Richard Francis Hayes and Richard James Hayes
Irish history of the early 20th century certainly has its quirks. A lesser-known one in its long annals is that of the two Richards of Co Limerick. Both gentlemen played a unique role in the shaping of modern Ireland and in various publications are often confused for each other and sometimes mistakenly thought of as being the one person. It is a bit of a conundrum, but one I will try to solve for good in these few column inches.
Richard James Hayes did not fight in the Rising but instead earned a scholarship which allowed him attend Clongowes Wood College and eventually Trinity College, where he excelled in languages. After earning his PhD, he accepted a role with the National Library of Ireland, eventually going on to serve as director, a post he assumed in 1940 during the Emergency.
Richard James did not share Richard Francis devoutness and was himself a lifelong atheist. However, both men were gifted writers. Richard Francis was a fluent speaker of French and authored many books on the subject of Irishmen who fought in French armies.
Richard James Hayes’s finest hour, however, was his role with Irish Military Intelligence during the second World War. Collaborating with the legendary spy master Col Dan Bryan, Richard James Hayes broke the infamous Görtz cipher, a coding mechanism so fiendish that British Military Intelligence in Bletchley Park had an entire hut working on it with little success.
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