Joseph Guilfoyle

The Irish Times. December 27, 1973

Lt.-Col. Joseph Guilfoyle, who died yesterday at Glencree, Earlwood Estate,
Cork ages 76, joined the Volunteers at a meeting in the Rotunda Hospital in
Dublin in 1913 and served with "B" Company, 3rd Battalion, Dublin Brigade, in the Bolands Mill area in Easter Week 1916 and in subsequent actions. Born in Dublin and educated by the Christian Brothers, Lt.-Col. Guilfoyle served again with the 3rd Battalion in (Michael) Collins's headquarters staff between 1919 and 1921. He was a captain and commandant with Intelligence and other staff in the period 1922 to 1928 and was then transferred to the reserve of officers. He took up an appointment with the Electricity Supply Board, but in 1939 was recalled for the Emergency during which time he served as a commandant and later a lieutenant- colonel in 1941 when he was appointed deputy-director of Intelligence, then known as G2, until the end of the Emergency. He then returned to the E.S.B. from which he retired 11 years ago, when he took up a position with the Hospitals' Trust in Cork.

• Name: Joseph Guilfoyle
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 1897
• Address Detail 1: 101 Ceannts Fort, Mount Brown, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
• Address Detail 2: Islandbridge Barracks, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
• Address Detail 3: Innisfail, Kimmage Road, Harold's Cross, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
• Address Detail 4: 203 Lower Kimmage Road, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
• Death Date: 26 Dec 1973
• File Reference: 24SP7912
• Associated Files in MSPA: 24C187;
• Award Pension: Yes
• Easter Rising Service: Yes
• Easter Rising Place: Dublin and South Eastern Railway Line, Dublin (between Westland Row and Lansdowne Road) Boland's Bakery/Boland's Mills, Grand Canal Street, Dublin
• Organisation: Irish Volunteers
• Unit: 3 Battalion
• Division: General Headquarters
• Company: A Company
• Brigade: Dublin Brigade
• Commanding Officers: Joseph O' Connor; Sean Guilfoyle;
• National Army Service Number: SDR1143
• Organisation 2: Irish Republican Army
• Unit 2: 3 Battalion
• Division 2: General Headquarters
• Company 2: A Company
• Brigade 2: Dublin Brigade
• Commanding Officers 2: Sean Guifoyle;
• National Army Service Number 2: SDR1143
• Organisation 3: Irish Republican Army
• Rank 3: Staff Officer
• Brigade 3: Intelligence
• Commanding Officers 3: Liam Tobin
• National Army Service Number 3: SDR1143
• Organisation 4: Óglaigh na hÉireann/National Forces
• Brigade 4: Intelligence
• National Army Service Number 4: SDR1143
• Pension Claim: Yes
• Army Pensions Act 1923/1953: No
• Military Service Pensions Acts 1924: Yes
• Grade: C
• Military Service Pensions Acts 1934: No
• Military Service Pensions Acts 1949: No
• File Dates: 11 February 1925 - 18 August 1977
• Subject Information: File relates to Joseph Guilfoyle's receipt of a military service pension in respect of his service with the Irish Volunteers, IRA and National Forces between 1 April 1916 and 30 September 1923. Following his participation in the 1916 Easter Rising Josep h Guilfoyle was interned until August of that year. Between 1917 and early 1920 Guilfoyle took part in the reorganisation of the Irish Volunteers and served as a Squad Commander and Company Quartermaster. In early 1920 Joseph Guilfoyle joined the IRA General Headquarters Intelligence staff serving there until arrested and interned between February and May 1921. Joining the National Army in February 1922 Joseph Guilfoyle served throughout the Civil War and retired to the Defence Forces Reserve of Officers in 1930. He continued to serve as a Reserve Officer with some full time service from 1939 during the Emergency (Second World War) until [retiring] at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in [1956] File includes: material relating to subject's National Army and Defence Forces service record; signed statements regarding claimant's service from Captain James McAuley, Gárda Síochána Chief Superintendent David Neligan, Commandant A. O' Neill, Captain Peadar O' Mara, Commandant Liam Murphy, Colonel Sean Guilfoyle, Commandant Leo O' Brien, Captain Patrick Byrne, Major General Sean MacMahon, Commandant C. Farrell, Commandant Christopher Carberry and Joseph O' Reilly; handwritten notes [of evidence given by Jospeh Guilfoyle before the Board of Assessors, Military Service Pensions Act, 1924]; material relating to Joseph Guilfoyle's employment with the Electricity Supply Board (ESB); material (18 February 1930 - 24 January 1944), including internal Department of Defence memoranda/correpondence/minutes, correspondence between Joseph Guilfoyle and the Department of Defence and the Department of Defence and the Office of the Chief State Solicitor regarding the question of whether salaries and wages received by employees of E.S.B. were to be considered as public monies from the point of view of the military service pension acts; and material relating to Joseph Guilfoyle's widow, son and two (2) daughters - partly closed. Related Files: SDR1143 subject's National Army and Defence Forces officers service number; Notes 1: Awarded 14 years service for pension purposes in 1927

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