Jimmy Steele

✶August 8, 1907

†August 9, 1970

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About their life

Jimmy Steele was an Irish republican militant. He was one of the most prominent Irish Republican Army (IRA) men in Belfast after the Irish Civil War who held practically every senior position in the Northern Command of the IRA. Later in life Steele publicly denounced the leadership of the IRA which was a prelude to the split in the IRA. Steele founded and edited several Irish Republican publications. Steele spent a large portion of his life in jails as a result of his actions against British security forces.

Irish republican militant and editor

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Biography from the article Jimmy Steele on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.