Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Martin "Doco" Doherty (11 July 1958 – 21 May 1994) was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), who was shot dead while attempting to prevent a bombing by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) at a pub in Dublin,Ireland. Doherty was the first person to be killed in the Republic by the UVF since 1975.
Doheny & Nesbitt is a Victorian pub and restaurant on Baggot Street in Dublin, Ireland. The pub is a tourist attraction and notable political and media meeting place and has been described as "one of the most photographed" pubs in the city. [2] [3] [4] [5]
At his trial at the Old Bailey in 1977, Doherty received eleven life sentences and seven other sentences ranging from eighteen to twenty-one years' imprisonment. [8] In 1987, Jeremy Corbyn handed a petition to then-prime minister Margaret Thatcher which demanded better visiting conditions for Doherty and his fellow IRA prisoner Nat Vella, along with "the immediate transfer of Irish political ...
Today there are Doherty families in many parts of Ireland, with primary concentration in their homeland of the Inishowen Peninsula, County Donegal and the vicinity of Derry. The O’Dohertys are an important part of the Irish diaspora. To this end, the family continues through voluntary organisations, exploring family and Irish history and ...
Scott Schymik, left, and Joshua Pietrowski sit at a table in Hartigan's Irish Pub with an order of beer battered onion rings and a shaved ribeye sandwich on Thursday, June 27, 2024.
Joe Doherty (born 20 January 1955) is an Irish 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.
The Balcombe Street Gang was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) active service unit (ASU) (also known as the Balcombe Street Four or the Balcombe Street Unit) who carried out a bombing campaign in southern England in the mid-1970s.
Irish pubs were often equipped with a snug, a more secluded or private room with seating, similar to that of a British pub's snug.A typical snug within an Irish pub, while within the pub's premises, is usually separated from the rest of the pub by walls or partitions, has or used to have a door and is equipped with a hatch for serving drinks.