Its leader was Eoin MacNeill, who was not an IRB member.

This dual rôle allowed the Committee, to which Clarke and MacDermott added themselves shortly afterward, to promote their own policies and personnel independently of both the Volunteer Executive and the IRB Executive — in particular Volunteer Chief of Staff Eoin MacNeill, who supported a rising only on condition of an increase in popular support following unpopular moves by the London government, such as the introduction of conscription or an attempt to suppress the Volunteers or its leaders, and IRB President Denis McCullough, who held similar views.

However, about 12, 000 Volunteers, led by Eoin MacNeill and dominated by the secret Irish Republican Brotherhood ( IRB ), refused to join the British war effort and kept the name " Irish Volunteers ".

However, the Volunteers ' leader, Eoin MacNeill, found out about the plot at the last minute, and issued countermanding orders to Volunteer units around the country.

The Free State's representative was Eoin MacNeill, a respected scholar and Minister for Education.

" Conradh na Gaeilge was founded in Dublin on 31 July 1893 by Douglas Hyde (), the son of a Church of Ireland rector from Frenchpark, County Roscommon with the aid of Eugene O ' Growney, Eoin MacNeill, Thomas O ' Neill Russell and others.

A very prominent ex Fianna officer, Aodh MacNeill ( son of Eoin MacNeill ), officiated at the executions.

< center > Members of the First Dáil, 10 April 1919First row, left to right: Laurence Ginnell, Michael Collins ( Irish leader ) | Michael Collins, Cathal Brugha, Arthur Griffith, Éamon de Valera, George Noble Plunkett | Count Plunkett, Eoin MacNeill, W. T. Cosgrave and Ernest Blythe.

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Hyde himself, however, felt uncomfortable at the growing politicisation of his movement ( which had been infiltrated by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, just like the Irish Volunteers and the Gaelic Athletic Association ) and resigned the presidency in 1915 ; he was replaced reluctantly by co-Founder Eoin MacNeill.

The brother of nationalist leader Eoin MacNeill, James McNeill served as a high ranking civil servant in the Raj Civil Service in Calcutta.

The Irish language version was drafted by a committee which included the Minister for Education, Eoin MacNeill ; the Leas-Cheann Comhairle ( deputy speaker ), Pádraic Ó Máille ; the Clerk of the Dáil, Colm Ó Murchadha ; Piaras Béaslaí ; Liam Ó Rinn and Professors Osborn Bergin and T. F. O ' Rahilly.

Involvement which brought him into close contact with Éamon de Valera, Michael Collins, Patrick Pearse, Desmond FitzGerald, Eoin MacNeill, James Connolly and others.

Eoin MacNeill (; 15 May 1867 – 15 October 1945 ) was an Irish scholar, nationalist, revolutionary and politician.

Eoin MacNeill died in Dublin of natural causes at the age of 78.

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Sinn Féin candidates were elected in 73 constituencies but four party candidates ( Arthur Griffith, Éamon de Valera, Eoin MacNeill and Liam Mellows ) were elected for two constituencies and so the total number of individual Sinn Féin MPs elected was 69.

The establishment of the Ulster Volunteers was, according to Eoin MacNeill instigated, approved, and financed by English Tories one of the leading British Parties with the other party the Liberals, not finding " itself terribly distressed by that proceeding.

The IRB found Eoin MacNeill the ideal candidate, Professor of Early and Medieval History at University College Dublin.

In December a headquarters staff was appointed, consisting of Eoin MacNeill as chief of staff, The O ' Rahilly as director of arms, Thomas MacDonagh as director of training, Patrick Pearse as director of military organization, Bulmer Hobson as quartermaster, and Joseph Plunkett as director of military operations.

Early in 1932, he wrote to General Eoin O ' Duffy, then the President of the Olympic Council of Ireland, and asked to be considered for the Irish Olympic Team in the 400 metres hurdles and he also confessed that he had not previously run in the event.

Irish Volunteer units mobilised on Easter Sunday in several places outside of Dublin, but due to Eoin MacNeill's countermanding order, most of them returned home without fighting.

According to Eoin O ' Duffy, an Irish national corporatist, " before everything we must give a national lead to our people ... The first essential is national unity.

Eoin O ' Duffy led a brigade of 700 Irish volunteers to fight for Franco during the Spanish Civil War, and Frank Ryan led the Connolly column who fought on the opposite side, with the Republican International Brigades.

* 1986 – Eoin Morgan, Irish cricketer

In 2008, Irish MEP Eoin Ryan called for tighter regulation over tokens and medals that are being increasingly used for small purchases mainly in vending machines across Europe.

Eoin O ' Duffy (; 30 October 1892 – 30 November 1944 ) was an Irish political activist, soldier and police commissioner.

Along with Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins and Eoin O ' Duffy, O ' Higgins is an important figure in Irish nationalist historiography, representing a more " conservative revolutionary " position when contrasted with republicanism.

Artemis Fowl is a series of eight science fiction fantasy novels written by Irish author Eoin Colfer, featuring the titular character, Artemis Fowl II.

Seán Mac Eoin ( 30 September 1893 – 7 July 1973 ) was an Irish Fine Gael politician and soldier.

Mac Eoin joined the new army of the Irish Free State and was appointed GOC Western Command in June 1922.

Eoin O ' Duffy was a guerrilla leader in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence ; an Irish Army general during the Civil War, and the Irish police commissioner in the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1933.

It sought a merger with the right-wing Army Comrades Association but this was rejected by Eoin O ' Duffy due to their pro-British stance.

During his time with Tyrone he was first choice penalty taker-scoring three in the run up to Tyrone's 2005 All-Ireland victory, and also shared free-taking duty with Eoin Mulligan — usually dictated by who is kicking on their stronger side.

Pearse's radical politics also made even some moderate supporters question what their children might be exposed to, and some, notably Eoin MacNeill, removed their children from Pearse's influence.

* April 27-Fine Gael nominate Seán Mac Eoin as their presidential election candidate in opposition to the Minister for Finance Seán T. O ' Kelly.

The general scholarly consensus since as early as the time of Eoin MacNeill has been that the Ulaid were apparently kin to the so-called Érainn, or at least to their royal families, sometimes called the Clanna Dedad, and perhaps not their nebulous subject populations.

In 1923, Eoin O ' Duffy as Commissioner of the Garda Síochána ( Civic Guard ) encouraged members to join the PTAA, and allowed Gardaí to wear the Pioneer pin on their uniforms, in exemption to a general ban on symbols and adornments.

In a 1926 paper, Eoin MacNeill discusses the movements of the Uí Liatháin at considerable length, arguing their leadership in the South Irish conquests and founding of the later dynasty of Brycheiniog, the Welsh genealogies matching Uí Liatháin dynasts in the Irish genealogies.

In the tournament, and what was the team's second ODI, Ireland recorded their first ODI win, beating fellow Associates Scotland by 85 runs after man-of-the-match Eoin Morgan made 99.