Event class: irish, ira, republican, ireland, dublin, ulster, army, belfast, northern ireland, member

Events with high posterior probability

Willie Redmond	Willie Redmond was the' Grand Old Man of the Irish Division' and the most typical representative figure of the Irish nationalists who fought in the 1914 -- 18 war.
Michael Nugent	Holliday and Nugent were founder members in 1988 of New Consensus, the group which called for the revision of the Republic's territorial claim on the North and devolved government for the people of Northern Ireland based on'' mutual respect, civil liberty and freely given allegiance'', and they helped to organise the Peace Train campaign to end disruption of the north-south rail link by the IRA.
W. B. Yeats	She refused each proposal, and in 1903, to his horror, married the Irish nationalist Major John MacBride.
Billy Hughes	However a two-thirds majority of his party, which included Roman Catholics and union representatives as well as the Industrialists (Socialists) such as Frank Anstey, were bitterly opposed to this, especially in the wake of what was regarded by many Irish Australians (most of whom were Roman Catholics) as Britain's excessive response to the Easter Rising of 1916.
Tom Maguire	In it, he conferred legitimacy on the Army Council of the Continuity IRA (who provided a firing party at Maguire's funeral in 1993).
George Noble Plunkett	In 1938 he was one of the former members of the Second Dáil that assigned a claimed residual sovereign power to the IRA, a process known as Irish republican legitimatism.
Tom Clarke (Irish republican)	At the age of 18 he joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and in 1883 he was sent to London to blow up London Bridge as part of the Fenian dynamite campaign advocated by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, one of the IRB leaders exiled in the United States.
John White (loyalist)	After Adair supporters killed Gregg in early 2003, Jackie McDonald launched an attack on Adair's lower Shankill stronghold and ran his supporters, including White, out of the area.
John Francis Green	IRA informer Sean O'Callaghan claimed to have met Green at an IRA training camp in County Kerry at the end of 1973.
Emily Lawless	In contrast her brother Edward Lawless was a landowner with strong Unionist opinions, a policy of not employing Roman Catholics in any position in his household, and chairman of the Property Defence Association set up in 1880 to oppose the Land League and'' uphold the rights of property against organised combination to defraud''.
Larry Marley	Upon his release, he became re-involved with the organisation and this re-involvement cost him his life'' According to Gerry Adams, Marley's funeral witnessed the largest'' display of Republican support since the hunger strikes'' in 1981.
Lord Frederick Cavendish	In company with the Earl Spencer, Lord-Lieutenant, he proceeded to Dublin, and took the oath as chief secretary at the Castle, Dublin, on 6 May 1882 ; but on the afternoon of the same day, while walking in the Phoenix Park in company with Thomas Henry Burke, the Permanent Under-Secretary, he was attacked from behind by several men from an extreme Irish nationalist group known as the Irish National Invincibles, who with knives murdered Mr. Burke and himself.
Robert Bates (loyalist)	He also killed Thomas Quinn, a derelict, on 8 February 1976 and the following day was involved in shooting dead Archibald Hanna and Raymond Carlisle, two Protestant workmen that Bates and Murphy mistook for Catholics.
J. J. Clancy (MP)	He was one of the leaders of the later Irish Home Rule movement and promoter of the Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland) Act 1908, known as the Clancy Act.
Mary Mitchell O'Connor	The newly elected Fine Gael TD surprised staff at Leinster House on 2 March 2011 by driving her campaign car across the pedestrian plinth in the Dáil car park and down the steps.
Hugh Smyth	Hoping to gain some understanding of his republican opponents, Smyth was one of only two unionist politicians to accept an offer to visit Provisional Irish Republican Army inmates in Long Kesh during the early 1980s (the other being John Carson) As leader of the PUP Smyth ran as a candidate for West Belfast in the elections to the 1982 Assembly although he failed to take the seat and the PUP as a whole did not gain any representation.
J. J. Clancy (MP)	Clancy was one of five Irish Parliamentary Party representatives in the Irish Convention of 1917 -- 18 who tried to get an agreed settlement of the Ulster question.
Mary Kenny	In 1971 she travelled with Nell McCafferty, June Levine and other Irish feminists on the so-called'' Contraceptive Train'' from Dublin to Belfast to buy condoms, then illegal within the Republic of Ireland.
Sammy Smyth (loyalist)	As the UDA's public spokesman, Smyth was a prominent figure in the May 1974 Ulster Workers' Council strike and he produced the daily bulletin of the Ulster Workers' Council (UWC) for the duration of the strike with Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party politician David Trimble.
Glenn Barr	Barr briefly emerged from his political retirement in 1994 when he joined his old friend from the strike Andy Tyrie in heading up an initiative to gain funding for the Ulster Democratic Party.
John McKeague	In 1968 McKeague became a regular figure amongst groups of locals who every night congregated in large groups in the Woodvale area close to Ardoyne after a series of incidents between the loyalist and republican communities during which flags from both sides had been forcibly removed.
John Gough (VC)	He played a role in the Curragh Incident in March 1914, in which his brother and other cavalry officers stationed in Ireland threatened to resign rather than coerce Ulster Protestants who had no wish to be part of a Home Rule Ireland.
Seamus Twomey	He took part in the Feakle talks between the IRA and Protestant clergymen in December 1974.
Sam McCrory (loyalist)	After his release, police accused him of involvement in a gun attack on a bar in August 2000 at the start of a feud with the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).
James Connolly	He was executed by a British firing squad because of his leadership role in the Easter Rising of 1916.
D?ith? ? Conaill	In the autumn of 1969, Ó Conaill, upset with the then IRA leadership, walked out of the'' unit convention'' and was suspended.
Mokhtar Belmokhtar	In 2008, an Algerian court convicted and sentenced him to death for murdering 13 customs officer s. Belmokhtar formed and commanded his own jihadist group, the Islamist al-Mulathameen (Masked) Brigade, or al-Mua' qi'oon Biddam (Those who Sign with Blood) Brigade.
P?draig ? Fathaigh	After the failure of the rising, Ó Fathaigh served time for penal servitude in England till released in 1917.
Morgan Tsvangirai	On Friday, 16 May 2008, he held a press conference at the Europa Hotel in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
John J. O'Kelly	Following the 1916 Easter Rising, O'Kelly joined the Irish National League and became treasurer of the Irish National Aid and Volunteers' Dependants' Fund for the relief of prisoners and their families.
Davy Fogel	Fogel was the leader of the UDA's B Company, 2nd Battalion, West Belfast Brigade and enjoyed much prestige in 1972, having erected the first UDA street barricades and roadblocks in Woodvale.
?amon de Valera	Declaring himself now the Irish equivalent of King George V, he argued that as Irish head of state, in the absence of the British head of state from the negotiations, he too should not attend the peace conference called the Treaty Negotiations (October -- December 1921) at which British and Irish government leaders agreed to the effective independence of twenty-six of Ireland's thirty-two counties as the Irish Free State, with Northern Ireland choosing to remain under British sovereignty.
Daniel F. Cohalan	Cohalan was involved with the financing and planning of the Easter Rising in Dublin and was instrumental in sending Roger Casement to Germany in 1914.
Gerry Storey	During the 1981 Irish hunger strike he was asked by Loyalist and Republican prisoners to oversee boxing training in the Maze Prison gymnasium.
Cathal Goulding	In 1945, he was involved in the attempts to reestablish the IRA which had been almost decimated as a result of the action of the authorities in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Maurice Moynihan	Moynihan was born in Tralee, County Kerry, brother of Sean O'Muimhneachain, a member of the Irish Volunteers, and later Sinn Féin and both sons of Mary and Maurice Moynihan (died 1918) of Tylough, County Kerry, a leading nationalist who was campaign manager for the constitutional nationalist Thomas O'Donnell, M. P.
Katherine Kelly (actress)	She has strong links with The Lamproom Theatre in Barnsley, established in 1998 by her father John (who is originally from Castleisland, County Kerry, Ireland), and has regularly supported fund-raising events held there.
Frankie Curry	Curry soon fell in with a group of dissidents within the West Belfast UDA and constructed a number of car bombs for them, including one that detonated under the car of Eddie Copeland on 22 December 1996, seriously injuring the Provisional IRA leader.
Stephen McKeag	On 23 January 1998 he was also involved in the killing of Liam Conway on north Belfast's Hesketh Road although McKeag was brought before the Inner Council of the UDA for this attack as the movement had declared a ceasefire a few hours earlier.
Thomas Croke	The Irish radical William O'Brien said that Thomas Croke fought on the barricades in Paris during the 1848 French Revolution.
Brendan Behan	He also learned Irish in prison and, after his release in 1946, he spent some time in the Gaeltacht areas of Galway and Kerry, where he started writing poetry in Irish.
John Levett (athlete)	In Dublin, Ireland, on 17 October 1860 a local newspaper reported that Levett wished to walk in 1,000 hours, beginning at Mr Doyle's hotel in Sandymount.
Michael O'Riordan	Much of its activity at the time concerned street fighting with the quasi-fascist Blueshirt movement and O'Riordan fought Blueshirt fascism on the streets of Cork City in 1933 -- 34.
Jackie McDonald	He joined the UDA in 1972 about a year after it was formed in Belfast as an umbrella organisation for loyalist vigilante groups.
Margaret Buckley	In 1938, her book about the experiences of Irish Republican women prisoners interned by the Irish Free State forces was published, called The Jangle of the Keys.
William O'Brien	During his imprisonment until April 1882 he drafted the famous Land War No Rent Manifesto -- a rent-withholding scheme personally led by O'Brien, escalating the conflict between the Land League and Gladstone's government.
Billy Wright (loyalist)	In 1964 at the age of four the family returned to Northern Ireland and Wright soon came under the influence of his maternal uncle Cecil McKinley, a member of the Orange Order.
Gerry Adams	Adams was re-elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly on 8 March 2007, and on 26 March 2007, he met with DUP leader Ian Paisley face-to-face for the first time, and the two came to an agreement regarding the return of the power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland.
John Joe McGirl	When the IRA split in 1969, between'' Official IRA'' and'' Provisional IRA'' factions, McGirl sided with the Provisionals, who were committed to launching an armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.
Davy Tweed	In 2009, four of the UUCP group left to join Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV), but Tweed remained with the UUCP along with councillor William Wilkinson, head of research for the unionist pressure group Families Acting for Innocent Relatives.
Liam Deasy	In August 1922, he was in command of a band of republican guerrillas in west Cork, when they heard that Free State leader Michael Collins was in the area.
Ken Livingstone	Expressing his horror at the bombing, Livingstone insisted that the meeting proceed, for Adams had no connection with the INLA, but Conservative Home Secretary Willie Whitelaw banned Adams' entry to Britain with the 1976 Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act.
Se?n T. O'Kelly	In March 1915, O'Kelly went to New York City, to inform Clan Na Gael of the plans for a rising in Dublin by the IRB.
Nat Minford	Minford received a threat from the Ulster Volunteer Force in 1966, and as a result, the Stormont Committee on Privilege was set up.
Jackie Thompson	Thompson was briefly brigadier in West Belfast in 2003 between Adair's imprisonment and his fall.
Jim Hanna (loyalist)	Jim Hanna was no relation to Billy Hanna of Lurgan, who formed the UVF's Mid-Ulster Brigade in 1972 and appointed himself its first commander.
Richard McGhee	But the reaction of the British government to the rising and the suspension of the Home Rule Act 1914 which Redmond had negotiated and which would have granted a strong measure of Home Rule, destroyed Redmond and his movement to achieve Home Rule through constitutional Parliamentary means.
Michael Colivet	Colivet was Commandant of the Irish Volunteers for Limerick City and East Clare, and led the 1916 Easter Rising in Limerick.
Dermot Ahern	Like many others in his party he describes himself as a republican and stated at the 2006 Seán Moylan commemoration in Cork that'' as an Irish Republican my main personal and political goal is to live to see the unity of Ireland.''
Conor Cruise O'Brien	His opinion on the role of Britain in Ireland and in Northern Ireland changed during the 1970s in response to the outbreak of' the Troubles' after 1968.
Danny O'Connor (politician)	In 2000, he accused then Democratic Unionist Party councillor Jack McKee of raising tension in the Catholic Seacourt estate in Larne when McKee blamed republicans for targeting the estates Protestant population.
Ernie O'Malley	In February 1920, he and Eoin O'Duffy led an IRA attack on the Royal Irish Constabulary barracks in Ballytrain, County Monaghan, and were successful in taking it over.
Michael Davitt	In 1865, this interest led Davitt to join the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) which had strong support among working-class Irish immigrants.
Stephen McKeag	On 1 May 1993 Alan Lundy, a former Provisional IRA activist, was killed by McKeag at the home of Sinn Féin's councillor Alex Maskey, in the Andersonstown area.
William Tebb	Along with Walter Hadwen, in 1896 he had co-founded the London Association for the Prevention of Premature Burial, that campaigned for burial reforms to ensure that those buried were certainly dead.
Kieran Doherty	He died at the age of 25 in the 1981 Irish hunger strike in the Maze prison (known to republicans as Long Kesh).
Thomas Francis Meagher	'' The Irish Brigade commander was born in Waterford City, Ireland on August 23, 1823 ; a well educated orator, he joined the young Ireland movement to liberate his nation.
Gary McMichael	He did not join the Ulster Political Research Group, declined to defend his seat on Lisburn City Council in 2005, and is no longer involved in Northern Irish politics.
Dominic McGlinchey	After being released from prison in March 1993, he investigated claims that Irish criminals were involved in money laundering with the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).
Gerry Adams	At a dinner for his Fine Gael party on 29 September 2012, Taoiseach Enda Kenny accused Adams of having not only been a member of the IRA, but a member of the Army Council, calling for Adams to'' be absolutely truthful about this'' in response to Adams' calls for a truth and reconciliation commission in Northern Ireland.
Frankie Curry	A native of Belfast's Shankill Road and a nephew of Gusty Spence, Curry's reputation within the UVF soon grew and in 1972 at the age of 17, he was a central figure in the plot to break his uncle Gusty Spence out of the Maze Prison.
Mick Fitzpatrick	During 1935 he was involved in the IRA's intervention in the Dublin transport strike.
Christopher "Crip" McWilliams	His 16-year-old brother Paul, a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) youth section (Na Fianna), was shot dead by British Army soldiers in 1977 as he allegedly threw petrol bombs at their observation post during rioting in Ballymurphy.
John Weir (loyalist)	In January 1999, to assist journalist Sean McPhilemy who was being sued for libel, Weir made a sworn affidavit containing 62 paragraphs in which he outlined in detail the instances of collusion between his RUC and SPG colleagues, members of the UDR, and loyalist paramilitaries such as Robin Jackson.
Ray Smallwoods	During early 1992 Smallwoods and others close to him in the Inner Council held a series of meetings with Presbyterian ministers Jack Weir and Godfrey Browne.
Eric Dorman-Smith	On 15 December 1956, after the failure of Operation Harvest and the introduction of the Special Powers Act, Charlie Murphy and Sean Cronin visited to convey the message that his usefulness to the IRA was over.
David Ervine	He was part of a delegation to Downing Street in June 1996 that met then British Prime Minister John Major to discuss the loyalist ceasefire.
Ernie O'Malley	In October 1922, he went to Dundalk and met with Frank Aiken commander of Fourth Northern Division of the Irish Republican Army and Padraig Quinn (quartermaster-general) to review plans for another attack on the Dundalk to free IRA soldiers from the Dundalk jail.
Brendan Hughes	He was a cousin of Charles Hughes, who was the OC of D Company in the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade during the Falls Curfew, and was shot and killed in March 1971 by the Official Irish Republican Army during the feud between the Provisional and Official IRA.
Frederick William Wilson	He was called up as a volunteer to defend Chester Castle against the Fenians in 1866, 29 years after, meeting one of the attacking party as a colleague in the House of Commons.
Seamus Twomey	In 1969, he was prominent in the establishment of the Provisional IRA.
Joseph McGarrity	He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty and travelled to Dublin in 1922 and assisted the development of the short-lived Collins/De Valera Pact by bringing de Valera and Michael Collins together before the Irish general election, 1922.
Edward MacLysaght	The execution of close friends such as Conor Clune of Quin in November 1920 and the subsequent devastating raids on his farm resulted in his playing a far more active role in Sinn Féin as a loyal supporter of the new TD for Clare, Éamon de Valera.
Jim Mitchell (politician)	Mitchell began his political involvement when he supported Seán MacBride, leader of the radical republican Clann na Poblachta at the 1957 general election.
Se?n MacBride	In 1919, aged 15, he joined the Irish Volunteers and took part in the Irish War of Independence.
John Bannon (priest)	In November 1863 he returned to Ireland, writing and pamphleting to discourage people from emigrating and joining the Union side of the civil war.
Margaret Skinnider	In the civil war she became Paymaster General of the Irish Republican Army until she was arrested in 1923 and held at North Dublin Union.
Winkie Dodds	On 10 December 1999 he was part of a five man team, along with Adair, John White and brigadiers Jackie McDonald and John Gregg to meet General John de Chastelain, chairman of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning.
Tom Maguire	Likewise, in the aftermath of the 1986 split in the Republican Movement, both the Provisional IRA and the Continuity IRA sought Maguire's support.
Eddie Sayers	Eddie Sayers (born 1941) is a former Northern Irish loyalist who served as brigadier of the Ulster Defence Association's (UDA) Mid Ulster Brigade in the 1980s.
Paddy Daly	Daly was born in Dublin in 1888.
P?draig ? Fathaigh	He joined the Irish Volunteers in 1914, possibly becoming a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood around the same time.
John Daly (Fenian)	In the summer of 1883, Daly moved to Birmingham, England, and settled in the home of James Egan, an old friend from Limerick and a generally inactive IRB man.
Seamus Twomey	Three weeks later, on 31 October 1973, the IRA organised the helicopter escape of Twomey and his fellow IRA members J. B. O'Hagan and Kevin Mallon, when a team hijacked and forced the pilot at gun-point to land the helicopter in the training yard of Mountjoy Prison.
Ian Paisley	In 2005, Paisley's political party became the largest unionist party in Northern Ireland, displacing his long-term rivals, the Ulster Unionists (UUP), who had dominated unionist politics in Northern Ireland since before the partition of Ireland.
Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood	After the burning of the centre of the city of Cork by British auxiliary forces in December 1920 Greenwood blamed the'' Sinn Féin rebels'' and the people of Cork for burning their own city.
Jackie Mahood	When Adair was removed from the UDA leadership and Jim Spence emerged as a leading figure the relationship between Mahood and Spence deteriorated severely, to the point that in 2003 The People reported that the two men had brawled in the street in the Lyndhurst area near Glencairn where they were both living at the time.
William Conway (bishop)	Cardinal Seán Brady denied that the wider Church was involved in a cover-up to protect a priest suspected of being involved in three IRA car bombings in Claudy in Derry in 1972, and he accepted the report's findings.
Emmet Dalton	On May 14, 1921, he and Paddy Daly led an operation designed to rescue Sean McEoin from Mountjoy Prison using a hijacked British armoured car.
John Gregg (UDA)	Throughout 1999 his brigade continued to be active, undertaking a pipe bomb campaign against Catholic homes whilst on 12 May members of his brigade shot and wounded a Catholic builder in Carrickfergus under the cover name'' Protestant Liberation Force''.