Kevin Christopher O'Higgins (Irish: Caoimhghín Críostóir Ó hUigín; 7 June 1892 – 10 July 1927) was an Irish politician who served as Vice-President of...
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Irish Army Mutiny (section Kevin O'Higgins)
Justice, Kevin O’Higgins, de facto head of the Government. Observers at the time have provided insights into the motivations of Cosgrave and O'Higgins. Cosgrave...
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IRA during a raid and in 1927, Kevin O'Higgins was assassinated by Irish republicans in a revenge killing; Kevin O'Higgins had been the Minister for Justice...
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Irish Republican Army, mainly known for his part in assassinating Kevin O'Higgins in 1927 and for the controversy surrounding the circumstances of his...
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Thomas grew up alongside his younger brother Kevin O'Higgins, the fourth son of his parents. O'Higgins was educated at Presentation Convent, Stradbally...
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from the Gaelic revival of the late nineteenth century, with Kevin Barry and Kevin O'Higgins prominent in the Irish revolutionary period. Later it was "widely...
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government demanding an end to the demobilisation. Minister for Justice Kevin O'Higgins, who was also acting president for Cosgrave while the latter was in...
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as 153. Among the Republican reprisals were the assassination of Kevin O'Higgins's father and W. T. Cosgrave's uncle in February 1923. The IRA were unable...
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History. 97 (325): 70–98. doi:10.1111/j.1468-229X.2011.00542.x. Whelan, Kevin. "The revisionist debate in Ireland." Boundary 2 31.1 (2004): 179–205. online...
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Bulfin (SF) Kevin O'Higgins (SF) 4 seats 1921–1923 3rd 1922 William Davin (Lab) Patrick McCartan (PT-SF) Francis Bulfin (PT-SF) Kevin O'Higgins (PT-SF) 4th...
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born in 1964 to Una O'Higgins O'Malley, a writer, and Eoin O'Malley, a heart surgeon. She is a granddaughter of Kevin O'Higgins, the Minister for Justice...
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archives, (February 1933) 1, note 2. Mark Phelan, 'No Fascisti! - Kevin O'Higgins and the defence of democratic policing in 1920s Ireland, Irish Times...
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and promote the welfare of its members, previously led by J.F. O'Higgins, Kevin O'Higgins's brother. This organisation was an obstacle to de Valera's power...
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Barton Office Name Assistant Secretary of State for Local Government Kevin O'Higgins Secretary for Fine Arts Count Plunkett Secretary for Publicity Desmond...
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Minister for Foreign Affairs Desmond FitzGerald Minister for Home Affairs Kevin O'Higgins Minister for Local Government Ernest Blythe Minister for Agriculture...
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minister. His uncle was Kevin O'Higgins, a cabinet minister who was assassinated in 1927. O'Higgins's brother was Tom O'Higgins, a fellow TD, Minister...
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corrupt public morals. In October 1925, the Minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins, told Dáil Éireann that existing obscenity laws were sufficient and...
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mother of politician Kevin O'Higgins, one of the dominant political figures of the 1920s. Sullivan's great-grandson Tom O'Higgins served as Chief Justice...
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especially Michael Collins, and never came to anything, although Kevin O'Higgins toyed with the idea as a means of ending partition, shortly before...
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Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape (redirect from Kevin Mallon (Irish republican))
seriously curbed, with Twomey and other senior republicans J. B. O'Hagan and Kevin Mallon all being held in Mountjoy Prison. The IRA immediately began making...
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Hosting of the Tailteann Games (1924, 1928, 1932) Assassination of Kevin O'Higgins (1927) Saint Patrick's Day parade (est. 1931) 1932 Eucharistic Congress...
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Constitution of the Irish Free State, and which was first held by Kevin O'Higgins of Cumann na nGaedheal from 1922 to 1927. The Taoiseach nominates one...
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McGilligan and Desmond Fitzgerald. O'Higgins had been chosen as leader partially because his brother Kevin O'Higgins, who had been Cumann na nGaedheal...
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career.[citation needed] In September 1922, Minister for Home Affairs Kevin O'Higgins was experiencing indiscipline within the recently formed Garda Síochána...
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Hosting of the Tailteann Games (1924, 1928, 1932) Assassination of Kevin O'Higgins (1927) Saint Patrick's Day parade (est. 1931) 1932 Eucharistic Congress...
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Enright". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 13 May 2009. Michael O'Higgins and Brigid Hogan-O'Higgins both served in the 16th Dáil, 17th Dáil and 18th Dáil, and...
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war and competing ideologies. The party's Minister for Home Affairs, Kevin O'Higgins, established the Garda Síochána, an unarmed police force. As Minister...
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concerns to Kevin O'Higgins, a family friend. O'Higgins spoke to Mulcahy in turn who didn't act on the information. Johnson asked O'Higgins in the Dáil...
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the man who would later condemn O'Connor to death, his close friend Kevin O'Higgins. O'Connor studied experimental physics, logic, and metaphysics; he...
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in 1927, he was arrested and charged with the murder of politician Kevin O'Higgins, who had been assassinated near his home in Booterstown, County Dublin...
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