* On November 22, 2002 Caoimhe Butterly, an Irish ISM volunteer was shot and injured by IDF in Jenin minutes before UNRWA relief works project manager, Briton Iain Hook was killed nearby.

It was faced with the prospect of battling Anglo-Irish and Ulster Scots peoples in Ireland, who alongside their other Irish groups had raised their own volunteer army and threatened to emulate the American colonists if their conditions were not met.

* 17-Gerry Adams, Sr, 77, Irish Republican Army volunteer, father of Gerry Adams.

* May 5 – Bobby Sands, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and elected member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, dies aged 27 while on hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.

* Dick McKee, Irish Republican Army volunteer

* Martin Doherty, Irish Republican Army volunteer

Directly after the feud in October 1987, the INLA received more damaging publicity when Dessie O ' Hare, an erstwhile INLA volunteer set up his own group called the ' Irish Revolutionary Brigade ' and kidnapped a Dublin dentist named John O ' Grady.

Manuscripts 33118 ); Carlisle Correspondence ; Beresford Correspondence ; Stanhope Miscellanies ; for the Catholic question, W Anshurst, History of Catholic Emancipation ( 2 vols., London, 1886 ); Sir Thomas Wyse, Historical Sketch of the late Catholic Association of Ireland ( London, 1829 ); W. J. MacNeven, Pieces of Irish History ( New York, 1807 ) containing an account of the United Irishmen ; for the volunteer movement Thomas MacNevin, History of the Volunteers of 1782 ( Dublin, 1845 ); Proceedings of the Volunteer Delegates of Ireland 1784 ( Anon.

Bulmer Hobson, co-founder of the republican boy-scouts, Fianna Éireann, and member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, believed the IRB should use the formation of the Ulster Volunteers as an " excuse to try to persuade the public to form an Irish volunteer force ".

On 1 November, MacNeill's article suggesting the formation of an Irish volunteer force was published.

They left to form the National Volunteers, which fought in the 10th and 16th ( Irish ) Division, side-by-side with their volunteer counterparts from the 36th ( Ulster ) Division.

* 08 Mar 1978: The RHC shot dead an Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) volunteer and a Catholic civilian in Portadown, County Armagh.

Markievicz also joined James Connolly's socialist Irish Citizen Army ( ICA ), a small volunteer force formed in response to the lockout of 1913, to defend the demonstrating workers from the police.

Having again passed some time in Italy, he returned to Ireland and in 1782 threw himself ardently into the Irish volunteer movement, quickly attaining a prominent position among the volunteers.

He was president of the volunteer convention in Dublin in November 1783, having taken a leading part in the formation of the Irish Volunteers ; and he was a strong opponent of the proposals for the Union.

In November 1942 Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg joined the British Army as a volunteer in Irish Guards.

Territorially these early volunteer / reserve forces were divided into regimental areas, which took their names from the ancient Irish kingdoms where they were raised :-

His father, Matt Brady, was an IRA volunteer and was severely wounded in an encounter with the Royal Irish Constabulary, in 1919.

The following year in 1938, at the age of 18, Cahill became a volunteer in the local Clonard-based ' C ' Company of the Belfast Brigade of the Irish Republican Army.

30, 000 volunteer officials and support staff assisted in the running of the games, including 900 staff of the Bank of Ireland who coordinated the host town programme and 800 members of the Irish Defence Forces who maintained the radio communication network, and provided support for bridge building, security duties, VIP drivers, standard bearers for ceremonial events and emergency medical teams.

* 11 February-Tommy Coleman, Irish volunteer ( born 1899 ).

* 29 April-Tom Hales, Irish Republican Army volunteer, fought in Anglo-Irish War and Irish Civil War ( born 1892 ).

Examples include the " masculinized genitalia in female hyenas, exaptive use of an umbilicus as a brooding chamber by snails, the shoulder hump of the giant Irish deer, and several key features of human mentality.

He published a biography of Joseph Chamberlain, which treated the split with William Gladstone over Irish Home Rule in 1886 as the pivotal point of his career, rather than the adoption of tariff reform, and contained the famous line: " All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs ".

The original building includes the Great Room, which features a magnificent sequence of paintings by Irish artist James Barry titled The progress of human knowledge and culture.

In the City of Heroes universe, a faction called " Fir Bolg " battles a faction named Tuatha Dé Danann based on the Irish history, although not in human form.

Crom Cruach or Cromm Crúaich ( Classical Irish / Gaelic pronunciation / ˈkɾˠɔmˠ ˈkɾˠuəç /), also known as Cenn Cruach / ˈkʲɛnˠ: ˈkɾˠuəxˠ / or Cenncroithi / ˈkʲɛnˠ: ˈkɾˠoθʲɨ /, was a deity in pre-Christian Ireland, reputedly propitiated with human sacrifice, whose worship is said to have been ended by St. Patrick.

Other artifacts include bronze reliefs depicting a sea deity, fishermen and tritons, nine stone or bronze statues of dogs, one of which has a human face, and some of which are similar to Irish Wolfhounds, a bronze plaque of a woman, a bronze arm, an oculist's stamp ( used by physicians to mark their cakes of eye ointment ), about 320 pins, nearly 300 bracelets, and over 8, 000 coins.

They are essentially a product of human activity aided by the moist Irish climate.

The story of the Irish Great Frost of 1740-1741 holds lessons for human social behavior in response to climate-induced limitations in energy, food, and housing.

Another important early novel is Gulliver's Travels ( 1726, amended 1735 ), by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, which is both a satire of human nature, as well as a parody of travellers ' tales like Robinson Crusoe.

The Ambassador of Conscience Award, Amnesty International's most prestigious human rights award, takes its inspiration from a poem written by Irish Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney called " The Republic of Conscience.

The Drunes ' god, Crom Cruach, is an Irish deity who was reputedly propitiated with human sacrifices.

This referendum was opposed by the Labour Party and Sinn Féin and has drawn criticism from some human rights bodies, including Amnesty International as it has led to a situation where Irish citisens are being deported, with their parents, to countries where they may have no right of citisenship.

Many of the poems he then wrote were satires of the Irish church and state, while others were sensual celebrations of human sexuality, free of the guilt of the earlier poems.

When the bridge was being built, workmen discovered the human remains of Irish immigrants to Canada, who had fled the famine in Ireland, only to die during the typhus epidemic of 1847 in fever sheds at nearby Windmill Point.

The point of divergence from normal history is not provided, although hints are given about how the faerie history intersects with human history ( Adolf Hitler, the Irish Potato Famine, and Thomas Jefferson are examples ).

Category: Irish victims of human rights abuses

Human Rights Commission: In a report on de facto couples presented to the Justice Minister in May 2006, the Irish Human Rights Commission evaluated international standards in dealing with unmarried couples, and assessed the changes needed in Irish law from a human rights perspective.

" Variety said " whatever contortions the script went through on its way to the result, Pakula has managed to maintain an admirable concentration on the central moral equation, which posits the Irish terrorist's understandable political and emotional motivations for revenge versus the decent cop's sense of justice and the greater human good.

Irish Terriers have a good nose and can learn to track either animal or human scent.

She is a fluent Irish speaker and an expert in human rights and equality issues.

The physical handling of a dæmon causes vulnerability and weakness in the person whose dæmon is being touched ; establishing the sexual implications of human / dæmon contact, Lyra Belacqua feels violated when doctors manhandle her dæmon into a machine intended to separate them, and later experiences a flush when Pantalaimon licks Will Parry's injuries while in an Irish wolfhound form to comfort him due to Will lacking a dæmon of his own.

It is centered on the Irish and Orcadian folklores of selkies — seals that can shed their skins to become human.

The first sizable human settlement on the bay shore was at the town of New Port, established in 1831 by Irish merchant John J. Linn as part of De León's colony.