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John Marcus O'Sullivan, originally from Firies, was a butter merchant in Cork (Central Packing Company) and he is reputed to have been the man to arrange for Jim to be smuggled to Liverpool initially. His son Marcus was sent to New York to avoid conscription as he was training to become a teacher in London, . Marcus worked for The Gaelic American in New York where his boss was the fenian John Devoy. If anyone wants a copy of Jim's Australian Army service record send me a pm.I am not understanding the dates you have posted. Are you saying that he came to Australia after April 1916, then went to America, then came back in 1927?
Debra
Hello James was a 1st cousin of my Granny. Mary MacAuliffe's book says he he and his brother hid with a Fenian called Quirke in the hills. ...coincidentally his Aunt Judith/Julia (my Grans Gran) was married to a Quirke. I spoke recently to a distant relative that told me after being on the run Jim was smuggled in a Butter ship to the US and subsequently to Australia.
".... he served in the Irish Volunteers during the Easter Rebellion of 1916 and was subsequently awarded a pension, following his written application. Sadly he appears to have died prior to receiving any monies."
When did he apply for this pension?.1936 I can see that he would qualify for an Irish pension, for action in 1916, but it would be granted at a particular age, or when he was able to establish reduced capacity due to war related condition?
If he applied for this after his Australian war service, 1943+, is that because he did not receive an Australian war-related pension? Not sure he applied for or received any Using his birth year, 1898, or from enlistment file 1903, by death at 1949 he would not qualify for an ordinary civilian aged pension.
