As historian Brian Hanley notes, the 1970s was a period that saw a general rise in ... to the IRA or a smaller republican group, the Irish National Liberation Army. From now on, they would be ...

Gerry Adams, president of the staunchly pro-Irish Sinn Fein party, called on the Irish Republican Army to being disarming in an effort to save the teetering Northern Ireland Assembly. The ...

The young Irish Republican Army leader died on April 10 ... In the summer of 1920, Lynch oversaw the kidnapping of General Lucas, the highest-ranking member of the British Army, in Munster.

the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA).., which had become the largest political party in Ireland after the December 1918 General Election. To try to achieve independence, the new Sinn Féin ...

Irish Republican Army This topic contains articles relating to the original IRA from the time of the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921). It also covers later paramilitary organisations that ...