Individual Details

Paddy attended Clonmel High School and then studied at a telegraphy college in England. Between 1918 and 1919 he served in the Merchant Navy before returning to Ireland where he worked for Michael Collins during the War of Independence (1919-1921). He later joined the Irish Free State Army. At the time of the marriage of his sister Pearlie in 1935, Paddy was a lieutenant based in the Curragh Camp in Co. Kildare. During World War II he worked in Shannon as a navigator/radio officer in the Irish Air Corps. He and his family later lived at 98 The Stiles Road, Clontarf, Dublin.

Birth	15 Mar 1900	Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
Marriage	1939	Bucklow, Cheshire - Honora (Nora) Annie M. HUTCHINSON
Death	1984	Drogheda, Co. Louth

Spouse	Honora (Nora) Annie M. HUTCHINSON (1912 - 1980)
Child	Living
Child	Living
Child	Patrick John MURPHY (1948 - 2023)

Father	William John MURPHY (1846 - 1932)
Mother	Mary Margaret CHEASTY (1867 - 1933)
Sibling	Marion Delia MURPHY (1898 - 1983)
Sibling	Margaret (Pearlie) M. J. MURPHY (1902 - 2004)
Sibling	Alice MURPHY (1905 - 1964)
Sibling	Georgina (Ena) Mary MURPHY (1907 - 1974)
Sibling	John William MURPHY (1911 - 2006)