Sentences with phrase «republican army member»

In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, twenty - seven - year - old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners.

Murphy and Michael Smiley play Irish Republican Army members looking to buy weapons from arms dealers (Sharlto Copley and Babou Ceesay), with Larson and Hammer mediating.

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During one of the violent periods of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) escaped from the neighboring Republic of Ireland's largest prison during a 1973 escape.

An April 12th letter from Republican members of the House of Representatives, sent to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in support of Pompeo's nomination, approvingly cited Pompeo's «five years serving in the United States Army, including in the Gulf War.»

Democrat Mike Derrick, a retired Army colonel, is challenging Stefanik, whom the National Republican Congressional Committee added to its Patriot Program for vulnerable members.

Malvern businessman and Chester County Democrats executive committee member Mike Parrish, a West Point graduate, former Army aviator and current Army Reserve colonel, is the first Democrat to announce his entry into the race, which is rated as Favored Republican by the Rothenberg & Gonzales Political Report / Roll Call.

In the early 1980s, 10 fasting imprisoned members of the Irish Republican and Irish National Liberation armies lasted 46 to 73 days before dying of starvation.

Shadow Dancer (R for profanity and violence) Turncoat drama, set in Belfast in the Nineties, revolving around a member of the Irish Republican Army (Andrea Riseborough) who becomes a snitch for the British in order to remain free to raise her young son after being caught with a bomb in her possession.

Last month, 53 members of Congress — including Washington State's Republican Rep. Doc Hastings — sent a letter to the U.S. Army and the Department of the Interior, which grants leases to mine coal, asking the agencies to «expedite their consideration of permits for coal export facilities.»

Also Monday, a Libyan lawyer told Reuters that members of an elite army unit known as «The Thunderbolt» had «joined the people's revolt» and overtaken an opposing force belonging to the separate Republican, or Praetorian, Guard.