory factor in the success of Sinn Féin candidate Count Plunkett in the first election contested by the republicans, which came to be known as the election of the snows. In the Summer of 1918 he was suspended from clerical duties because of his activities with Sinn Féin. He was Vice-President of Sinn Fein from 1917 and was chosen to recite the invocation at the first meeting of the newly proclaimed Dáil Éireann in January 1919. He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 but did not play a major part in the subsequent Civil War.

He was president of Sinn Féin from 1933 to 1935 but he was expelled from the party for participating in a Radio Éireann (2RN) broadcast in January 1936. He was one of the few Catholic priests who defended the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War, siding with such notable republicans as Peadar O'Donnell, George Gilmore and Frank Ryan. From 1932 he had been working on the preparation of County Histories in Irish and the first to be published was for his native Roscommon. Stair na gCondae 1 – Ros Comáin was published in 1938. The same year he was allowed to again say Mass in public and he died in Dublin on 8th August 1942 at the age of 66. He was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery on August 10th. His graveside oration was given by Sceilg

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Here's a glossary of terms:
A Specials - Full time special police created for Ulster
B Specials - Part time 'paramilitary' police
C Specials - A sort of reserve police who weren't really used
Ancient Order of Hibernians - a fraternal organisation utilised by constitutionalist Home Rule nationalists.
Black & Tans/Auxiliaries - Demobilised British soldiers recruited to replace the ailing RIC in Ireland and to wage war against the IRA. The War of Independence is sometimes known as 'the Tan War'
Dáil Courts - Revolutionary court system which supplanted the British one
Dáil Éireann - Revolutionary parliament set up by Sinn Fein MPs
IRA - Irish Republican Army - previously the Irish Volunteers
IRB - Irish Republican Brotherhood - a secret revolutionary society. Not endorsed by all the revolutionaries.
ITGWU - The Irish Transport & General Worker's Union. A trade union of a socialist/Republican persuasion.
Labour Party - The socialist political party who often made way for the Republican movement, for example didn't contest the 1918 general election so as not to muddy the waters.
Nationalist - also the Home Rulers, who wanted a devolved administration in Dublin.
Partition - the division of Ireland between the 26 county Free State to the South and the 6 county 'statelet' to the North, Northern Ireland.
Republican - Those who desired an independent Irish Republic
RIC - Royal Irish Constabulary (Irish Police)
RUC - Royal Ulster Constabulary (Northern Irish police - created later)
Sinn Fein - The political wing of the IRA, Republicans.
Unionist - Those loyal to the British crown, who wish to remain part of the United Kingdom

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