• support McMillen. Rioting ensued. At around this time McMillen succeeded Billy McKee as the Officer commanding (OC) of the Belfast Brigade. McMillen was keen...
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  • McMillen or MacMillen is a surname. The origin of the name derives from the origin of the Scottish Clan MacMillan; see also the similar surname McMillan...
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    Thomas Haden Church (born Thomas Richard McMillen; June 17, 1960) is an American actor. After starring in the 1990s sitcom Wings and playing the lead for...
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    the Lower Falls and Markets district, which were under the command of Billy McMillen. Other OIRA units were located in Derry, Newry, Strabane, Dublin, Wicklow...
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    one of their members killed in 1975, Brendan McNamee (who was involved in the killing of Billy McMillen), was actually killed by Provisional IRA members...
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  • player and coach Billy McMillen (1927–1975), Irish republican activist and an officer of the Official Irish Republican Army Billy McMillon (born 1971)...
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  • had engulfed parts of the city. In the aftermath of the riots, McKee accused Billy McMillen, the IRA's Belfast commander, and the Dublin-based IRA leadership...
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    Force (LVF) in 1996. In December 1997, the INLA assassinated LVF leader Billy Wright, leading to a series of revenge killings by loyalist groups. A group...
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  • was veteran Billy McMillen who fought during the IRA Border Campaign. Shortly after the death of Official IRA Belfast "Staff Captain" Joe McCann in April...
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    for a short time. In one of the first of the INLA's armed operations, Billy McMillen, commanding officer of the OIRA Belfast Battalion, was murdered by INLA...
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    Collective Prominent killings Billy McMillen Henry Byrne John Morley William McCullough John McKeague Patrick Joseph Morrissey Trevor King Billy Wright...
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    of the British royal family, was assassinated on 27 August 1979 by Thomas McMahon, an Irish republican and a volunteer for the Provisional Irish Republican...
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  • three members of the IRSP were dead. Later that same year, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey resigned from the IRSP over the failure of a motion that would have...
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  • led by Billy McKee and Joe Cahill stated that they would no longer be taking orders from the Dublin leadership of the IRA, or from Billy McMillen (their...
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  • Loyalist leader Billy Wright, whom McGlinchey had previously attempted to assassinate. The IPLO also claimed responsibility, although McGlinchey rejected...
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  • disbanded in September of the same year following Torney's killing. Kevin McAlorum, who was paid to kill Gallagher by Torney's faction, was himself murdered...
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  • leading figures in the movement, such as Cathal Goulding, Seán Garland, Billy McMillen, Tomás Mac Giolla, moved steadily to the left, even to Marxism, as a...
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  • 1980). "Leading Republicans Killed in Belfast". The Guardian. London. p. 1. McDonald, Henry; Holland, Jack (2010). INLA - Deadly Divisions. Poolbeg Books...
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  • William Stephen "Billy" Wright, named after his grandfather, was born in Wolverhampton, England on 7 July 1960 to David Wright and Sarah McKinley, Ulster...
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    Conaill, Billy McKee, and Jimmy Steele came together in Belfast and decided to remove the pro-Goulding Belfast leadership of Billy McMillen and Jim Sullivan...
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  • leading figures in the movement, such as Cathal Goulding, Seán Garland, Billy McMillen, Tomás Mac Giolla, moved steadily to the left, even to Marxism, as a...
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  • six by grenades. A total of 337 people, including Official IRA leader Billy McMillen, were also arrested. The Falls Curfew was a turning point in the relationship...
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  • McGlade Patrick McGrath (Irish Republican) Billy McKee Joe McKelvey Billy McMillen Liam Mellows Seán Moylan Ruairí Ó Brádaigh Dáithí Ó Conaill Denis O'Brien...
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    Johnston C. Desmond Greaves Joe McCann Ronnie Bunting Thomas "Ta" Power Des O'Hagan Leo Martin Malachy McGurran Billy McMillen Jim Sullivan Kenneth Littlejohn...
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    number of prison sentences in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin. In 1961, he married May McLoughlin who was also an active member of Sinn Féin as well as of Cumann na...
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  • following a hunger strike by 40 IRA prisoners led by the veteran republican Billy McKee. Special Category (or political) status meant prisoners were treated...
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  • Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) leader Billy Wright, who was shot by an INLA unit led by McWilliams inside the Maze Prison. McWilliams was born on 15 December...
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    Official IRA Belfast Brigade OC Billy McMillen who was rumored to have been killed by Gerard Steenson and Brendan McNamee (a former Provisional IRA volunteer)...
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    Official IRA also had a Belfast brigade which was commanded by Republican Billy McMillen, just like the Provisionals it carried a guerrilla campaign against...
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