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A group of Black and Tans and Auxiliaries outside the London and North Western Hotel in Dublin following an IRA attack, April 1921 "Come Out, Ye Black and Tans" is an Irish rebel song, written by Dominic Behan, which criticises and satirises pro-British Irishmen and the actions of the British army in its colonial wars.
Operation Flavius (also referred to as the Gibraltar killings) was a military operation in which three members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) were shot dead by the British Special Air Service (SAS) in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988. [1] [2] The trio were believed to be planning a car bomb attack on British military personnel in ...
An Armalite AR-18, the subject of the song "Little Armalite" (also known as "My Little Armalite" or "Me Little Armalite") is an Irish rebel song which praises the Armalite AR-18 rifle that was widely used by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) as part of the paramilitary's armed campaign in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.
The techniques in the manual were banned after the Vietnam War, but they continued to be taught to American personnel. [3]: 3 [4]: 5 Trainees of the interrogation preparation program, Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE), were subjected to looping, cacophonous sounds such as babies crying and a Yoko Ono album. [5]
Following a terrorist incident in London that year, however, he acceded to EMI's request to omit the song, recognising that its inclusion might be viewed as a gesture of support for the IRA. [ 18 ] "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" and McCartney's political stance formed one of the Beatles-related parodies included on National Lampoon magazine's ...
The Feb. 1 precision airstrikes — ordered by President Trump and launched in coordination with the Somalian government and US Africa Command — took out several terrorists who, according to ...
“Time is rushing,” said Zailer, who has her own baby close in age to her cousin’s. “There’s a nine-month-old baby and a four-year-old child. And my aunt has Parkinson’s disease.”
Rifles of the I.R.A. is the fourth album by Irish folk and rebel band The Wolfe Tones. The album title Rifles of the I.R.A. makes reference to the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The album was the first that the band released on the Dolphin Records label. [1] The cover shows the band members dressed in the traditional dress of the IRA.