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Máirtín Standún

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Máirtín Standún
Born9 April 1918 (1918-04-09)
Died15 December 1994(1994-12-15) (aged 76)
Ireland
NationalityIrish
OccupationBusinessman

Máirtín Standún (1918-1994) was an Irish Republican.

Biography

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Standún (born 1918) was born and raised in Liverpool. He joined the Gaelic League in the city "aged sixteen or seventeen, determined to learn Irish."[1] He subsequently joined the Irish Republican Army (1922–1969) "and was sort of hounded by the police for a while. So I eventually came to Ireland in the summer of 1939."[2] He worked in Dublin until May 1940 when he was interned, been released in 1943.

He married May Mulready of Mullingar and they moved to Spiddal where in 1946, they founded a department store named Standun which has turned into an attraction on the Galway tourist trail.[3][4]

References

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  1. ^ "STANDÚN, Máirtín".
  2. ^ "Bodenstowns, Prisoners and the Berlin Airlift".
  3. ^ "Standun Spiddal – in MadeInGalway".
  4. ^ "Standun in Yelp.ie".

Further reading

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Singing Shores, Whispering Wind:Voices of Connemara, Raymonde Standun and Bill Long, 2001. ISBN 1-902602-62-5.

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