IRA Quartermaster General

The IRA Quartermaster General (QMG) runs a department which is responsible for obtaining, concealing and maintaining the store of weaponry of the Irish Republican Army. In the Provisional IRA, the QMG department is large and important department. It works closely with the IRA Engineering Department, which develops weapons.

A number of people have held the post of QMG. In 1997, the then QMG, Michael McKevitt broke away from the Provisional IRA[1] to form the Real IRA, taking PIRA weaponry to his breakaway organization.[2]

List of Quartermasters Generals of the Irish Republican Army (1917–1922)
1917-1920: Michael Staines[3]
1920-1921: Seán Mac Mahon

List of Quartermasters Generals of the (anti-Treaty) Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)
1922: Liam Mellows
1923-1924 Sean O'Muirthile
F. Cronin?
1927-1936: Seán Russell[4]
1936-1937: Mick Fitzpatrick[5]
from 1937: James Hannegan[6]
from 1941: Charlie McGlade[7]
1942-1943: Harry White[8]
1940s: Archie Doyle[9]
from c.1950: Larry Grogan[10]
1959-1962: Cathal Goulding[11]
from 1962: Mick Ryan (also first QMG of the Official IRA from 1969)[12]
to 1966: Prior[11]
from 1966: Jimmy Quigley[13]
late 1960s: Pat Regan[14]

List of Quartermasters Generals of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (1969–2005)
1969: Dáithí Ó Conaill[15]
1969-1971: Jack McCabe[16]
1971-1972: Denis McInerney[17]
1972-1973: Patrick Ryan[17]
from 1973: Brian Keenan[17]
1980s: Frank Hegarty[18]
to 1985: Kevin Hannaway[19]
1985-1997: Michael McKevitt[19][20]

References

Sources
  • Bell, J. Bowyer (2017). The Secret Army: The IRA. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-47445-0. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  • MacEoin, Uinseann (1997). The IRA in the twilight years: 1923–1948 (PDF). Dublin: Argenta. ISBN 9780951117248. Retrieved 8 May 2020 – via Irish Military Archives.
  • Moloney, Ed (2002). A Secret History of the IRA. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-101041-X.
  • Treacy, Matt (2013). The IRA 1956–69: Rethinking the Republic. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-84779-417-8. Retrieved 8 May 2020 – via Project MUSE.

Citations
  1. Security, Global. "New Irish Republican Army". www.globalsecurity.org/. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
  2. "Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA)". Mackenzie Institute. Archived from the original on 22 November 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
  3. "Free state senate by-election", Irish Times, 25 July 1929
  4. James Gillogly, Decoding the IRA, pp.7-8
  5. MacEoin 2007 p.17
  6. Bell 2007 p.137
  7. Richard English, Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA, p.56
  8. Bell 2007 pp.229-230
  9. MacEoin 2007 p.452
  10. Bell 2007 pp.240-248
  11. Treacy 2013 p.11
  12. Brian Hanley and Scott Millar, The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party
  13. Treacy 2013 p.89
  14. Treacy 2013 p.167
  15. Moloney 2002 p.78
  16. Treacy 2013 p.108
  17. Moloney 2002 p. 137
  18. Liam Clarke, "Half of all top IRA men 'worked for security services'", Belfast Telegraph, 21 December 2011
  19. Moloney 2002 p. 384
  20. Andrew Sanders, Inside the IRA: Dissident Republicans and the War for Legitimacy, p.209
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