Pádraig Ó Cuinn

Born in Liverpool, he was raised in Newry where he attended the Abbey Christian Brothers Grammar School.

[citation needed] During the War of Independence he commanded a unit that operated against the British in Dublin city centre.

[2] He was severely wounded in the conflict and interned in the Curragh, where he watched his brother, Sean, die from neglect in an adjoining hospital bed.

[3] Quinn had tried to escape an ambush at a safe house in Co. Louth at the end of the Civil War before being taken prisoner.

[citation needed] Pádraig Quinn married Marguerite Magennis of the Priory House (Chapel Street, Newry); the couple had 5 children: Sean, Ann, Deirdre, Felim and Niall.