Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army

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Several people are reported to have served as Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army (Template:Langx) in the organisations bearing that name. Due to the clandestine nature of these organisations, this list is not definitive.

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

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Template:CSS image crop Cathal Brugha<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[a] 27 October 1917 23 March 1918 [1]
Template:CSS image crop Richard Mulcahy 23 March 1918 15 January 1922 [2]
Template:CSS image crop Eoin O'Duffy 15 January 1922 July 1922 [2]

From this point on, this lineage diverts to Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces

a. <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>^ Chairman of the Resident Executive

Chiefs of Staff of the (anti-Treaty) Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)

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Image Name Assumed position Left position Source
Template:CSS image crop Liam Lynch (1st time) 26 March 1922 18 June 1922 [3]
Template:CSS image crop Joe McKelvey 18 June 1922 30 June 1922 [4][5]
Template:CSS image crop Liam Lynch (2nd time) 30 June 1922 10 April 1923
Template:CSS image crop Frank Aiken 20 April 1923 12 November 1925 [6]
Andrew Cooney 12 November 1925 July 1926 [7]
Template:CSS image crop Maurice (Moss) Twomey 1926 (acting)
1927 (official) 		June 1936 [8]
Template:CSS image crop Seán MacBride June 1936 1937[9] [10]
Template:CSS image crop Tom Barry 1937 1937 [3]
Mick Fitzpatrick 1937 1938 [11]
Template:CSS image crop Seán Russell 1938 April 1939 [12][13]
Stephen Hayes April 1939 30 June 1941 [12][13][14]
Pearse Kelly (aka Paul Kelso) 1941 27 November 1941 [15]
Seán Harrington Aft. November 1941 10 February 1942 [16]
Seán McCool 10 February 1942 [16] 14 August 1942 [17]
Template:CSS image crop Eoin McNamee c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". March 1942 c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". May 1942 [18][19]
Hugh McAteer 19 July 1942 12 October 1942 [20]
Template:CSS image crop Charlie Kerins October 1942 16 June 1944 [21]
Position vacant for some months 16 June 1944 1944
Harry White 1944 1945 [22]
Patrick Fleming 1 March 1945 1947? [23]
Willie McGuinness 1947 1948? [24]
Tony Magan (1st time) November 1948 6 July 1957 [25]
Richard Burke January 1957 May 1957 [26]
Tony Magan (2nd time) May 1957 6 July 1957 [27]
Seán Cronin (1st time) July 1957 (acting)
11 November 1957 (official) 		October 1958 [28]
John Joe McGirl October 1958 24 October 1958 [29]
Template:CSS image crop Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (1st time) 24 October 1958 Late May 1959 [30]
Seán Cronin (2nd time) Late May 1959 June 1960 [31]
Template:CSS image crop Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (2nd time) Summer 1960 7 September 1962 [32]
Cathal Goulding 7 September 1962 December 1969 [33]

At an IRA General Army Convention held at Knockvicar House in Boyle, County Roscommon in December 1969, the IRA split into two factions, the majority Official IRA and the minority Provisional IRA.[34][35]

Chiefs of Staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (1969–2005)

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Seán Mac Stíofáin December 1969 19 November 1972 [36]
Joe Cahill November 1972 March 1973 [37]
Seamus Twomey (1st time) March 1973 June 1973 [37]
Éamonn O'Doherty June 1973 June/July 1974 [38]
Seamus Twomey (2nd time) June/July 1974 December 1977 [37]
Template:CSS image crop Gerry Adams<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[a] 3 December 1977 18 February 1978 [39][40][41][42][43]
Template:CSS image crop Martin McGuinness<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[b] 1978 Autumn 1982 [37]
Ivor Bell Autumn 1982 September 1983 [37]
Kevin McKenna September 1983 October 1997 [37]
Thomas "Slab" Murphy October 1997 1998 [37]
Brian Keenan 1998 2002 or May 2008 [44][45]
Sean “Spike” Murray May 2008 Incumbent [46]

a. <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>^ Some noted Irish and British historians, including Ed Moloney, author of A Secret History of the IRA, have claimed that Gerry Adams has been part of the IRA leadership. Adams has always denied IRA membership, let alone being chief of staff.[47]

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Chiefs of Staff of the Official Irish Republican Army (1969–present)

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Cathal Goulding December 1969 Summer 1976 [48]
Template:CSS image crop Sean Garland<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[a] Summer 1976

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a. <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>^ Hanley and Millar (2010) wrote: Goulding was "replaced by Garland after an Army Council vote in summer 1976. Long dismissive of the IRA's titles and formal military structure, Garland was reluctant to adopt the title of Chief of Staff; but he was now undoubtedly in charge".

Chiefs of Staff of the Continuity Irish Republican Army (1986–present)

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Template:CSS image crop Dáithí Ó Conaill 1986 1991 [50]

Chiefs of Staff of the Real Irish Republican Army (1997–present)

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Michael McKevitt 1998 2002 [51]
Aidan O'Driscoll [52]

See also

References

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  1. ↑ Aengus Ó Snodaigh, "IRA Convention meets", An Phoblacht/Republican News, 11 May 2000.
  2. ↑ a b Maryann Gialanella V, Portrait of a Revolutionary. General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State, Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1992. Template:ISBN
  3. ↑ a b Meda Ryan, The Real Chief: Liam Lynch, Cork: Mercier, 2005. Template:ISBN
  4. ↑ Paul V. Walsh, The Irish Civil War, 1922-1923 Template:Webarchive
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  6. ↑ Henry Boylan, A Dictionary of Irish Biography, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1998.
  7. ↑ "Student Radicals Template:Webarchive", in: High Ball, February 2002.
  8. ↑ Brian Hanley, The IRA: 1926-36, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002. Template:ISBN
  9. ↑ Dictionary of irish Biography
  10. ↑ Seán MacBride That Day's Struggle. A Memoir, ed. Caitríona Lawlor, Dublin: Currach Press, 2005. Template:ISBN
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  14. ↑ Dáil Debates Template:Webarchive, 7 July 1943.
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  16. ↑ a b The Irish Press, 07 March 1942
  17. ↑ Thorne, Pg. 279
  18. ↑ Tim Pat Coogan, The IRA A History, Niwot: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1993. Template:ISBN
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  20. ↑ Thorne, Pgs. 297-298
  21. ↑ Thorne, Pgs. 301-302
  22. ↑ Thorne, Pgs.319-320
  23. ↑ J. Bowyer Bell, The Secret Army: The IRA, Somerset: Transaction Publishers, 1997. Template:ISBN
  24. ↑ J. Bowyer Bell, The Secret Army: The IRA, Somerset: Transaction Publishers, 1997. Template:ISBN. See also "Bodenstown: IRA GHQ reorganised", Saoirse, June 1997.
  25. ↑ J. Bowyer Bell, The Secret Army: The IRA, Somerset: Transaction Publishers, 1997.
  26. ↑ "Arrests, Collaboration, Victimisation" Template:Webarchive, in Saoirse, May 2007, p. 16
  27. ↑ J. Bowyer Bell, The Secret Army: The IRA, Somerset: Transaction Publishers, 1997. Magan's tenure ended with his arrest in Dublin. The IRA adjutant-general as well as members of the Army Council were also arrested. See Dáil Debates Template:Webarchive, 6 November 1957.
  28. ↑ Robert W. White, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh: The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary, Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006, Template:ISBN, pp. 85–6.
  29. ↑ Named as such by prominent republican, Owen Carron, in a letter entitled Deireadh Seachtaine John Joe McGirl, An Phoblacht/Republican News, 31 July 1997. See also: J. Bowyer Bell, The Secret Army: The IRA, Somerset: Transaction Publishers, 1997, p. 322.
  30. ↑ By his own admission, see Saoirse interview Revolt in the North 1956-62 Template:Webarchive. See also: Robert W. White, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh: The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary, Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006, Template:ISBN, p. 89.
  31. ↑ Robert W. White, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh: The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary, Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006, Template:ISBN, p. 98.]
  32. ↑ Robert W. White, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh: The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary, Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006, Template:ISBN, pp. 98–9, 114.]
  33. ↑ Robert W. White, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh: The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary, Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006, Template:ISBN, pp. 114.]
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  36. ↑ 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, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003. Template:ISBN
  37. ↑ a b c d e f g Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003. Template:ISBN
  38. ↑ Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003. Template:ISBN. Confirmed in obituary, Saoirse, December 1999.
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  43. ↑ Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003. Template:ISBN. Adams denies he was Chief of Staff at any time. "IRA Expert Ed Moloney to Speak On Campus Nov. 20" Template:Webarchive, Boston Chronicle, 14 November 2002.
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  47. ↑ "IRA Expert Ed Moloney to Speak On Campus Nov. 20" Template:Webarchive, Boston Chronicle, 14 November 2002.
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  50. ↑ "CIRA bomb adds to growing crisis in the peace process Template:Webarchive", Irish Examiner, 7 July 2000.
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