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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.
Los miembros fundadores del IRA Provisional fueron republicanos de larga data. 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.
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...
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.
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.
The most significant figure was Seán Mac Stíofáin, who became the first Provisional IRA chief of staff, or de facto leader, in December 1969. Mac Stíofáin was an unlikely Irish Republican. Born in London as John Stephenson, he served with the British Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II.
