Below is a brief pen picture history of Father Francis P. Duffy Post No. 2, Killarney, Ireland
The Post was formed in the early months of 1952 by Ex-G.I's who had returned to Ireland after the Second World War. Already in Ireland there were World War One, ex Doughboys, who had returned home and between them they formed the Post.
These men (Charter Members) decided to call the Post after the Senior Chaplain of the 69th Division (New York's Fighting Irish). The Division had a built a reputation during the Civil War and during WW1. Father Duffy also had built a reputation in the trenches where he was known as Front Line Duffy. He has a statue dedicated to him in Times Square.
After the initial decision to form a Post the word went out and within a short time there were enough members to seek to have the post Chartered - the charter was granted in September 1951 with Denis J Spillane as Post Commander. By 1953 the Post had a membership of 262 with members residing in 27 of the Counties of Ireland.
The Post was assigned to the Department of Canada where it remained until at the National Executive Committee meeting in May of 1996, a resolution to terminate the Department Charters of Canada, Panama, and Italy was passed. It was at that time our Post was assigned to The Department of France along with Ireland Post 3 (Mayo), Italy Post 1 and Greece Post 1.
Both Post 3, the Mayo Post and the Dublin Post were spawned from our post due to the volume of members and geographical restrictions on meetings and administration.
