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Tim Pat Coogan, the Irish historian, said at the time of the USC, " The B Specials were the rock on which any mass movement by the IRA in the North has inevitably floundered.
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* Coogan, Tim Pat, The IRA ( Fully Revised & Updated ), HarperCollins, London, 2000, ISBN 0-00-653155-5
The family names, the predominant Catholic religion, the prevalence of Irish music – even the accents of the people – are so reminiscent of rural Ireland that Irish author Tim Pat Coogan has described Newfoundland as " the most Irish place in the world outside of Ireland ".
Biographer Tim Pat Coogan sees his time in power as being characterised by economic and cultural stagnation, while Diarmaid Ferriter argues that the stereotype of De Valera as an austere, cold and even backward figure was largely manufactured in the 1960s and is misguided.
While his biographer, Tim Pat Coogan, speculated that questions surrounding de Valera's legitimacy may have been a deciding factor in his not entering religious life, being illegitimate would have been a bar to receiving orders only as a secular or diocesan cleric, not as a member of a religious order.
Professional skateboarder Tony Hawk, professional surfers Rob Machado, Tim Curran, Bobby Martinez, Pat O ' Connell, Dane Reynolds, and Chris Ward, and professional snowboarder Shaun White live in Southern California.
The weapon used came from an INLA arms dump, but Tim Pat Coogan claims in his book The IRA that the weapon had been given to the INLA member to assassinate a known loyalist and the attack on the church was not sanctioned.
Pat Riley missed the playoffs for the first time in his coaching career, and much of the remaining core from the division-title winning Heat teams of the late 1990s departed ( Tim Hardaway, Bruce Bowen and Dan Majerle ).
Within a few weeks, other programmers including Pat Villani ( 1954 – 2011 ) and Tim Norman joined the project.
Between them, a kernel ( Pat ), the COMMAND. COM command line interpreter ( Pat, Tim ), and core utilities ( Jim ) were created by pooling code they had written or found available.
The current commissioners are Glenn Blanchard, Pat Joy, Tim O ' Donnell, Chris Staiger and Cliff Sweeney.
, members of the East Amwell Township Committee are Mayor Larry Tatsch, Deputy Mayor Pat Cregar, Peter Kneski, Linda Lenox and Tim Mathews.
The borough is part of the Seventh Congressional District ( represented by Rep. Pat Meehan ), the 149th State House District ( represented by Rep. Tim Briggs ) and the 17th State Senate District ( represented by Sen. Daylin Leach ).
The borough is part of the Seventh Congressional District ( represented by Rep. Pat Meehan ), the 149th State House District ( represented by Rep. Tim Briggs ) and the 17th State Senate District ( represented by Sen. Daylin Leach ).
The names of those who carried out Collins ' orders on the morning of 21 November 1920 were not disclosed until author Tim Pat Coogan mentioned them in his book on the history of the IRA, published in 1970.
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Both the Irish Times and the Irish Press, which was then edited by Tim Pat Coogan, were extremely critical of the government's curtailment of freedom of speech and in particular of the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Conor Cruise O ' Brien which was used against the IRA.
Tim Pat Coogan declared what he dubbed " editorial war " on the government after a, now notorious, interview between Bernard Nossiter of the Washington Post and O ' Brien in August 1976 regarding the passage of the Emergency Powers Bill.
Tim Pat Coogan places Collins associate Liam Tobin at Euston Station in London just before the shooting, collecting a document that had been independently sent from Dublin.
Tim and Irish
The ninety-two room building formerly served as the ' out-of-season ' residence of the Irish Lord Lieutenant and the residence of two of the three Irish Governors-General: Tim Healy and James McNeill.
Tim Healy is appointed first Governor-General of the Irish Free State and W. T. Cosgrave becomes President of the Executive Council.
Tim Finnegan lived in Walken streetA gentleman Irish, mighty oddHe had a brogue both rich and sweetAnd to rise in the world he carried a hodYou see he'd a sort of a tipplin ' wayWith a love for the liquor he was bornAnd to send him on his way each day, He'd a drop of the craythur every morn '
Timothy Michael Healy, KC ( 17 May 1855 – 26 March 1931 ), also known as Tim Healy, was an Irish nationalist politician, journalist, author, barrister and one of the most controversial Irish Members of Parliament ( MPs ) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The Provisional Government under W. T. Cosgrave hired the use of the main lecture theatre of the Royal Dublin Society in its headquarters in Leinster House, a formal ducal palace, to enable a formal state opening of the new two chamber Oireachtas of the new Irish Free State and the delivery of the speech from the throne by the new Governor-General of the Irish Free State, Tim Healy in December 1922.
For example, the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State, Tim Healy, was instructed by the British Dominions Office in 1922 to withhold the Royal Assent on any Bill passed by the two houses of the Oireachtas ( the Irish parliament ) that attempted to change or abolish the Oath of Allegiance.
The Irish Nationalist MP Tim Healy wrote to Bright, wishing him a speedy recovery and " Your great services to our people can never be forgotten, for it was when Ireland had fewest friends that your voice was loudest on her side.
Both The Irish Times and The Irish Press, which was then edited by Tim Pat Coogan, were extremely critical of the government's curtailment of freedom of speech and in particular of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs Conor Cruise O ' Brien which was used against the PIRA.
" After this speech, Tim Healy, the Irish Nationalist, a master of parliamentary invective, sent Smith a note, " I am old, and you are young, but you have beaten me at my own game.
In his reply Sadlier noted that he was “ satisfied that the harp was very early in the 12th century an Irish badge ...” In December 1922, George Sigerson, the President of the National Literary Society, recommended to Tim Healy, the Governor-General of the Irish Free State that the harp should be adopted as the symbol of the Free State.
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