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Joseph McGarrity was a leading figure in the US Clan na Gael movement. The McGarrity papers (1972). Cronin's Clan na Gael contacts in the USA had given him access to the papers of Joseph McGarrity , lying neglected in private ownership. After two years' study, he published in the Irish Times (1969) an account of the light the papers shed on the Irish independence struggle, and also arranged for them to be deposited in the NLI. This was probably Cronin's greatest service to Irish historiography, although his publications remain useful, not least because they incorporate interviews with survivors such as George Gilmore.
Cronin was born in 1922, raised in Kerry, and was at various times a journalist, historian, Irish Army officer, and head of IRA operations in the 1950's.
This copy is from the library of the late John Wilson, former FF Tánaiste, and bears his signature and the date August 1982.
Anvil Books 1972.
