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) and a director of Bank of Ireland becoming Governor (Chairman) from 1941 to 1943.
commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery on 17 June 1893; served in South Africa during the Second Boer War
ned in despatches, London Gazette 10 September 1901, Queen's South Africa Medal). During World War I, he
ntioned in despatches, awarded the Distinguished Service Order (London Gazette 14 January 1916) and the
Legion of Honour (London Gazette 14 July 1917). He ended the war as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Tank
the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, Keane had worked with the IAOS (Irish Agricultural Organisation
, served on Waterford County Council and was a member of the All-for-Ireland League that supported Home
n 1922, Sir John was nominated by the President of the Executive Council to Seanad Éireann of the Irish Free
nd served until 1934. In 1923 his home at Cappoquin House was burned by anti-government forces in the Irish
War, which he then rebuilt. He later served in the reconstituted Seanad Éireann established by the Constitution of
serving from 1938 to 1948 on the nomination of the Taoiseach. It has been said that, by this time, he was "widely
d as the quintessence of intelligent ex-unionism.
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