The first entirely Catholic English language publication published in Buenos Aires, The Southern Cross is an Argentine newspaper founded on January 16, 1875 by Dean Patricio Dillon, an Irish immigrant, a deputy for Buenos Aires Province and president of the Presidential Affairs Commission amongst other positions.

* 1983 – Seán Dillon, Irish footballer

* 1975 – Cara Dillon, Irish singer-songwriter

* Irish — Dillon, Gerard: Many works, including Bird and Bird Canvas ( c. 1958 ), And the Time Passes ( 1962 ), The Brothers ( 1967 ), Beginnings ( 1968 ), Encounter ( c. 1968 ), Red Nude with Loving Pierrot ( c. 1970 ); Robinson, Markey: Many works.

In its island guise it was visited by various Irish heroes and monks forming the basis of the Adventure Myth or " echtrae " as defined by Myles Dillon in his book Early Irish Literature.

Following Parnell's death in 1891, the IPP's anti-Parnellite majority group broke away forming the Irish National Federation ( INF ) under John Dillon.

But finding it impossible to work with or under any post-Parnell leadership especially Dillon, he was expelled in 1895 from the INF executive committee, having previously been expelled from the Irish party's minor nine member pro-Parnellite Irish National League ( INL ) under John Redmond.

The minority of 28 who remained true to their embattled ' Chief ' continued in the Irish National League under John Redmond, the vast majority of anti-Parnellites forming the Irish National Federation, later led by John Dillon and supported by the Catholic Church.

His son, John Dillon became leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party while his grandson, James Dillon, became leader of Fine Gael.

The leaders of the Irish Parliamentary Party ( IPP ) sought a rapprochement with Griffith over the British threat of conscription, which both parties condemned, but Griffith refused unless the IPP embraced his more radical and subversive ideals, a suggestion which John Dillon, a leader of the IPP rubbished as unrealistic, although it would ultimately mean the defeat and dissolution of the IPP after the election in December 1918.

The larger anti-Parnellite group formed the Irish National Federation ( INF ) under John Dillon.

Again though approving of the 1904 devolution proposals of the Irish Reform Association, fearing another party split, Redmond quietly endured Dillon ’ s dictate of distancing from any understanding with the landlord class.

However, they made a good team: Redmond, who was a fine speaker and liked the House of Commons, dealt with the British politicians, while Dillon, who disliked London, the Commons and their influence on Irish politicians, stayed in Ireland and kept Redmond in touch with national feelings.

His successor, John Dillon, claimed that Redmond had removed all the obstacles to Irish unity except those of the Ulster unionists.

There followed Asquith ’ s attempt to introduce Home Rule in July 1916, David Lloyd George, then Minister for Munitions, was then sent to Dublin to offer this to the leaders of the Irish Party, Redmond and Dillon.

Redmond, after 1916 was increasingly eclipsed by ill-health, the rise of Sinn Féin and the growing dominance of Dillon within the Irish Party.

The Irish Nationalists led by Dillon walked out of the House of Commons and returned to Ireland to join in the widespread resistance and protests during the resulting conscription crisis.

He was accepted to the school held by Mary Blackwell Dillon, an Irish immigrant with linguistic talents.

James Matthew Dillon ( 26 September 1902 – 10 February 1986 ) was an Irish politician and leader of Fine Gael from 1959 to 1965.

He was the son of John Dillon, the last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party ( 1918 ), which had been swept away by Sinn Féin at the 1918 general election.

As Minister, Dillon was responsible for huge improvements in Irish agriculture.

Dillon attempted to persuade the Government in July 1918 to implement Irish self-government by introducing a motion for self-determination in the Commons.

The President's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, a post held under Eisenhower by Cutler, Dillon Anderson, William Harding Jackson, and finally Gordon Gray, oversaw the flow of recommendations and decisions up and down the policy hill, and functioned in Council meetings to brief the Council and summarize the sense of discussion.

He waged war during the 1890s with Dillon and his National Federation ( INF ) and then intrigued with Redmond's smaller Parnellite group to play a substantial role behind the scenes in helping the rival party factions to re-unite under Redmond in 1900.

Dillon remained Treasury Secretary under President Lyndon B. Johnson until 1965.

Dillon proposed the fifth round of tariff negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ), conducted in Geneva 1960 – 1962 ; it came to be called the " Dillon Round ", and led to substantial tariff reduction.

Dillon was important in securing presidential power for reciprocal tariff reductions under the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.

Local stations would show the re-titled Marshal Dillon version of the series, while the series under the original Gunsmoke title ( with some episodes under the Marshal Dillon retitling ) were seen in the late 1990s on TV Land and later Me-TV.

Encore Westerns currently airs this version under the Marshal Dillon title.

One of the many prominent trustees of the institution since has been C. Douglas Dillon, the United States Secretary of the Treasury under both Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Dillon became deputy leader of Fine Gael under W. T. Cosgrave.

Raven was an " unsigned free agent ", but eventually accepted a contract with WCW Commissioner James J. Dillon which stipulated that he could wrestle only when he wanted and under his own rules.

A 12-issue miniseries by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, again titled The Punisher ( April 2000 – March 2001 ), under the Marvel Knights imprint, revived the character's popularity.

An ongoing series ( 37 issues, August 2001 – February 2004 ), primarily by Ennis and Dillon, followed, succeeded in 2004 by an ongoing Ennis series under Marvel's mature-readers imprint, MAX.

This " dual policy " was extremely unpopular, opposed both by the Irish Parliamentary Party under its new leader John Dillon, the All-for-Ireland Party as well as Sinn Féin and other national bodies.

Armstrong's proclivity toward secular pursuits outside evangelism was evidenced by his appearance as a guest on the US television show Hee Haw in the 1970s ( Armstrong had arranged for Hee Haw co-host Buck Owens to entertain attendees at the WCG's annual convention one year ), and his authorship of a novel, Churchill's Gold, penned under the pseudonym William Talboy Wright-a mixture of names from his grandparents: William Dillon ( maternal grandfather ), Isabelle Talboy ( maternal grandmother ), and Eva Wright ( paternal grandmother ).

Parnell and his party lieutenants, William O ' Brien, John Dillon, Michael Davitt, Willie Redmond, went into a bitter verbal offensive and were imprisoned in October 1881 under the Irish Coercion Act in Kilmainham Jail for " sabotaging the Land Act ", from where the No-Rent Manifesto was issued calling for a national tenant farmer rent strike which was partially followed.

Both sides returned to Ireland to organise their supporters into two parties, the former Parnellite Irish National League ( INL ) under John Redmond and John Dillon ’ s anti-Parnellite Irish National Federation ( INF ).

* James W. Dillon Home

Other appearances included The Twilight Zone episodes " A Hundred Yards Over the Rim " ( 1961 ) and " The Dummy " ( 1962 ) followed by guest-starring roles in such series as the NBC medical drama about psychiatry The Eleventh Hour ( 1963 ) in the role of Jeff Dillon, " The Man Who Came Home Late ".

In a bout of activity, he left for America in December 1879 with John Dillon to raise funds for famine relief and secure support for Home Rule.

He was fiercely denounced by the young Nationalist John Dillon, who continued his attacks with considerable support from other Home Rulers at a meeting of the Home Rule League in February 1879.

Redmond was succeeded in the party leadership by John Dillon and spared the experience of further political setbacks when after the German Spring Offensive of April 1918, Britain, caught in a desperate life or death struggle with Imperial Germany, foolishly attempted to introduce conscription in Ireland linked with implementation of Home Rule.

* The IPP led by leaders such as John Dillon, who had been in public office since the 1880s, were largely older moderate politicians, campaigning for All-Ireland Home Rule since Charles Stewart Parnell ’ s time, and now pressing for the implementation of the 1914 Act and a constitutional solution to have Ulster included in a Dublin parliament.

Home Rule ’ s prominent figurehead John Redmond died in March 1918 at the close of the Convention, John Dillon taking over the IPP leadership.

He also provided narration for Bill Couturie's Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, a critically acclaimed war documentary that features a talented cast including Tom Berenger, Robert De Niro, Willem Dafoe, and Matt Dillon.

Dillon did voiceover work in the 1987 documentary film Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam.

By political disposition Dillon was an advocate of Irish nationalism, originally a follower of Charles Stewart Parnell, supporting land reform and Irish Home Rule.

When the Liberals reclaimed office in 1892 Dillon took part in the negotiations on the second Home Rule Bill, the Irish Government Bill 1893, which was rejected by the House of Lords.

The year was also eventful with the attainment of the Local Government ( Ireland ) Act 1898 which put the administration of local affairs into Irish hands, not at all favoured by Dillon before attaining full Home Rule.

The Home Rule Movement, influenced very greatly by Dillon, reverted to a narrow traditional stand, which opposed any chance of an inclusive nationalism and failed to include new interests within Catholic society.

Retiring from politics, Dillon was not spared witnessing the violent epoch of the Anglo-Irish War, the implementation of Home Rule in Northern Ireland, the ensuing Partition of Ireland endorsed by the Irish Free State and the resulting Irish Civil War.

* 4 August-John Dillon, land reform agitator, Irish Home Rule activist, nationalist politician, MP and last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party ( in London ) ( born 1851 ).

The bill was welcomed by Nationalist leaders John Redmond and John Dillon, and opposed, for different reasons, by unionists and by more radical nationalists who wanted nothing less than Home rule for Ireland.

* John Dillon assumes the leadership of the anti-Parnellite wing of the Home Rule Party.