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8 Mar 2024, 10:40 am
“Stakeknife,” the highest-ranking British military spy placed within the Irish Republican Army, who has been linked to at least 14 murders and 15 abductions, may have cost more lives than he saved during the Northern Irish Troubles, an interim report released Friday found. [read post]
1 May 2023, 1:01 am
Protestant maltreatment of the Catholic minority in the north led to the establishment of the Irish Republican Army (The “IRA”), which became responsible for a decades long terrorist campaign (the “troubles”) to drive the British out of Ulster. [read post]
24 May 2022, 1:01 am
Partition of Ireland in 1921 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) was split down the middle over acceptance of the treaty. [read post]
21 Jan 2022, 12:01 am
First Dáil Éireann at the Mansion House, January 21, 1919 A guerrilla war ensued, fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-military Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and its paramilitary forces the Auxiliaries and Ulster Special Constabulary (USC). [read post]
9 Aug 2021, 4:22 am
In the mid 1970s Britain experienced a wave of bombings that some attributed to the Irish Republican Army (IRA) or related organizations. [read post]
13 May 2021, 6:01 am
” Between August 9-11, 1971, during The Troubles, in Belfast’s Ballymurphy area, the Parachute Regiment of the British Army arrested and detained people suspected to be members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), which opposed the British rule. [read post]
18 Apr 2021, 7:01 am
Unionists leaned on loyalist paramilitaries—the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and the Ulster Defence Association (UDA)—while nationalists relied on republican ones—most notably the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 9:34 am
“The salary and conditions in the 1990s were very good because we had to deal with the Irish Republican Army (IRA) who were well funded and organized. [read post]
15 Feb 2020, 9:03 am
In 2013, Patrick Radden Keefe, a staff writer for the New Yorker, came across the obituary of a woman named Dolours Price, a former member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). [read post]
3 Mar 2019, 7:00 am
Throughout most of the 20th century, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) enjoyed close links with the Irish-American community. [read post]
27 May 2018, 7:00 am
Irish republicans (such as the Irish Republican Army or IRA) used violence to try to compel the British state to withdraw from Northern Ireland and establish instead a united and independent Ireland; pro-state loyalists (such as the Ulster Defence Association or UDA) used violence to try to ensure Northern Ireland’s continued membership of the UK; and UK state forces tried to contain the violence of these overwhelmingly… [read post]
23 May 2017, 4:34 pm
On July 7, 2005 Al Qaeda attacked several transportation targets in London, killing 52, and Irish Republican Army attacks (IRA) regularly struck at the United Kingdom in the decades before Al Qaeda began attacking targets in Europe. [read post]
3 May 2017, 9:30 am
His death led to a new surge in recruitment for the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and violence in Northern Ireland. [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 11:23 am
Seán MacBride was an Irishman who joined the Irish Republican Army (IRA) at the age of 13. [read post]
22 Oct 2015, 1:00 am
In Mr McGeough’s case he had provided information in the course of a failed application for asylum made in Sweden that revealed his membership of the Irish Republican Army (the IRA). [read post]
14 Sep 2014, 7:00 am
Democratic governments react passionately to terrorist attacks—historical examples abound, from the British and the Irish Republican Army (IRA), to the Spanish and the Basque Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), to the Uruguayan government and the Tupamaros. [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 12:00 am
(credit) On this day in ... ... 1997 (15 years ago today), on the heels of a call for truce by the republican political party Sinn Féin, the Irish Republican Army declared a ceasefire in the Troubles that had plagued the north of Ireland since the 1960s. [read post]
5 Jun 2012, 5:53 pm
Coli Electric Failure or outage Black out Brown out Port Dock Bridge Cancelled Delays Service disruption Power lines Gunfight Trafficking Kidnap Calderon Reyosa Bust Tamaulipas Meth Lab Drug trade Illegal immigrants Smuggling (smugglers) Matamoros Michoacana Guzman Arellano-Felix Beltran-Leyva Barrio Azteca Artistic Assassins Mexicles New Federation Terrorism Terrorism Al Qaeda (all spellings) Terror Attack Iraq Afghanistan Iran Pakistan Agro Environmental terrorist Eco terrorism… [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 7:42 am
Shawn Pogatchnik of the AP (courtesy of the Boston Globe) reports that police investigating the Irish Republican Army’s 1972 murder of a mother of 10 from Belfast are working to acquire taped interviews of IRA members located in Boston College’s archives. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 1:00 pm
United Kingdom International Extradition Treaty with the United States EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND March 31, 2003, Date-Signed April 26, 2007, Date-In-Force Mr. [read post]
