Eamon Broy was born in Ballinure, Co Kildare on the 22 December, 1887 and he came from a farming background. He joined the RIC in August 1910 and the DMP in January 1911 where he was attached to E Division. He became a detective in 1915. Even though he joined the DMP he was not particularly loyal to the Crown and believed in Home Rule. He joined the DMP for its excellent athletic facilities and was a member of the G Division of the Dublin Metropolitan Police or DMP for short.
When Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova, otherwise known as Princess Dashkov, returned to her estates at Troikskoye, some sixty miles south of Moscow in the autumn of 1797 she set to work, farming, gardening, being, as she put it, her “own architect”. As recorded in her celebrated Memoirs things quickly settled down for her.
John Thomas Browne, better known as John T. Browne, was born in Ballylanders Co. Limerick on March 23rd 1845. By 1851 famine had ruined the land and the six year old John T. Browne went with his parents and four siblings on an emigrant ship to America.
