Captain Michael Dunphy

Michael Dunphy, a local government employee, who was born in Mooncoin in 1886, served in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, ending up with the rank of captain.
He entered the local government service in Waterford as a young man, and on the outbreak of the First World War he joined the British Army and served in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers where he attained a permanent commission with the rank of captain. Captain Michael Dunphy was the first military adviser to the Chief of Staff of the Irish Army. He resigned in 1920, and was brought into touch with General Michael Collins when the National Army was being formed in 1922 when he returned home. He was present at the taking over of the Beggars Bush Barracks from the Crown Forces and was subsequently appointed second in command at the Curragh. He was associated during his career with both General Mulcahy and General Eoin O’ Duffy.
Family History

Michael Dunphy’s father’s name was Peter Dunphy and his profession was a labourer. His mother’s name was Anna Dunphy. Anna’s maiden surname was Heoban. Michael Dunphy had a wife and two children.

Recorded insistence from his duty as a Captain in World War I
It is recorded in “It’s a long way to Salonika”: Irish soldiers in the Balkans in World War I' how “One officer, Captain Michael Dunphy of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, wrote constantly throughout the spring of 1917 to the War Office from his home in Mooncoin, Co. Kilkenny, asking to be sent back to his regiment, having been sent home in the first place with two bouts of malaria.”
Death
For health reasons he retired on pension from the Army in 1928. He worked with business in London. Captain Michael Dunphy died in London.
Bibliography
Birth Certificate copy from General Register Office, Dublin (1886)
Chrissy Osborne (2007) Michael Collins: A life in Pictures. Dublin: Mercier Press
Kilkenny People (March 5, 2012) Kilkenny Families in the Great War. Kilkenny People. Retrieved 20 November 2014. From http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/kilkenny-news/kilkenny-families-in-the-great-war-1-3585405
20th-century / Contemporary History, Features, Issue 6 (Nov/Dec 2006), Volume 14, World War I. From http://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/its-a-long-way-to-salonika-irish-soldiers-in-the-balkans-in-world-war-i/
Who OBITUARY COLONEL MICHAEL DUNPHY.(1947, Jun 17). The Irish Times (1921-Current File). pp. 5. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/523721734?accountid=130717

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