The IRA Quartermaster General (QMG) oversaw the acquisition, concealment and maintenance of weaponry for the Irish Republican Army since its foundation in 1919. His department worked closely with the Engineering in the development of weapons.
A number of people held the post of IRA QMG. In 1997, the then QMG, Michael McKevitt, broke away from the Provisional IRA to form the Real IRA, taking weaponry to his breakaway organisation.
List of Quartermasters General of the Irish Republican Army (1917–1922)
No.Name Assumed positionLeft positionSourceMichael Staines1917March 1920"Free state senate by-election", Irish Times, 25 July 1929Fintan MurphyMarch 1920December 1920Military Service Pension file of Fintan Murphy (MSP34REF11815) Pages 12-13 of application form. Available at http://mspcsearch.militaryarchives.ie/search.aspxSeán MacMahonDecember 1920February 1922Military Service Pension file of Sean MacMahon (24SP5162). Available at http://mspcsearch.militaryarchives.ie/search.aspx
List of Quartermasters Generals of the (anti-Treaty) Irish Republican Army (1922–1969) Liam Mellows, 1922 Sean O'Muirthile, 1923–1924 Andrew Cooney, July 1924–1925 Seán Russell, 1927–1936James Gillogly, Decoding the IRA, pp.7-8 Mick Fitzpatrick, 1936–1937MacEoin 2007 p.17 James Hannegan, from 1937Bell 2007 p.137 Charlie McGlade, from 1941Richard English, Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA, p.56 Harry White, 1942–1943Bell 2007 pp.229-230 Archie Doyle, 1940sMacEoin 2007 p.452 Larry Grogan, from c. 1950Bell 2007 pp.240–248 Cathal Goulding, 1959–1962Treacy 2013 p.11 Mick Ryan, from 1962(also first QMG of the Official IRA from 1969)Brian Hanley and Scott Millar, The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party Jimmy Quigley, from 1966Treacy 2013 p.89 Pat Regan, late 1960sTreacy 2013 p.167
List of Quartermasters Generals of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (1969–2005) Dáithí Ó Conaill, 1969Moloney 2002 p.78 Jack McCabe, 1969–1971Treacy 2013 p.108 Denis McInerney, 1971–1972Moloney 2002 p. 137 Patrick Ryan, 1972–1973 Brian Keenan, from 1973 Frank Hegarty, 1980sLiam Clarke, "Half of all top IRA men 'worked for security services'", Belfast Telegraph, 21 December 2011 Kevin Hannaway, to 1985Moloney 2002 p. 384 Michael McKevitt, 1985–1997Andrew Sanders, Inside the IRA: Dissident Republicans and the War for Legitimacy, p.209
See also Irish Republican Army Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army IRA Director of Intelligence
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