Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, Irish republican activist and politician (born 1932)

Ruairí Ó Brádaigh

Irish republican politician and military leader (1932–2013)

Ruairí Ó Brádaigh was an Irish republican political and military leader. He was Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) from 1958 to 1959 and again from 1960 to 1962, president of Sinn Féin from 1970 to 1983, and president of Republican Sinn Féin from 1987 to 2009.