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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) 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 .
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]
CnocBride (talk · contribs) All Irish history, though my favourite time period would be the vast 1800–2011 period. KINGHB190 (talk · contribs) A Corkonian with ancestry in the original Irish Republican Army. Endersslay (talk · contribs) Enjoy Irish republican music and history.
From public defiance to guerrilla warfare the experience of ordinary volunteers in the Irish war of independence, 1916-1921. Irish Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-7165-2607-0. Shelley, John R. A Short History of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade Published by (Phoenix) : 1996; Irish Republican Army. South Tipperary Brigade (1923).
In May 1970, Irish politicians Charles Haughey, Neil Blaney, and John Kelly, Irish Army Captain James Kelly, and Belgian businessman Albert Luykx were acquitted during the Arms Crisis of smuggling weapons to the IRA during the beginning of the conflict. The primary and prominent source of arms in the Republic of Ireland for the IRA was explosives.
A seven-year investigation of a former Irish Republican Army double agent concluded Friday in an interim report that the spy was probably responsible for more deaths than lives saved during ...
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 ...