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This is a list of people who died in the last 5 days with an article at the English Wikipedia. For people without an English Wikipedia page see: Wikipedia:Database reports/Recent deaths (red links). Generally updated at least daily, last time: 15:40, 16 December 2024 (UTC).
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]
He was the first British soldier killed in Ireland since the 1920s. The next day, James Chichester-Clark, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, declared on television that "Northern Ireland is at war with the Irish Republican Army Provisionals". Eight British soldiers and five civilians were injured in various gun battles around Belfast.
Townshend, Charles, 'The Irish Republican Army and the Development of Guerrilla Warfare 1916–21', English Historical Review 94 (1971), pp. 318–345. W?, With the IRA in the Fight For Freedom (London 1968) Nolan, Cillian, The IRA True History 1922–1969 (Kerry 1985) Trigg, Jonathan (2023). Death in the Fields: The IRA and East Tyrone ...
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 .
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 ...
20 January: Maurice Gilvarry, Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer, was found shot dead near Jonesborough, County Armagh, as an alleged informer. [ 9 ] 21 January: Ulster Unionist Party politician Norman Stronge and his son James (who was an RUC officer) were killed in an IRA gun and grenade attack on their home, Tynan Abbey , near Middletown ...
Martin Hurson, from Cappagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, was one of nine children born to Johnny and Mary Ann Hurson. [2]After leaving school, he worked as a welder for a while before going to England where he stayed for eighteen months with his brother Francis and worked in the building trade. [3]