1. Timothy Crowley was an Irish revolutionary who was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
16 Facts About Timothy Crowley
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Timothy Crowley was involved in the Fenian Rising of 1867, and was the secretary of the IRB in Hospital, County Limerick.
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Timothy Crowley was the patriarch of the prominent Irish republican Crowley family of Ballylanders, and the father of the longest hunger strikers in history, John Crowley and Peter Crowley, and the Fianna Fail Politician Tadhg Crowley.
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Timothy Crowley was born in late July, 1847, in the small village of Elton, County Limerick.
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Timothy Crowley was the eldest son and second child of James Crowley and Bridget Dwyer, and was baptised on 31 July 1847 in the parish of Knockainey, with Thomas and Bridget Dwyer as his sponsors.
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Timothy Crowley's father was a herdsman employed by George Gubbins, Esquire, who allowed the Crowleys to live on a small one-acre holding in a small, thatched cottage.
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Elton's population was reduced by over 100 people during the Great Famine, with Timothy having been born in its worst year, known as "Black '47".
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Timothy Crowley would go on to name one of his sons in his honour.
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Timothy Crowley owned a camera and the equipment required to develop photographs, which he used for both personal and professional purposes.
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On 19 February 1887, Timothy Crowley married Ellen Ryan of nearby Killeen, a farmer's daughter, and sixteen years his junior.
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Timothy Crowley refused to give an answer upon consulting Eoin MacNeill on the matter, he and the rest of his family ceased their activities, on the surface at least.
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While, at first, Timothy Crowley was left alone by the British authorities, police arrived in Ballylanders not long after to interrogate him.
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Timothy Crowley was then arrested and thrown in Limerick Jail, where he was held without any charge.
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At the time of his arrest, Timothy Crowley had just recently turned 73.
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Timothy Crowley went on to declare that, "If he obtains the money allocated to him by the Crown, it will be used in all probability for the murder of the Crown forces".
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Timothy Crowley's funeral was widely reported upon, and was one of the largest ever seen in that part of Limerick.