Irish Republican Army

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Textual Features Catherine Byron
Once again she returns to her experience on the penitential pilgrimage to St Patrick's Purgatory. She revisits her complaints about Heaney 's depiction of the feminine, but this time she focuses on Francis Hughes
politics Constance, Countess Markievicz
On the first morning of action, James Connolly announced the formation of the Irish Republican Army ; in it, CCM served as Staff Lieutenant. She first delivered medical supplies to the City Hall station with...
Textual Production Lettice Cooper
It appeared in the Gollancz Detection series.
Cooper, Lettice. Unusual Behaviour. Gollancz.
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The title comes from a police announcement dating from 1981, requesting members of the public to report any unusual behaviour in the interests of catching IRA terrorists.
Cooper, Lettice. Unusual Behaviour. Gollancz.
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Textual Features Lettice Cooper
This novel touches on the squatters theme which LC had used in Desirable Residence. Here the police receive an anonymous tip-off that unusual behaviour is going on at two large, dilapidated and divided Victorian...
Friends, Associates Charlotte Despard
CD gave Roebuck House in Clonskeagh (south Dublin) to Maud Gonne, and moved there with her in later 1921. The house was popular with IRA men on the run and was subject to frequent police...
Cultural formation Anne Devlin
AD grew up in Northern Ireland but has been living in England since 1976, driven away, she said, by levels of violence that caused me to be afraid.
Cerquoni, Enrica. “In Conversation with Anne Devlin”. Theatre Talk: Voices of Irish Theatre Practitioners, edited by Lilian Chambers et al., Carysfort Press, pp. 107-23.
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Her family heritage is Catholic ...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Devlin
Patrick Joseph (Paddy) Devlin was a socialist politician. At the age of eleven he joined the IRA , and he was sent to prison for three years in his youth. While serving time he came...
Characters Anne Devlin
A woman named Finn, under interrogation for assisting the IRA , recalls a traumatic event from her past: the political turmoil of 1969 which took her grandmother's life. The recovered memory raises questions about Finn's...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Devlin
The play's title is a near-translation of the phrase Sinn Féin (we ourselves, name of the political party committed to ending British rule in Ireland). AD emphasises the relationship between the political and...
Family and Intimate relationships Maud Gonne
Sean MacBride's Irish nationalist politics led him into a career as a journalist, politician, lawyer, and eventually human rights activist. Having lied about his age when still in his teens to graduate from the youth...
politics Maud Gonne
In the long, agonising, and ultimately successful struggle for independence MG was again strenuously active in Ireland. She supported political prisoners and those condemned to execution, and worked with Charlotte Despard for the Irish White Cross
Publishing Maud Gonne
MG occasionally contributed to the Workers' Republic (1898-1916), founded by James Connolly , with whom she wrote and distributed a pamphlet entitled The Rights of Life and the Rights of Property, 1897. She also...
politics Seamus Heaney
SH dates his first, ignorant, encounter with history from the time that as a very small child he met American soldiers who were stationed nearby and training for the imminent Normandy landings of June 1944...
Textual Production Seamus Heaney
Heaney, as a Catholic , came under political pressure to denounce British rule in Northern Ireland and to celebrate the IRA . But he continued to see two sides to the question, to admire certain...
Textual Features Seamus Heaney
In these lectures SH again concerned himself closely with the poet's obligations to society and to humankind. The first lecture, from which the 1995 volume is titled, sets out to show how poetry's existence at...

Timeline

11 July 1921: Fighting in Ireland between British forces...

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11 July 1921

Fighting in Ireland between British forces and the Irish Republican Army ended in a truce: the next step was to negotiate a new constitutional status for Ireland.

12 April 1923: The career as a dramatist of Sean O'Casey,...

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12 April 1923

The career as a dramatist of Sean O'Casey , labourer and IRA member, took off when his playThe Shadow of a Gunman was produced at the Abbey Theatre , Dublin, which had by...

18 June 1936: The Irish Republican Army (IRA) was declared...

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18 June 1936

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) was declared an illegal organisation.

January 1939: The IRA (Irish Republican Army) declared...

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January 1939

The IRA (Irish Republican Army) declared war on Britain in protest against the continuing partition of Ireland. A hundred bombing incidents followed.

8 March 1973: An IRA car-bomb outside the Old Bailey in...

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8 March 1973

An IRA car-bomb outside the Old Bailey in London caused widespread destruction and temporarily paralysed the City.

October 1974: Five people (a civilian and two soldiers...

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October 1974

Five people (a civilian and two soldiers of each sex) were killed and seventy injured in two pub bombings in Guildford, Surrey, attributed to the IRA .

24 November 1974: On the 54th anniversary of Dublin's Bloody...

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24 November 1974

On the 54th anniversary of Dublin's Bloody Sunday, two bombs in Birmingham pubs, allegedly planted by the IRA , killed twenty-one people and inflicted sometimes life-changing injury on at least 170 more.

22 December 1974: The home of Conservative Party leader Edward...

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22 December 1974

The home of Conservative Party leader Edward Heath was bombed, presumably by the IRA , despite a Christmas truce between the IRA and Protestant groups.

17 December 1983: A massive car bomb exploded in the early...

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17 December 1983

A massive car bomb exploded in the early afternoon in a London street close to Harrods department store. The IRA later claimed responsibility.

12 October 1984: The IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton...

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12 October 1984

The IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton where the Conservative Party was holding a conference.

14 March 1991: The Birmingham Six, wrongly convicted for...

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14 March 1991

The Birmingham Six, wrongly convicted for a fatal IRA bombing on 24 November 1974, were released..

15 June 1996: A bomb planted by the IRA destroyed a shopping...

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15 June 1996

A bomb planted by the IRA destroyed a shopping centre in the heart of Manchester, injuring about two hundred people.

29 November 1999: The first multi-party, multi-denominational,...

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29 November 1999

The first multi-party, multi-denominational, or power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland (sometimes known as the Stormont government) was appointed in place of direct rule by Britain.

28 July 2005: The Army Council of the IRA declared an end...

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28 July 2005

The Army Council of the IRA declared an end to its war against Britain, instructing all units to dump their arms and turn to purely political and democratic means
“Peace in our time?”. BBC News: Newsnight.
for ending British rule in Northern...

31 July 2007: The British Army's role in Northern Ireland,...

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31 July 2007

The British Army 's role in Northern Ireland, which had become known as Operation Banner, came to an end thirty-eight years after it began.

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