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'''Charlie McGlade''' was a [[volunteer (Irish republican)|volunteer]] in the [[Irish Republican Army (1922-1969)|Irish Republican Army]] (IRA) and later member of the member of the [[Sinn Féin]] ''Ard Chomhairle'' (executive committee).

Originally from [[Belfast]], McGlade worked as a printer and later moved to Drimnagh in [[Dublin]]. McGlade joined the IRA in the late 1920s and by the late 1930s McGlade had become the [[Quartermaster]] of the IRAs' [[Belfast Brigade]] and was responsible for the creation of the IRAs Northern Command.<ref name="Coogan226and248">{{cite book |last = Coogan | first = Tim Pat | date = 1971 | title = The IRA | publisher = Fontana Books | place = Glasgow | pages = 226, 248}}</ref><ref name="ThornePg572">{{cite book |last=Thorne |first=Kathleen |author-link= |date=2019 |title=Echoes of Their Footsteps |url= |location=Oregon |publisher=Generation Organization |page=572 |isbn=978-0-692-04283-0}}</ref> He was arrested several times for IRA activities and (in 1936) received a two-year sentenced at hard labour. He was released in December 1938 and McGlade was appointed [[Officer commanding]] of the Belfast Brigade.<ref name="ThornePg572"/> McGlade was involved in the planning of the 1939-40 sabotage/ bombing attacks on England - the [[S-Plan]]. In June 1941, McGlade arrested the [[Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army]], [[Stephen Hayes (Irish republican)|Stephen Hayes]], who was accused of being a spy for the [[Irish Free State]] government.<ref>{{cite book | last = MacEoin | first = Uinseann | date = 1997 | title = The IRA in the twilight years 1923-1948 | publisher = Argenta Publications | place = Dublin | pages = 381, 445 & 598 | isbn = 0951117246}}</ref>

In the early 1940s, McGlade was shot and wounded by [[Special Detective Unit|Special Branch]] [[Garda Síochána|Gardaí]] in Dublin. This shooting was one of the justifications given by the IRA for the killing of Special Branch Sergeant [[Denis O'Brien (police officer)|Denis O'Brien]] in September 1942.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cgrp.info/ck.htm |title=Charlie Kerins IRA |accessdate=2007-03-10 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310202246/http://www.cgrp.info/ck.htm |archivedate=2007-03-10 }}</ref> [[Charlie Kerins]] was charged with the killing of Sergeant O'Brien. Kerins refused to recognise the authority of the court and was found guilty and hung in [[Mountjoy Prison]] on 1 December 1944.<ref name="Coogan226and248"/>

In October 1941, McGlade was [[Internment|interned]] at [[Curragh Camp]] until the conclusion of the Second World War. Upon his release, he re-involved himself in republican activism, eventually siding with the [[Provisional IRA]] in the 1969 split in the IRA.<ref>{{cite book | last = English | first = Richard | date = 2003 | title = Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA | publisher = Pan Books | place = London | page = 105 | isbn = 978-0-330-49388-8}}</ref> Charlie McGlade died on 17 September 1982 and was buried at [[Glasnevin Cemetery]], Dublin.<ref name="ThornePg572"/>

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