Dan Keating 

THE death occurred on Tuesday, 2 October, of Dan Keating from Castlemaine, County Kerry, who was one of the last surviving IRA members of the Tan War period. He was 105 years of age.
Keating joined Fianna Éireann in 1918. In 1920, during the Tan War, he joined the Boherbee ‘B’ Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Kerry Brigade, Irish Republican Army. On 21 April 1921, following the shooting of an RIC man at a public house in Tralee, Keating, Jimmy O’Connor and Percy Hanafin were forced to go ‘on the run’.
On 1 June, Keating was involved in an ambush, between Castlemaine and Milltown, which claimed the lives of five RIC men. On 10 July, a day before the truce between the IRA and British forces, Keating’s unit was involved in a gun battle with the British Army near Castleisland, resulting in the deaths of four British soldiers and five IRA Volunteers.
Keating opposed the 1921 Treaty and fought on the republican side in the Civil War. He was involved in operations in Kerry, Limerick, and Tipperary, before his column was captured by Free State forces. Dan spent seven months in Portlaoise Prison and the Curragh Prison before being released in March 1923.

LONDON
Dan Keating remained in the IRA for a long time after the Civil War. He was arrested several times during the 1930s on various charges. He was active in London during the 1939/1940 IRA bombing campaign. In 2004, Keating became a patron of ‘Republican Sinn Féin’.
Sinn Féin Kerry North TD Martin Ferris expressed his sympathy to the family and friends of Dan Keating on his death. Martin Ferris said:
“I would like to express my deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Dan on this sad occasion. He was a man who played an active part in the struggle for freedom between 1919 and 1923 and in later years. I had the greatest respect for him and am saddened by news of his death after a long and interesting life as an active Irish republican.”