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Bobby Sands (1954–1981), a member of the Provisional IRA later elected as a Member of Parliament during the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike at Long Kesh. Seán Savage (1965–1988), a member of the Provisional IRA killed by members of the British Special Air Service (SAS) during Operation Flavius.
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.
M. Proinsias Mac Airt; Breandán Mac Cionnaith; Antoine Mac Giolla Bhrighde; Seán Mac Stíofáin; Joseph MacManus; Patrick Magee (Irish republican) Paul Magee
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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 February 2025. Irish Provisional IRA member (1954–1981) Bobby Sands MP Roibeárd Ó Seachnasaigh Sands in Long Kesh, 1973 (aged 18–19) Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone In office 9 April 1981 – 5 May 1981 Preceded by Frank Maguire Succeeded by Owen Carron Personal details Born ...
Dolours Price was born on 16 December 1950 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. [1] [2] She and her sister, Marian, also an IRA member, were the daughters of Albert Price, a prominent Irish republican and former IRA member from Belfast, [3] and Christina (née Dolan), a member of Cumann na mBan.
Mairéad Farrell (Irish: Máiréad Ní Fhearghail [2] or Mairéad Ní Fhearail; [3] 3 August 1957 – 6 March 1988) was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). She was shot and killed by the Special Air Service in Gibraltar during Operation Flavius. [4]
Marian Price (born 1954), also known by her married name as Marian McGlinchey, [1] is a former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer. Born into a Republican family in Belfast, Price joined the IRA in 1971, along with her sister Dolours Price .