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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.
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 expelled from the organisation until the 1930s and was later involved in politics and writing. Piaras Béaslaí (1881–1965), a member of the Irish ...
Dissident Irish republican campaign: 2017 Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) None 1994 Continuity Army Council: New Irish Republican Army: None 2012 Army Council Real Ulster Freedom Fighters: None 2007 Yemen: Houthi movement: Supreme Political Council: Yemeni Civil War (2014–present) Yemeni Crisis (2011–present) 1994 Abdul-Malik ...
In 1893 he joined Clan na Gael, an Irish organisation based in America committed to aiding the establishment of an independent Irish state.Clan na Gael had been heavily involved with the Fenian Brotherhood that McGarrity had grown up hearing about, and by the latter half of the 19th century had become a sister organisation of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
NORAID, officially the Irish Northern Aid Committee, is an Irish American membership organization founded after the start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in 1969. The organization states its mission is to aid in the creation of a United Ireland in the spirit of the 1916 Easter Proclamation and to support the Northern Ireland Peace process.
Although the Garda Síochána had suspicions that the organisation existed, they were unsure of its name, labelling it the "Irish National Republican Army". [18] On 21 January 1994, on the 75th anniversary of the First Dáil Éireann, a group of men in paramilitary dress offered a "final salute" to Tom Maguire by firing over his grave.
Prison film about the IRA Maze prison escape of 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners. [108] 2017 Resistance: Colin Teevan: Brian Gleeson, Simone Kirby, Natasha O'Keeffe, Gavin Drea: Set in late 1920, Resistance is a sequel series to the 2016 miniseries Rebellion. [109] 2019 Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History: Peter Johnston
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]