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Kevin Gerard Barry (20 January 1902 – 1 November 1920) was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) soldier and medical student who was executed by the British Government during the Irish War of Independence. [1] He was sentenced to death for his part in an attack upon a British Army supply lorry which resulted in the deaths of three British soldiers. [2]
Provisional Irish Republican Army [83] [85] James Curran [85] Dublin resident Dublin Republic of Ireland: 3 April 2005 Denis Donaldson [86] 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 [86] Paul Quinn [87]
Kieran or Ciarán Fleming (born 25 October 1959 – 2 December 1984), was a volunteer in the 4th Battalion, Derry Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) from the Waterside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. [1] He died while attempting to escape after a confrontation with British troops in 1984. [2] [3] [4]
Martin "Doco" Doherty (11 July 1958 – 21 May 1994) was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), who was shot dead while attempting to prevent a bombing by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) at a pub in Dublin,Ireland. Doherty was the first person to be killed in the Republic by the UVF since 1975.
Raymond McCreesh (Irish: Réamonn Mac Raois, 25 February 1957 – 21 May 1981) was an Irish volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1976, he and two other IRA volunteers were captured while attempting to ambush a British Army observation post.
Born in Belleeks, County Armagh, [4] on 18 August 1952, [5] Murphy was an active Irish republican paramilitary from his late teens. In March 1972, he was arrested in Dundalk regarding an assault, and was sentenced to two years in prison after the Garda Síochána found a loaded revolver in his car. [6]
Timothy Lyons (4 December 1895 -16 April 1923), a.k.a. Aero or Aeroplane, was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) soldier who fought with the Anti-Treaty side during the Irish Civil War. After a three-day siege by Free State forces at Clashmealcon, County Kerry , he died after falling from a cliff onto rocks and then being shot.
Paul Quinn (1986 – 20 October 2007) was a young man from County Armagh, Northern Ireland, who was murdered in 2007.His family subsequently accused the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) of his murder, though no one has ever been convicted in relation to his death.