IRA Director of Intelligence explained

The Director of Intelligence attempted to oversee the workings of intelligence officers in the IRA's local units across the island.

Director of Intelligence of the Irish Republican Army (1917–1922)

Image	Name	Assumed position	Left position	Source
	Eamonn Duggan	August 1917	January 1919	^[1]
	Michael Collins	January 1919	1922	^[2]

Director of Intelligence of the (anti-Treaty) Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)

Image	Name	Assumed position	Left position	Source
	Joseph Griffin	26 March 1922	1 August 1922	^[3]
	Sean Hyde	October 1922	December 1922	^[4]
	Michael Carolan	August 1922	July 1925	^[5]
	Frank Kerlin	July 1925	March 1927	^[6] ^[7]
	Seán MacBride	circa 1927	cira 1929	^[8]
	Mick Price	circa 1929	1933	^[9] ^[10]
	Seán MacBride	1933	1936	^[11]
	Sean O'Brien	1937	?	^[12]
	Willie McGuinness	1939	?	^[13]
	Gerard O'Reilly	1942	?	^[14]
Significant gap in information
	Sean O'Bradaigh	1966	?	^[15]
	Seán Mac Stíofáin	1966	1969	^[16]

a. Griffin was Director of Intelligence of the IRA's Four Courts General Headquarters

b. Hyde was Director of Intelligence of the IRA's Field Headquarters General Headquarters

Director of Intelligence of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (1969–2005)

Image	Name	Assumed position	Left position	Source
	Kieran Conway	late 1974	1975	^[17]
	Seamus Twomey	January 1982	?	^[18]
	Bobby Storey	late 1990s?	2005?	^[19] ^[20]

See also

• Irish Republican Army
• Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army
• IRA Quartermaster General

Notes and References

1. Military Pension Service file of Eamonn Duggan. File reference MSP34REF2431 (pp. 12)
2. T. Ryle Dwyer, The Squad: And the Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins (Mercier Press, 2005), p. 13
3. Military Pension Service file of Joseph Griffin. File reference MSP34REF40 (pp. 9 and 24)
4. Military Pension Service file of Sean Hyde. File reference MSP34REF16364 (pp. 34-35)
5. Military Pension Service file of Michael Carolan. File reference MSP34REF20261 (p. 60); 2RB4251 (p. 5)
6. James Gillogly, Decoding the IRA (Mercier Press, 2008), p. 143
7. Uinseann MacEoin, The IRA in the Twilight Years: 1923–1948 (Argenta, 1997, p. 123
8. Kevin Rafter, Story of Clann Na Poblachta (Mercier Press, 1996), p. 21
9. Web site: Dictionary of Irish Biography Dictionary of Irish Biography . 2023-08-28 . www.dib.ie.
10. Brian Hanley, The IRA: 1926-36 (Four Courts Press, 2002), p. 196.
11. Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid, Seán MacBride: A Republican Life, 1904–1946 (Liverpool, 2011), p. 109
12. J. Bowyer Bell, The Secret Army: The IRA (Sphere Books, 1972 edition), p. 109
13. John O'Neill, Belfast Battalion: a history of the Belfast IRA, 1922-1969 (Litter Press, 2018), p. 110
14. John O'Neill, Belfast Battalion: a history of the Belfast IRA, 1922-1969 (Litter Press, 2018), p. 148
15. Matt Treacy, The IRA 1956–69: Rethinking the Republic (Manchester University Press, 2011), p. 110
16. Dictionary of Irish Biography entry for Seán Mac Stíofáin, https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a5081&searchClicked=clicked&quickadvsearch=yes
17. Kieran Conway, Southside Provisional: From Freedom-Fighter to the Four Courts (Orpen Press, 2014)
18. Dictionary of Irish Biography entry for Seamus Twomey, https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a8691&searchClicked=clicked&quickadvsearch=yes
19. Web site: Bobby Storey: The IRA's planner and enforcer who stayed in the shadows . 2023-08-28 . The Irish Times . en.
20. Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA (Penguin, 2007 edition), p. 536