Photograph of Twomey taken in 1972 during an IRA Press Conference
Born
(1919-11-05)5 November 1919 Belfast, Ireland
Died
12 September 1989(1989-09-12) (aged 69) Dublin, Ireland
Allegiance
Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)
Service/branch
Irish Republican Army (1922–1969) Provisional IRA
Rank
Chief of Staff
Seamus Twomey (Irish: Séamus Ó Tuama; 5 November 1919 – 12 September 1989[1]) was an Irish republican activist, militant, and twice chief of staff of the Provisional IRA.
^Tírghrá. National Commemoration Centre. 2002. p. 314. ISBN 0-9542946-0-2.
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avoid arrest, thus relinquishing his command of the Belfast Brigade. SeamusTwomey took over Cahill's position as OC. In the three days that followed the...
advance of the violence. On 24 August a group including Joe Cahill, SeamusTwomey, Dáithí Ó Conaill, Billy McKee, and Jimmy Steele came together in Belfast...
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elected as the "Provisional" Army Council. Their supporters included SeamusTwomey. Accounts at that time suggest that the IRA members split roughly in...
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Constabulary. Leaving behind two wounded, Seamus Martin and Gabriel Corbett, the remaining four (Sands, McDonnell, Seamus Finucane, and Sean Lavery) tried to...
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the pilot to fly to Mountjoy where the three prisoners, JB O'Hagan, SeamusTwomey and Kevin Mallon, were lifted by helicopter from the exercise yard of...
October 1973, three leading IRA members, including former Chief of Staff SeamusTwomey, escaped from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin when a hijacked helicopter landed...
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Remains in locating graves of three men, Joe Lynskey, Seamus Wright, and Kevin McKee. The bodies of Seamus Wright and Kevin McKee were recovered from a singular...
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