Irish activistNot to be confused with Larry Gogan.

Larry Grogan (Irish: Labhras Ó Gruagáin; 1899–1979) was an Irish republican activist.

Born in Drogheda, Grogan joined the Irish Volunteers at the age of 18, which subsequently became part of the original Irish Republican Army (IRA). He was active in the Irish War of Independence, then in the Irish Civil War in the anti-treaty IRA. He was imprisoned in Mountjoy Prison in 1922, and was subsequently interned in the Curragh Camp, where he kept an autograph book, collecting signatures including that of Michael Hilliard.

Grogan remained an active republican, and was elected to the IRA Army Council in 1938. In this capacity, he signed the ultimatum to the British government declaring that, if major concessions were not made immediately, a Sabotage Campaign would be initiated. In September 1939, he was arrested along with the majority of the Army Council (Matty Tuite, Willy McGuiness, Paedar O'flaherty and Patrick McGrath). Grogan was kept at Arbour Hill Prison. The following year, he was transferred to the Curragh, and *umed command of the IRA internees. He decided to organise them in an effort to improve conditions, and in December the group burnt down several wooden huts. This led to a clampdown, including solitary confinement and an incident in which soldiers fired on the inmates, killing one; Grogan was subsequently removed from the camp and given a prison term. Some of his time in gaol was spent with Brendan Behan, and the two remained friends, Behan often visiting Grogan after the war.

Grogan was released in March 1945, and immediately endorsed efforts to rebuild the IRA. By the end of the decade, he had been appointed IRA Quartermaster General. He voted to launch the Border Campaign in 1956, and was arrested and again interned in Mountjoy in January 1957. One year later, he was joined by his son. On this occasion, the internees were led by Dáithí Ó Conaill, but older leaders such as Grogan were regularly consulted. While in gaol, he contested Louth for Sinn Féin at the 1957 Irish general election, taking 9.6% of the first preference votes.

Released before the end of the decade, Grogan became increasingly *ociated with the conservative wing of the movement. He stood again in Louth at the 1961 Irish general election, managing only 4.5% of the vote, and became a vice-president of Sinn Féin in 1962, serving until 1969. In the split of 1970, Grogan supported the provisional wing, remaining on Sinn Féin's Ard Chomhairle.

References

Party structures

• Leader of Sinn Féin
• Ardfheis
• Sinn Féin Front Bench
• Ógra Shinn Féin
• An Phoblacht
• Friends of Sinn Féin

Presidential candidates

• Martin McGuinness (2011)
• Liadh Ní Riada (2018)

Elected representativesAlliances

• European United Left–Nordic Green Left

Personalities
(Volunteers)

• Paddy Agnew
• Martina Anderson
• Declan Arthurs
• Thomas Begley
• Ivor Bell
• Antoine Mac Giolla Bhrighde
• Patricia Black
• Ruairí Ó Brádaigh
• Charles Breslin
• Paul Butler
• Joe Cahill
• Liam Campbell
• Fergal Caraher
• Malachy Carey
• Owen Carron
• Gerard Casey
• Carál Ní Chuilín
• Breandán Mac Cionnaith
• Gabriel Cleary
• Peter Cleary
• Kevin Coen
• Eamon Collins
• Dáithí Ó Conaill
• Eddie Copeland
• Marion Coyle
• Gerard Davison
• Matt Devlin
• Hugh Doherty
• Joe Doherty
• Kieran Doherty
• Martin Doherty
• Pat Doherty
• Colin Duffy
• Rose Dugdale
• Dessie Ellis
• Mairéad Farrell
• William Fleming
• Kieran Fleming
• Bernard Fox
• Angelo Fusco
• Michael Gaughan
• John Francis Green
• Dessie Grew
• George Harrison
• Brendan Hughes
• Francis Hughes
• Martin Hurson
• Pearse Jordan
• Gerry Kelly
• John Kelly
• Patrick Joseph Kelly
• Sean Kelly
• Jim Lynagh
• Proinsias Mac Airt
• Joseph MacM*
• Seán Mac Stíofáin
• Patrick Magee
• Paul Magee
• Donna Maguire
• Larry Marley
• Paul Marlowe
• Leo Martin
• Alex Maskey
• Pearse McAuley
• Daniel McCann
• Fra McCann
• Jennifer McCann
• Raymond McCartney
• Martin McCaughey
• Raymond McCreesh
• Joe McDonnell
• Séamus McElwaine
• Thomas McElwee
• Brendan McFarlane
• Gerry McGeough
• Pat McGeown
• John Joe McGirl
• Martin McGuinness
• Pádraig McKearney
• Tommy McKearney
• Billy McKee
• Kevin McKenna
• Laurence McKeown
• Michael McKevitt
• Thomas McMahon
• Jackie McMullan
• Martin Meehan
• Ian Milne
• Arthur Morgan
• Danny Morrison
• Conor Murphy
• Thomas "Slab" Murphy
• Kieran Nugent
• Ed O'Brien
• Éamonn O'Doherty
• Siobhán O'Hanlon
• Rita O'Hare
• Diarmuid O'Neill
• Dolours Price
• Marian Price
• Liam Quinn
• Paddy Quinn
• Billy Reid
• Bobby Sands
• Seán Savage
• Pat Sheehan
• Frank Stagg
• Jimmy Steele
• Bobby Storey
• Gerard Tuite
• Seamus Twomey
• Roy Walsh
• Séanna Walsh

Espionage and
Supergr*es

• Eamon Collins
• Denis Donaldson
• Joseph Fenton
• Kevin Fulton
• Raymond Gilmour
• Martin McGartland
• Sean O'Callaghan
• Freddie Scappaticci (allegedly "Stakeknife")

*ociates

• *ann na mBan
• Fianna Éireann
• South Armagh Republican Action Force
• Direct Action Against Drugs
• NORAID
• Clan na Gael
• Troops Out Movement

Derivatives

• Continuity Irish Republican Army
• Real Irish Republican Army

Prominent
killings

• Jeffery Stanford Agate
• Johnathan Ball
• Anthony Berry
• Robert Bradford
• Joe Bratty
• Matthew Burns
• Martin Cahill
• Eamon Collins
• Raymond Elder
• Gerard Evans
• Christopher Ewart-Biggs
• Joseph Fenton
• Billy Fox
• Maurice Gibson
• Ian Gow
• Heidi Hazell
• Donald Kaberry
• Andrew Kearney
• Baroness Brabourne
• William "Frenchie" Marchant
• Martin McBirney
• Jerry McCabe
• Jean McConville
• Columba McVeigh
• Ross McWhirter
• Stephen Melrose
• Lord Mountbatten
• Lenny Murphy
• Robert Nairac
• Thomas Oliver
• Tim Parry
• Paul Quinn
• Robert Seymour
• Robert McCartney (allegedly)
• Joseph Rafferty (allegedly)
• Ray Smallwoods
• Sammy Smyth
• Nick Spanos
• James Stronge
• Norman Stronge
• Richard Sykes
• Stephen Tibble
• Sammy Ward
• Michael Willetts