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Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (IPA: [ˈɾˠuəɾʲiː oː ˈbˠɾˠaːd̪ˠiː]; born Peter Roger Casement Brady; 2 October 1932 – 5 June 2013) was an Irish republican political and military leader. He was Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) from 1958 to 1959 and again from 1960 to 1962, president of Sinn Féin from 1970 to ...
Ó Brádaigh, Ruairí (1932–2013), republican paramilitary and political activist, was born Peter Roger Casement Brady in Upper Mount Street, Dublin, on 2 October 1932. He was the second child of two sons and a daughter of Matt (Matthew) Brady, a farmer of Longford town, and his wife May (née Caffrey).
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (1932-2011) was an Irish Republican who served as the Irish Republican Army (IRA) chief of staff, Sinn Fein president and the founding leader of Republican Sinn Fein. Ó Brádaigh was born into a middle class family in Longford in the Irish Free State.
The end of the 1970 Ard Fheis marked the beginning of the most intense period of Ruaií Ó Brádaigh’s life. For the next two years the political and the personal were intimately intertwined as he and Daithí O’Connell charted a course for the movement’s politics that held until the early 1980s.
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Jan 1, 2006 · Ruairí Ó Brádaigh is that tradition and that is why this account of his life and politics is so important." ―from the foreword by Ed Moloney, author of A Secret History of the IRA. At his death in 2013, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh remained a divisive and influential figure in Irish politics and the Irish Republican movement.
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Jun 5, 2013 · Veteran Irish republican and former president of Sinn Féin , Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, has died aged 80. Ó Brádaigh served as the president of Provisional Sinn Féin until 1983, when he was ousted...
Jun 5, 2021 · The theme underlying those words also rings true in the case of the contested legacy of Traditional Republicanism and its personnel – perhaps none more so than with Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, former IRA chief-of-staff and Sinn Féin president.
