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Richard Barrett (1899–1922), Irish Republican officer who was executed by the Free State during the following Civil War.; Kevin Barry (1902–1920); Tom Barry (1897–1980), a prominent figure on the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War.
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. [46] b. ^ Although he admitted in his lifetime to IRA membership, he denied ever being Chief of Staff
Gerry Adams Sr. joined the IRA at age 16. In 1942, he participated in an IRA ambush on a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) patrol but was shot, arrested and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. [15] Adams's maternal great-grandfather, Michael Hannaway, was also a member of the IRB during its bombing campaign in England in the 1860s and 1870s. [19]
Name Title Place Location Date of death Killed by William J. Twaddell [1] Ulster Unionist Party MP for Belfast West, and former member of the Ulster Imperial Guards: Belfast: Northern Ireland: 22 May 1922 Irish Republican Army. [1] [2] Henry Wilson [2] Ulster Unionist Party MP for North Down, and former British Army Field Marshall. London ...
Alfredo Scappaticci [1] (12 January 1946 [2] – April 2023) was an Irish IRA member named in the Kenova report as a British Intelligence mole with the codename Stakeknife. [3] Scappaticci was a member of the IRA’s Internal Security Unit. In 2003, it was reported that Scappaticci had been working for British intelligence, their highest ...
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) of 1922–1969 was a sub-group of the original pre-1922 Irish Republican Army, characterised by its opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty.It existed in various forms until 1969, when the IRA split again into the Provisional IRA and Official IRA.
While there, he witnessed the execution of Anti-Treaty IRA leaders Richard Barrett, Joe McKelvey, Liam Mellows and Rory O'Connor from his cell window. Following Flannery going on a 28-day hunger strike , he was placed in the Curragh Prison Camp until 1 May 1924 when he was finally released, a full year after the end of the civil war.
Her husband was Michael McKevitt, the Quartermaster General of the Provisional IRA and later a founding member of an anti-Good Friday Agreement splinter group commonly known as the Real Irish Republican Army. [5] The couple had three children together and lived in Dundalk in the Republic of Ireland. [6]