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Family Life

Growing up in the 19th century Irish era, Frank Brazil Dineen was born into a family home in Ballylanders, County Limerick with an impressive family of 28 As a result of Dineen's father, Nicholas Dineen's marriage to three women, and death of both his first and second wife, Dineen had many step-brothers, and sisters. Dineen attended Rockwell College in County Tipperary

Frank B. Dineen was involved in the Irish National Land League and the Fenian movement. His relatives also played a significant role in Irish Politics. Frank B. Dineen’s great grandnephew Frank Dineen, records in his Journal Article entitled The Complexities of Life: a Personal and Historical, his relations to his great grand uncle, and his family’s involvement in Irish politics. Despite moving to England in January 1938, as a result of the downfall of his father’s farm, Frank Dineen showed interest in his ancestors’ Irish origins, and political stance. Frank Dineen refers to Frank B. Dineen as an all-Ireland champion athlete, and his parents active involvement in the IRA, and Cumann na mBan activities.

Frank B. Dineen’s relatives were caught and punished by the Irish state for their political opinions, and actions. One of Frank B. Dineen’s relative was imprisoned in Limerick Prison as a result of his activities linked to the IRA in 1920. Another one of his relatives expressed her support for a free Ireland by removing an Irish flag from a British soldier’s possession, which she was then fined for. As a result of Frank B. Dineen’s relatives’ migration to England his grand-nephew served in the RAF from 1945 to 1948. Frank B. Dineen's great grandnephew participated in the same forces which had arrested his father twenty five years previously.

In December 2013, Liam O’Neill, President of the Gaelic Athletic Association from 2012 to 2015,  paid tribute to Frank B. Dineen’s relatives. O'Neill made a speech for the 100th anniversary of Dineen’s establishment, and donation of Croke Park to the GAA Committee, referring to Dineen’s family members contributing participation in making Croke Park an emblematic symbol in GAA history. Despite maybe not having been aware at the time, O’Neill highlights how Dineen’s decision to donate what was before the 14 acre city and suburban Racecourse to the GAA committee influenced his family’s history.