The organizations that have called themselves the Irish Republican Army and call themselves were or are organized hierarchically. At the head of the organization is the seven-member IRA Army Council, the chairman of which is the IRA Chief of Staff. The chief of staff appoints a deputy, the IRA Adjutant General, and forms a headquarters (IRA General Headquarters; also GHQ), which consists of a number of individual departments.
The following list includes people who are believed to have served as chiefs of staff in the various organizations that call themselves the Irish Republican Army . Because of the conspiratorial nature of these organizations, this list is not final.
At an IRA Special Army Convention (SAC) held in Dublin on December 28, 1969 , the IRA split into two factions. The majority of the delegates founded the Official IRA and a minority the Provisional IRA .
Chief of Staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (from 1969)
↑ Irish and British historians, including Ed Moloney, author of the standard work A Secret History of the IRA , state that Gerry Adams sat in the IRA leadership, but Adams denies ever having been an IRA member, let alone the chief of staff . See "IRA Expert Ed Moloney to Speak On Campus Nov. 20" ( Memento of September 12, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), Boston Chronicle , November 14, 2002. The data are also controversial, for example Bishop / Mallie give. For example, assume that Adams took over the presidency after Martin McGuinness, not before this one. See Patrick Bishop & Eamonn Mallie: The Provisional IRA . London 1987 (Heinemann), ISBN 0-434-07410-1 , p. 250
Chiefs of Staff of the Official Irish Republican Army (from 1969)
↑ Aengus Ó Snodaigh: IRA Convention meets. In: An Phoblacht / Republican News , May 11, 2000.
↑ a b Maryann Gialanella V, Portrait of a Revolutionary. General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State , University of Kentucky Press, Lexinton 1992. ISBN 0-8131-1791-7 .
^ A b Meda Ryan: The Real Chief: Liam Lynch , Mercier, Cork 2005. ISBN 1-85635-460-1
↑ Magan's tenure ended with his arrest in Dublin. The IRA Adjutant General and other members of the Army Council were also arrested. See Dáil Debates ( memento of June 6, 2011 on the Internet Archive ), November 6, 1957.
^ Robert W. White: Ruairí Ó Brádaigh: The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary . Indiana University Press, Bloomington / Indianapolis 2006, ISBN 0-253-34708-4 , pp. 85f.
↑ Named by Owen Carron in a letter, see Deireadh Seachtaine John Joe McGirl , An Phoblacht / Republican News , July 31, 1997. See also: J. Bowyer Bell, The Secret Army: The IRA, Somerset: Transaction Publishers, 1997, p 322.
↑ According to his own information, see Saoirse interview Revolt in the North 1956-62 ( Memento of April 5, 2005 in the Internet Archive ). See also Robert W. White: Ruairí Ó Brádaigh: The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary. Indiana University Press, Bloomington / Indianapolis 2006, ISBN 0-253-34708-4 , p. 89.
^ Robert W. White: Ruairí Ó Brádaigh: The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary. Indiana University Press, Bloomington / Indianapolis 2006, ISBN 0-253-34708-4 , p. 98.
^ Robert W. White: Ruairí Ó Brádaigh: The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary. Indiana University Press, Bloomington / Indianapolis 2006, ISBN 0-253-34708-4 , pp. 98f, 114.
^ Robert W. White: Ruairí Ó Brádaigh: The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary. Indiana University Press, Bloomington / Indianapolis 2006, ISBN 0-253-34708-4 , pp. 114ff.