Harry Boland

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Harry Boland (27 April 1887 – 1 August 1922) was an Irish republican, politician, and revolutionary organiser who played a central role in the Irish separatist movement from the Easter Rising of 1916 through to the outbreak of the Irish Civil War in 1922. Born in Phibsborough, Dublin, into a Fenian family, he became an active member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Irish Volunteers, the Gaelic Athletic Association, and Sinn Féin, and was closely associated with both Éamon de Valera and Michael Collins during the revolutionary period. Boland took part in the Easter Rising of 1916 as part of the GPO garrison and was subsequently sentenced to ten years' penal servitude, serving time alongside de Valera in English prisons before being released under the general amnesty of June 1917. In the years that followed, he became one of the principal organisers of Sinn Féin's electoral machine, playing a key role in the party's landslide victory at the 1918 general election, in which he was himself...

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