Seán Hogan's # 2 Flying Column, Third Tipperary Brigade, during the Irish War of Independence.

The fear was increased when, on the very day the new national parliament was meeting, 21 January 1919, members of the IRA Third Tipperary Brigade led by Seán Treacy and Dan Breen seized a quantity of gelignite and two Royal Irish Constabulary constables ( James McDonnell and Patrick O ' Connell ) were shot dead in the process.

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.

According to Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, it was Seán Mac Stiofáin, as chief of staff of the IRA, who invented the name.

In July 1972, Heath permitted his Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, to hold unofficial talks in London with a Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) delegation by Seán Mac Stiofáin.

( Despite this ban, IRA officers Seán Farrell ( Leitrim – Sligo ) and John Madden ( Mayo North ) contested the election, the latter successfully ).

In December 1938, Maguire was one of a group of seven people, who had been elected to the Second Dáil in 1921, who met with the IRA Army Council under Seán Russell.

In spite of supporting the government from the backbenches, Seán MacBride, the leader of Clann na Poblachta, tabled a motion of no confidence, based on the weakening state of the economy and in opposition to the government's stance on the IRA.

Whereas those supportive of Seán Mac Stiofáin's " Provisional Army Council " came to be known popularly as the Provisional IRA and Provisional Sinn Féin or Sinn Féin Kevin St. That party contested elections as " Sinn Féin ".

In December 1938, a group of seven people, who had been elected to the Second Dáil in 1921, met with the IRA Army Council under Seán Russell.

In the aftermath of this episode, the southern government under Seán Lemass, himself an IRA veteran of the War of Independence and Civil War, tried to forge closer ties with the authorities in Northern Ireland in order to promote peaceful cooperation on the island.

* Seán Mac Stíofáin, first chief-of-staff of the Provisional IRA.

On 19 December 1919 an IRA unit of 11 volunteers, including Seán Treacy, Seamus Robinson, Seán Hogan, Paddy Daly ( Leader ), Joe Leonard, Martin Savage, and Dan Breen ( who later said that the threats were not based on “ personal animosity ”) sought to ambush French as he returned from Ashtown railway station ( he was returning by train from Drumdoe ) to the Vice-Regal Lodge in Phoenix Park, Dublin.

Seán MacBride ( 26 January 1904 – 15 January 1988 ) was an Irish government minister and prominent international politician as well as a Chief of Staff of the IRA.

Kathleen took place in the context of then IRA Chief of Staff, Seán Russell, being incommunicado in the United States as he pursued the propaganda arm of the S-Plan.

The IRA Active Service Unit's ( ASU ) members, Danny McCann, Seán Savage and Mairéad Farrell, conspired to detonate a car bomb where a military band assembled for the weekly changing of the guard at the governor ’ s residence.

In September 1951, he marched with the IRA at the unveiling of the Seán Russell monument in Fairview park, Dublin.

This plan collapsed however when IRA chief of staff Seán Russell died in a U-boat off the Irish coast as part of Operation Dove ; the Germans also later came to realise they had overestimated the abilities of the IRA.

In September 2003, Mary Lou McDonald attracted criticism when she spoke at a rally in Dublin to commemorate Seán Russell, an IRA leader during World War II.

Another celebrated republican martyr was IRA gunman Seán Treacy, who was killed in a shoot out on Talbot street in October 1920 after a prolonged manhunt for him.

A little more than two months later, on 2 February 1921, another platoon of Auxiliaries was ambushed by Seán MacEoin and the Longford IRA in the Clonfin Ambush.

Boylan's late father, also called Seán, was a leader of the Irish independence movement in the early twentieth century, being a prominent member of the IRA in Co. Meath during the Irish War of Independence.

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.

* July 5-Éamon de Valera and Seán Lemass inspect the flying boat Caledonia before its survey flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

On 14 December, an IRA column under Seán Garland detonated four bombs ( one of which blew in the front wall ) outside Lisnaskea RUC station before raking it with gunfire.

* The Plough and the Stars is a play by Seán O ' Casey that takes place during the Easter Rising.

Seán Cole, killed during Irish Civil War at Whitehall, August 1922

President Seán T. O ' Kelly, An Tóstal, 1954. Outside the General Post Office ( Dublin ) | GPO, President O ' Kelly receives the salute from the new Garda recruits during the Tostal celebrations of 1954.

In 2010, Minister of State, Seán Haughey, proposed that the building be handed over to the state in return for the Irish state's bailout of the bank during the Irish banking crisis.

In 1946 during the inquest into the death of Seán McCaughey, MacBride embarrassed the authorities by forcing them to admit that the conditions in Portlaoise prison were inhumane.

It was reported in September 2012 during the second Dr Garret FitzGerald Memorial Lecture at University College Cork by Seán Donlon, former secretary general at the Department of Foreign Affairs, that “ It came to our of Foreign Affairs attention that a substantial amount in three bank accounts in Dublin by the archbishop were way in excess of what was needed to run the nunciature.

Taoiseach Seán Lemass considered reviving the Order during the 1960s, but did not take a decision.

A copy owned ( and later signed as a memento ) by Rising participant Seán T. O ' Kelly was presented by him to the Irish parliament buildings, Leinster House, during his tenure as President of Ireland.

Three hotels are located in the town centre: the Plaza Hotel near The Square, the Abberley Court Hotel at High Street, the Maldron Hotel at Whitestown Way, near Seán Walshe Park The Glashus Hotel and Tallaght Cross Hotel were at " Tallaght Cross " but closed during the financial crisis.

In 1962-63, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Seán Lemass authorised searches of aircraft that stopped over at Shannon en route between Warsaw Pact countries, and Cuba, for " warlike material ".

While Seán Ó Riada and The Chieftains had reinvigorated Irish traditional instrumental music in an ensemble format during the 1960s, Planxty built on that foundation and took it one step further.

* Seán South, IRA leader fatally wounded during an attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Brookeborough ( died 1957 ).

Seán Ó Riada ( 1 August 1931 – 3 October 1971 ), was a composer and perhaps the single most influential figure in the revival of Irish traditional music during the 1960s.

Hosted by Seán Cullen, it ran during early 2000s on the network's summer schedule in place of Go!

Frank Ryan also edited the paper for some time other contributors were Maurice Twomey, Seán MacBride, Frank Gallagher ( who became the first editor of The Irish Press ), Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington and Fr Michael O ' Flanagan, were just some of the prominent contributors during this time.

Another volunteer, Seán South from Limerick, was also killed during the raid.

This attack was led by Seán Garland, and included Seán South and Fergal O ' Hanlon, both the subjects of well-known Irish republican ballads, who were shot dead during the attack.

Following a power struggle within the IRA during the mid-1930s, Seán Russell was reinstated to the IRA in April 1938 and elected to the IRA Army Council in absentia.