Joe O'Connell (Irish republican) security wing of Portlaoise Prison, Ireland, in early 1998. They were presented by Gerry Adams to the 1998 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis as 'our Nelson Mandelas', and were released together with Brendan Dowd and Liam Quinn in 1999 as part of the Belfast Agreement. Joe O'Connell (Irish republican) Martin Joseph O'Connell (born 1951), better known as Joe, is an Irish republican and a former volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). He is most noted for having been a member of the Balcombe Street gang. O'Connell was born in Kilkee, in rural County Clare, 'a stronghold of Gaelic-speaking inhabitants
Nancy O'Rahilly another son was born on 3 July 1903, Richard was always known as Mac. They lived in Paris, and then Brighton, before Egan [Irish gaelic: Aodogan] in 1904. They then moved to London. In 1905, they moved again back to New York, and closed the family business, Brown Mills, which had failed. Their fourth son, Niall was born in Philadelphia in December 1906. They lived in New York until 1909, returned to Ireland near sisters Nell and Anna Humphreys. Rahilly assisted on "Sinn Fein Daily" newspapers. They joined Gaelic League and learnt to speak fluent gaelic. In November 1911, Nannie