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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • minister. His uncle was Kevin O'Higgins, the assassinated cabinet minister from the 1920s. O'Higgins's brother was Tom O'Higgins, a fellow TD, Minister...
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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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    of the Custom House (1921) Battle of Dublin (1922) Assassination of Kevin O'Higgins (1927) Bombing of Dublin in World War II (1941) Bloomsday commemorations...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • (IRA) who on 10 July 1927 assassinated the Irish Justice Minister Kevin O'Higgins. He had had a long subsequent career in the organisation's ranks. Doyle...
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    government, under the new leadership of W. T. Cosgrave, Richard Mulcahy and Kevin O'Higgins, took the position that the Anti-Treaty IRA were conducting an unlawful...
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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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  • 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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    December 1922 9 March 1932 Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty) 1st SF (PT) (minority) Kevin O'Higgins 3 (1922) Cumann na nGaedheal 2nd CnG (minority) 4 (1923) 3rd Ernest...
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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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    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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    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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    Cosgrave Ernest Blythe Eamonn Duggan Desmond FitzGerald Patrick Hogan Fionán Lynch Joseph McGrath Eoin MacNeill Richard Mulcahy Kevin O'Higgins J. J. Walsh...
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