Charlie McGlade

Charlie McGlade was a volunteer in the IRA, officially "shot while resisting arrest", by the Irish police / Garda at Dublin in the early 1940s. At the time, the IRA was the target of an intensive campaign by the Special Branch Division of the Garda Síochána (nicknamed the Broy Harriers after their commander Ned Broy). Following this incident he was interned by the Dublin Government until the conclusion of the Second World War. Upon his release he re-involved himself in republican activism, eventually siding with the Provisionals in the 1969 split in the IRA.

McGlade's shooting, as well the killing in similar circumstances of Liam Rice, were blamed by the IRA on Special Branch Sergeant Denis O'Brien, himself a former long-time IRA member turned police detective. It was cited at the time by the IRA (and continuous to be cited up to the present by radical Irish Nationalists ) as a justification for the 1942 killing of O'Brien by IRA Chief-of-Staff Charlie Kerins, for which Kerins was executed in 1944.