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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.
Seán Mac Stíofáin (1928-2001) fue un comandante de IRA, miembro fundador de la IRA Provisional y su primer jefe de gabinete. Mac Stíofáin tenía antecedentes inusuales para un paramilitar republicano irlandés. Nació como John Stephenson en Londres, hijo de padres protestantes.
La cifra más significativa fue Seán Mac Stíofáin, quien se convirtió en el primer jefe de gabinete provisional del IRA, o de facto líder, en diciembre 1969. Mac Stíofáin era un republicano irlandés poco probable. Nacido en Londres como John Stephenson, sirvió con la Real Fuerza Aérea Británica (RAF) durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
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.
Even the Chief of Staff – Seán Mac Stíofáin – who risked arrest on both sides of the border – sat and talked about his daily routine.
Mac Stiofáin, Seán (1928–2001), republican paramilitary, was born John Edward Drayton Stephenson in South Leyton, Essex, on 17 February 1928, only child of Edward George Stephenson, political agent, and his wife, Lilian Mary (formerly Brown, née Newland), of 81 Maryville Road, Leytonstone.
20 de may. de 2001 · An alcoholic, wife-beating English father, and a doting mother who died leaving him as an only child, aged 10, were the formative influences that turned John Stephenson into Sean Mac...
