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The sins of her sons - Part III

John, or Seán, Sullivan or O’Sullivan / Seaghán Ó Súilleabháin—let’s just call him Seán (1899–1973)—was a motor mechanic whose pension application brought his Belfast service into the records of the Free State Army. He applied on 16 February 1925 from the 24th Infantry Battalion at Dundalk. The printed form warned that the onus of proof rested on the ap…