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Brugha was nominally the superior as Minister for Defence, but Collins's powerbase came from his position as Director of Organisation of the IRA and from his membership on the Supreme Council of the IRB.
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Seán McGarry was voted General Secretary, while Cathal Brugha was made Chairman of the Resident Executive, which in effect made him Chief of Staff.
However he had been imprisoned in England so, at the second meeting of the Dáil on 22 January, Cathal Brugha was elected as the first Príomh Aire on a temporary basis.
De Valera escaped Lincoln Gaol in February and so was elected to replace Brugha at the Dáil's third meeting on 1 April.
The first Ceann Comhairle was Cathal Brugha, who served for only one day, presiding over the house's symbolic first meeting, before leaving the post to become Príomh Aire ( prime minister ).
The first, temporary president was Cathal Brugha.
Among the casualties was Cathal Brugha.
Collins's plan had been to kill over 50 British intelligence officers and informers, but the list was reduced to 35 on the insistence of Cathal Brugha, the Irish Minister for Defence, on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence against some of those named.
He later fought with Cathal Brugha in the Hamman Hotel, and was subsequently interned in Kilmainham and Gormanstown until December 1923.
However the Liberal “ Daily News ” argued that Wilson must bear some responsibility for stirring up bloodshed in Belfast of which his death was part and the “ New Statesman ” claimed that in his “ fanatical Orangeism ” and devotion to “ force and force alone ” he was the British counterpart to Cathal Brugha.
Cathal Brugha (; born Charles William St. John Burgess ) ( 18 July 1874 – 7 July 1922 ) was an Irish revolutionary and politician, active in the Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence, and the Irish Civil War and was the first Ceann Comhairle ( chairman ) of Dáil Éireann.
Brugha was born in Dublin of mixed Roman Catholic and Protestant parentage.
He was known for his bitter enmity towards Michael Collins, who, although nominally only the IRA's Director of Intelligence, had far more influence in the organisation as a result of his position as a high-ranking member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, an organisation that Brugha saw as undermining the power of the Dáil and especially the Ministry for Defence.
Brugha opposed the oath of allegiance required for membership of the IRB and in 1919 his proposition that all Volunteers should swear allegiance to the Irish Republic and the Dáil was adopted.
At a top-level IRA meeting in August 1920, Brugha argued against ambushes of Crown forces unless there was first a call to surrender, but this was dismissed as unrealistic by the brigade commanders present.
Brugha also had the idea of moving the front line of the war to England, but was opposed by Collins.
On 28 June 1922, Brugha was appointed commandant of the forces in O ' Connell Street.
His son, Ruairí Brugha later became a Fianna Fáil politician and was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1973 general election.
He was made commandant of the 4th Battalion of the Volunteers, and during the Rising was stationed at the South Dublin Union and the Marrowbone Lane Distillery, with more than 100 men under his command, notably his second-in-command Cathal Brugha, and W. T. Cosgrave.
Brugha and Minister
Cathal Brugha, TD Príomh Aire ( January – April 1919 ) Long-term Minister for Defence and rival to Michael Collins.
Cathal Brugha became Príomh Aire ( First or Prime Minister ), also called President of Dáil Éireann.
At the top, the IRA leadership, of Michael Collins and Richard Mulcahy, operated with little reference to Cathal Brugha, the Dáil's Minister for Defence or Éamon de Valera, the President of the Irish Republic-at best giving them a supervisory role.
In May 2011, The new Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence, Alan Shatter opened a Cathal Brugha Barracks Visitors centre to the public commemorating those that fought for the Irish War of Independence.
Brugha and for
Brugha and de Valera both urged the IRA to undertake larger, more conventional military actions for the propaganda effect, but were ignored by Collins and Mulcahy.
Rathmines is well known for the large army barracks which is located there, Cathal Brugha Barracks ( known in the past as Portobello Barracks ), home to many units of the Irish Army including the 2nd Infantry Battalion.
Brugha and from
In April 1919 Brugha resigned and Éamon de Valera, the Sinn Féin leader, who had just escaped from prison with the help of Michael Collins using a key made from a candle, assumed the premiership instead.
Clockwise from top left: Cathal Brugha, Éamon de Valera, W. T. Cosgrave, Arthur Griffith.
In 1899 Brugha joined the Gaelic League and changed his name from Charles Burgess to Cathal Brugha.
In the months between the Treaty debates and the outbreak of Civil War, Brugha attempted to dissuade his fellow anti-treaty army leaders including Rory O ' Connor, Liam Mellows and Joe McKelvey from taking up arms against the Free State.
Most of the anti-Treaty fighters under Oscar Traynor escaped from O ' Connell Street when the buildings they were holding caught fire, leaving Brugha in command of a small rearguard.
His wife Caitlín Brugha served as a Sinn Féin TD from 1923 to 1927.
* Máire MacSwiney Brugha History's Daughter: a Memoir from the Only Child of Terence MacSwiney.
Brugha and IRA
On 31 January 1919 the IRA organ, An tÓglách (" The Volunteer ") published a list of principles agreed between two representatives of the Aireacht, acting Príomh Aire Cathal Brugha and Richard Mulcahy and the Executive.
As part of the ongoing strategy to take control of the IRA, Brugha proposed to Dáil Éireann on 20 August 1919 that the Volunteers were to be asked, at this next convention, to swear allegiance to the Dáil.
Brugha organised an amalgamation of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army into the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ).
Brugha and on
Also on the platform were Cathal Brugha and many others who were prominent in the reorganising of the Volunteers in the previous few months, many of them ex-prisoners.
During the period of the Republic there were two office-holders, Cathal Brugha ( on a provisional basis ) and Éamon de Valera.
Due to the absence of Éamon de Valera and Arthur Griffith, Brugha presided over the first meeting of Dáil Éireann on 21 January 1919.
It has been argued that, by turning the issue into a vote on Collins ' popularity, Brugha swung the majority against his own side ; Frank O ' Connor, in his biography of Collins, states that 2 delegates who had intended to vote against the Treaty changed sides in sympathy with Collins.
* Cathal Brugha, Irish Nationalist, leader lived on Rathmines Road.
Brugha and IRB
Brugha became actively involved in the Irish Republican Brotherhood ( IRB ) and in 1913 he became a lieutenant in the Irish Volunteers.
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