Cathal Brugha, a rebel officer, distinguished himself in this action and was badly wounded.

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.

Seán McGarry was voted General Secretary, while Cathal Brugha was made Chairman of the Resident Executive, which in effect made him Chief of Staff.

As its first acts, the Dáil elected a prime minister ( Príomh Aire ), Cathal Brugha, and inaugurated a ministry called the Aireacht.

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.

* 1922 – Cathal Brugha, Irish soldier and politician ( b. 1874 )

Cathal Brugha became Príomh Aire ( First or Prime Minister ), also called President of Dáil Éireann.

Clockwise from top left: Cathal Brugha, Éamon de Valera, W. T. Cosgrave, Arthur Griffith.

During the period of the Republic there were two office-holders, Cathal Brugha ( on a provisional basis ) and Éamon de Valera.

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.

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 Dáil elected Cathal Brugha as its Ceann Comhairle ( chairman ).

The first, temporary president was Cathal Brugha.

< 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.

* 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.

Michael Collins and Cathal Brugha escaped arrest and increased their own power in the vacuum created by the arrest of more moderate leaders.

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.

In 1899 Brugha joined the Gaelic League and changed his name from Charles Burgess to Cathal Brugha.

Cathal Brugha commemorative plaque in O ’ Connell Street, Dublin.

Her father was Cathal Coughlan, a former Fianna Fáil TD, who died in June 1986.

Her uncle, Clement Coughlan, was a TD from 1980 until his death in 1983, in a road traffic accident while her father, Cathal Coughlan, was a TD from 1983 to 1986 when he died after a short illness.

In 1945 his only child, Máire MacSwiney, married Ruairí Brugha, son of the anti-Treaty Teachta Dála Cathal Brugha, and later a TD, Member of the European Parliament, and Senator.

The seat was won by the Fianna Fáil candidate Cathal Coughlan, brother of the deceased TD.

* 1256 – Felim mac Cathal Crobderg Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht

During the 1960s, the republican movement under the leadership of Cathal Goulding radically re-assessed their ideology and tactics after the dismal failure of the IRA's Border Campaign in the years 1956 – 62.

* Aedh mac Cathal Crobdearg Ua Conchobair, king of Connacht, 1223 – 1228

* Cathal Brugha – Song about Cathal Brugha

Cathal Ó Sándair ( 1922 – 1996 ), one of the most prolific Irish language authors, produced over one hundred novels, many of them westerns featuring cowboys and gun fights.

*“ An Mhanainnis ”, in K. McCone, Damian McManus, Cathal Ó Hainle, Nicholas Williams, Liam Breatnach, Stair na Gaeilge ( Maynooth, 1994 ) 703 – 44

The words are by Cathal McGarvey ( 1866 – 1927 ) from Ramelton, County Donegal.

Cathal Ó Fearraí ( 1988 – 1996 )

* Charles Murphy ( 1880 – 1958 ), Irish politician more commonly referred to as Cathal Ó Murchadha

* Cathal Brugha – Irish republican

* 7 August – Irish athlete Cathal Lombard is accused of taking performance enhancing drugs at the Olympic Games.

* 23 May – Cathal Gannon, harpsichord maker and fortepiano restorer ( b. 1910 ).

* 26 December – Cathal Goulding, Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army and the Official IRA ( b. 1923 ).

Charles Macklin ( 26 September 1699 – 11 July 1797 ), originally Cathal MacLochlainn ( in Irish, or Charles McLaughlin in English ), was an Irish actor and dramatist who performed extensively at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

: Cathal Ó Luain: ( 1977 – 81 ), I

King Cathal Crobderg Ua Conchobair ( reigned 1190 – 1224 ) faced much opposition, mainly from within his own family and wished to engage de Burgh's aid to help secure his position.

Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair ( or Cathal O ' Connor / O ' Conor ) ( 1153 – 1224 ), the youngest son of the Irish High King Tairrdelbach mac Ruaidri Ua Conchobair, was a King of Connacht.

Cathal Crobhdearg, 1153 – 1224

Aedh mac Cathal Crobdearg Ua Conchobair ( reigned 1224 – 1228 ) was King of Connacht.

* Cathal mac Diarmata, 1288 – 1294