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List of members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood; 0–9. 1916–1921 Club; A. ... Edward Daly (Irish revolutionary) John Daly (Fenian) P. T. Daly; Michael Davitt;
Andy Cooney (d. 1968), a member of the Third Battalion of the Dublin Brigade and a suspected participant in the execution of the Cairo Gang; Timothy Coughlin (d. 1928), a member of the Dublin Brigade during the War of Independence who assassinated the Vice President of the Executive Council, Kevin O'Higgins.
They play Irish rebel music and have courted some controversy with songs celebrating the Provisional IRA. [ 117 ] [ 118 ] In 1998, Tone, played by the actor Adrian Dunbar , was the protagonist in an RTE four-part television movie, The Officer From France.
Michael Grimes, Irish scientist and first Professor of Microbiology at University College Cork; Bulmer Hobson; Martin Hogan, member of the IRB who deserted from the British Army to join the Fenian uprising [1] [2] Thomas J. Kelly, President of the Irish Republican Brotherhood during 1866 and 1867. Luke Kennedy, joined 1898 [3]
[1] [2] It was a precursor to Clan na Gael, a sister organisation to the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). Members were commonly known as "Fenians". O'Mahony, who was a Gaelic scholar, named his organisation after the Fianna, the legendary band of Irish warriors led by Fionn mac Cumhaill. [3]
The Irish Republican Army (IRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann [2]) was an Irish republican revolutionary paramilitary organisation. The ancestor of many groups also known as the Irish Republican Army, and distinguished from them as the "Old IRA", it was descended from the Irish Volunteers, an organisation established on 25 November 1913 that staged the Easter Rising in April 1916. [3]
This is a list of notable Irish people, who were born on the island of Ireland, in either the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland, and have lived there for most of their lives. Also included on the list are people who were not born in Ireland, but have been raised as Irish, have lived there for most of their lives or in regards to the ...