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Seamus Twomey (Irish: Séamus Ó Tuama; 5 November 1919 – 12 September 1989) was an Irish republican activist, militant, and twice chief of staff of the Provisional IRA.
Most historians consider Seamus Twomey a violent, short-sighted nihilist whose determination to make Northern Ireland ungovernable shaped Provisional IRA tactics in the early 1970s. © Alpha History 2017.
Seamus Twomey (1919-1989) fue un republicano irlandés, miembro fundador de la IRA Provisional y jefe de gabinete de la organización dos veces durante la década de 1970. Twomey nació en una familia nacionalista católica en Belfast, y su padre sirvió en el IRA durante la década de 1920.
Twomey, Séamus. Twomey, Séamus (1919–89), Provisional IRA chief of staff, was born in Marchioness Street in the Lower Falls area of Belfast, the son of an IRA Volunteer in the 1920s. Twomey experienced the poverty of interwar Belfast: ‘degradation and unemployment and humiliation . . . just no life at all’ (Hederman, Crane Bag ).
Seamus Twomey (en irlandès Séamus Ó Tuama) (Belfast, 5 de novembre de 1919 - Dublín, 12 de setembre de 1989) va ser un activista polític republicà irlandès, militant i dues vegades cap d'estat major de l'IRA Provisional.
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...
10 de sept. de 2009 · “Our Minister for Defence” was one of the three escapers: Séamus Twomey of Belfast who served twice as IRA Chief of Staff in the 1970s, playing a key role in the reorganisation of the Army both after the split of 1969 and from 1975 when it was restructured more effectively to conduct guerrilla warfare.
