George Gilmore
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George Gilmore (1898 - 1985) was an Irish Republican Army leader. Gilmore was born in Portadown, Ireland (now Northern Ireland) and was leader of the South County Dublin Battalion of the IRA from 1915 to 1926.
He fought in the IRA in the Irish War of Independence and in the Irish Civil War on the Anti-Treaty IRA side. He was arrested for IRA activities 1926, released 1927, arrested 1931, and released again in 1932. In 1932 he was shot and wounded by the Garda Síochána in County Clare. He was one of the founders of the Republican Congress, a left wing socialist Irish Republican group, in 1934. The group broke up in 1935 over internal differences. He was later active in 1936-39 as a supporter of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War.
