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
Belfast West (Dáil constituency) into three single-member constituencies, Belfast Falls, Belfast St Anne's and Belfast Woodvale. In 1921 the area was predominantly Unionist, with the party winning three seats. The Nationalists won the remaining seat (the only non Unionist one in Belfast). Sinn Féin's combined vote did not amount to a quota of more than one-fifth of the ballots. Thomas Burn was a member of the Ulster Unionist Labour Association. He sat in the United Kingdom House of Commons as a Labour Unionist. Joe Devlin, the Nationalist leader, was also elected for Antrim. Although he was more associated with Belfast and preferred to represent