Charlie McGlade
Charlie McGlade was a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army and later member of the member of Sinn Féin Ard Chomhairle.
Originally from Belfast, McGlade joined the IRA in the late 1920s. He was arrested several times for IRA activities, and in the early 1940s was shot and wounded by Special Branch Gardaí in Dublin. McGlade's shooting was one of the justifications given by the IRA for the killing of Special Branch Sergeant Denis O'Brien.
Following this incident, McGlade was imprisoned until the conclusion of the Second World War. Upon his release he re-involved himself in republican activism, eventually siding with the Provisional IRA in the 1969 split in the IRA.
