Background
Daniel Hogan was born in 1895 in Grangemockler, Clonmel, Company Tipperary into a farming family.
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During the handover of power Dublin Castle he attended the blessing of the tricolour and had the honour of being the first to raise the flag officially at the ceremony, attended by Michael Collins.
Career
He moved to Monaghan in 1918 where he worked as a clerk for the Great Northern Railway Company, based in Clones. lieutenant was there that he met Eoin O"Duffy and the two became friendly with Hogan first joining the Gaelic Athletic Association and later the Irish Volunteers. During the War of Independence he quickly rose in the ranks to become second in command to Eoin O’Duffy in the Monaghan area.
He also continued his involvement with the Gaelic Athletic Association, played senior football for Monaghan and was arrested, along with O’Duffy, before a game between Cavan and Armagh after refusing to apply for permits from the British authorities to hold the match.
After his release from prison Dan Hogan continued to play an active role in the border areas and by the time of the truce was in command of the 5th Northern Division of the Ireland Republican Army. He supported the treaty and joined the Free State Army at the beginning of the Civil War rising to the rank of Major General of the Eastern Command. lieutenant was during this period that he came to public attention after the general manager of the Great Northern Railway Company, John Bagwell, was kidnapped by anti-treaty forces, on hearing of the kidnapping Hogan issued a proclamation to the effect that if he was not safely released, reprisals would be taken against anti-treaty prisoners in custody.
Within less than 24 hours of the proclamation Bagwell was released. He then started to use an address c/o Reverend Brother Wilfred Hogan, Christian Brothers, Westland Row, Dublin in Dublin and getting pension cheques sent there.
He moved back to Dublin for about 6 months before going back to the United States of America in 1940 where he used his last known address which was c/o McBride, 5320 Dorchester Avenue, Chicago, Illinois suggesting he may have been drifting or at least not settled or didn"t want to be tracked by family.
The last contact he had with the Department of Defence was January 1940 and his last pension payment cashed was in June 1941. After that he is unaccounted foreign To date, after 1941, Dan Hogan"s last whereabouts or fate have never been established.
