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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.
Richard Barrett (1899–1922), Irish Republican officer who was executed by the Free State during the following Civil War. Kevin Barry (1902–1920) Tom Barry (1897–1980), a prominent figure on the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War. Although fighting with Anti-Treaty forces, he was briefly ...
The IRA Army Council was the decision-making body of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, a paramilitary group dedicated to bringing about independence to the whole island of Ireland and the end of the Union between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
British Army 1 ASU British Army foot patrol None 1 British soldier lost his legs [1] 1993 Fivemiletown ambush: 12 December 1993 RUC British Army 2 ASUs 1 mobile patrol 1 helicopter (follow-up operation) None 2 constables killed 1 vehicle disabled 1 British Army Lynx helicopter fired at in the follow-up operation Killeeshil ambush: 15 July 1994 ...
Pages in category "Provisional Irish Republican Army members" The following 155 pages are in this category, out of 155 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
7 (nil%) were members of the Irish security forces (6 Gardaí and one Irish Army). Lost Lives states that 294 Provisional IRA members died in the Troubles. [160] The IRA lost 276 members during the Troubles according to the CAIN figures. In addition, a number of Sinn Féin activists or councillors were killed, some of whom were also IRA members.
2009 reenactment of a Provisional IRA unit in Galbally, County Tyrone. Chronologies of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions detail activities by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.
The original Irish Republican Army (1919–1922), often now referred to as the "old IRA", was raised in 1917 from members of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army later reinforced by Irishmen formerly in the British Army in World War I, who returned to Ireland to fight against Britain in the Irish War of Independence.