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This is a timeline of actions by the Official Irish Republican Army (Official IRA or OIRA), an Irish republican & Marxist-Leninist paramilitary group. Most of these actions took place as part of a Guerrilla campaign against the British Army & Royal Ulster Constabulary and internal Irish Republican feuds with the Provisional IRA & Irish National Liberation Army from the early 1970s - to the mid ...
Provisional Irish Republican Army [78] [79] [80] Eamon Collins [79] Former member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army: Doran's Hill, Newry: 27 January 1999 Charles Bennett [80] Irish murder victim. Belfast: 30 July 1999 Matthew Burns [81] Irish murder victim, alleged drug dealer. [82] Castlewellan, County Down. 21 February 2002 Real Irish ...
8 December 1974 - The Irish National Liberation Army, along with its political wing, the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP), was founded at the Spa Hotel in Lucan, South Dublin. [88] 22 March 1975 – The funeral of IRA member Tom Smith, shot dead during an escape attempt from Portlaoise Prison on St. Patrick's Day, is attacked by Gardaí ...
The RIRA would later kill the man, in a gun attack a year later in February 2002. [38] 21 February: A RIRA bomb disguised as a torch exploded outside a British Army barracks in Shepherd's Bush, West London, after a 14-year-old army cadet picked it up. The cadet, Stephen Menary, lost his left hand and left eye, and suffered severe stomach and ...
Four people were shot dead and 18 were injured as part of the continuing feud between the Provisional Irish Republican Army and members of the Official Irish Republican Army. [79] 10 October Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams received the Nobel Peace Prize. [80]
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 ...
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.
19 October 2015: The Assessment on Paramilitary Groups in Northern Ireland, commissioned by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on the structure, role and purpose of paramilitary organisations reported the structures of the IRA remain in existence in a much reduced form", including "a senior leadership, the 'Provisional Army Council ...