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| | Provisional Irish Republican Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The GAC is the IRA's supreme decision-making authority. | | | The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the 'RA) is an Irish Republican paramilitary organisation dedicated to the end of British rule in Northern Ireland and to a United Ireland. | | | This was modelled on the success of the Irish Republican Army in the Irish War of Independence 1919-1922. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army
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| | MSN Encarta - Irish Republican Army |
| | Around 1919, the Volunteers gradually became known as the IRA, especially after the meeting of the first Dáil Éireann (a parliament established by the nationalists who were elected in 1918 but who did not take their seats at Westminster). | | | The IRA was a marginal political and military force between de Valera’s electoral success, and the outbreak of the Northern Ireland “Troubles” in the 1960s. | | | Irish Republican Army (IRA), Irish paramilitary organization founded in 1919 to promote Irish nationalism and fight British rule in Ireland. |
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http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761575144/IRA.html
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| | The IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY |
| | In July 1972 republican leaders were flown to London for talks with British government ministers during a Truce between the IRA and the British army. | | | This was the background to the establishment of the organisation which was to become the Irish Republican Army. | | | This was the case with the organisation from which modern Irish republicans trace their origins - the United Irishmen of the 1790s. |
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http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/irahist.htm
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| | Irish Republican Army FBI Files |
| | Neenan was the former head of the Irish Republican Army in the United States and the founder of the U.S. Irish hospital sweepstakes. | | | Many members of the Irish Volunteers, however, did not know that a rising was intended, and the plotters were limited in their assembly of manpower to the Irish Republican Brotherhood and its close associates. | | | In reaction to the severity of this British response, however, the tide of public opinion in Ireland began to shift swiftly. |
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http://www.paperlessarchives.com/ira.html
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| | The Irish Republican Army - Blamed for Starting the War; Blamed for Not Ending It, by Thomas W. McKeon |
| | He stated that until the IRA decommissioned, the ministers would not be permitted to serve. | | | The Irish and British governments, along with Senator Mitchell from the United States, negotiated and got Trimble and the UUP to begin the process of building political mechanisms for peace without IRA decommissioning. | | | However, alluding to the RUC and British army attacks on Catholics in years gone by, they refused to decommission until the RUC was reformed and Sinn Fein was invited to sit for elections. |
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http://radified.com/IRA/peace_collapse.htm
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| | The Irish Republican Army |
| | The Irish Republican Army goes by many names: the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Provos, Volunteers, Republicans, and most important, ideally and historically, is the title Fenians or Fianna. | | | The desperate men and women in the IRA have seen the injustice championed by the occupying forces and are devoted to establishing a united and sovereign state of Ireland. | | | LONDON -- The Irish Republican Army has destroyed it’s arsenal of weapons, that it used to fight for equality in Northern Ireland voted on by the majority of the population in establishing the GFA (Good Friday Agreement). |
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http://www.noraid.com/IRA.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - Irish Republican Army |
| | In 1927 Eamon de Valera became head of the republican Fianna Fáil party, whose platform called for the gradual dismantling of the Irish Free State and the establishment of a completely independent republic. | | | David Trimble of the UUP became first minister of the executive cabinet. | | | This marked the first official meeting between an Irish Republican leader and a British prime minister since Michael Collins met Prime Minister David Lloyd George in 1921. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761575144_2/Irish_Republican_Army.html
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| | Belfast Telegraph |
| | Irish Republican Army orders an end to armed campaign. | | | We are confident that by working together Irish republicans can achieve our objectives. | | | Our decisions have been taken to advance our republican and democratic objectives, including our goal of a united Ireland. |
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http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=654393
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| | Irish Republican Army (IRA) |
| | The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) was formed in 1969 as the clandestine armed wing of Sinn Fein, a legal political movement dedicated to removing British forces from Northern Ireland and unifying Ireland. | | | At the end of August, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland announced her finding that the cease-fire was being observed, allowing Sinn Fein, the political party closely identified with the IRA, entry into negotiations on Northern Ireland's political future. | | | On 19 July 1997, the IRA declared a cease-fire, effective July 20. |
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/ira.htm
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| | Terrorism: Q & A Irish Republican Army (U.K., separatists) |
| | Following a 1916 uprising and years of guerrilla war led by the legendary Irish nationalist Michael Collins, the British government decided in 1920 to split up Ireland, which it had ruled as a colony for centuries. | | | Since then, many Catholic “republicans” (also known as “nationalists&;) have complained of feeling like second-class citizens in Ulster and have backed the IRA’s quest for a united Ireland free of British rule. | | | An independent state was created in the island’s predominantly Catholic south; a smaller, northern district called Ulster, with a Protestant majority, remained part of the United Kingdom. |
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http://cfrterrorism.org/groups/ira_print.html
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| | Irish Republican Army/ Real IRA/ Continuity IRA |
| | Real Irish Republican Army/ 32 County Sovereignty Committee, p 417. | | | White, Robert W. Don't Confuse Me with the Facts: More on the Irish Republican Army and Sectarianism. | | | See index 'Irish Republican Army', 'Ireland', etc. for specific references. |
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http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/tergps/tgirh.htm
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| | Irish Republican Army. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Its legal political arm (Sinn Féin) began participating in talks with Britain in 1995, but the party was barred from the mid-1996 negotiations because of renewed terrorist bombings by the IRA. | | | In response the British parliament passed the Prevention of Terrorism Act, outlawing the IRA in Britain. | | | With the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922, the IRA became the stronghold of intransigent opposition to Ireland& dominion status and to the separation of Northern Ireland. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/ir/IrishRep.html
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| | Irish Republican Army |
| | Following the Anglo& of 1921, the split in the IRA between those who supported the treaty and those who wished to fight on for a united independent Ireland resulted in civil war in the newly formed Irish Free State. | | | It is this wing, of younger, strongly sectarian, Ulster Catholics, who are now generally regarded and spoken of as the IRA. | | | The left-wing Irish Republican Socialist Party, with its paramilitary wing, the Irish National Liberation Army, split from the IRA in 1974. |
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0018737.html
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| | USATODAY.com - Aide: Irish Republican Army officially disarms |
| | BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — International weapons inspectors have supervised the full disarmament of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, a long-sought goal of Northern Ireland's peace process, an aide said Sunday. | | | Ever since, it's proved a never-ending battle to keep Protestant politicians on the road to compromise with Sinn Fein. | | | USATODAY.com - Aide: Irish Republican Army officially disarms |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-09-25-ira-disarms_x.htm?csp=34
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| | Policy of the Irish Republican Army by Gareth Jones (1933). |
| | de Valera with the Irish Republican Army is one of the most important problems of Ireland, I asked: “Are you really opposed to Mr. | | | With its dignified red brick Georgian houses, with its prosperous streets, and the normal appearance of its brisk population, I found it difficult to realise that beneath the surface there was a large force in armed opposition to the Free State - the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.). | | | Policy of the Irish Republican Army by Gareth Jones (1933). |
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http://colley.co.uk/garethjones/irish_articles/enigma_of_ireland_4.htm
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| | Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA); True IRA |
| | The 32-County Sovereignty Movement opposed Sinn Fein’s adoption in September 1997 of the Mitchell principles of democracy and nonviolence and opposed the amendment in December 1999 of Articles 2 and 3 of the Irish Constitution, which laid claim to Northern Ireland. | | | Five RIRA members and a senior Continuity Irish Republican Army member (CIRA) also were arrested during the raids. | | | Approximately 40 RIRA members are in Irish jails. |
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http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/nira.htm
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| | Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) |
| | CIRA’s aliases, Continuity Army Council and Republican Sinn Fein, were also designated as FTOs. | | | Suspected of receiving funds and arms from sympathizers in the United States. | | | CIRA is a terrorist splinter group formed in the mid 1990s as the clandestine armed wing of Republican Sinn Fein, which split from Sinn Fein in 1986. |
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http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/tgp/cira.htm
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| | Irish Republican Army Information Site |
| | Saoirse Irish Freedom: The Voice of the Republican Movement | | | IRA splinter group claims responsibility for N. Ireland bomb (CNN) August 18, 1998 | | | I do not support any particular side of this arguement. |
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http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/2435
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| | Irish Republican Army's Actions Speak Louder Than Words, Duke Theologian Says |
| | Irish Republican Army's Actions Speak Louder Than Words, Duke Theologian Says | | | Home>2002>Irish Republican Army's Actions Speak Louder Than Words, Duke Theologian Says | | | DURHAM, N.C. -- The Irish Republican Army's surprise apology on Tuesday for the past killing of civilians is a step in the right direction, but authentic forgiveness will rely on how the IRA follows up on its statement, said L. Gregory Jones, dean of the Duke University Divinity School. |
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http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2002/07/forgive0702.html
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| | Irish Republican Army |
| | In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty; six times in the past three hundred years they have asserted it in arms. | | | In this supreme hour, the Irish nation must, by its valour and discipline and by the readiness of its children to sacrifice themselves for the common good, prove itself worthy of the august destiny to which it is called. | | | We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible. |
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http://groups.msn.com/IrishRepublicanArmy
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| | Irish Republican Army :: Freedom First Then Peace |
| | Irish Republican Army :: Freedom First Then Peace | | | THIS SITE HAS BEEN REPOSSESED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF WHORELAND SECURITY. | | | TO CONTINUE AT YOUR OWN RISK CLICK HERE |
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http://www.freewebs.com/irishrepublicanarmy
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| | Sinn Féin News: News for 8 March, 2006 |
| | Advancing the case for Irish unity: Interview with Mitchel McLaughlin | | | Seize the Moment - Gerry Adams response to IRA statement | | | Interview with Sinn Féin Vice-President Pat Doherty MP: Looking to the future |
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http://www.sinnfeinnews.com
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