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unusual facts about Irish Republican



3rd Tipperary Brigade

These were Seán Treacy, Dan Breen, Séamus Robinson and Seán Hogan.

Aldwych

On 18 February 1996, a bomb detonated prematurely on a Number 171 bus travelling along Aldwych, killing Edward O'Brien, the IRA operative transporting the device; it also injured four others.

CBS Sexton Street

Ned Daly, born in 1891 the son of Fenian Edward Daly, he was also the nephew of John Daly who was a leading member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the brother in law of Tom Clarke (Irish Republican).

Gerald Smyth

Osbert Smyth was shot dead in October 1920 while trying to arrest IRA suspects Dan Breen and Sean Treacy at a house in Drumcondra.

Ivor Bell

Ivor Malachy Bell is an Irish republican, and a former volunteer in the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who later became Chief of Staff on the Army Council.

Jock Cunningham

Along with Frank Ryan he rallied the remnants of the British battalion in a defensive action which held the line outside Madrid, thereby blocking Franco's attempt to seize the capital.

Martin Flannery

He was of Irish descent, and supported the Irish republican cause, opposing the Prevention of Terrorism Act; however, after visiting Northern Ireland in 1994, he came to support the presence of British troops to protect Catholics from loyalist violence.

Martin Galvin

Galvin was the publicity director for the New York-based NORAID, an Irish American group fund-raising organization which raised money for the families of Irish republican prisoners, but was also accused by the American, British, and Irish governments to be a front for the supply of weapons to the Provisional IRA.

Martin McCaughey

Gerard Patrick Martin McCaughey (24 February 1967 – 9 October 1990) was a volunteer in the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) from Aughnagar, Galbally, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

Murder of Stephen Tibble

The suspect was Liam Quinn, a U.S. citizen from an Irish Republican family in San Francisco who had immersed himself in all things Irish, including adopting an Irish accent.

Nigel Dodds

The violence broke out following the decision by the Parades Commission to bar Orangemen from walking past the Irish Republican Ardoyne area & Unionist Woodvale area.

Parnell Square

In 1922, subsequent to the Treaty and prior to the Civil War, the IRB again met here in a failed attempt at achieving consensus on the Treaty; among the attendees were Michael Collins, Harry Boland, Liam Lynch and Eoin O'Duffy – all of whom, with the exception of O'Duffy, were dead by the end of the Irish Civil War.

Paul Magee

Paul "Dingus" Magee (born 30 January 1948) is a former volunteer in the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who escaped during his 1981 trial for killing a member of the Special Air Service (SAS) in 1980.

Pearse Jordan

Pearse Jordan (12 December 1969–25 November 1992) was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer killed by a Royal Ulster Constabulary officer.

Seamus O'Donovan

Seamus (James or Jim) O'Donovan (3 November 1896 - 4 June 1979) was a leading volunteer in the Irish Republican Army and an operative of the Nazi Abwehr.

Soloheadbeg Ambush

On that same day, an ambush was carried out by Irish Volunteers Seán Treacy, Dan Breen, Seán Hogan, Séamus Robinson, Tadhg Crowe, Paddy McCormack, Paddy O'Dwyer, Michael Ryan and Seán O'Meara (the latter two being cycle scouts).

The Sunday Business Post

The newspaper's editorial line has in the past been strongly Republican, especially under former editor Damien Kiberd.

Timothy Coughlin

Timothy ("Tim") Coughlin (sometimes spelled "Couglan") (1906 - 1928) was a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army, mainly known for his part in assassinating Kevin O'Higgins in 1927 and for the controversy surrounding the circumstances of his death in 1928.

Viva Maria!

Maria II (Brigitte Bardot), the daughter of an Irish Republican anarchist, meets Maria I (Jeanne Moreau), the singer of a circus.

W. T. Cosgrave

In all 77 republicans were executed by the Free State between November 1922 and the end of the war in May 1923, including Robert Erskine Childers, Liam Mellowes and Rory O'Connor, far more than the 14 IRA Volunteers the British executed in the War of Independence.


see also

Baxenden

The Irish republican social campaigner Michael Davitt worked as a child at Stelfoxe's Victoria Mill (later the Victoria and Alliance Mill) in Baxenden.

Bernard Stewart

Bernard Stewart, alias used by Ernie O'Malley (1897–1957), Irish Republican Army officer, upon his capture

Bobby Storey

On January 11, 2005, Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for South Antrim David Burnside told the British House of Commons under parliamentary privilege that Storey was head of intelligence for the Irish Republican Army.

DAAD

Direct Action Against Drugs, a cover name for the Provisional Irish Republican Army

George Plunkett

George Oliver Plunkett, son of George Noble Plunkett, Irish Republican and leading member of the IRA

HM Advocate v Muirhead and McKenzie

They were charged with sending parcel bombs to several people associated with Celtic F.C., including their manager Neil Lennon, former MSP Trish Godman, senior lawyer Paul McBride and Cairde na hEireann, an Irish republican group.

Irish Republican Liberation Army

On March 5, 2008, East Antrim MP Sammy Wilson asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Tony McNulty if he would consider prohibiting the Irish Republican Liberation Army under the Terrorism Act 2000.

Joe Fenton

Joseph Fenton (1953–1989), Northern Ireland estate agent, killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army for acting as an informer

John McGuinness

Seán McGuinness (died 1978), also known as John McGuinness, Irish Republican who was elected to Dáil Éireann in 1923 but did not take his seat and was later disqualified

McCreesh

Raymond McCreesh (1957–1981), Provisional Irish Republican Army member

McKearney

Pádraig McKearney (1954–1987), Marxist-oriented Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer

Tommy McKearney (born 1952), Irish Republican, socialist, former hunger striker and volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army

Mellows Bridge

However, it was renamed again in 1942 to its current name, after Lieutenant General Liam Mellows Irish Republican army who was executed during the Irish Civil War.

NORAID

In May 1981, the U.S. Department of Justice won a court case forcing Noraid to register the Provisional Irish Republican Army as its "foreign principal", under the Foreign Agents Registration Act 1938.

Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth

His aunt was the Irish republican politician and socialist revolutionary, Constance Markievicz (née Gore-Booth).

Rynne

William Rynne, known as "Willie" Rynne, was an Irish Republican who fought in the 1916 Rising.

Sean Keenan

Seán Keenan (died 1993), Irish republican from Derry, Northern Ireland

The Troubles in Belleek

5 April 1977 - Sean Prendergast (22), a member of the British Army (9th/12th Royal Lancers) was killed, in a Provisional Irish Republican Army landmine attack, on an Army armoured car, near Belleek.

The Troubles in Dunloy

21 February 1984 - Sergeant Paul Oram (26), a member of the British Army (14 Intelligence Company, parent regiment 9th/12th Royal Lancers), Declan Martin (18) and Henry Hogan (21), both Catholic members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, were killed in a gun battle between undercover British Army members and Provisional Irish Republican Army members in Dunloy.

W. Paris Chambers

His most widely known works include The Boys of the Old Brigade (unrelated to the Irish republican song of the same name) and Chicago Tribune, both marches.

William Pilkington

Liam Pilkington (1894–1977), also known as William or Billy, served in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence