Tyrrell Timothy. Volunteer, Maynooth Company, Kildare Brigade, Irish Volunteers. Born in 1887 died on the 8th of November 1970, aged about 29 years old at the time of the Rising. He joined the Volunteers in 1914. With fifteen others of the Maynooth Company he marched to Dublin leaving Maynooth on the Monday evening and arriving in Dublin at the G.P.O. about 6.30am on the Tuesday. He was deported after the surrender first to Stafford Jail then Frongoch, he was released on the 24th of December 1916. He resumed activities with the Maynooth Company on release and served throughout the War of Independence. He took the Anti-Treaty side in the Civil War and was captured in December 1922 and detained in Mountjoy, Kilmainham and Hare Park, he was released about May or June 1924.
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