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Richard Barrett (1899–1922), Irish Republican officer who was executed by the Free State during the following Civil War. Kevin Barry (1902–1920) Tom Barry (1897–1980), a prominent figure on the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War. Although fighting with Anti-Treaty forces, he was briefly ...
He was a member of the Gaelic League, of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) from 1911, and of the Irish Volunteers from 1913. [ 4 ] He was picked up in the mass arrests in the aftermath of the Easter Rising in 1916 and spent much of the following two years in prisons ( Cork Prison , Dundalk Gaol and Mountjoy Prison ), where he joined an ...
On 29 May 2012, Garland spoke at the funeral of his comrade Noel Cullen, alongside Cullen's son Jake. Noel Cullen was a key figure in The Workers Party who died of cancer at the age of 52. Garland spoke on his friend's passion, humanity, and quest for knowledge before handing Jake and Noel's daughter Ríona a starry plough, and an Irish flag. [25]
Instead, c. 1919 Gralton joined the newly founded Communist Party USA, as well as setting up his own James Connolly clubs. [6] In 1922 Gralton returned to Ireland and Leitrim to fight in the Irish War of Independence. [7] Gralton raised funds for the newly created Irish Republican Army as well as recruiting and training volunteers himself. As ...
The original Irish Republican Army (1919–1922), often now referred to as the "old IRA", was raised in 1917 from members of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army later reinforced by Irishmen formerly in the British Army in World War I, who returned to Ireland to fight against Britain in the Irish War of Independence.
The Irish Republican Army (IRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann [2]) was an Irish republican revolutionary paramilitary organisation. The ancestor of many groups also known as the Irish Republican Army, and distinguished from them as the "Old IRA", it was descended from the Irish Volunteers, an organisation established on 25 November 1913 that staged the Easter Rising in April 1916. [3]
Seamus McGrane (1956 – 25 May 2019) was an Irish dissident republican, co-founder of the Real Irish Republican Army, [1] and leader of a splinter group called Óglaigh na hÉireann. [ 2 ] Real IRA
Michael McKevitt (Irish: Mícheál Mac Dhaibhéid) (4 September 1949 – 2 January 2021) was an Irish republican and paramilitary leader. [1] He was the Provisional Irish Republican Army's Quartermaster General. Due to the Provisional IRA's involvement in the Northern Ireland peace process, he formed the Real IRA in protest.