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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.
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.
Seamus Twomey (1919-1989) was an Irish Republican, a founding member of the Provisional IRA and the organisation’s chief of staff twice during the 1970s. Twomey was born into a Catholic Nationalist family in Belfast, his father having served with the IRA during the 1920s.
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.
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 ).
A film that captured striking images of IRA members making bombs and carrying out gun attacks, often unmasked. These are the opening images of a film that got closer...
10 de sept. de 2009 · Séamus Twomey became IRA Chief of Staff in late 1972 and remained in that post until his arrest the following year. He was imprisoned in Mountjoy and on 31 October 1973 was sprung from the jail by helicopter along with J B O’Hagan and Kevin Mallon.
