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The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA), officially known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann) and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.
In the early 1990s the IRA intensified its campaign against commercial and economic targets in Northern Ireland. For example, in May 1993 over four days the IRA detonated car bombs in Belfast, Portadown, and Magherafelt, County Londonderry, causing millions of pounds worth of damage. [188]
The IRA receives another batch of M16 and AR-15 rifles from the Harrison network. [6] In 1973 the IRA receives another consignment of arms from Libya but the arms are intercepted on board the Claudia by members of the Gardaí. Leading IRA man Joe Cahill and others arrested. The shipment consisted of 250 AK-47 rifles and other materiel.
The Irish Republican Army (IRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann [2]) was an Irish republican revolutionary paramilitary organisation. The ancestor of many groups also known as the Irish Republican Army, and distinguished from them as the "Old IRA", it was descended from the Irish Volunteers, an organisation established on 25 November 1913 that staged the Easter Rising in April 1916. [3]
The IPLO, which was heavily involved in drug dealing, was forcibly disbanded by the Provisional IRA in a large-scale operation in 1992. Directly after the feud in October 1987, the INLA received more damaging publicity when Dessie O'Hare , an erstwhile INLA volunteer, set up his own group called the "Irish Revolutionary Brigade" and kidnapped a ...
In early December, the CFPB filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas against Comerica accusing the bank of "systematically failing its 3.4 million Direct ...
This is a chronological index for the start year for motor vehicle brands (up to 1969). For manufacturers that went on to produce many models, it represents the start date of the whole brand; for the others, it usually represents the date of appearance of the main (perhaps only) model that was produced.
Old IRA may refer to: Irish Republican Army (1919–1922) , retronym "Old IRA" distinguishes it from later organisations using the name IRA National Association of Old IRA , made up of veterans of the IRA from the revolutionary period.