Cahill, Joe

Cahill, Joe
▪ 2005
Joseph Cahill 
      Irish paramilitary organization leader (b. May 19, 1920, Belfast, Ire.—d. 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, Cahill's sentence was reduced to life imprisonment. After his release from prison in 1949, he resumed his often-violent involvement with the IRA. After the founding of the “Provos,” he served as commander, and in 1973 he was arrested for smuggling weapons into Ireland from Libya. In 1998 Cahill supported the Good Friday Agreement and other peacemaking efforts of the nationalist political party Sinn Fein. He was an honourary vice president of Sinn Fein.

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