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Seán Mac Stíofáin (born John Edward Drayton Stephenson; 17 February 1928 – 18 May 2001) was an English-born chief of staff of the Provisional IRA, a position he held between 1969 and 1972.
The names of the IRA delegation are now well known: Chief of Staff Seán MacStiofáin, Dáithí Ó Conaill, Seamus Twomey, Martin McGuinness, Ivor Bell and Gerry Adams, who had to be released from...
Seán Mac Stíofáin (1928-2001) was an IRA commander, a founding member of the Provisional IRA and its first chief of staff. Mac Stíofáin had an unusual background for an Irish Republican paramilitary. He was born John Stephenson in London, the son of Protestant parents.
Seán MacStiofáin (1928–2001) was born lohn Stephenson in Leytonstone, east London, and raised in Islington. In 1945 he was conscripted into the RAF and posted to lamaica, where his first-hand experience of the iniquities of the British colonial system confirmed him in his anti-imperial views.
- Liam Harte
- 2009
May 19, 2001 · Sean Mac Stiofain, a leader in forming the modern Irish Republican Army, died on Thursday, Sinn Fein, the political party linked to the I.R.A., announced today. He was 73.
Feb 20, 2021 · Seán Mac Stíofáin was a revolutionary, a Nationalist, a Catholic, a Republican, and a Socialist; but what he was not, was friendly with Communists. In his very first Army Council meeting, Seán Mac Stíofáin argued with Cathal Goulding that Roy Johnston’s membership of the IRA was in direct contravention of standing Army Orders ...
Jan 27, 2020 · Seán Mac Stíofáin defined the Provisional IRA’s mission: to remove the British presence in the North and establish the Irish Republic by “force of arms”. The delegates who walked out of the...
