National Army Soldier Andrew Hogan

National Army Soldier Andrew Hogan (aged 24) of 17 William O’Brien Street (Old Bridge), Clonmel, Co. Tipperary (Enniskeane)

Date of incident: 4 Nov. 1922

Sources: Death Certificate (Bandon District, Union of Bandon), 7 Nov. 1922; CE, 6, 7, 10 Nov. 1922; II, 7 Nov. 1922; Belfast Newsletter, 7 Nov. 1922; SS, 11 Nov. 1922; Meath Chronicle, 11 Nov. 122; Anglo-Celt, 11 Nov. 1922; MSPC/2D73 (Military Archives); CW/OPS/04/13 (Military Archives); Keane (2017), 320-21, 419.

Note: Private Andrew Hogan, a Lewis gunner, was mortally wounded at Enniskeane during a major engagement lasting about five hours on Saturday, 4 November 1922, and involving two parties of Free State troops, one with two officers and thirty-eight men based at Ballineen and the other with one officer and twenty-five men at Enniskeane. They came under attack from a substantial and determined body of Irregulars, estimated to number ‘two hundred at the least’. There were significant casualties on both sides. See CE, 6, 7 Nov. 1922. Private Hogan died in the Bandon Military Hospital on 7 November from a gunshot wound to his right thigh received at Enniskeane three days earlier, according to his pension file. He had joined the National Army on 30 May 1922. He was then aged 24 and unmarried. See MSPC/2D73 (Military Archives).

At the time of his death Andrew Hogan was serving with the First Battalion, Dublin Brigade, attached to Second Company of the South Eastern Division of the National Army. During the War of Independence, for two years, he had been a member of A Company of the Fifth Battalion of the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA. During the Great War he had served in the British army and was receiving a disability pension of £1 a week arising from his British wartime service. In civilian life after 1918 he had worked as a van driver for the Clonmel Co-operative Society (at £2 5s. a week) and for the Clonmel branch of the Tipperary County Council (at £2 a week). His father Michael Hogan was awarded a gratuity of £75 (after an appeal) in consideration of the death of his son Andrew. See MSPC/2D73.

Andrew Hogan was in 1911 one of the ten living children (eleven born) of the bread-van driver Michael Hogan and his wife Mary. Of these ten children, only four (all daughters) co-resided with their parents in that year at 17 William O’Brien Street in Clonmel. These four daughters ranged in age from 1 to 19, and their parents had been married for twenty years. Their son Andrew Hogan was then living elsewhere.