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Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army

March 04, 2023

Not to be confused with Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces (Ireland).

Several people are reported to have served as Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army (Irish: Ceann Foirne Óglaigh na hÉireann) 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)

Further information: Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)
Image Name Assumed position Left position Source
 
 Cathal Brugha[a] 27 October 1917 March 1918 [1]
 
 Richard Mulcahy March 1918 15 January 1922 [2]
 
 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. ^ Chairman of the Resident Executive

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

Further information: Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)
Image Name Assumed position Left position Source
 
 Liam Lynch (1st time) 26 March 1922 18 June 1922 [3]
 
 Joe McKelvey 18 June 1922 30 June 1922 [4][dubious – discuss]
 
 Liam Lynch (2nd time) 30 June 1922 10 April 1923
 
 Frank Aiken 20 April 1923 12 November 1925 [5]
Andrew Cooney 12 November 1925 July 1926 [6]
 
 Maurice (Moss) Twomey 1926 (acting)
1927 (official) 		June 1936 [7]
 
 Seán MacBride June 1936 1937[8] [9]
 
 Tom Barry 1937 1937 [3]
Mick Fitzpatrick 1937 1938 [10]
 
 Seán Russell 1938 April 1939 [11][12]
Stephen Hayes April 1939 30 June 1941 [11][12][13]
Pearse Kelly (aka Paul Kelso) 1941 27 November 1941
Seán Harrington Aft. November 1941 10 February 1942 [14]
Seán McCool 10 February 1942 [14] 14 August 1942
 
 Eoin McNamee c. March 1942 c. May 1942 [15][16]
Hugh McAteer c. May 1942 12 October 1942
 
 Charlie Kerins October 1942 16 June 1944
Position vacant for some months 16 June 1944 1944
Harry White 1944 1945
Patrick Fleming 1 March 1945 1947? [17]
Willie McGuinness 1947 1948? [18]
Tony Magan (1st time) November 1948 6 July 1957 [19]
Richard Burke January 1957 May 1957 [20]
Tony Magan (2nd time) May 1957 6 July 1957 [21]
Seán Cronin (1st time) July 1957 (acting)
11 November 1957 (official) 		October 1958 [22]
John Joe McGirl October 1958 24 October 1958 [23]
 
 Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (1st time) 24 October 1958 Late May 1959 [24]
Seán Cronin (2nd time) Late May 1959 June 1960 [25]
 
 Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (2nd time) Summer 1960 7 September 1962 [26]
Cathal Goulding 7 September 1962 December 1969 [27]

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.[28][29]

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

Further information: Provisional Irish Republican Army
Image Name Assumed position Left position Source
Seán Mac Stíofáin December 1969 19 November 1972 [30]
Joe Cahill November 1972 March 1973 [31]
Seamus Twomey (1st time) March 1973 June 1973 [31]
Éamonn O'Doherty June 1973 June/July 1974 [32]
Seamus Twomey (2nd time) June/July 1974 December 1977 [31]
 
 Gerry Adams[a] 3 December 1977 18 February 1978 [33][34][35][36][37]
 
 Martin McGuinness[b] 1978 Autumn 1982 [31]
Ivor Bell Autumn 1982 September 1983 [31]
Kevin McKenna September 1983 October 1997 [31]
Thomas "Slab" Murphy October 1997 1998 [31]
Brian Keenan 1998 2002 or May 2008 [38][39]
Unnamed Belfast Resident May 2008 (?) Incumbent [40]

a. ^ 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.[41]

b. ^ Although he admitted in his lifetime to IRA membership, he denied ever being Chief of Staff

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

Further information: Official Irish Republican Army
Image Name Assumed Position Left Position Source
Cathal Goulding December 1969 Summer 1976 [42]
 
 Sean Garland[a] Summer 1976

[43]

a. ^ 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)

Further information: Continuity Irish Republican Army
Image Name Assumed Position Left Position Source
 
 Dáithí Ó Conaill 1986 1991 [44]

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

Further information: Real Irish Republican Army
Image Name Assumed Position Left Position Source
Aidan O'Driscoll [45]

See also

References

  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. ISBN 0-8131-1791-7
  3. ^ a b Meda Ryan, The Real Chief: Liam Lynch, Cork: Mercier, 2005. ISBN 1-85635-460-1
  4. ^ Paul V. Walsh, The Irish Civil War, 1922-1923 2006-05-08 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Henry Boylan, A Dictionary of Irish Biography, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1998.
  6. ^ "Student Radicals 2005-09-28 at the Wayback Machine", in: High Ball, February 2002.
  7. ^ Brian Hanley, The IRA: 1926-36, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002. ISBN 1-85182-721-8
  8. ^ Dictionary of irish Biography
  9. ^ Seán MacBride That Day's Struggle. A Memoir, ed. Caitríona Lawlor, Dublin: Currach Press, 2005. ISBN 1-85607-929-5
  10. ^ Hanley, Brian (2002). The IRA, 1923-1936. Dublin: Four Courts Press. p. 18.
  11. ^ a b Bowyer Bell, J. (1997). The Secret Army: The IRA. Transaction Publishers. p. 159. ISBN 1-56000-901-2.
  12. ^ a b Coogan, Tim Pat (2002). The I.R.A. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 134. ISBN 978-0312294168.
  13. ^ Dáil Debates 2008-10-09 at the Wayback Machine, 7 July 1943.
  14. ^ a b The Irish Press, 07 March 1942
  15. ^ Tim Pat Coogan, The IRA A History, Niwot: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1993. ISBN 1-879373-67-X
  16. ^ Hegarty-Thorne, Kathleen (25 July 2019). "The IRA Chief of Staff who was "unbought, unconquered, and unpurchasable to the last"". IrishCentral.com. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  17. ^ J. Bowyer Bell, The Secret Army: The IRA, Somerset: Transaction Publishers, 1997. ISBN 1-56000-901-2
  18. ^ J. Bowyer Bell, The Secret Army: The IRA, Somerset: Transaction Publishers, 1997. ISBN 1-56000-901-2. See also "Bodenstown: IRA GHQ reorganised", Saoirse, June 1997.
  19. ^ J. Bowyer Bell, The Secret Army: The IRA, Somerset: Transaction Publishers, 1997.
  20. ^ "Arrests, Collaboration, Victimisation" 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, in Saoirse, May 2007, p. 16
  21. ^ 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 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine, 6 November 1957.
  22. ^ Robert W. White, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh: The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary, Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-253-34708-4, pp. 85–6.
  23. ^ 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.
  24. ^ By his own admission, see Saoirse interview Revolt in the North 1956-62 2005-04-05 at the Wayback Machine. See also: Robert W. White, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh: The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary, Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-253-34708-4, p. 89.
  25. ^ Robert W. White, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh: The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary, Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-253-34708-4, p. 98.]
  26. ^ Robert W. White, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh: The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary, Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-253-34708-4, pp. 98–9, 114.]
  27. ^ Robert W. White, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh: The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary, Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-253-34708-4, pp. 114.]
  28. ^ White, Robert (2017). Out of the Ashes: An Oral History of the Provisional Irish Republican Movement. Merrion Press. pp. 64–65. ISBN 9781785370939.
  29. ^ Hanley, Brian; Millar, Scott (2010). The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party. Penguin Books. p. 145. ISBN 978-0141028453.
  30. ^ 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. ISBN 0-14-101041-X
  31. ^ a b c d e f g Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0-14-101041-X
  32. ^ Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0-14-101041-X. Confirmed in obituary, Saoirse, December 1999.
  33. ^ Bowyer Bell, J. (1997). The Secret Army: The IRA. Transaction Publishers. p. 520. ISBN 1-56000-901-2.
  34. ^ Bishop, Patrick & Mallie, Eamonn (1987). The Provisional IRA. Corgi Books. p. 315. ISBN 0-552-13337-X.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  35. ^ . National Review. 24 October 1994. Archived from the original on 9 October 2008. Retrieved 19 February 2007.
  36. ^ Taylor, Peter (1997). Provos The IRA & Sinn Féin. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 201. ISBN 0-7475-3818-2.
  37. ^ 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" 2006-09-12 at the Wayback Machine, Boston Chronicle, 14 November 2002.
  38. ^ Cusack, Jim (30 November 2014). "The Provos and its 'loony chief' who still dictate to SF". Irish Independent. Retrieved 12 November 2019. It is said he was brought onto the Army Council in the 1990s by Brian Keenan, the hard-line IRA Chief of Staff among whose policies was the genocide of Protestants living in Border areas
  39. ^ "Mastermind of IRA bombing campaigns who became the organisation's negotiator over decommissioning". The Telegraph. 21 May 2008. Retrieved 12 November 2019. After the IRA resumed its truce in 1997, Sinn Fein helped negotiate a 1998 peace accord that proposed the total disarmament of the IRA by mid-2000. Keenan, who replaced Thomas "Slab" Murphy as the IRA's chief of staff in 1998, quickly ruled out this prospect, arguing that the group would disarm only in co-operation with a future all-Ireland government...the onset of cancer which forced (Keenan) to step down from the Army Council in 2002.
  40. ^ Cusack, Jim (30 November 2014). "The Provos and its 'loony chief' who still dictate to SF". Irish Independent. Retrieved 12 November 2019. It is understood the current 'Chief' assumed the role on Brian Keenan's death in May 2008 and is very much in his vein of thinking.
  41. ^ "IRA Expert Ed Moloney to Speak On Campus Nov. 20" 2006-09-12 at the Wayback Machine, Boston Chronicle, 14 November 2002.
  42. ^ Hanley, Brian; Millar, Scott (2010). The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party. Penguin Books. pp. 149–150, 332. ISBN 978-0141028453.
  43. ^ Hanley, Brian; Millar, Scott (2010). The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party. Penguin Books. p. 332. ISBN 978-0141028453.
  44. ^ "CIRA bomb adds to growing crisis in the peace process 2007-05-09 at the Wayback Machine", Irish Examiner, 7 July 2000.
  45. ^ https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/former-chief-of-staff-of-real-ira-shot-and-killed-in-cork-city-1.2896940., 'Former chief of staff of Real IRA shot and killed in Cork city' The Irish Times, 07 December 2016

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Not to be confused with Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces Ireland Several people are reported to have served as Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army Irish Ceann Foirne oglaigh na hEireann in the organisations bearing that name Due to the clandestine nature of these organisations this list is not definitive Contents 1 Chiefs of Staff of the Irish Republican Army 1917 1922 2 Chiefs of Staff of the anti Treaty Irish Republican Army 1922 1969 3 Chiefs of Staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army 1969 2005 4 Chiefs of Staff of the Official Irish Republican Army 1969 present 5 Chiefs of Staff of the Continuity Irish Republican Army 1986 present 6 Chiefs of Staff of the Real Irish Republican Army 1997 present 7 See also 8 ReferencesChiefs of Staff of the Irish Republican Army 1917 1922 EditFurther information Irish Republican Army 1919 1922 Image Name Assumed position Left position Source Cathal Brugha a 27 October 1917 March 1918 1 Richard Mulcahy March 1918 15 January 1922 2 Eoin O Duffy 15 January 1922 July 1922 2 From this point on this lineage diverts to Chief of Staff of the Defence Forcesa Chairman of the Resident ExecutiveChiefs of Staff of the anti Treaty Irish Republican Army 1922 1969 EditFurther information Irish Republican Army 1922 1969 Image Name Assumed position Left position Source Liam Lynch 1st time 26 March 1922 18 June 1922 3 Joe McKelvey 18 June 1922 30 June 1922 4 dubious discuss Liam Lynch 2nd time 30 June 1922 10 April 1923 Frank Aiken 20 April 1923 12 November 1925 5 Andrew Cooney 12 November 1925 July 1926 6 Maurice Moss Twomey 1926 acting 1927 official June 1936 7 Sean MacBride June 1936 1937 8 9 Tom Barry 1937 1937 3 Mick Fitzpatrick 1937 1938 10 Sean Russell 1938 April 1939 11 12 Stephen Hayes April 1939 30 June 1941 11 12 13 Pearse Kelly aka Paul Kelso 1941 27 November 1941Sean Harrington Aft November 1941 10 February 1942 14 Sean McCool 10 February 1942 14 14 August 1942 Eoin McNamee c March 1942 c May 1942 15 16 Hugh McAteer c May 1942 12 October 1942 Charlie Kerins October 1942 16 June 1944Position vacant for some months 16 June 1944 1944Harry White 1944 1945Patrick Fleming 1 March 1945 1947 17 Willie McGuinness 1947 1948 18 Tony Magan 1st time November 1948 6 July 1957 19 Richard Burke January 1957 May 1957 20 Tony Magan 2nd time May 1957 6 July 1957 21 Sean Cronin 1st time July 1957 acting 11 November 1957 official October 1958 22 John Joe McGirl October 1958 24 October 1958 23 Ruairi o Bradaigh 1st time 24 October 1958 Late May 1959 24 Sean Cronin 2nd time Late May 1959 June 1960 25 Ruairi o Bradaigh 2nd time Summer 1960 7 September 1962 26 Cathal Goulding 7 September 1962 December 1969 27 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 28 29 Chiefs of Staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army 1969 2005 EditFurther information Provisional Irish Republican Army Image Name Assumed position Left position SourceSean Mac Stiofain December 1969 19 November 1972 30 Joe Cahill November 1972 March 1973 31 Seamus Twomey 1st time March 1973 June 1973 31 Eamonn O Doherty June 1973 June July 1974 32 Seamus Twomey 2nd time June July 1974 December 1977 31 Gerry Adams a 3 December 1977 18 February 1978 33 34 35 36 37 Martin McGuinness b 1978 Autumn 1982 31 Ivor Bell Autumn 1982 September 1983 31 Kevin McKenna September 1983 October 1997 31 Thomas Slab Murphy October 1997 1998 31 Brian Keenan 1998 2002 or May 2008 38 39 Unnamed Belfast Resident May 2008 Incumbent 40 a 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 41 b Although he admitted in his lifetime to IRA membership he denied ever being Chief of StaffChiefs of Staff of the Official Irish Republican Army 1969 present EditFurther information Official Irish Republican Army Image Name Assumed Position Left Position SourceCathal Goulding December 1969 Summer 1976 42 Sean Garland a Summer 1976 43 a 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 EditFurther information Continuity Irish Republican Army Image Name Assumed Position Left Position Source Daithi o Conaill 1986 1991 44 Chiefs of Staff of the Real Irish Republican Army 1997 present EditFurther information Real Irish Republican Army Image Name Assumed Position Left Position SourceAidan O Driscoll 45 See also EditIrish Republican Army IRA Quartermaster General IRA Director of IntelligenceReferences Edit Aengus o Snodaigh IRA Convention meets An Phoblacht Republican News 11 May 2000 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 ISBN 0 8131 1791 7 a b Meda Ryan The Real Chief Liam Lynch Cork Mercier 2005 ISBN 1 85635 460 1 Paul V Walsh The Irish Civil War 1922 1923 Archived 2006 05 08 at the Wayback Machine Henry Boylan A Dictionary of Irish Biography Dublin Gill amp Macmillan 1998 Student Radicals Archived 2005 09 28 at the Wayback Machine in High Ball February 2002 Brian Hanley The IRA 1926 36 Dublin Four Courts Press 2002 ISBN 1 85182 721 8 Dictionary of irish Biography Sean MacBride That Day s Struggle A Memoir ed Caitriona Lawlor Dublin Currach Press 2005 ISBN 1 85607 929 5 Hanley Brian 2002 The IRA 1923 1936 Dublin Four Courts Press p 18 a b Bowyer Bell J 1997 The Secret Army The IRA Transaction Publishers p 159 ISBN 1 56000 901 2 a b Coogan Tim Pat 2002 The I R A St Martin s Griffin p 134 ISBN 978 0312294168 Dail Debates Archived 2008 10 09 at the Wayback Machine 7 July 1943 a b The Irish Press 07 March 1942 Tim Pat Coogan The IRA A History Niwot Roberts Rinehart Publishers 1993 ISBN 1 879373 67 X Hegarty Thorne Kathleen 25 July 2019 The IRA Chief of Staff who was unbought unconquered and unpurchasable to the last IrishCentral com Retrieved 27 November 2019 J Bowyer Bell The Secret Army The IRA Somerset Transaction Publishers 1997 ISBN 1 56000 901 2 J Bowyer Bell The Secret Army The IRA Somerset Transaction Publishers 1997 ISBN 1 56000 901 2 See also Bodenstown IRA GHQ reorganised Saoirse June 1997 J Bowyer Bell The Secret Army The IRA Somerset Transaction Publishers 1997 Arrests Collaboration Victimisation Archived 2016 03 03 at the Wayback Machine in Saoirse May 2007 p 16 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 Dail Debates Archived 2011 06 06 at the Wayback Machine 6 November 1957 Robert W White Ruairi o Bradaigh The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary Bloomington Indianapolis Indiana University Press 2006 ISBN 0 253 34708 4 pp 85 6 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 By his own admission see Saoirse interview Revolt in the North 1956 62 Archived 2005 04 05 at the Wayback Machine See also Robert W White Ruairi o Bradaigh The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary Bloomington Indianapolis Indiana University Press 2006 ISBN 0 253 34708 4 p 89 Robert W White Ruairi o Bradaigh The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary Bloomington Indianapolis Indiana University Press 2006 ISBN 0 253 34708 4 p 98 Robert W White Ruairi o Bradaigh The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary Bloomington Indianapolis Indiana University Press 2006 ISBN 0 253 34708 4 pp 98 9 114 Robert W White Ruairi o Bradaigh The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary Bloomington Indianapolis Indiana University Press 2006 ISBN 0 253 34708 4 pp 114 White Robert 2017 Out of the Ashes An Oral History of the Provisional Irish Republican Movement Merrion Press pp 64 65 ISBN 9781785370939 Hanley Brian Millar Scott 2010 The Lost Revolution The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers Party Penguin Books p 145 ISBN 978 0141028453 Confirmed by Ruairi o Bradaigh see Outstanding IRA leader and giant of a man in the Republican Movement and Sean Mac Stiofain a tribute Saoirse June 2001 See also Ed Moloney A Secret History of the IRA Harmondsworth Penguin 2003 ISBN 0 14 101041 X a b c d e f g Ed Moloney A Secret History of the IRA Harmondsworth Penguin 2003 ISBN 0 14 101041 X Ed Moloney A Secret History of the IRA Harmondsworth Penguin 2003 ISBN 0 14 101041 X Confirmed in obituary Saoirse December 1999 Bowyer Bell J 1997 The Secret Army The IRA Transaction Publishers p 520 ISBN 1 56000 901 2 Bishop Patrick amp Mallie Eamonn 1987 The Provisional IRA Corgi Books p 315 ISBN 0 552 13337 X a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link Broth of a boy President Clinton recognizes Sinn Fein National Review 24 October 1994 Archived from the original on 9 October 2008 Retrieved 19 February 2007 Taylor Peter 1997 Provos The IRA amp Sinn Fein Bloomsbury Publishing p 201 ISBN 0 7475 3818 2 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 Archived 2006 09 12 at the Wayback Machine Boston Chronicle 14 November 2002 Cusack Jim 30 November 2014 The Provos and its loony chief who still dictate to SF Irish Independent Retrieved 12 November 2019 It is said he was brought onto the Army Council in the 1990s by Brian Keenan the hard line IRA Chief of Staff among whose policies was the genocide of Protestants living in Border areas Mastermind of IRA bombing campaigns who became the organisation s negotiator over decommissioning The Telegraph 21 May 2008 Retrieved 12 November 2019 After the IRA resumed its truce in 1997 Sinn Fein helped negotiate a 1998 peace accord that proposed the total disarmament of the IRA by mid 2000 Keenan who replaced Thomas Slab Murphy as the IRA s chief of staff in 1998 quickly ruled out this prospect arguing that the group would disarm only in co operation with a future all Ireland government the onset of cancer which forced Keenan to step down from the Army Council in 2002 Cusack Jim 30 November 2014 The Provos and its loony chief who still dictate to SF Irish Independent Retrieved 12 November 2019 It is understood the current Chief assumed the role on Brian Keenan s death in May 2008 and is very much in his vein of thinking IRA Expert Ed Moloney to Speak On Campus Nov 20 Archived 2006 09 12 at the Wayback Machine Boston Chronicle 14 November 2002 Hanley Brian Millar Scott 2010 The Lost Revolution The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers Party Penguin Books pp 149 150 332 ISBN 978 0141028453 Hanley Brian Millar Scott 2010 The Lost Revolution The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers Party Penguin Books p 332 ISBN 978 0141028453 CIRA bomb adds to growing crisis in the peace process Archived 2007 05 09 at the Wayback Machine Irish Examiner 7 July 2000 https www irishtimes com news ireland irish news former chief of staff of real ira shot and killed in cork city 1 2896940 Former chief of staff of Real IRA shot and killed in Cork city The Irish Times 07 December 2016 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army amp oldid 1141026737, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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