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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[which?]. 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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c Moloney 2002 p. 137
  18. ^ Liam Clarke, "Half of all top IRA men 'worked for security services'", Belfast Telegraph, 21 December 2011
  19. ^ a b Moloney 2002 p. 384
  20. ^ Andrew Sanders, Inside the IRA: Dissident Republicans and the War for Legitimacy, p.209
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