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Joe Cahill (Irish: Seosamh Ó Cathail; [1] 19 May 1920 – 23 July 2004) was a prominent figure in the Irish republican movement in Northern Ireland and former chief of staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). [2] He joined a junior-republican movement, Na Fianna Eireann, in 1937 and the following year, joined the Irish Republican ...
Joe Cahill: November 1972 March 1973 [36] Seamus Twomey (1st time) March 1973 June 1973 [36] Éamonn O'Doherty: June 1973 June/July 1974 [37] Seamus Twomey (2nd time) June/July 1974 December 1977 [36]
Joe Cahill acted as the contact between NORAID and Harrison, and almost all of the smuggled guns went through the network run by the latter. [7] In 1971, the RUC had already seized 700 modern weapons from the IRA, along with two tonnes of high explosive and 157,000 rounds of ammunition, most of which were manufactured in the United States. [8]
Tom Cahill the son of Joe Cahill was injured in the attack. [11] 22 May 1971 - The first British soldier to die at the hands of the Official IRA, Robert Bankier of the Royal Green Jackets was killed by a unit led by Joe McCann. McCann's unit opened fire on a passing British mobile patrol near Cromac Square, hitting the patrol from both sides.
2009 reenactment of a Provisional IRA unit in Galbally, County Tyrone. Chronologies of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions detail activities by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.
The Belfast Brigade of the Provisional IRA was the largest of the organisation's brigades, based in the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland.. The nucleus of the Belfast Brigade emerged in the divisions within Belfast republicans in the closing months of 1969, and was formally established in January 1970 as the structures of the new dissident group were created after splitting from the Official IRA.
Joe Cahill (1920–2004), Irish republican and IRA leader; John Cahill (footballer) (born 1940), Australian rules football player and coach; John Baptist Cahill (1841–1910), English Roman Catholic Bishop of Portsmouth; John T. Cahill (lawyer) (1903–66), American lawyer and prosecutor; Joseph Cahill (1891–1959), Australian politician ...
Her father, Sam, had been interned, and her maternal uncle was IRA Army Council member Joe Cahill, who died in July 2004. O'Hanlon married Pat Sheehan with whom she had a son, Cormac. [ 3 ] One of her sisters, Eilis , is a newspaper columnist critical of physical force Irish republicanism ; the two apparently remained estranged at the time of ...