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In 1913, a number of women decided to hold a meeting in Wynn's Hotel, Dublin, for the purpose of discussing the possibility of forming an organisation for women who would work in conjunction with the recently formed Irish Volunteers. A meeting led by Kathleen Lane-O'Kelly (née Shanahan) on 2 April 1914 marked the foundation of Cumann na mBan.
Eamon Collins (1954-1999), became an informant in the late 1980s and was stabbed to death at his home in Northern Ireland; Colombia Three (Niall Connolly, James Monaghan, Martin McCauley) Eddie Copeland; Marion Coyle (born 1954), took part in the kidnapping of Dr. Tiede Herrema
The Disappeared are people from Northern Ireland believed to have been abducted, murdered and secretly buried, [1] the large majority of which occurred during the Troubles. The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR) is in charge of locating the remaining bodies, [2] and was led by forensic archaeologist John ...
Ireland portal Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. ... Pages in category "People from Newry" The following 99 pages are in ...
25 August: an IRA member (Eamon Bradley) was shot dead by the British Army after leaving a pub on Racecourse Road, Derry. [33] 27 August: a former UDR soldier (Wilfred McIlveen) was killed by a booby-trap bomb under his car in Milford, County Armagh. [33] 28 August: 24 buses were firebombed by the IRA at the Ulsterbus depot in County Armagh. [40]
After the successful attack in Newry, the IRA carried out a further nine mortar attacks in 1985. [11] On 4 September, an RUC training centre in Enniskillen was attacked; 30 cadets narrowly escaped death due to poor intelligence-gathering by the IRA unit responsible. The cadets were expected to be in bed sleeping, but were instead eating ...
The left faction were successful in winning the group over, with Connolly becoming the leader and McLoughlin elected as president. [4] [5] Liam O'Flaherty and George Pollock also came to prominence, while O'Brien and O'Shannon were expelled in October, [2] [4] at the same time as the group renamed itself as the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI). [6]
The Flying Column’s first album “Folk Music Time in Ireland” was released in 1970 and they were among the earliest Belfast bands to issue a record. The songs on this LP were: Henry Joy, Come to the Bower, The Banks of the Ohio, The Boston Burglar, The Dying Rebel, Tom Williams, Belfast City, James Connolly, Whiskey in the Jar, When I Was ...