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Dan "Bally" Keating ,ex IRA soldier and veteran of Ireland's War of Independence with England ,1919-1921.
He stands in his garden in Ballygamboon,County Kerry -holding one of the lilies he grows .
Dan Keating was born in 1902 in the townland of Ballygamboon, Castlemaine, Co Kerry. He joined the Fianna in Tralee in 1918 and about two years later joined the Irish Republican Army and served in the Farmerâs Bridge unit.