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Joe Cahill
Irish paramilitary leader

Joe Cahill

Irish paramilitary leader
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Alternative Title: Joseph Cahill
Joe Cahill, (Joseph Cahill), Irish paramilitary organization leader (born May 19, 1920, Belfast, Ire.—died July 23, 2004, Belfast, N.Ire.), dedicated his life to the cause of ending British rule in Northern Ireland and reuniting Ireland; in 1969 he helped to establish the Provisional Irish Republican Army, the paramilitary wing of the IRA. Cahill became active with the IRA in his late teens. In 1942 he and five other IRA members were arrested and sentenced to hang for the shooting of a police officer during an effort to mark the anniversary of the Easter Rising. Just days before his execution date, …(100 of 174 words)
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