List of IRA Chiefs of Staff
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The following is the list of those who have served as Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army in the various incarnations of organisations bearing that name.
Owing to the secretative nature of these organisations, this list is not definitive.
Chiefs of Staff of the
Chiefs of Staff of the (anti-Treaty)
No.
| Name
| Assumed Position
| Left Position
| Source
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| Liam Lynch | 26 March 1922 | 18 June 1922 | [Meda Ryan, The Real Chief: Liam Lynch, Cork: Mercier, 2005. ISBN 1856354601]
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| Joseph McKelvey | 18 June 1922 | 30 June 1922 | [Paul V. Walsh, [The Irish Civil War, 1922-1923]]
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| Liam Lynch (second time) | 30 June 1922 | 10 April 1923 |
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| Frank Aiken | 20 April 1923 | 12 November, 1925 | [Henry Boylan, A Dictionary of Irish Biography, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1998.]
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| Andy Cooney | 12 November 1925 | July 1926 | ["[Student Radicals]", in: High Ball, February 2002.]
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| Moss (Maurice) Twomey | 1926 (acting) 1927 (officially) | June 1936 | [Brian Hanley, The IRA: 1926-36, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002. ISBN 1851827218]
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| Seán MacBride | June 1936 | late 1936 | [Seán MacBride That Day's Struggle. A Memoir, ed. Caitríona Lawlor, Dublin: Currach Press, 2005. ISBN 1856079295]
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| Tom Barry | 1937 | 1937 | [Meda Ryan, The Real Chief: Liam Lynch, Cork: Mercier, 2005. ISBN 1856354601]
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| Mick Fitzpatrick | 1937 | 1938 | [Brian Hanley, The IRA: 1926-36, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002. ISBN 1851827218]
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| Seán Russell | 1938 | 14 August 1940 | [J. Bowyer Bell, The Secret Army: The IRA, Somerset: Transaction Publishers, 1997. ISBN 1560009012]
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| Stephen Hayes | 1940? | 30 June 1941 | [[Dáil Debates], 7 July 1943.]
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| Pearse Kelly (aka Paul Kelso) | 1941 | 27 November 1941 |
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| Seán Harrington | Aft. November 1941 | February 1942 |
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| Seán McCool | February 1942 | 14 August 1942 |
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| Eoin McNamee | 1942 | 1942 |
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| Hugh McAteer | 1942 | 12 October 1942 |
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| Charlie Kerins | October 1942 | 16 June 1944 |
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| position vacant for some months | 16 June 1944 | |
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| Harry White | 1944 | 1945 |
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| Patrick Fleming | March?1945 | 1947? |
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| Willie McGuinness | 1947 | 1948? | [J. Bowyer Bell, The Secret Army: The IRA, Somerset: Transaction Publishers, 1997. ISBN 1560009012. See also "[Bodenstown: IRA GHQ reorganised]", Saoirse, June 1997.
]
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| Tony Magan | November 1948 | 6 July 1957 | [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], 6 November 1957.]
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| Seán Cronin (1st time) | July 1957 (acting), 11 November 1957 officially | late September 1958 |
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| John Joe McGirl | 1958 | September 1958 | [Named as such by prominent republican, Owen Carron, in a letter entitled [Deireadh Seachtaine John Joe McGirl], An Phoblacht/Republican News, 31 July 1997.]
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| Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (1st time) | 24 October 1958 | May/June 1959 | [By his own admission, see Saoirse interview [Revolt in the North 1956-62.]]
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| Seán Cronin (2nd time) | May/June 1959 | June 1960 |
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| Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (2nd time) | 1960 | 1962 |
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| Cathal Goulding | 1962 | |
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At an IRA Special Army Convention (SAC) held in Dublin on 28 December 1969, the IRA split into two factions, namely the majority Official IRA and the minority Provisional IRA.
Chiefs of Staff of the
No.
| Name
| Assumed Position
| Left Position
| Source
|
|---|
| Seán Mac Stiofáin | December 1969 | 19 November 1972 | [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 014101041X]
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| Joe Cahill | November 1972 | March 1973 | [Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 014101041X]
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| Seamus Twomey (1st time) | March 1973 | June 1973 | [Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 014101041X]
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| Éamonn O’Doherty | June 1973 | June/July 1974 | [Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 014101041X. Confirmed in [obituary], Saoirse, December 1999. ]
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| Seamus Twomey (2nd time) | June/July 1974 | December 1977 | [Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 014101041X]
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| Gerry Adams | 3 December 1977 | 18 February 1978 | [Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 014101041X]
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| Martin McGuinness | 1978 | Autumn 1982 | [Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 014101041X]
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| Ivor Bell | Autumn 1982 | September 1983 | [Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 014101041X]
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| Kevin McKenna | September 1983 | October 1997 | [Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 014101041X]
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| Thomas "Slab" Murphy | October 1997 | | [Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 014101041X]
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