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In Irish America where, together with Emmet's Speech from the Dock, "O! Breathe Not His Name" became part of the canon of parochial education, Moore had innumerable imitators. Of these, one of the most ambitious was John Boyle O'Reilly , a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood who had escaped from penal servitude in Western Australia .
His mother Peggy O'Hara, was an independent candidate in the 2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election in the Foyle constituency. [5] She was not elected, but she was one of the more successful dissident republican candidates opposed to the new policy of the Sinn Féin leadership of working with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), and won 1,789 votes.
Provisional Irish Republican Army [82] [84] James Curran [84] Dublin resident Dublin Republic of Ireland: 3 April 2005 Denis Donaldson [85] Former member of Sinn Féin and the Provisional Irish Republican Army, also an informer for MI5 and Special Branch. Glenties, County Donegal: 4 April 2006 Real Irish Republican Army [85] Paul Quinn [86]
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 .
Irish Republican Socialist Party [106] (IRSP) was founded in 1974 by former Official IRA militant Seamus Costello, who possibly had an eye towards James Connolly's Irish Socialist Republican Party of the late 19th/early 20th century when coining the party's name.
John MacBride was born at The Quay, Westport, County Mayo, Ireland, to Patrick MacBride, a shopkeeper and trader, and the former Honoria Gill, who survived her son. [2] A plaque marks the building on the Westport Quays where he was born (now the Helm Bar and Restaurant).
[1] [2] He was born into an Irish republican family, his grandfather was a member of the Irish Citizen Army which fought against British rule in the 1916 Easter Rising. [3] Doherty left school aged 14 and began work on the docks and as an apprentice plumber, before being arrested in 1972 on his seventeenth birthday under the Special Powers Act.
Thomas James Clarke (Irish: Tomás Séamus Ó Cléirigh; 11 March 1858 – 3 May 1916 [1]) was an Irish republican and a leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.Clarke was arguably the person most responsible for the 1916 Easter Rising.