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The Provisional IRA convention delegates opposed to the change in the Constitution claimed that the convention was gerrymandered " by the creation of new IRA organisational structures for the convention, including the combinations of Sligo-Roscommon-Longford and Wicklow-Wexford-Waterford.
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Provisional and IRA
The Provisional Irish Republican Army's ( IRA ) campaign against the partition of Ireland had begun in the two years prior to Bloody Sunday, but public perceptions of the day boosted the status of, and recruitment into, the organisation enormously.
On 10 August Bombardier Paul Challenor became the first soldier to be killed by the Provisional IRA in Derry, when he was shot by a sniper on the Creggan estate.
Provisional IRA activity also increased across Northern Ireland with thirty British soldiers being killed in the remaining months of 1971, in contrast to the ten soldiers killed during the pre-internment period of the year.
Both the Official IRA and Provisional IRA had established " no-go " areas for the British Army and RUC in Derry through the use of barricades.
Although there were many IRA men — both Official and Provisional — present at the protest, it is claimed they were all unarmed, apparently because it was anticipated that the paratroopers would attempt to " draw them out ".
Evidence given by Martin McGuinness, a senior member of Sinn Féin and now the deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, to the inquiry stated that he was second-in-command of the Derry City brigade of the Provisional IRA and was present at the march.
With the Official IRA and Official Sinn Féin having moved away from mainstream Irish republicanism towards Marxism, the Provisional IRA began to win the support of newly radicalised, disaffected young people.
Fermanagh is part of the Fermanagh and South Tyrone Parliamentary Constituency, renowned for high levels of voting and for electing Provisional IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands as a Member of Parliament in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election, April 1981, shortly before his death.
It emerged from a split in the Provisional IRA in 1986 but did not become active until the Provisional IRA ceasefire of 1994.
The Continuity IRA has its origins in a split in the Provisional IRA.
In September 1986, the Provisional IRA held a meeting of its General Army Convention ( GAC ), the organisation ’ s supreme decision-making body.
The meeting, which like all such meetings was secret, was convened to discuss among other resolutions, the articles of the Provisional IRA constitution which dealt with abstentionism, its opposition to the taking of seats in Dáil Éireann.
The GAC passed motions ( by the necessary two-thirds majority ) allowing members of the Provisional IRA to discuss and debate the taking of parliamentary seats, and the removal of the ban on members of the organisation from supporting any successful republican candidate who took their seat in Dáil Éireann.
Maguire had also been contacted by supporters of Gerry Adams, then and now President of Sinn Féin, and a supporter of the change in the Provisional IRA constitution.
Thus, similar to the claim put forward by the Provisional IRA after its split from the Official IRA in 1969, the Continuity IRA claims to be the legitimate continuation of the ' Irish Republican Army ' or Óglaigh na hÉireann.
Provisional and convention
* 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
At a second convention, a group consisting of Seán Mac Stiofáin, Dáithí Ó Conaill, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, Joe Cahill, Paddy Mulcahy, Leo Martin, and Sean Tracey, were elected as the " Provisional " Army Council.
Under the supervision of chief executive of Coalition Provisional Authority L. Paul Bremer, a convention was held on May 24, 2003 to select the first City Council in the history of this oil-rich, ethnically divided city.
A Joint Provisional Committee was chosen to organise the foundation convention of the new party.
Since the proceedings of the Tucson convention never were ratified by the United States Congress the Provisional Territory never became a legal entity.
Provisional designation in astronomy is the naming convention applied to astronomical objects immediately following their discovery.
The Soviet Encyclopedia clearly points to the fact that the autonomy was declared in spite of the Provisional Government and then the Central Rada changed its mind and went on a compromise and postponement the declaration until the Constituent Assembly convention.
In 1860 Owings was chosen as Provisional Governor of " Arizona Territory "— a region including New Mexico and Arizona — in an organization convention at Tucson.
Provisional and delegates
Category: Deputies and delegates of the Provisional Confederate Congress
Category: Deputies and delegates of the Provisional Confederate Congress
Muslim and Christian delegates at Vlorë declare Albania independent and establish a Provisional Government of Albania.
On January 1, 1912, delegates from the independent provinces elected Sun Yat-sen as the first Provisional President of the Republic of China.
On March 2 a conference of sailor, soldier and worker organization delegates, after hearing speeches by Kuzmin and Vasiliev, President of the Kronstadt Executive Committee, arrested these two, and amid incorrect rumors of immediate attack approved formation of a Provisional Revolutionary Committee.
On February 8, 1861, delegates from the seven Deep South states which had already declared their secession from the United States of America adopted the Provisional Constitution of the Confederate States of America.
Category: Deputies and delegates of the Provisional Confederate Congress
Category: Deputies and delegates of the Provisional Confederate Congress
Category: Deputies and delegates of the Provisional Confederate Congress
Category: Deputies and delegates of the Provisional Confederate Congress
Category: Deputies and delegates of the Provisional Confederate Congress
Category: Deputies and delegates of the Provisional Confederate Congress
Category: Deputies and delegates of the Provisional Confederate Congress
Category: Deputies and delegates of the Provisional Confederate Congress
Category: Deputies and delegates of the Provisional Confederate Congress
He is, however, probably best known as one of the founders of the Confederate States of America, having served as the President of the Provisional Confederate Congress, when delegates of the secessionist states issued creation of the Confederacy.
Category: Deputies and delegates of the Provisional Confederate Congress
Category: Deputies and delegates of the Provisional Confederate Congress
Category: Deputies and delegates of the Provisional Confederate Congress
Category: Deputies and delegates of the Provisional Confederate Congress
* 1912: Sun Yat-sen elected First Provisional President of the ROC by delegates from independent provinces.
Category: Deputies and delegates of the Provisional Confederate Congress
Note: members of the unicameral Provisional Confederate Congress were called deputies and delegates and are not covered by this category.
Note: members of the unicameral Provisional Confederate Congress were called deputies and delegates and are not covered by this category.
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