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The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is a name used by various resistance organisations in Ireland throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Organisations by this name have been dedicated to anti-imperialism through Irish republicanism , the belief that all of Ireland should be an independent republic free from British colonial rule.
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]
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The Republic of Ireland today ranks among the wealthiest countries in the world in terms of GDP per capita [108] and in 2015 was ranked the sixth most developed nation in the world by the United Nations' Human Development Index. [109]
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) of 1922–1969 was a sub-group of the original pre-1922 Irish Republican Army, characterised by its opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty. It existed in various forms until 1969, when the IRA split again into the Provisional IRA and Official IRA .
Unlike the First World War, when Irish farmers had made substantial profits selling food to Britain, in the Second World War, Britain imposed strict price controls on Irish agricultural imports. Due to the war, imports to Ireland dried up, leading to a drive for self-sufficiency in food and strict rationing, which continued until the 1950s.
A 2024 report from Princeton, Rhodium, Energy Innovation LLC, and MIT found that deployment trends in low-carbon electricity were insufficient to achieve the goal of 40% reduction in emissions by ...
The Real Irish Republican Army, ... which generated headlines around the world. [6]: ... another Provisional IRA splinter group founded in 1986, ...