IRA chief of staff

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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.

Chiefs of Staff of the Irish Republican Army (1917–1922)

No. Surname Taking office resignation receipt
1 Cathal Brugha (Chairman of the Permanent Executive) October 27, 1917 March 1919
2 Richard Mulcahy March 1919 January 15, 1922
3 Eoin O'Duffy January 15, 1922 July 1922

Chiefs of Staff of the Irish Republican Army, who rejected the treaty (1922–1969)

No. Surname Taking office resignation receipt
Liam Lynch March 26, 1922 June 18, 1922
Joseph McKelvey June 18, 1922 June 30, 1922
Liam Lynch (second term) June 30, 1922 April 10, 1923
Frank Aiken April 20, 1923 November 12, 1925
Andy Cooney November 12, 1925 July 1926
Moss (Maurice) Twomey 1926 (designated) 1927 (official) June 1936
Seán MacBride June 1936 Late 1936
Tom Barry 1937 1937
Mick Fitzpatrick 1937 1938
Seán Russell 1938 August 14, 1940
Stephen Hayes 1940? June 30, 1941
Pearse Kelly (aka Paul Kelso) 1941 November 27, 1941
Seán Harrington after November 1941 February 1942
Seán McCool February 1942 August 14, 1942
Eoin McNamee 1942 1942
Hugh McAteer 1942 October 12, 1942
Charlie Kerins October 1942 June 16, 1944
Position vacant for a few months June 16, 1944
Harry White 1944 1945
Patrick Fleming March 1, 1945 1947?
Willie McGuinness 1947 1948?
Tony Magan November 1948 July 6, 1957
Richard Burke January 1957 May 1957
Tony Magan (second term) May 1957 July 6, 1957
Seán Cronin July 1957 (designated), November 11, 1957 official October 1958
John Joe McGirl October 1958 October 24, 1958
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh October 24, 1958 Late May 1959
Seán Cronin (second term) Late May 1959 June 1960
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (second term) Summer 1960 September 7, 1962
Cathal Goulding September 7, 1962

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)

No. Surname Taking office resignation receipt
Seán Mac Stiofáin December 1969 November 19, 1972
Joe Cahill November 1972 March 1973
Seamus Twomey March 1973 June 1973
Éamonn O'Doherty June 1973 June / July 1974
Seamus Twomey (second term) June / July 1974 December 1977
Gerry Adams 3rd December 1977 February 18, 1978
Martin McGuinness 1978 Fall 1982
Ivor Bell Fall 1982 September 1983
Kevin McKenna September 1983 October 1997
Thomas Murphy October 1997
  1. ↑ 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)

No. Surname Taking office resignation source
Cathal Goulding December 1969 1972
? 1972 1998
Seán Garland 1998

Chief of Staff of the Continuity Irish Republican Army (from 1986)

No. Surname Taking office resignation source
Dáithí Ó Conaill 1986 1991
? 1991

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aengus Ó Snodaigh: IRA Convention meets. In: An Phoblacht / Republican News , May 11, 2000.
  2. ↑ 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 .
  3. ^ A b Meda Ryan: The Real Chief: Liam Lynch , Mercier, Cork 2005. ISBN 1-85635-460-1
  4. ^ Paul V. Walsh: The Irish Civil War 1922-1923
  5. ^ Henry Boylan: A Dictionary of Irish Biography , Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1998, ISBN 0-312-02497-5 .
  6. ^ Student Radicals ( Memento of September 28, 2005 in the Internet Archive ). In: High Ball , February 2002.
  7. ^ Brian Hanley, The IRA: 1926-36 , Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002, ISBN 1-85182-721-8 .
  8. ^ Seán MacBride: That Day's Struggle. A memoir. Currach Press, Dublin 2005, ISBN 1-85607-929-5 .
  9. ^ Brian Hanley: The IRA: 1926-36. Four Courts Press, Dublin 2002, ISBN 1-85182-721-8 .
  10. ↑ a b c d e J. Bowyer Bell: The Secret Army: The IRA. Transaction Publishers, Somerset 1997, ISBN 1-56000-901-2 .
  11. ^ Dáil Debates ( Memento of October 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), July 7, 1943.
  12. ↑ Bodenstown: IRA GHQ reorganized , Saoirse , June 1997.
  13. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: "Arrests, Collaboration, Victimisation" ), in Saoirse, May 2007, p. 16@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rsf.ie
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ 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.
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ 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.
  20. ^ 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.
  21. ↑ Confirmed by Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, see Outstanding IRA leader and giant of a man in the Republican Movement and Seán Mac Stíofáin - a tribute , Saoirse , June 2001. See also: Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA , Penguin, Harmondsworth 2003, ISBN 0-14-101041-X .
  22. ↑ a b c d e f g Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA , Penguin, Harmondsworth 2003, ISBN 0-14-101041-X .
  23. ^ Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA , Penguin, Harmondsworth 2003, ISBN 0-14-101041-X . See also obituary , Saoirse, December 1999.
  24. ^ J. Bowyer Bell: The Secret Army: The IRA . Transaction Publishers, 1997, ISBN 1560009012 , p. 520.
  25. ^ Bishop, Patrick & Mallie, Eamonn: The Provisional IRA . Corgi Books, 1987, ISBN 0-552-13337-X , p. 315.
  26. ↑ Peter Taylor: Provos The IRA & Sinn Féin . Bloomsbury Publishing , 1997, ISBN 0-7475-3818-2 , p. 201.
  27. ^ Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA , Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0-14-101041-X . Adams denies he was Chief of Staff at any time. "IRA Expert Ed Moloney to Speak On Campus Nov. 20" ( September 12, 2006 memento on the Internet Archive ), Boston Chronicle , Nov. 14, 2002.
  28. ^ Liam Clarke, " Garland arrested in US forgery hunt, " Sunday Times , Oct. 9, 2005.
  29. ^ " CIRA bomb adds to growing crisis in the peace process ( Memento of May 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )", Irish Examiner , July 7, 2000.