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Mac Eoin joined the new army of the Irish Free State and was appointed GOC Western Command in June 1922.

In the Irish Civil War, he pacified the west of Ireland for the new Free State, marching overland to Castlebar and linking up with a seaborne expedition that landed at Westport.

For the rest of the 1920s his military career was a steady upward curve: he was appointed GOC Curragh Training Camp in August 1925, Quartermaster General in March 1927, and Chief of Staff in February 1929.

His tenure of the highest post in the armed forces would not appear to have been a particularly happy period and his departure came in June 1929.