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Hace 1 día · Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, who was twice chief-of-staff of the pre-1969 IRA during the Border campaign of 1956–1962, was a member of the first Army Council of the Provisional IRA in 1969. The IRA split into "Provisional" and "Official" factions in December 1969, after an IRA convention was held in Boyle, County Roscommon, Republic of ...
Hace 4 días · Secret meetings between IRA leaders Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and Billy McKee with British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Merlyn Rees secured an IRA ceasefire from February 1975 until January of the next year.
13 de may. de 2024 · The nationalist vote was split by Unity candidate JJ Donnelly and Republican Rory Brady (aka Ruairí Ó Brádaigh). In 1957 Ó Brádaigh, a prisoner at the time, had been elected to the Dail on a Sinn Fein abstentionist ticket for the Longford-Westmeath constituency.
27 de abr. de 2024 · "In a very real sense, Ruair Br daigh can . . . be said to be the last, or one of the last Irish Republicans. Studies of the Provisional movement to date have invariably focused more on the Northerners and the role of people like Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness. But an understanding of them is not possible without appreciating where they came from and from what tradition they have broken.
14 de may. de 2024 · The change in policy led to a split in SF and Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, a former President of SF, Dáithí Ó Conaill, a former vice-President of SF, and approximately 100 people staged a walk-out. [Ó Brádaigh and Ó Conaill went on to establish a new organisation called Republican Sinn Féin (RSF).]
Hace 2 días · In June 2010, Fianna Fáil opened its first official office in Northern Ireland, in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. The then Taoiseach Brian Cowen officially opened the office, accompanied by Ministers Éamon Ó Cuív and Dermot Ahern and Deputies Rory O’Hanlon and Margaret Conlon.
14 de may. de 2024 · Only a small number of Sinn Féiners walked out with Ruairi Ó Brádaigh and Daithi O' Connell when the constitutional change was passed. Despite their success in getting the necessary two-thirds majority in 1986 for the change on abstention, the IRA leadership paid a heavy price.
