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Michael Collins (1890–1922), Director of Intelligence for the IRA during the Irish War of Independence and served as Commander-In-Chief of the Irish National Army; 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
Mid Clare Brigade Sean McNamara 1916–1917 North Clare Brigade H. J. Hunt 1916–1917 West Clare Brigade E. Fennell 1917–1918 Clare Brigade Patrick Brennan 1918–1922 East Clare Brigade 1st Western Division Michael Brennan 1918–1922 Mid Clare Brigade 1st Western Frank Barrett: 1918–1922 West Clare Brigade 1st Western Art O'Donnell
Most IRA actions in the city consisted either of assassinations of selected police, military or administration figures by the Squad, or ambushes on British forces by one of the four Active Service Units of the IRA's Dublin Brigade (together comprising about 100 men). These were usually rapid and fleeting attacks using grenades and handguns ...
In May 1921 the Active Service Unit of the Irish Republican Army's Dublin Brigade and the "Squad" assassination unit were amalgamated. The Guard was created due to the heavy losses sustained by the Dublin Brigade in their burning of the Custom House on May 25, 1921. Five IRA volunteers were killed in the operation and eighty-three captured. [1]
Wall plaque in Great Denmark Street, Dublin where the 1919 IRA Active Service Unit of the Dublin Brigade was founded. Every Brigade had [citation needed] an Active Service Unit; these were [citation needed] also called "Flying Columns."
The Free State's best troops were the Dublin Guard: a unit composed of former IRA men, mostly from the Dublin Brigade's active service unit who were to the forefront in the Free State's offensive of July–August 1922. They sided with the Free State primarily out of personal loyalty to Collins.
Doherty was born on 11 July 1958 in the Finglas area of Dublin, into a family of five brothers and six sisters. [1] He played soccer for a club in Dunsink, in addition to Gaelic football. [1] He joined the Provisional IRA's Dublin Brigade following the death of ten Irish republican hunger strikers in the 1981 Irish hunger strike. [1]
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.