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Dan Breen (1894–1969), an early member of the Irish Volunteers and served as leader of the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence. He would later become a prominent figure in Fianna Fáil. George Brent (1899–1979), an American actor who acted as a courier during Irish War of Independence.
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.
There had been discussion of whether to establish a distinct, partisan support group for the IRSM from at least 1981, as October of that year was the first time someone was allowed to join the Irish Republican Socialist Party while resident in North America, when activists Caitlin Hines and Peter Urban were admitted to the party, but it was agreed that a broad front type of formation best ...
Prison film about the IRA Maze prison escape of 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners. [108] 2017 Resistance: Colin Teevan: Brian Gleeson, Simone Kirby, Natasha O'Keeffe, Gavin Drea: Set in late 1920, Resistance is a sequel series to the 2016 miniseries Rebellion. [109] 2019 Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History: Peter Johnston
The Fenian Brotherhood's main purpose was to supply weapons and funds for its Irish counterpart and raise support for the Irish republican movement in the United States. [34] The term "Fenian" was coined by O'Mahony, who named the American wing of the movement after the Fianna [ 35 ] – a class of warriors that existed in Gaelic Ireland .
NORAID, officially the Irish Northern Aid Committee, is an Irish American membership organization founded after the start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in 1969. The organization states its mission is to aid in the creation of a United Ireland in the spirit of the 1916 Easter Proclamation and to support the Northern Ireland Peace process .
On December 13, 2015 (), a YouTube video was posted on the band's official channel for the previously untitled album, announced with its April 1 release dubbed "Fox Day". Simultaneously, a 2016 world tour was also announced, set to begin at Wembley Arena on April 2, 2016 ( 2016-04-02 ) , the day after the album's worldwide release, and end at ...
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.