However in 1900, he married Lillian ``Muddie'' O'Connell, also from Cork city. They had six children including five daughters Pearl (Binnie), Muriel, Cecil, Ita and Ethna, and a son Sarsfield. A contemporary and friend of Michael Collins, the Irish revolutionary, Smiddy was appointed by Collins to be _his_ Economic Adviser to Plenipotentiaries for the Treaty Negotiations from October to December 1921 following the War of Independence. <sep>, Pronoun: his