# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cathal-goulding
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:40:08.273Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cathal-goulding"
name: "Cathal Goulding"
slug: "cathal-goulding"
description: "Cathal Goulding was an Irish republican activist, socialist, and Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), holding the position from 1962 to 1969. Born into a working-class Dublin family with a deep republican tradition, he spent a total of sixteen years in British and Irish prisons for IRA activities. He is best remembered as the figure who steered the republican movement away from physical-force nationalism and toward socialist political agitation during the 1960s, recruiting a new generation of activists to a range of social and economic campaigns and drawing the movement into engagement with the Northern Ireland civil rights movement."
tagline: "Member of the IRA"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/Cathal_Goulding.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1922-01-02"
deathDate: "1998-12-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.88
  momentum:             15.83458270864568
  historical:           5.344714666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathal_Goulding"
    title: "Cathal Goulding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathal_Goulding"
    title: "Cathal Goulding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathal_Goulding"
    title: "Cathal Goulding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathal_Goulding"
    title: "Cathal Goulding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathal_Goulding"
    title: "Cathal Goulding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathal_Goulding"
    title: "Cathal Goulding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2941785"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump