The Cuban government supported and still supports the Republican cause, but opposed the attacks which took place on civilian targets by Sinn Féin's military ally, the Provisional Irish Republican Army and of course attacks on civilians by their loyalist enemies such as the Ulster Volunteer Force and Ulster Defence Association.

They were ruthlessly crushed by the loyalist forces spearheaded by the Iraqi Republican Guard and the population was successfully terrorized.

The various non-state paramilitary groups involved in the 20th century conflicts in Northern Ireland and the island of Ireland, such as the various Irish Republican Army groups and loyalist paramilitaries, could also be described as militias and are occasionally referred to as such.

Adams's prominence as an Irish Republican leader was increased by the ban on the media broadcast of his voice ( the ban actually covered eleven republican and loyalist organisations, but in practice Adams was the only one prominent enough to appear regularly on TV ).

Medill was a strong Republican loyalist, who supported President Grant for re-election in 1872.

Many of the ghettos came under the control of paramilitaries such as the ( republican ) Provisional Irish Republican Army and the ( loyalist ) Ulster Defence Association.

During his period as Foreign Minister, Spring with Reynolds was involved in negotiations leading to the Provisional Irish Republican Army and loyalist ceasefires of 1994 and the Belfast Agreement of 1998.

* February 18 – Nationalist ace Joaquín García Morato plays a major role in an air-to-air engagement in which a Nationalist force of Fiat CR. 32 fighters defeats a Republican ( loyalist ) one of Polikarpov I-15s, shooting down eight I-15s.

The same year his son-in-law, John C. Frémont, ran for President on the Republican Party ticket, but Benton was a party loyalist to the end, and voted Democratic, the Democratic candidate that year being James Buchanan.

Deeply concerned about the Spanish Civil War, which began in 1936, for example, she supported the loyalist Republican government that opposed Franco and fascism.

The problem for the Fraction was that the military support given to the Republican forces by this minority was accompanied by political support ( in that the minority wished to halt strikes among loyalist workers in the name of military victory against fascism ).

The initial groups outlawed were the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) and the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) in the United Kingdom and numerous loyalist groups within Northern Ireland.

The initial groups outlawed were the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) and the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) in the United Kingdom and numerous loyalist groups within Northern Ireland.

* July 17 – The Spanish Civil War breaks out, and the Republican ( loyalist ) and Nationalist ( rebel ) factions seize portions of the Spanish Air Force and of the aviation force of the Spanish Republican Navy.

The Ohio Republican Convention was dominated by the Foraker faction, however, and Foraker loyalist Frank S. Monnett was nominated for the Attorney General post over the deeply distrusted Daugherty.

In the mid-1990s, the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) and the main loyalist paramilitary groups — the Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) and Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF )— declared ceasefires.

14 Intelligence was accused of acting in collusion with loyalist paramilitaries by former intelligence personnel Fred Holroyd and Colin Wallace in regards to the death of senior Provisional Irish Republican Army member John Francis Green, the Miami Showband killings and the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings.

It stated on 17 January 1976: The Irish Republican Army has never initiated sectarian killings ... if loyalist elements responsible for over 300 sectarian assassinations in the past four years stop such killing now, then the question of retaliation from whatever source does not arise.

* 1981 – Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a Republican campaign for political prisoner status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners.

This included fourteen British informants, fourteen Irish civilians and three Irish Republican Army prisoners.

* 1981 – The Hunger Strike by Provisional Irish Republican Army and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.

* October 27 – Six Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners in Maze prison refuse food and demand status as political prisoners ; the hunger strike lasts until December.

On 27 October 1980, seven Republican prisoners refused food and demanded political status.

Retreating Republican forces retaliated by killing between 130 and 300 Japanese prisoners they were holding.

When the Free State started to execute Republican prisoners, the first to be shot were four young men who had left Na Fianna to join the Republican Army.

There was a general reorganisation of the Republican Movement when the prisoners were all released by 1947. The IRA took Na Fianna under its wing.

Since their respective declines, the government has been one of the major employers in the town: the maximum-security Port Laoise Prison, which houses the majority of the Irish Republican political prisoners sentenced in the Republic, the Midlands Prison, and the Department of Agriculture are all large-scale employers in the town.

Future U. S. Vice Presidential candidate James Stockdale and decorated U. S. Air Force pilot Bud Day were held as prisoners at the Hanoi Hilton, as was future Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain, who spent parts of his five and a half years as a POW there.

Among the 280 convicts on board were 62 Fenian military and political prisoners — members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood — six of whom managed to escape the Convict Establishment in the Catalpa rescue of 1876.

These were joined by Republican prisoners who were promised a conviction redemption for risking their lives working on the monument construction ..., which in 1943 amounted to six hundred lost, both of paid workers, craftsmen and of prisoners convicted to work.

The U. S. Senate, prompted by Maryland Democrat Ben Cardin and Mississippi Republican Roger Wicker, passed a resolution saying Khodorkovsy and Lebedev ' are prisoners who have been denied basic due process rights under international law for political reasons.

" There may well have been a sexual motive to some of the developments he introduced to the killings, including the proposal that young male and female prisoners be tied together naked before the drownings, a method which was called a " Republican marriage ".

Many of the Republican soldiers had already surrendered to Caesar in previous campaigns and had then deserted his army to rejoin Pompeius: they would fight with desperation, fearing that they would not be pardoned a second time ( indeed Caesar had executed prisoners at his last major victory, at Thapsus ).

Also in 1927 McGilligan also took over the External Affairs portfolio following the assassination of Kevin O ' Higgins by the anti-Treaty elements of the IRA, in revenge for O ' Higgins ' support for the execution of Republican prisoners during the Irish Civil War ( 1922 – 23 ).

It is said that his last act was the pardoning of five thousand Republican prisoners, whom his troops had sworn to kill in revenge for his death.

Republican prisoners had refused to wear prison uniforms, claiming that they were political prisoners.

In criticizing President Clinton's decision to release the Puerto Rican prisoners, the conservative U. S. Senate Republican Policy Committee also categorized Jimenez as a " Puerto Rican Nationalist ", echoing a recent Newsweek article.

* La chapelle de la Pitié: Meaning " The Chapel of Mercy ": There is a stele in memory of Jacobsen, creator of the dam, and the events of 3 January 1794 are recalled, when the sland was attacked by the Republican troops, who killed 1500 Vendée prisoners, despite promising to pardon them.

Seated on the platform were Amos C. Barstow, ex-mayor of Providence and a wealthy Republican stove manufacturer ; ;

-- Fifteen members of the Republican State Committee who are retiring -- voluntarily -- this year were honored yesterday by their colleagues.

As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican party, Lincoln found his policies and personality were " blasted from all sides ": Radical Republicans demanded harsher treatment of the South, War Democrats desired more compromise, Copperheads despised him, and irreconcilable secessionists plotted his death.

There were thousands of Republican speakers who focused first on the party platform, and second on Lincoln's life story, emphasizing his childhood poverty.

His fellow students — there were 38 in all — included young Samuel I. Hayakawa ( later to become a Republican member of the U. S. Senate ), Ralph Moriarty deBit ( later to become the spiritual teacher Vitvan ) and Wendell Johnson ( founder of the Monster Study ).

Du Bois ' Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, historians have noted African American contributions during Reconstruction to founding what were often the first systems of public education and welfare institutions in the South, gave muted praise for Republican efforts to extend suffrage and provide other social institutions, and excoriated Johnson for opposing the extension of basic rights to freedmen.

The first references in the western historical tradition begin at Syracuse in 399 BC and these devices were widely employed by the Roman Legions in Republican times well before the Christian era.

When Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson addressed Christian themes at the Republican National Convention – with Bush criticizing Democrats for omitting God from their platform – many moderates were alienated.

Craig Livingstone, head of the White House Office of Personnel Security, improperly requested, and received from the FBI, background report files without asking permission of the subject individuals ; many of these were employees of former Republican administrations.

The two charges passed in the House ( largely with Republican support, but with a handful of Democratic votes as well ) were for perjury and obstruction of justice.

" After South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond switched his allegiance to the Republican Party in 1964, BJU faculty members became increasingly influential in the new state Republican party, and BJU alumni were elected to local political and party offices.

These changes within the military wing of the Republican Movement were accompanied by changes in the political wing and at the 1986 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis ( party conference ), which followed the IRA Convention, the party's policy of abstentionism, which forbade Sinn Féin elected representatives from taking seats in the Oireachtas, the parliament of Ireland, was dropped.

Although the Garda Síochána had suspicions that the organisation existed, they were unsure of its name, labelling it the " Irish National Republican Army ".

Pliny the Elder notes that several of them were richer than Crassus, the richest man of the Republican era.

There were exceptions, Leonard W. Hall, for example, who as chairman of the Republican National Committee, tried to open the administration's eyes to the political facts of life, with occasional success.

Conservative critics of his administration found that he did not do enough to advance the goals of the right: " Eisenhower's victories were ," according to Hans Morgenthau, " but accidents without consequence in the history of the Republican party.

Later Republican writers, such as Lucretius, Catullus and even Cicero, wrote their own compositions in the meter and it was at this time that many of the principles of Latin hexameter were firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal.

Reformers were led by Democratic Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who favored modification ( but ultimately voted for the defense authorization bill with the gay ban language ), and Barry Goldwater, a former Republican Senator and a retired Major General, who argued on behalf of allowing service by open gays and lesbians.

Eleven people were killed and hundreds injured as a result of a Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) bomb.

The National Environmental Policy Act ( 1969 ), the Clean Air Act ( 1970 ), the Clean Water Act ( 1972 ), and the Endangered Species Act ( 1973 ) all were enacted with broad bipartisan support, and ultimately signed into law by Republican President Richard Nixon.

The Republican governments of England were introduced after the English Civil War during the Interregnum ( 1649 – 60 ).

Jarrett stated that the former Republican vice-presidential candidate is " continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand-new book ", adding that the images being shown were " some of the pictures just coming in to us ....

Some legal texts that were adopted when the Republican Calendar was official are still in force in France and even Belgium ( which was at the time incorporated into France ), and have kept their original dates for citation purposes.

The Republican calendar year began at the Southward equinox and had twelve months of 30 days each, which were given new names based on nature, principally having to do with the prevailing weather in and around Paris.