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James Hughes

James Hughes

Key Facts

Occupation/Rank: Priest

Date of Death: 16 April 1941

Place of Death: 12 Glastonbury Avenue

Oblate Father James Hughes suffered a heart attack at his sister's house on Glastonbury Avenue during the Easter Tuesday Raid.

His body was repatriated to Dublin and he is buried in the Oblate Cemetery, Inchicore, Dublin.

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