Maurice Twomey was an Irish republican and the longest serving chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army.
During the 1932 election Cumann na nGaedheal attempted to use red scare tactics by linking Fianna Fáil to the IRA, and the IRA to Stalinism.
Andrew Cooney was an Irish republican from Nenagh, County Tipperary, who later settled in the United States. He studied medicine at University College Dublin just as the Irish War of Independence was
Liam Lynch with some of his Divisional Staff and Officers of the Brigades including the 1st Southern Division who attended as delegates to the Army Convention at the Mansion House, Dublin on 9 April 1922. Cooney is first on the right in the 3rd row back.