 He would never lose his Irish nationalist beliefs, carrying them down to his children in the future.Crowley had founded the Crowley Drapery in Ballylanders, which still exists today, by the time of his marriage on 19 February 1887 to Ellen Ryan of Killeen.He served as the village's post master and ran the telegram, however these duties would be removed from him three decades in the future as the British found out he had been reading the messages to pass on information to the IRB.