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as the military leader of the old IRA in the war of independence from Britain, a guerrilla conflict in the main, and later as commander of the army of the Irish free state when he fought his old comrades in the IRA in the Irish civil war of the early 1920s. it was during a skirmish in this war that he was shot, not too far from his birthplace in cork.

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