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Date Posted: 17:22:17 10/08/07 Mon GMT
Author: Lynn
Subject: Obit: Dan Keating, IRa, last surviving veteran of 1919-21 Uprising (Washington Post)

Obituaries
Monday, October 8, 2007;

Dan Keating IRA Member
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Dan Keating, 105, an IRA member believed to be the last surviving veteran of Ireland's 1919-21 war of independence from Britain, died Oct. 2 in a Dublin nursing home. No cause of death was reported.

Mr. Keating joined the 1st Kerry Brigade of the Irish Republican Army in 1920 and, as a rifleman, took part in two major 1921 ambushes that left at least five police officers, four British soldiers and five IRA members dead.

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He joined the IRA faction that opposed the 1921 peace treaty with Britain and fought against former IRA colleagues in Ireland's 1922-23 civil war. He was eventually captured by Irish Free State forces and spent seven months in a prisoner-of-war camp.

Mr. Keating spent his entire adult life committed to the most hard-line branch of Irish republicanism. He said Ireland should never be at peace until the border dividing the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland -- both states he considered illegitimate -- was eliminated and the island united under one government. He so opposed the Republic that he refused to accept the state's old-age pension. In 2002 he also refused a $3,500 award from President Mary McAleese that is offered to Irish citizens who reach age 100; Keating said she wasn't the real president of Ireland.

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