sentences:  Devoted to the Irish language and honorary secretary of Knockavilla GAA club, he did much to popularise both movements in the southern and western districts of Cork.He appears to have been a member of the Cork Young Ireland Society but by 1917 he was involved with the Irish Volunteers and Sinn Féin, in which role he attended the Sinn Féin Ard-Fheis in October 1917 at the Mansion House and the Irish Volunteers Convention at Croke Park immediately afterwards.A description of the Convention by Richard Walsh