Éamonn O'Doherty
Éamonn O'Doherty ( Irish Éamonn Ó Dochartaigh ; * 1939 in Carrick-on-Suir , Ireland ; † October 28, 1999 in Carrick-on-Suir) was a leading member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in the 1970s . Within the IRA he climbed up to the IRA's chief of staff on (Chief of Staff).
O'Doherty joined the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1958 in his hometown of Carrick-on-Suir and took part in the so-called Border Campaign (1956-1952) of the IRA against Northern Ireland .
When the violence escalated in Northern Ireland in 1969 and the Northern Ireland conflict began, the IRA split into the politically and socially oriented Official Irish Republican Army and the initially almost purely militaristic Provisional Irish Republican Army. O'Doherty then joined the Provisional IRA and went to Northern Ireland in 1970 to fight the IRA's South Fermanagh Battalion against the British security forces there. He later became the commander of the units operating on the inner-Irish border region of Fermanagh , Monaghan and Armagh .
In 1973 he was appointed to the General Headquarters (GHQ), the General Staff of the IRA, as well as to the Army Council, the highest management body of the IRA. After the arrest of the then chief of staff of the underground organization Seamus Twomey by the Irish police Garda Síochána in September of the same year, O'Doherty was appointed the new IRA chief of staff by the Army Council. He held this post until his own arrest by the Garda in October 1974.
After his release from Portlaoise prison , he was re-admitted to the GHQ. The latter then sent him with an assignment to the USA , where he was also arrested and sentenced to one year in prison. He then made further trips to various other countries on behalf of the IRA.
When the IRA and Sinn Féin, under the leadership of Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, gave up abstentionism towards the Dáil Éireann , i.e. the renouncement of possible won seats in the Irish Parliament, in 1986 , some old traditionalist cadres, mainly from the Republic, split Ireland departed from Sinn Féin and the IRA and formed a new party called the Republican Sinn Féin . Among them was Éamonn O'Doherty. A year earlier he had written and published the book The IRA at War .
O'Doherty died on October 28, 1999 in his hometown of Carrick-on-Suir.
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Individual evidence
- ^ White, RW: Ruairí Ó Brádaigh: the life and politics of an Irish revolutionary, Bloomington 2006, pp. 203f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | O'Doherty, Éamonn |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ó Dochartaigh, Éamonn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish IRA leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carrick-on-Suir , Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1999 |
| Place of death | Carrick-on-Suir , Ireland |