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By Anne Cadwallader BELFAST (Reuters) - Brian Keenan, a former leader in the IRA who fought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, has died, his close ally Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams said on Wednesday. Born in 1942, Keenan still believed close to his death that the IRA could have won its...
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of his death will come as a great shock to republicans throughout Ireland and beyond. Brian Keenan, IRA ‘Long War’ strategist BRIAN KEENAN, one of the IRA’s foremost strategists in ‘The Long War’ over three decades, was once described by Tony Blair’s Chief of Staff at 10 Downing Street, Jonathan...
Brian Keenan: Daily Telegraph (May 22) -
Mastermind of IRA bombing campaigns who became the organisation's negotiator over decommissioning. Brian Keenan, who died on Wednesday aged 66, was a linchpin of the IRA and one of the most ruthless and formidable members of its leadership; during the 1970s he...
Keenan's life illustrates end of revolutionary politics in Northern Ireland
Republicans such as Brian Keenan set out to destroy the state of Northern Ireland and to force Britain to eject the unionists from the union. This project has entirely failed Brian Keenan, an IRA commander behind the bombing of civilian targets in Britain during the Troubles, was given a special...
IRA guerrilla leader Brian Keenan dies
Reuters, Belfast- Brian Keenan, a former guerrilla leader in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) who fought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, has died, his close ally Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams said on Wednesday. Born in 1942, Keenan still believed close to his death that the IRA could...
Brian Keenan, major figure in IRA, dies at 66
Brian Keenan, a commanding figure during the Irish Republican Army's long march from war to peace, died Wednesday at age 66. The cause was cancer, said the Sinn Fein party, which announced his death. Keenan of Belfast, Northern Ireland, built up the IRA's arsenal in the 1970s, directed its...
Former IRA leader Keenan dies of cancer
DUBLIN: Brian Keenan, 66, a commanding figure during the Irish Republican Army's (IRA) long march from war to peace, died of cancer yesterday, the Sinn Fein party announced. Keenan built up the IRA's weapons arsenal in the 1970s, directed its bombing campaign in England, and served on the IRA's...
Brian Keenan: The Guardian - Deaglan de Breadun
Brian Keenan, who has died of cancer aged 66, was one of the leading Irish republicans of his generation, a fiercely committed guerrilla strategist, and a formidable foe of the British state. Earlier, Keenan had travelled the world establishing contacts in East Germany, Lebanon and Syria, and...
Brian Keenan
IRA man who masterminded the 1970s bombing campaign in London but later played a role in the peace process Brian Keenan was director of IRA operations in England in the mid-1970s. Keenan, who received an 18-year prison sentence in 1980 for conspiring to cause explosions, was also a leading player...
A truly vile and evil man has died
Keenan, I hope you rot in hellBrian Keenan, who died on Wednesday of cancer aged 66, was a linchpin of the IRA and one of the most ruthless and formidable members of its leadership.I truly hope that he suffered the full horors and pain of cancer, exactly as he had inflicted pain on...
Brian Keenan, former IRA leader
Brian Keenan, a commanding figure during the Irish Republican Army's long march from war to peace, died Wednesday of cancer, the Sinn Fein party said. He was 66.He built up the IRA's weapons arsenal in the 1970s, directed its bombing campaign in England and served on the IRA's ruling "army...
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