Cork - Guilfoyle, Joseph December 26, 1973

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GUILFOYLE, JOSEPH DECEMBER 26, 1973

The Irish Times. December 27, 1973
Lt. Col. Joseph Guilfoyle, who died yesterday at Glencree,
Earlwood Estate, Cork ages 76, joined the Volunteers at a
meeting in the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin in 1913 and served
with "B" Company, 3rd Battalion, Dublin Brigade, in the
Bolands Mill area in Easter Week 1916 and in subsequent
actions. Born in Dublin and educated by the Christian
Brothers, Lt.-Col. Guilfoyle served again with the 3rd
Battalion in (Michael) Collins's headquarters staff between
1919 and 1921.
He was a captain and commandant with Intelligence and other
staff in the period 1922 to 1928 and was then transferred to
the reserve of officers. He took up an appointment with the
Electricity Supply Board, but in 1939 was recalled for the
Emergency during which time he served as a commandant and
later a lieutenant- colonel in 1941 when he was appointed
deputy-director of Intelligence, then known as G2, until the
end of the Emergency.
He then returned to the E.S.B. from which he retired 11
years ago, when he took up a position with the Hospitals'
Trust in Cork.
He is survived by his wife Mrs, Anne Guilfoyle, son and
daughters.