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The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB; Irish: Bráithreachas Phoblacht na hÉireann) was a secret oath-bound fraternal organisation dedicated to the establishment of an "independent democratic republic" in Ireland between 1858 and 1924. [1]
The oath was largely the work of Michael Collins, based in its open lines on a draft oath suggested by the President of the Republic, Éamon de Valera, and also on the oath of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. In fact, Collins cleared the oath with the IRB before proposing it during the treaty negotiations. [5]
James Stephens (Irish: Séamus Mac Stiofáin; [2] 26 January 1825 – 29 March 1901) was an Irish Republican, and the founding member of an originally unnamed revolutionary organisation in Dublin. This organisation, founded on 17 March 1858, was later to become known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood (I.R.B). [3]
In Manchester, in the Spring of 1864 Bell met Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa and swore the oath to the Irish Republican ["Fenian"] Brotherhood. Already, "thoroughly imbued with the radical separatism of the Fenians", he was the editor of the weekly the Irish Liberator, the paper of the IRB-aligned National Brotherhood of St Patrick. Fenians, who were ...
Disturbed, Stephens went ahead regardless, and that very evening the Irish Republican Brotherhood was established, in Peter Langan's timber-yard in Lombard Street. Luby's description of the event in a letter to John O'Leary in 1890 was that immediately after the return of Denieffe, "at once Stephens began organizing.
He was an elected representative and chairman of Templemore Urban District Council, and was a member of the oath-bound republican organisation the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Bracken's son, Brendan Bracken , was Minister of Information in Britain from 1941 to 1945 and created the modern Financial Times .
$14.00 at amazon.com. They grew up in a family of staunch Irish republicans. Dolours and Marian grew up hearing stories of the bloody Irish republican struggle and would follow in their father’s ...
Brian Molloy, born in 1888, was an Irish nationalist and revolutionary figure who played a significant role in the struggle for Irish independence during the early 20th century. [1] He was an active member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and later served as an officer in both the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Republican Army, fl. 1916-1921 ...