Saturday, March 15, 2003

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Returning to Cork after her release , Mary MacSwiney virtually ran the republican headquarters in the city, but had to leave Cork in a hurry...
Friday, March 14, 2003

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In 1917 , Mary MacSwiney joined Sinn Fein following the adoption by the party of a more republican separatist policy . Following the death o...
Thursday, March 13, 2003

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On March 27th , 1872 , a baby girl was born in London , was moved to County Cork and reared and educated there , at Queens College : that ba...
Wednesday, March 12, 2003

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...it was agreed to commence the ' S-Plan ' campaign in January 1939 and to stage 'tester' attacks along the border before t...
Tuesday, March 11, 2003

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.....but, in January 1937, Sean Russell was suspended from the IRA for embarking on his American tour without Army Council permission. He st...
Monday, March 10, 2003

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.....the objective was to disrupt basic installations such as electricity, water and train services and , at 6am on January 16th , 1939, the...
Sunday, March 09, 2003

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...... the January 12th , 1939, ultimatum from the IRA Army Council to Lord Halifax , the British foreign secretary, continued ... " Ou...
Saturday, March 08, 2003

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The IRA launched it's ' S-Plan' in January 1939 , after years of preparation . Jim O'Donovan , an IRA Instructor and colleag...
Friday, March 07, 2003

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A branch of the Irish Volunteers was founded in Limerick in January 1914 , and John Daly was mainly responsible during the following months ...
Thursday, March 06, 2003

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.......later , while working as a hospital attendant in England , John Daly played an active part in the dynamite campaign in English cities...
Wednesday, March 05, 2003

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Born on October 18th, 1845, in Limerick , this veteran revolutionary became a living link between the Fenians an...
Tuesday, March 04, 2003

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..... at the same time that Padraig Pearse launched the newspaper ' An Barr Buadh ' and his new political party ' Cumann na Saoi...
Monday, March 03, 2003

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Ninty-one years ago this month , a new political weekly newspaper began publication - March 16th, 1912. ...
Sunday, March 02, 2003

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..... the evenings in the IRA training camps were devoted to lectures and written exercises , including instruction in map reading , signall...
Saturday, March 01, 2003

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.....Tom Barry realised the need for proper training and saw the advantages of a highly-trained Flying Column to fight the British : the col...
Friday, February 28, 2003

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.....attacks on RUC barracks continued throughout 1957 and during the early months of 1958 but , by the summer of that year, oppression on ...
Thursday, February 27, 2003

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....in the Westminster election of May 1955 Sinn Fein , with an abstentionist policy , won two of the twelve seats in the Six Counties ~ To...
Wednesday, February 26, 2003

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Republican policy changed radically in the in the early 1950's - the IRA leadership issued an order prohibiting military action against ...
Tuesday, February 25, 2003

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....on April 16th , 1940 , Tony D'Arcy , a native of Headford , County Galway , died after 52 days on hunger strike ; Jack McNeela , a n...
Monday, February 24, 2003

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.....on March 1st , 1940 , Jack McNeela and Jack Plunkett , who were both arrested during the swoops which followed the raid by the IRA on t...