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Irish republicanism (Irish: poblachtánachas Éireannach) is the political movement for an Irish republic, void of any British rule. Throughout its centuries of existence, it has encompassed various tactics and identities, simultaneously elective and militant and has been both widely supported and iconoclastic.
Irish Republican Brotherhood, Irish Citizen Army, Irish Volunteers, Cumann na mBan: 1919–22 Irish Republic: War of Independence: Irish Republican Army (1917–22), Cumann na mBan: 1939–40 England Sabotage Campaign: Irish Republican Army (1922-1969) 1942–44 Republic of Ireland-United Kingdom border: Northern Campaign: Irish Republican Army ...
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is a name used by various resistance organisations in Ireland throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Organisations by this name have been dedicated to anti-imperialism through Irish republicanism, the belief that all of Ireland should be an independent republic free from British colonial rule. [1]
The term was in use at least as early as 1949 when Criostóir O'Neill, the vice president of Sinn Féin, gave a speech at Bodenstown Graveyard: . The Republican movement is divided into two main bodies – the Military and the Civil Arms, the Irish Republican Army and Sinn Féin.
Matt Devlin (Irish republican) Bríd Dixon; Hugh Doherty (Irish republican) Kieran Doherty (hunger striker) Martin Doherty (Irish republican) Pat Doherty (Northern Ireland politician) Denis Donaldson; Maurice Donegan (Irish republican) Gary Donnelly (Irish republican) Simon Donnelly (Irish republican) Edmund Downey; Dawn Doyle; Albert Thomas ...
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The Republican Congress (Irish: An Chomhdháil Phoblachtach) was an Irish republican political organisation founded in 1934, when pro-communist republicans left the Anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army. The Congress was led by such anti-Treaty veterans as Peadar O'Donnell , Frank Ryan and George Gilmore .
A close confidant of McNamee and fellow Irish Republican George Harrison felt McNamee was “A scholarly, astute, and sane man, with clear perception he saw that a successful revolutionary effort had to be fought on all levels, including political and agitation, but he remained totally committed to the view that armed struggle was the cutting ...