Laws Name: Irish Republican Army (IRA) (Irish name: Oglaigh na hEireann) The name IRA has been in use since the organization was founded in 1921. From 1969 through 1997‚ the IRA splintered into a number of organizations‚ all called the IRA. They included: the Official IRA (OIRA) the Provisional IRA(PIRA) the Real IRA (RIRA)‚and Continuity IRA (CIRA). The association of the IRA with terrorism comes from the paramilitary activities of the Provisional IRA‚ which is
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accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State‚ an entity independent from the United Kingdom but within the British Empire. The conflict was waged between two opposing groups of Irish nationalists over the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The forces of the "Provisional Government" supported the Treaty‚ while the Republican opposition saw it as a betrayal of the Irish Republic . Many of those who fought in the conflict had been members of the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence. The Civil War
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1.0 INTRODUCTION Bomb disposal is the process by which hazardous explosive devices are rendered safe. Bomb disposal is an all encompassing term to describe the separate‚ but interrelated functions in the military fields of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and Improvised Explosive Device Disposal (IEDD)‚ and the public safety roles of Public Safety Bomb Disposal (PSBD) and the Bomb Squad. Many shells‚ bombs and munitions fail to explode‚ leaving them around the battlefield after the fighting is
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British. Through his involvement with the IRB and the Irish Volunteers‚ Michael Collins became part of the new group‚ the Irish Republican Army. The IRA was a political army for it was defending Ireland’s right to have a separate parliament from England. This piece of information‚ that the IRA was a political army can be argued over whether the IRA was a terrorist organisation or a group of freedom fighters. Freedom Fighters can be described as people who take part in armed rebellion against the
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Movement . Retrieved 8 11‚ 2012‚ from BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1371998.stm Bickerton‚ I Coogan‚ T. (1993). The IRA. London: HarperCollins Publishers. Cullen‚ K. (1998). The IRA and Sinn Fein. Retrieved 8 16‚ 2012‚ from Frontline: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ira/reports/america.html Cunliffe‚ B Flynn‚ B. (2009). Soldiers of Folly: The IRA Border Campaign. Athenaeum Press Limited. Grant‚ R. (2001). Conflict in Northern Ireland. London: Hodder Wayland . Hall‚ M. M.
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References: Bowen‚ G. L. (2011). Mary Baldwin College. Retrieved from http://www.mbc.edu/faculty/gbowen/russianRevo.htm Gregory‚ K. (2010). Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved from http://www.cfr.org/terrorist-organizations/provisional-irish-republican-army-ira-aka-pira-provos-glaigh-na-hireann-uk-separatists/p9240 Hanson‚ S. (2009). Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved from http://www.cfr.org/colombia/farc-eln-colombias-left-wing-guerrillas/p9272 Porteus‚ L. (2006). Fox News. Retrieved
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The Irish Question: an Irishman’s Pride Jesimerl M. Apilan Mindanao State University- Iligan Institute of Technology Prof. Phyllis Marie Teanco History 142 The Table of Contents I. The Relations of Ireland and Britain before 1840’s…………………………………………3 II. The Fight for Irish Identity……………………………………………………………………..5 The Union and the loss of Irish Pride ………………………………………………….5 The Bills of 1886 and 1893 …………………………………………………………......6 The Sinn Fēin ………………………………………………………………………...…..7 III. Irish
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members assembled in Dublin and formed first Dail Eireann. A provisional constitution was drawn up and there was a declaration of independence. The British did not take this provisional government seriously. 1920 Dail accepted IRA as the legitimate army of the republic but Dail did not really control IRA and many local units had autonomy. IRA disliked passive resistance and preferred military action against British rule. Response to IRA Lloyd George strengthened British administration by recruited
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of those shot were unarmed‚ and that the killings were "unjustified and unjustifiable." On the publication of the Saville report the British prime minister‚ David Cameron‚ made a formal apology on behalf of the United Kingdom. The Provisional Irish Republican Army’s (IRA) campaign against the partition of Ireland had begun in the two years prior to Bloody Sunday‚ but public perceptions of the day boosted the status of‚ and recruitment into‚ the
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to note that there is no single reason why. The dissolution off Stormont was a multi- causal event brought about‚ by what I see‚ as five key causes; the failures of the Unionist Government to reform and control security; the formation of the Provisional IRA (PIRA) and its escalation of violence; Internment and the subsequent PIRA backlash; the formation
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