The IRA Quartermaster General (QMG) runs a department which is responsible for obtaining, concealing and maintaining the store of weaponry of the Irish Republican Army

Irish Republican Army

The Irish Republican Army was an Irish republican revolutionary military organisation. It was descended from the Irish Volunteers, an organisation established on 25 November 1913 that staged the Easter Rising in April 1916...

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In the Provisional IRA, the QMG department is the largest and most important of the IRA's departments, involving around twenty per cent of its manpower. It works closely with the IRA Engineering Department, which has developed an array of home-made rockets and mortars.

A number of people have held the post of QMG. In 1997, the then QMG, Michael McKevitt

Michael McKevitt

Michael McKevitt is an Irish republican who was convicted of directing terrorism as the leader of the paramilitary organisation, the Real IRA.-Background:...

 broke away from the Provisional IRA in 1997 to form the Real IRA, a paramilitary group. This defection of this QMG was significant, as he arranged the transfer of weaponry to his breakaway organisation.

Former QMGs include Larry Grogan

Larry Grogan

Larry Grogan 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 . He was active in the Irish War of Independence, then in the Irish Civil War in the anti-treaty IRA...

, Fr. Patrick Ryan, Dennis McInnerney, Kevin Hannaway and Kevin Agnew