Sean Garland
| Seán Garland | |
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| General Secretary of the Workers' Party (Ireland) | |
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In office 1977–1990 |
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| Preceded by | Máirín De Burca and Seán Ó Cionnaith (joint tenure) |
| Succeeded by | Des Geraghty |
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7 March 1934 Dublin, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
Seán Garland (born 7 March 1934) is a former President of the Workers' Party in Ireland.
Born at Belvedere Place, off Mountjoy Square in Dublin, Garland joined the Irish Republican Army in 1953. In 1954, he briefly joined the British Army as an IRA agent and collected intelligence on Gough Barracks in Armagh and supplied it to the IRA in Dublin. This enabled the IRA to carry out a successful arms raid on 12 June 1954, with Garland's active involvement on the base. Garland deserted from the British army in October of the same year, before his regiment was due to depart for Kenya. He became a full-time IRA training officer.
On 1 January 1957 at the beginning of the IRA Border Campaign, he led the unsuccessful attack on Brookeborough Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in which his associates Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon, both the subjects of well-known republican ballads, were shot and fatally wounded. Under fire, Garland carried South on his shoulders in an unsuccessful attempt to save his friend's life. Seriously wounded, he was subsequently hospitalised for a number of weeks and was then jailed in Mountjoy Prison. In November 1957, while in Mountjoy, Garland was an unsuccessful candidate in the Dublin North–Central by-election. Upon his release, he was interned in the Curragh, but was released in 1959.
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