1923-22

National Army Soldier Peter Clune

 

National Army Soldier Peter Clune (about 22) of Quin, Co. Clare (Carbery House, Dunmanway)

Date of incident: 5 March 1923

Sources: CE, 10 March 1923; II, 12 March 1923; SS, 24 March 1923; MSPC/3D190 (Military Archives); Keane (2017), 354-55, 422.

 

Note: Private Peter Clune, serving with the First Western Division of the National Army, was shot in Dunmanway on Monday, 5 March 1923. He was stationed in the local headquarters at Carbery House there when ‘a bullet from a revolver which a comrade was hauling’ went off accidentally and ‘passed through his forehead when he was lying in bed’. Clune ‘was a most popular and brave soldier and has a splendid record with the old I.R.A. and National forces’. See CE, 10 March 1923. He died in Bandon Military Hospital on 17 March. He had been a farm labourer in civilian life. His father Daniel Clune was awarded a gratuity of £100 in consideration of his son’s death. See MSPC/3D190 (Military Archives).

Peter Clune was in 1911 one of the five living children (eight born) of the farmer Daniel Clune and his wife Mary. Living with them in that year at house 25 in Quin village in County Clare were three sons and two daughters ranging in age from 5 months to 10 years old. Peter Clune (then aged 10) was their eldest child.

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