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Máirtín Standún
Born9 April 1918 (1918-04-09)
Died15 December 1994(1994-12-15) (aged 76)
Ireland
NationalityIrish
OccupationBusinessman

Máirtín Standún (1918-1994) was an Irish Republican.

Biography

Standún (born 1918) was born and raised in Liverpool. He joined the Gaelic League in the city "aged sixteen or seventeen, determined to learn Irish." He subsequently joined the Irish Republican Army (1922–1969) "and was sort of hounded by the police for a while. So I eventually came to Ireland in the summer of 1939." He worked in Dublin until May 1940 when he was interned, been released in 1943.

He married May Mulready of Mullingar and they moved to Spiddal where in 1946, they founded a department store named Standun which has turned into an attraction on the Galway tourist trail.

References

  1. "STANDÚN, Máirtín".
  2. "Bodenstowns, Prisoners and the Berlin Airlift".
  3. "Standun Spiddal – in MadeInGalway".
  4. "Standun in Yelp.ie".

Further reading

Singing Shores, Whispering Wind:Voices of Connemara, Raymonde Standun and Bill Long, 2001. ISBN 1-902602-62-5.

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