Unbeknownst to MacNeill, the letter, called the Castle Document, was a forgery.

After the article was published, Hobson asked The O ' Rahilly to see MacNeill, to suggest to him that a conference should be called in order to make arrangements for publicly starting the new movement.

They retained the name " Irish Volunteers ", were led by MacNeill and called for Irish neutrality.

The general scholarly consensus since as early as the time of Eoin MacNeill has been that the Ulaid were apparently kin to the so-called Érainn, or at least to their royal families, sometimes called the Clanna Dedad, and perhaps not their nebulous subject populations.

George Islay MacNeill Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, ( born 12 April 1946 ) is a British Labour Party politician who was the tenth Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, between October 1999 and early January 2004 ; he succeeded Javier Solana in that position.

MacNeill offered his opinion in the article The North Began that the Tory policy in Ulster was deliberately adopted to make the display of military force with the threat of armed violence the decisive factor in relations between Ireland and Great Britain.

* The " Dand MacNeill " or " McAuslan " stories, a semi-autobiographical series of short stories based on the author's experiences in the Gordon Highlanders in North Africa and Scotland soon after World War II.

* Baron Robertson of Port Ellen KT, GCMG, FRSA, FRSE, PC ( born 12 April 1946, George Islay MacNeill Robertson ,) is a British Labour politician who was the tenth Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, between October 1999 and January 2004.

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

Some of the stories were originally by-lined " by Dand MacNeill ", a play on the regimental motto BYDAND, meaning standfast:

Eoin MacNeill and others found, however, that there was a general improvement in the status of women after these " Dark Ages ", and by the eighth century Irish society under the Brehon Laws, although male-dominated, allowed women greater freedom, independence and rights to property than in many other European societies of the time.

Several others meetings were soon to follow, as prominent nationalists planned the formation of the Volunteers, under the leadership of MacNeill.

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, the Volunteers ' leader, Eoin MacNeill, found out about the plot at the last minute, and issued countermanding orders to Volunteer units around the country.

Redmond, he said, was ‘ thoroughly alarmed ’ at the spread of the Volunteer movement, and they were prepared for some attempt to ‘ make peace with the influential ones of the Provisional Committee .’ This, he said, proved to be the case, with Redmond offering Eoin MacNeill to finance the Volunteers if his Party would be allowed to have a controlling ‘ say ’ on the movement.

Indeed, Eoin MacNeill, the Volunteer commander, countermanded orders to units to begin the insurrection.

He was in Dublin for Easter 1916 and Eoin MacNeill sent him to deliver his countermanding order to Drogheda, Belfast and other planned areas of Volunteer mobilisation.

Whereas MacNeill intended to use force only to resist the imposition of conscription on Ireland, or to prevent the use of force to disarm of the Volunteers, the IRB men intended to launch an armed rebellion in pursuit of Irish independence.

During his later years, Telford was responsible for rebuilding sections of the London to Holyhead road, a task completed by his assistant of ten years, John MacNeill ; today, much of the route is the A5 trunk road.

This angered many nationalists and MacNeill was the subject of much criticism, though in reality he and the commission had been sidestepped by the inter-governmental debt renegotiation.

The following day, MacNeill reverted to his original position when he found out that the ship carrying the arms had been scuttled.

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.

As a consequence of the ensuing rejection, particularly by his father ( Peter MacNeill ), Sweet William had the choice of either running away to live in a big city far away from the family or committing suicide by hanging himself from a tree in the garden.

MacNeill had an enormous interest in Irish history and immersed himself in its study.

The rising lasted less than a week, and after the surrender of the rebels, MacNeill was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment, though he had taken no part in the insurrection.

It may have had an important role during the Kingdom of Dalriada and is the ancestral home of Clan MacNeill.

Eoin MacNeill, along with Sir Roger Casement and other leaders of the Irish Volunteers, had indeed sought Redmond's approval of and input in the organization, but did not want to hand control over to him.

" Brummagem " remained a staple of British political and critical discourse into the early 20th century: The Times, 13 August 1901 quoted a House of Commons speech by a Mr MacNeill, " The initiative of the Bill ... had the " Brummagem " brand from top to bottom.

He would later be told by Volunteers officers J. J. O ' Connell and Éimer Duffy that the Volunteers had received orders for the Rising, timed for Easter Sunday, and he subsequently alerted MacNeill about what the IRB had planned.

Against the odds, the conspiracy with Casement, Eoin MacNeill and Bulmer Hobson to buy rifles in Germany and land them safely in Ireland had succeeded.

" Digital Entertainment News ' Jake MacNeill described it as a " retread " of earlier episodes, and considered it to be one of the season's worst episodes.

MacNeill was briefly convinced to go along with some sort of action when Mac Diarmada revealed to him that a shipment of German arms was about to land in County Kerry, planned by the IRB in conjunction with Roger Casement ; he was certain that the authorities ' discovery of such a shipment would inevitably lead to suppression of the Volunteers, thus the Volunteers were justified in taking defensive action ( including the originally planned manoeuvres ).

" 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.

Seán Saunders recalled being arrested with at Milltown with Roddy Connolly ( son of James Connolly ), Hugo MacNeill, Theo Fitzgerald, Seán McLoughlin and Garry Holohan.

Challenger Adam MacNeill received 1, 037 votes to win the seat vacated by Joseph Storer, with Frank Scerbo ( 653 ) and Junior Hernandez ( 458 ) falling short.

Involvement which brought him into close contact with Éamon de Valera, Michael Collins, Patrick Pearse, Desmond FitzGerald, Eoin MacNeill, James Connolly and others.

On the Wednesday before, they presented MacNeill with a letter, allegedly stolen from high-ranking British staff in Dublin Castle, indicating that the British were going to arrest him and all the other nationalist leaders.

When MacNeill learned about the IRB's plans, and when he was informed that Roger Casement was about to land in County Kerry with a shipment of German arms, he was reluctantly persuaded to go along with them, believing British action was now imminent and mobilisation of the Volunteers would, at this stage, be a defensive act.

In any case, despite his resignations, the intergovernmental boundary deal was approved by a Dáil vote of 71 – 20 on 10 December 1925, and MacNeill is listed as voting with the majority in favour.

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.

Several proposals for an Ant version 2 have been made, such as AntEater by James Duncan Davidson, Myrmidon by Peter Donald and Mutant by Conor MacNeill, none of which were able to find large acceptance with the developer community.

The remains of the castle, along with most of the island of Barra, were purchased by the chief of Clan MacNeill in 1937, who made efforts at restoration.

He moved to Dublin where he joined the Gaelic League, soon establishing strong friendships with such men as Eoin MacNeill and Patrick Pearse.

Scholars such as Carney and MacNeill have suggested that ogham was first created as a cryptic alphabet, designed by the Irish so as not to be understood by those with a knowledge of the Latin alphabet.

Starting with the third season, Nigel Bennett and Peter MacNeill as Frank Elsinger and Ray Donahue respectively are added to the opening credits, after having guest roles throughout the first two seasons.

Starting with the fourth season, Nigel Bennett and Peter MacNeill are removed from the opening credits, while Soo Garay as Dr. Claire Davison is added to the opening credits, after having guest roles throughout the first three seasons.

In 1893 Hyde, Eugene O ' Growney and Eoin MacNeill founded the Gaelic League, with Hyde becoming its first President.

The series featured Anthony Daniels as the voice of C-3PO, who also portrayed the character in the films, along with the voice talents of Graeme Campbell, Rob Cowan, Don Francks, Peter MacNeill, John Stocker and Winston Rekert.