dedication of a catholic church in Finnbarr's cemetery. After his wife's passing he became a close friend with Florence O'Donoghue until his own death. He died on 31 May 1963 at Bon Secours Hospital, Cork. References Bibliography Primary and Secondary Sources Barry, Tom, Guerilla Days in Ireland (Dublin 1949, Tralee 1962) Barry, Tom, The Reality of the Anglo-Irish War 1920-1 in West Cork (Tralee 1974) Borgonovo, John (ed.), Florence and Josephine O'Donoghue's War of Independence. A Destiny that Shapes our Ends (Dublin 2006) Girvin, Kevin, Seán O'Hegarty: O/C First Cork Brigade, Irish Republican Army Aubane Historical Society, . Hart, Peter, IRA and its enemies: Violence and Community in Cork (Oxford 1998) Hart, Peter, The IRA at War 1916-1923 (Oxford 2003) Laffan, Michael, The Partition of Ireland 1911-1925 (Dublin 1983) Lynch, Diarmuid, The IRB and the 1916 Insurrection (Cork 1957) Maguire, Gloria, 'The Political and Military Causes of the Division in the Irish Nationalist Movement, January 1921 to August 1923', DPhil thesis, Oxford University 1983. Murphy, Gerard, The Year of Disappearances: Political Killings in Cork 1921-1922 (Dublin 2010) O'Donoghue, Florence, No Other Law (Dublin 1954, 1986) O'Malley, Ernie, The Singing Flame (Dublin 1978) Ruiseal, Liam, 'The Position in Cork', Capuchin Annual (1966), p. 377-80. O'Brien, R Barry, Munster at War (Cork 1971). External links Seán O’Hegarty biography Irish Democrat 1881 births 1963 deaths Irish Republican Army (1919–1922) members Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood People from County Cork