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Also Known As Daithi Ó Conaill
Born May 1938 • Cork • Ireland
Died January 1, 1991 (aged 52) • Dublin
Founder Provos
Political Affiliation Sinn Féin
Eamon de Valera
Eamon de Valera
president of Ireland
Martin McGuinness
Martin McGuinness
Northern Irish politician
Michael Collins
Michael Collins
Irish statesman
Robert Erskine Childers
Robert Erskine Childers
Irish writer and nationalist
Bobby Sands
Bobby Sands
Northern Irish activist
Gerry Adams
Gerry Adams
Irish leader
William Thomas Cosgrave
William Thomas Cosgrave
president of Ireland
Arthur Griffith
Arthur Griffith
president of Dáil Éireann
Gonne, Maud
Maud Gonne
Irish patriot
Kevin O'Higgins
Kevin Christopher O’Higgins
Irish statesman
Mulcahy, Richard James
Richard James Mulcahy
Irish soldier and politician
O'Kelly, Seán T.
Seán T. O’Kelly
president of Ireland
T.M. Healy, detail of an oil painting by Sir John Lavery; in the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin.
T.M. Healy
Irish politician
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Jordanian-born terrorist
Shamil Basayev
terrorist
Abu Daoud
Palestinian terrorist
Muhammad Atef
al-Qaeda leader
Eric Rudolph
American bomber
Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind behind the October 7, 2023, attack
Yahya Sinwar
Hamas leader
Muammar al-Qaddafi
Muammar al-Qaddafi
Libyan statesman