13 Facts About Dinny Lacey

Denis Lacey was an Irish Republican Army officer during the Irish War of Independence and anti-Treaty IRA officer during the Irish Civil War.

Dinny Lacey was born in 1889 in a village called Attybrick, near Annacarty, County Tipperary.

Dinny Lacey worked as a clerk and manager of a coal merchant in Tipperary Town, prior to the Irish War of Independence.

Dinny Lacey joined the Irish Volunteers in 1913 and was sworn into the secretive Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1914.

Dinny Lacey was introduced to the IRB by Sean Treacy.

Dinny Lacey strongly opposed the Treaty and most of his men followed suit.

Dinny Lacey took over commanded of the Third Tipperary Brigade as Seumas Robinson was appointed to command the anti-Treaty IRA's Second Southern Division.

Just prior to the start of the Civil War Dinny Lacey led a successful raid on the barracks at Clonmel in which hundreds of rifles, 200,000 rounds of ammunition, bombs, and multiple armoured cars were seized by the republicans.

Dinny Lacey was killed in an action against Free State troops at Ballydavid, near Bansha in the Glen of Aherlow on 18 February 1923.

Dinny's brother Joe Lacey died on 24 December 1923 in the Curragh Camp hospital from his weakened condition caused by his participation in the 1923 Irish Hunger Strikes which had ended a month earlier.

Joe Lacey died ten months after the death of his brother Dinny.

Dinny Lacey is buried at St Michaels cemetery in his native County Tipperary.

Dinny Lacey is mentioned in the Irish folk ballad "The Galtee Mountain Boy", along with Sean Moylan, Dan Breen, and Sean Hogan.