The IRA Army Council is or was the decision-making body of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, more commonly known as the IRA, a paramilitary group dedicated to bringing about the end of the Union between Northern Ireland and Great Britain, the Council said to have included which Irish republican politician who is the president of the Sinn Féin political party, and a Teachta Dála ?
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IRA Army Council The IRA Army Council is or was the decision-making body of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, more commonly known as the IRA, a paramilitary group dedicated to bringing about the end of the Union between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. The Council had seven members, said by the British and Irish governments to have included Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Féin. The Independent Monitoring Commission declared in 2008 that the council was "no longer operational or functional". However, the IMC report also says the Army Council still exists and has not dissolved.
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Gerry Adams Gerard "Gerry" Adams (Irish: "Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh" ; born 6 October 1948) is an Irish republican politician who is the president of the Sinn Féin political party and a Teachta Dála (TD; a member of the Irish parliament) for Louth since the 2011 general election.
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Con Lehane (Irish republican) Con Lehane (1911 – 18 September 1983) was a left-wing nationalist, a 1930s member of the IRA Army Council, solicitor and politician. He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Clann na Poblachta Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-Central constituency at the 1948 general election. He lost his seat at the 1951 general election.
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Martina Anderson Martina Anderson (born 16 April 1962) is an Irish politician in Northern Ireland who is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) representing Northern Ireland for Sinn Féin. She became involved in the Irish Republican movement in the late 1970s, is a former volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and was in prison for IRA activity for 13 years until she was released as a condition of the Good Friday Agreement. After her release, she became involved in politics for Sinn Féin. She was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Northern Ireland from 2007 to 2012, representing Foyle. She served in the Northern Ireland Executive as a Junior Minister at the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister from 2011 to 2012. In 2012 she became a Member of the European Parliament, and she was reelected in the 2014 election.
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Democratic Unionist Party The Democratic Unionist Party is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland.
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Mick Barry (Irish politician) Mick Barry (born 17 September 1964) is an Irish Solidarity–People Before Profit politician and a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork North–Central constituency, upon being elected at the 2016 general election. He is a member of the Socialist Party which has an international affiliation to the Trotskyist Committee for a Workers' International. The AAA was re-branded as "Solidarity" in 2017.
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The Troubles The Troubles (Irish: "Na Trioblóidí" ) was an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland during the late 20th century. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it is sometimes described as a "guerrilla war" or a "low-level war". The conflict began in the late 1960s and it is usually deemed to have ended with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Although the Troubles mainly took place in Northern Ireland, at times the violence spilled over into parts of the Republic of Ireland, England and mainland Europe.
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Eamon Martin (Irish republican) Eamon Martin was an Irish Republican who fought in the Easter Rising and was chief of staff of Fianna Eireann. He was also a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. and a member of the Irish Volunteers executive council.
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Ulster Army Council The Ulster Army Council (or UAC) was set up in 1973 as an umbrella group by the Ulster Defence Association and the Ulster Volunteer Force to co-ordinate joint paramilitary operations during the Ulster Workers' Council Strike. Andy Tyrie was the head of the group – and was also the then commander of the Ulster Defence Association.
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Timothy Killeen Timothy Killeen (10 May 1923 – 2 March 1993) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. A company secretary, Killeen stood at the 1969 and 1973 general elections but was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Artane constituency at the 1977 general election. Following constituency revisions, Killeen contested the 1981 general election for the Dublin North-West constituency but was defeated. He failed to be elected at the February 1982 and November 1982 general elections.
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Irish Republican Army (disambiguation) The Irish Republican Army is any of several armed movements dedicated to Irish republicanism.
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Danny O'Connor (politician) Danny O'Connor (born 1965) is a former nationalist politician in Northern Ireland. He was a member of Larne Borough Council from 1997 to 2011.
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Ciarán Lynch Ciarán Lynch (born 13 June 1964) is an Irish Labour Party politician. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South–Central constituency since 2007.
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Linda Dillon Linda Dillon (born 5 August 1978) is a Sinn Féin politician from Northern Ireland. She has been an MLA for Mid Ulster since 2016.
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Provisional IRA South Armagh Brigade The South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) operated during the Troubles in south County Armagh. It was organised into two battalions, one around Jonesborough and another around Crossmaglen. By the 1990s, the South Armagh Brigade was thought to consist of about 40 members, roughly half of them living south of the border. It has allegedly been commanded since the 1970s by Thomas 'Slab' Murphy who is also alleged to be a member of the IRA's Army Council. Compared to other brigades, the South Armagh IRA was seen as an 'independent republic' within the republican movement, retaining a battalion organizational structure and not adopting the cell structure the rest of the IRA was forced to adopt after repeated intelligence failures.
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Provisional Government of Ireland (1922) The Provisional Government of Ireland (Irish: "Rialtas Sealadach na hÉireann" ) was the provisional government for the administration of Southern Ireland from 16 January 1922 to 5 December 1922. It was a transitional administration for the period between the ratifying of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the establishment of the Irish Free State. Its legitimacy was disputed by the Anti-Treaty delegates to Dáil Éireann.
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Mayor of Derry The Mayor of Derry, legally the Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council is an honorary position bestowed upon a citizen of Derry in Northern Ireland, who is in practice a member of Derry and Strabane District Council, chosen by his or her peers on the Council to serve a one-year term. The Mayor is Chairman of the Council as well as the city's first citizen. The current Mayor is Maolíosa McHugh of Sinn Féin.
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Irish Republican Police The Irish Republican Police (IRP) was the police force of the 1919–1922 Irish Republic and was administered by the Department for Home Affairs of that government.
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Anglo-Irish Agreement The Anglo-Irish Agreement was a 1985 treaty between the United Kingdom and Ireland which aimed to help bring an end to the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The treaty gave the Irish government an advisory role in Northern Ireland's government while confirming that there would be no change in the constitutional position of Northern Ireland unless a majority of its people agreed to join the Republic. It also set out conditions for the establishment of a devolved consensus government in the region.
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Free Stater (Ireland) Free Stater or pro-Treatyite is a term often used by opponents to describe those in Ireland who supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 that led to the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922. The pro-Treaty side included members of the old IRA who had fought the British during the recent Irish War of Independence. Led by Michael Collins and Richard Mulcahy, it soon became the nucleus of the new (regular) Irish National Army that overcame their anti-Treaty IRA opponents during the often bitter Irish Civil War of 1922–23.
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Arthur Morgan (Irish politician) Arthur Morgan (born 23 July 1954) is an Irish former Sinn Féin politician. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Louth constituency from 2002 to 2011.
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Independent Fianna Fáil Independent Fianna Fáil was a splinter republican party in the Republic of Ireland created by Neil Blaney after his expulsion from Fianna Fáil following the Irish Arms Crisis (1969–1970). The party ceased to exist on 26 July 2006. It was never an officially registered political party: Niall Blaney said in 2003 "I am an Independent and a member of an organisation known locally as Independent Fianna Fáil." Its candidates were listed on ballot papers without a party label, and without the optional "Non-party" label available to independents. However, the Oireachtas members' database lists Independent Fianna Fáil members separately.