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
Mac Torcaill origin. Mac Torcaill Mac Torcaill is masculine surname in the Irish language. The name translates into English as "son of "Torcall"". The surname originated as a patronym, however it no longer refers to the actual name of the bearer's father. The form "Nic Thorcaill" is borne by unmarried females; the forms "Bean Mhic Thorcaill" and "Mhic Thorcaill" are borne by married females. Variant forms of "Mac Torcaill" are "Mac Thorcaill" and "Mac Thurcaill"; the feminine forms of these two names are "Nic Thorcaill", "Nic Thurcaill", "Bean Mhic Thorcaill", "Bean Mhic Thurcaill", "Mhic Thorcaill", and "Mhic Thurcaill". All these Irish surnames