Catholics pretending to be Protestants in Ireland?

[Sinann]

On the death cert for John Joseph Long it says ex Army, do you know about this Army service?

[Dannyboy20]

I know nothing at all about that I'm afraid to say...I have literally, near On zero knowledge of that side....which army would that have been?

[Dannyboy20]

The only knowledge is my grandmother Grace was born and raised in Avoca in County Wicklow...and her parents names...that's all I know.

[Sinann]

I know nothing at all about that I'm afraid to say...I have literally, near On zero knowledge of that side....which army would that have been?

Could be either, if as the death cert suggests he was born 1885ish he could have joined the British Army and that is where he trained to be engine fitter and might explain why we can't find him in the census, but it could have been the Irish Army after 1922. Did you ever get his daughter's marriage cert, that would have his occupation at the time she married.

Do you know when his wife died or her age at the time?

[Maiden Stone]

The only knowledge is my grandmother Grace was born and raised in Avoca in County Wicklow...and her parents names...that's all I know.

I know this information is on one of your other threads, but would you tell us again the names of Grace's parents + her father's occupation on her birth registration? 

[Dannyboy20]

I don't know when my gt grandmother Mary died unfortunately...their names are John Joseph Long and Mary Frances McIntyre...my grandparents married in Rathdrum, Wicklow in 1952

[Dannyboy20]

Also would her fathers occupation be on the marriage cert too if I can find that?

[heywood]

Yes.
Her father’s name and occupation would be on the marriage certificate.

This might help re applying for the certificate
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/civil-records/help/i-want-to-get-a-copy-of-a-certificate-what-do-i-do

[Sinann]

Grasping at straws here
There is a John Joseph Long born 1887 to John Long and Maryanne Kelly in Greystones, think the father is a gardener.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1887/02573/1951320.pdf

and there is a John Long born Wicklow c1887 Royal Engineers during WWI. WR/502503

Some of the Census records for Greystones in 1901 appear to be missing and I don't see the family in 1911.
If he only served for WWI it's a bit of a push to but ex Army on his death cert.