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Quick Facts. Also called: Provisional Irish Republican Army. Role In: the Troubles. Date: January 1919 - present. Areas Of Involvement: guerrilla warfare. terrorism. Related People: Eamon de Valera. Martin McGuinness. Bobby Sands. Michael Collins. Robert Erskine Childers. (Show more) Top Questions. What is the Irish Republican Army (IRA)?
It was designated a terrorist organisation in the United Kingdom and an unlawful organisation in the Republic of Ireland, both of whose authority it rejected. The Provisional IRA emerged in December 1969, due to a split within the previous incarnation of the IRA and the broader Irish republican movement.
The Irish Republican Army (1922–1969), the anti-treaty IRA which fought and lost the civil war and thereafter refused to recognize either the Irish Free State or Northern Ireland, deemed both of them to be the creations of British imperialism.
Established in 1919 to halt British rule in Northern Ireland using armed forces, the Irish Republican Army, or IRA, fought for independence and a reunified republic—often in tandem with, but...
In March 1988, three IRA volunteers who were planning a bombing were shot dead by the SAS at a Shell petrol station on Winston Churchill Avenue in Gibraltar, the British Overseas Territory attached to the south of Spain. This became known as Operation Flavius.
Terrorism and Counterterrorism. At first, the provisional IRA, or "provos" conducted sniper attacks, assassinations, and several small bombings in the province, and appeared to have little...
The IRA has endured because of the historic imagery surrounding its existence and the need for Catholics in Northern Ireland to have some symbol of power and grievance under a Protestant-dominated government. Still, the majority of Catholics oppose the violent activities of the IRA.
the indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets by the ira in 1938 provoked a popular reaction which sustained the british police in a successful counter attack against terrorism. TODAY THE IRA IS BITTERLY DIVIDED BETWEEN THE OFFICIAL AND PROVISIONAL WINGS.
As a young woman at the outset of the Troubles, she joined a secretive I.R.A. unit, the Unknowns, and performed dangerous operations, including an audacious bombing of the Old Bailey in London,...
IRA Historian: Today's Terrorists Are 'Amateurs' - and Still Deadly. Andy R. Oppenheimer is the author of IRA: The Bombs And The Bullets, which tells the story of how the Irish Republican Army...