However, because of the localised and irregular character of the war, they were only able to exert limited control over local IRA commanders such as Tom Barry, Liam Lynch in Cork and Seán Mac Eoin in Longford.

For instance, the County Longford IRA under Seán Mac Eoin carried out a number of well planned ambushes and successfully defended the village of Ballinalee against Black and Tan reprisals in a three-hour gun battle.

* Mac Néill, Eoin, Celtic Ireland.

The main opposition party, Fine Gael, decided to run its defeated candidate in 1945, Seán Mac Eoin, against him.

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.

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.

At the Clonfin Ambush Mac Eoin ordered his men to care for the wounded British, at the expense of captured weaponry.

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.

Mac Eoin wrote this poignant letter to his friend ( and classmate at Moyne Latin School ) Father Jim Sheridan, a combatant in the Old IRA and a " Flying Column " member who had been ordained and sent to Milwaukee to study theology:

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.

It was rumoured that Sean Mac Eoin was to be the best man at Collins ' wedding.

In the debate on the Anglo-Irish Treaty Mac Eoin seconded Arthur Griffith's motion that it should be accepted.

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

Mac Liammóir claimed when talking to Irish playwright, Mary Manning, to have had a homosexual relationship with General Eoin O ' Duffy, former Garda Síochána Commissioner and head of the quasi-fascist Blueshirts in Ireland, during the 1930s.

* Honorary Secretaries: Eoin Mac Néill ( Gaelic League ( GL )), Laurence J. Kettle ( Irish Parliamentary Party ( IPP ), Ancient Order of Hibernians ( AOH ));

A revolutionary spirit was again woken in the county during the Irish War of Independence when the North Longford flying column, led by Seán Mac Eoin, became one of the most active units on the Irish side during that war.

After marrying Fleetwood Mac bass guitarist John McVie, she joined the band in 1970.

Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974, along with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham.

Nicks and Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac on December 31, 1974, after Keith Olsen played their track " Frozen Love " for drummer Mick Fleetwood, who had come to Studio City in California, in search of a studio to record Fleetwood Mac's next album.

During the 1992 US presidential campaign, Bill Clinton used the Fleetwood Mac hit " Don't Stop " as his campaign theme song, and Nicks joined her band mates to perform the song at Clinton's 1993 Inaugural Gala.

A newly invigorated and slimmed down Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac for The Dance, a highly successful 1997 tour that coincided with the 20th anniversary of the release of Rumours.

She has spoken of being embarrassed about handing President Bill Clinton a silenced tambourine when he joined Fleetwood Mac on stage.

American musician Bob Welch joined the British blues-rock band Fleetwood Mac in 1971, after the departure of founder Peter Green.

Soon after, McVie joined Fleetwood Mac and was replaced by Tony Reeves for the album Bare Wires which was their highest charting UK album.

They joined Fleetwood Mac as they were struggling to record the Penguin album ( 1973, Reprise Records ).

Californians Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac in the 1970s and were a key part of the band's multi-platinum success.

At about this time Mac joined another company, this time presenting children's shows in conjunction with the Inner London Education Authority until in 1982, after a couple of seasons, he and another member, Hilary, left to form a three-person musical comedy troupe, The Cheap Shots, with Mac's close friend Sakal providing the music.

Agreement was reached, and on November 7, 1981, Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds, and John Stewart joined the Shane-Gambill-Grove Trio and guest performers Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary, Tom Smothers of the Smothers Brothers, and Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac at the Magic Mountain amusement park north of Los Angeles for a show billed as " The Kingston Trio And Friends Reunion.

He joined Fleetwood Mac in July 1967 and remained with the band until February 1971, when he joined a religious group called the " Children of God ", now known as " The Family International ", of which he is still a follower.

During a tour of the United States in February 1971 with new keyboardist Christine McVie now having joined the band, Spencer grew disillusioned with his life in Fleetwood Mac, and has mentioned in several interviews an incident when the band were listening to a recording of an old concert.

Some days later, he was found to have joined the religious group the Children of God, and he declared that he no longer wanted to be involved with Fleetwood Mac.

Edmond Mac William Burke, of Castlebar, joined the sons of the Earl ; and the consequence to him was, that the Lord Justice took Castlebar from him, and banished himself, with his wife and children, into Clanrickard.

Wilson was unavailable for their next album, so former Sargant Fury vocalist Andrew " Mac " McDermott, joined to record Clone and would remain with them until 2007.

For a brief period in the 1990s, Mason joined Fleetwood Mac and released the album Time with them in 1995.

Charles Robinson joined the cast in Season 2 as court clerk Mac Robinson, and stayed on until the end of the series.

Captain Carrot arrests Tiffany Aching after a disturbance involving the Nac Mac Feegles in the King's Head, who are defeated by Wee Mad Arthur, another Feegle, ( the rat catcher from Feet of Clay who rescues Sgt Colon from the King Golem, although he was referred to as a gnome in the original novel ), who has now joined the watch, he tells Tiffany that she shall be escorted by his colleague, Captain Angua.

The station's flagship Breakfast show is presented by well-known islander Peter Mac, who joined the station in 1992.

The lesser known Rendina Studios of Detroit and Mad Mac of Cleveland also joined in on the monster " weirdo " shirt craze, but Roth was certainly the man who widely popularized the " Monsters in hot rods " art form.

She rose to far greater fame when she later joined Fleetwood Mac becoming Christine McVie after her marriage to the band's bassist, John McVie.