The Director of Intelligence attempted to oversee the workings of intelligence officers in the IRA's local units across the island.
Director of Intelligence of the Irish Republican Army (1917–1922)
ImageName Assumed positionLeft positionSourceEamonn DugganAugust 1917January 1919Military Pension Service file of Eamonn Duggan. File reference MSP34REF2431 (pp. 12)Michael CollinsJanuary 19191922T. Ryle Dwyer, The Squad: And the Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins (Mercier Press, 2005), p. 13
Director of Intelligence of the (anti-Treaty) Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)
ImageName Assumed positionLeft positionSourceJoseph Griffin26 March 19221 August 1922Military Pension Service file of Joseph Griffin. File reference MSP34REF40 (pp. 9 and 24)Sean HydeOctober 1922December 1922Military Pension Service file of Sean Hyde. File reference MSP34REF16364 (pp. 34-35)Michael CarolanAugust 1922July 1925Military Pension Service file of Michael Carolan. File reference MSP34REF20261 (p. 60); 2RB4251 (p. 5)Frank KerlinJuly 1925March 1927James Gillogly, Decoding the IRA (Mercier Press, 2008), p. 143Uinseann MacEoin, The IRA in the Twilight Years: 1923–1948 (Argenta, 1997, p. 123Seán MacBridecirca 1927cira 1929Kevin Rafter, Story of Clann Na Poblachta (Mercier Press, 1996), p. 21Mick Pricecirca 19291933Brian Hanley, The IRA: 1926-36 (Four Courts Press, 2002), p. 196. Seán MacBride19331936Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid, Seán MacBride: A Republican Life, 1904–1946 (Liverpool, 2011), p. 109Sean O'Brien1937?J. Bowyer Bell, The Secret Army: The IRA (Sphere Books, 1972 edition), p. 109 Willie McGuinness1939?John O'Neill, Belfast Battalion: a history of the Belfast IRA, 1922-1969 (Litter Press, 2018), p. 110Gerard O'Reilly1942?John O'Neill, Belfast Battalion: a history of the Belfast IRA, 1922-1969 (Litter Press, 2018), p. 148Significant gap in information Sean O'Bradaigh1966?Matt Treacy, The IRA 1956–69: Rethinking the Republic (Manchester University Press, 2011), p. 110Seán Mac Stíofáin19661969Dictionary of Irish Biography entry for Seán Mac Stíofáin, https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a5081&searchClicked=clicked&quickadvsearch=yes a. Griffin was Director of Intelligence of the IRA's Four Courts General Headquarters
b. Hyde was Director of Intelligence of the IRA's Field Headquarters General Headquarters
Director of Intelligence of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (1969–2005)
ImageName Assumed positionLeft positionSourceKieran Conwaylate 19741975Kieran Conway, Southside Provisional: From Freedom-Fighter to the Four Courts (Orpen Press, 2014)Seamus TwomeyJanuary 1982?Dictionary of Irish Biography entry for Seamus Twomey, https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a8691&searchClicked=clicked&quickadvsearch=yesBobby Storeylate 1990s?2005?Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA (Penguin, 2007 edition), p. 536
See also Irish Republican Army Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army IRA Quartermaster General
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