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.

* Eoin MacNeill

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.

* Eoin MacNeill, " Early Irish Population Groups: their nomenclature, classification and chronology ", in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy ( C ) 29 ( 1911 ): 59 – 114

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.

de: Eoin MacNeill

gl: Eoin MacNeill

nl: Eoin MacNeill

no: Eoin MacNeill

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.

The ethos and sometimes the uniform were later copied by others who shared Mussolini's political ideas, including Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany, who issued brown shirts to the " Storm Troops " ( Sturmabteilung ) and black uniforms to the " Defense Squad " ( Schutzstaffel, also colloquially known as " Brownshirts ", because they wore black suit-like tunics with brown shirts ), Sir Oswald Mosley in the United Kingdom ( whose British Union of Fascists were also known as the " Blackshirts "), William Dudley Pelley in the United States ( Silver Legion of America or " Silver Shirts "), in Mexico the Camisas Doradas or " Golden Shirts ", Plínio Salgado in Brazil ( whose followers wore green shirts ), and Eoin O ' Duffy in the Irish Free State ( Army Comrades Association or " Blueshirts ").

* Magazine articles by Gero Hoschek, Eoin Young and others about the actual 1979 race which was referenced in the movie

This acquisition was highly controversial with the CEO of Musgrave in the UK, Eoin McGettigan, steering through the choppy waters of member revolts and counter offers from others backed by Icelandic Banks.

During the battle of Killmallock the town saw bitter fighting in July 1922 during the Irish Civil War, when it was held by anti-Treaty forces under Liam Deasy and eventually taken by Free State troops under Eoin O ' Duffy, which was an event which among others contributed to the dissolution of the short-lived Munster Republic.

In Ireland, Johnson is also found as an anglicisation of the Gaelic surnames Mac Sean ( McShane ) and Mac Eoin ( McKeown ).

The Redshirts gave inspiration to Mussolini to form the Fascist blackshirts units, and from there to Hitler's brownshirted Sturmabteilung ( SA ) units, as well as the quasi-fascist Irish Blueshirts under Eoin O ' Duffy.

* August 30-Jack Lynch orders the Irish Army Chief of Staff, General Seán Mac Eoin, to prepare a plan for possible incursions into Northern Ireland in defence of Catholic communities there, Exercise Armageddon.

On 16 September 2008, it was announced that a sixth book would be written, by Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer, with the support of Adams's estate.

Costello was opposed to the 1972 ceasefire and he began to clash openly with the leadership and with Eoin O ' Murchu.

In And Another Thing ..., written by Eoin Colfer, Arthur was put into a dream sequence and then frozen in time by the Guide Mk. 2.

1590 – 1649 ), anglicised as Owen Roe O ' Neill / Eoin Roe O ' Neill (" Red Owen "), was a seventeenth century soldier and one of the most famous of the O ' Neill dynasty of Ulster.

Eoin Dillon Uilleann pipper, of Kila, was brought up in the Blackrock area and lived until recently on Idrone Terrace late 2010, he says that living in Blackrock has influenced many of his contemporary tunes.

However, the last known lord of the Mac Eoin Bissetts, a supporter of the O ' Neills, was slain in battle in 1522, and it is only after this that the MacDonnells somehow emerge as claimants to the lordship.

Ryan retired as a TD at the 1965 general election and, shortly afterwards, he was elected to Seanad Éireann where he joined his son, Eoin Ryan, Snr.

His grandson, also called Eoin Ryan, is a former TD, Senator and was a Member of the European Parliament until 2009.

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

Eoin O ' Duffy was born Owen O ' Duffy in Lough Egish, near Castleblayney, County Monaghan.

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

Seán Mac Eoin was born John Joseph McKeon on 30 September 1893 at Bunlahy, Granard, County Longford, the eldest son of Andrew McKeon and Catherine Treacy.

However, Macready, British Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, confirmed the death sentence describing Mac Eoin as “ nothing more than a murderer ” and writing that he was probably responsible for other " atrocities ", but also later recorded in his memoirs that Mac Eoin was the only IRA man he had met, apart from Collins, to have a sense of humour.

However, Mac Eoin was not in the part of the jail they believed, and after some shooting, the rescue party retreated.

Mac Eoin was eventually released from prison-along with all other members of the Dail-after Collins threatened to break off treaty negotiations with London unless he was freed.