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The latter then had its own breakaways, namely the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA, each claiming to be the true successor of the Army of the Irish Republic. The Irish Republican Army (1919–1922), known as the "Old IRA", in later years, was recognized by the First Dáil as the legitimate army of the Irish Republic in April 1921 due to the ...
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. Although fighting with Anti-Treaty forces, he was briefly ...
Charlie Kerins: October 1942 16 June 1944 [20]Position vacant for some months: 16 June 1944 1944 Harry White: 1944 1945 [21]Patrick Fleming 1 March 1945 1947?
Ivor Malachy Bell (born 1936/1937) is an Irish republican, and a former volunteer in the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who later became Chief of Staff on the Army Council. [1] Bell was the IRA's representative to Libya in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Joe Cahill (Irish: Seosamh Ó Cathail; [1] 19 May 1920 – 23 July 2004) was a prominent figure in the Irish republican movement in Northern Ireland and former chief of staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). [2] He joined a junior-republican movement, Na Fianna Eireann, in 1937 and the following year, joined the Irish Republican ...
George Lennon (25 May 1900 – 20 February 1991) [1] was an Irish Republican Army leader during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War. Background and early Republican activities [ edit ]
IRA Southern Command was a command division in the Irish Republican Army (1922–1969) and Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA), responsible for providing logistical support in the South (Irish Free State and later the Republic of Ireland) for IRA Northern Command operations in Northern Ireland. It was headquartered in Dublin.
The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA), officially known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann) and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.