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On the basis of his studies of international heads of state, Duffy was one of six people (including Sir Ellis Clarke, the former Governor-General and President of Trinidad and Tobago) commissioned in 1993 by Australia's Republic Advisory Committee to prepare reports on international republican experiences —to appear as an appendix to the committee's main report. His report, along with those of five others, was submitted as p ...

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Ó Fiaich died of a heart attack at the age of 66 while leading an Armagh diocesan pilgrimage to the Marian shrine of Lourdes in France. He was succeeded as archbishop and cardinal by Cahal Cardinal Daly, the then Bishop of Down and Conor and an outspoken critic of the IRA. ...

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The Tomás Ó Fiaich Memorial Library, a registered charity, was opened in Armagh in the years after his death. Named after the cardinal to honour his academic interests, it contains extensive archival material about local and national Irish folklore, heritage and history. Cardinal Ó Fiaich's private papers covering his period as archbishop and cardinal are held by the library, as are those of nine previous Roman Catholic Archbi ...

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The Ancient Order of Hibernians, a nationalist organisation largely (though not exclusively) based in the United States, has named its Number 14 Division in Massachusetts after the late cardinal. ...

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The PIRA traditionally uses a well-known signature in its public statements, which are all issued under the pseudonymous name of "P. O'Neill" of the "Irish Republican Publicity Bureau, Dublin". According to Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, it was Seán Mac Stiofáin, as chief of staff of the Provisionals, who invented the name. However, under his usage, the name was written and pronounced according to Irish orthography and pronunciation as "P. Ó Néill". Ó Brádaigh also maintains that there is no particular significance to the name, thus discounting claims that it is a reference to Sir Phe ...

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The IRA has often been infiltrated by British Intelligence agents, and in the past some IRA members have been informers. IRA members suspected of being informants were usually executed after an IRA 'court-martial'. In May 2003 a number of newspapers named Freddie Scappaticci as the alleged identity of the British Force Research Unit's most senior informer within the Provisional IRA, code-named Steakknife, who is thought to have been head of the Provisional IRA's internal security force, charged with rooting out and executing informers. Scappaticci denies that th ...

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Ó Fiaich's re-ordering of the high Victorian gothic St. Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh Cathedral proved highly controversial. He had the highly decorated high altar and screen replaced by a plain white Wicklow granite altar table. Though Ó Fiaich himself wrote approvingly of the new design for the sanctuary, many others were highly critical, arguing that the new sanctuary design defaced what had been a particularly fine nineteenth century building, with the brutal simplicity of the white oval altar contrasting with the original features surviving. One critic, writing in ...

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Tomás Ó Fiaich was an academic and noted Irish language scholar, folklorist and historian in the Pontifical University in Maynooth College, the National Seminary of Ireland. From 1959 to 1974 he was Professor of Modern Irish History at the college. From 1974 until 1977 he served as college president, a post that traditionally precedes appointment to an episcopal position in the Irish Church. Following the death of William Cardinal Conway in 1977 Fr. Ó Fiaich was appointed Archbishop of Armagh by Pope Paul VI. The appointment was cr ...

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Pope John Paul I controversially blocked plans to make Ó Fiaich a cardinal in 1978 with the quip "Ireland deserves better". The United Kingdom and Irish governments of James Callaghan and Jack Lynch respectively had privately lobbied to prevent Ó Fiaich from being awarded the red hat because of the belief that he was too close to Irish militant republicanism. Writing later, then leader of the Opposition Dr Garret FitzGerald referred to "another disturbing development . . . the public references by Cardinal Ó Fiaich ...

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Ó Fiaich's republicanism proved controversial. While lauded by republicans he was criticised by both unionists and moderate nationalists as the "provo cardinal". ("Provo" is a slang term for the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA).) ...

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During the IRA hunger strikes Ó Fiaich was a privately influential figure among republican supporters, credited with helping end the first hunger strike through direct contact with republicans in the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland. He visited the Maze and witnessed the "Dirty Protest" (where prisoners rubbed their faeces on the walls of their cells and left food to rot on cell floors, while just wearing blankets and refusing to wash, in protest at the withdrawal of Special Category Status from republican prisoners), stating See also:

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The United States - Ireland bilateral or Air Services Agreement requires that air carriers operating between the United States and Ireland must provide capacity into Dublin Airport and Shannon. The rule came from the days when aircraft did not have a long range and were forced to stop at Shannon. The rule used to require a stop in both directions but was relaxed to require one direct Shannon flight for each direct Dublin flight. Accordingly some services are operated US-Dublin-Shannon-US. A similar bilateral rule exists between Ireland and ...

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In April 2003 the High Court ruled in Horgan v Ireland that for Ireland to be a Neutral Power under international law, it must prevent "belligerents from making use of neutral territories and neutral resources for their military purposes". The Irish Government however expressly invited the United States to use Ireland's airports and airspace for its "long campaign against terrorism", waiving all previous restrictions regarding foreign military aircraft. The provisions of Bunreacht na hÉireann (Constitution of Ireland) which affirm Ireland's commitment to the rule of inte ...

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Some months after the lockout ended, Larkin left for the United States. He intended to recuperate from the strain of the lockout and raise funds for the union. His decision to leave dismayed many union activists. Once there he became a member of the Socialist Party of America, and was involved in the syndicalist Industrial Workers of the World union. He became an enthusiatic supporter of the Soviet Union and was expelled from the Socialist Party of America in ...

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Upon his arrival in Ireland in April 1923, Larkin received a hero's welcome, and immediately set about touring the country meeting trade union members and appealing for an end to the Civil War. However, he soon found himself at variance with William O'Brien, who in his absence had become the leading figure in the ITGWU and the Irish Labour Party and Trade Union Congress. Larkin was still officially general secretary of the ITGWU, and a bitte ...

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In 1941 a new trade union bill was published by the Government. Inspired by an internal trade union restructuring proposal by William O'Brien, it was viewed as a threat by the smaller general unions and the Irish branches of British unions (known as the 'amalgamated unions'). Larkin and the WUI played a leading role in the unsuccessful campaign against the bill. After its passage into law he and his supporters successully applied for admission to the Labour Party, where they were now regarded with more sympathy by many members. O'Brien in re ...

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The Provisional IRA has several hundred members, as well as tens of thousands of civilian sympathisers in Ireland, mostly in Ulster. In 2005, Irish Minister for Justice Michael McDowell told the Dáil that the organization had "between 1,000 and 1,500" active members [2]. However, the movement's appeal was hurt badly by more notorious bombings widely perceived as atrocities, such as the killing of civilians attending a Remembrance Day ceremony at the cenotaph in Enniskillen in 1987 (the IRA maintain that their target was a contingent ...

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In early 1913 Larkin achieved some notable successes in industrial disputes in Dublin, making frequent recourse to sympathetic strikes and blacking of goods. Two major employers remained non-union firms and a target of Larkin's organising ambitions: Guinness and the Dublin United Tramway Company. Guinness staff were well-paid and enjoyed generous benefits from a paternalistic management, and as a result they showed little interest in trade unions. This was far from the case on the tramways. The chairman of the Dublin United Tramway Co ...

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According to the CAIN research project at the University of Ulster, the Provisional IRA was responsible for the deaths of 1,706 people during the Troubles up to 2001. This figure represents 48.4 percent of the total fatalities in the conflict. 497 of these casualties were civilians, 638 of the casualties were from the British Army (183 from the Ulster Defence Regiment and 455 from other regiments). Another 271 of the casualties were members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Of its victims, 340 were Northern Irish Catholics, 794 were Northern ...

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The News Letter has historically been a hardline Unionist title. On April 1, (April Fool's Day) 1993, the paper published a reader poll and of those who took part, 42% agreed with the violence of the loyalist paramilitary groups, the UDA and the UVF. However when it was purchased by the Mirror Group in the 1990s Montgomery moved it to a more pro-peace process position. This was continued under the stewardship of the then editor, Geoff Martin. Martin was succeeded in 2003 by Nigel Wa ...

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On July 28, 2005, the Provisional IRA Army Council announced an end to its armed campaign. In a statement read by Séanna Breathnach, the organization stated that it has instructed its members to dump all weapons and not to engage in "any other activities whatsoever" apart from assisting “the development of purely political and democratic programmes through exclusively peaceful means". Furthermore, the organization authorised its representatives to engage immediately with the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (IICD) to verifiably put its arms beyond use "in a way which will ...

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The IRA ceasefire in 1997 formed part of a process that led to the 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement. The Agreement has among its aims that all paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland cease their activities and disarm by May 2000. This is one of many Agreement aims that have yet to be realised. Calls from Sinn Féin have led the IRA to commence disarming in a process that has been overviewed by Canadian General John de Chastelain's decommissioning body in October 2001. However, following the collapse of the Stormont power-sharing g ...

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