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Joe Cahill (Irish: Seosamh Ó Cathail; [1] 19 May 1920 – 23 July 2004) was a prominent figure in the Irish republican movement in Northern Ireland and former chief of staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). [2]
Joe Cahill, as he was popularly known, was born on 21 January 1891 in the inner-Sydney suburb of Redfern, the son of Irish-born parents, Thomas Cahill, and Ellen Glynn.. Cahill's father was born in County Limerick and was a NSW railways labourer at the nearby Eveleigh Railway Workshops, and his mother was the daughter of Irish immigrants from County Cl
Joe Cahill (1920-2004) Liam Campbell; Fergal Caraher [9] [10] (1970-1990), killed by Royal Marines; Malachy Carey, killed by Loyalists in late 1992; Owen Carron (born 1953) Peter Cleary (1950-1976), shot dead by SAS; Kevin Coen (1947-1975), killed by British Army members
Joe Cahill: November 1972 March 1973 [36] Seamus Twomey (1st time) March 1973 June 1973 [36] Éamonn O'Doherty: June 1973 June/July 1974 [37] Seamus Twomey (2nd time) June/July 1974 December 1977 [36]
It was alleged that its chief of staff was a Limerick man and that a number of other key members were from that county, until their expulsion. Dáithí Ó Conaill was the first chief of staff until 1991. [37] In 2004 the United States (US) government believed the Continuity IRA consisted of fewer than fifty hardcore activists. [39]
16 August 1971: the commander of the Provisionals' Belfast Brigade, Joe Cahill, gave a press conference claiming only 30 IRA volunteers had been interned. [28] [41] 18 August 1971: an IRA volunteer (Eamon Lafferty, aged 20) was shot dead during a gun battle between the IRA and the British Army in Kildrum Gardens, Creggan, Derry City. [25]
He was charged and convicted for possession of the weapon and imprisoned in Crumlin Road Prison, and Joe Cahill took over as OC of the Belfast Brigade. [15] [16] In 1972, McKee led a hunger strike protest in an effort to win recognition of IRA prisoners as political prisoners. Republicans who were interned already had special status, but those ...
The Cahill ministry (1952–1953) or First Cahill ministry was the 55th ministry of the New South Wales Government, and was led by the 29th Premier, Joe Cahill, of the Labor Party. The ministry was the first of four consecutive occasions when the Government was led by Cahill, as Premier.