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10 Nov 2008, 9:37 pm
Nonetheless, AP reports that a former Irish Republican Army member who has lived for 25 years in California is facing possible deportation. [read post]
28 Jul 2005, 10:16 am
[JURIST] The Irish Republican Army [Wikipedia backgrounder] announced Thursday that it would end its "armed campaign" and instead make its fight for Northern Ireland a purely political one. [read post]
8 Nov 2007, 9:08 am
[JURIST] The man believed to be the commander of the Irish Republican Army [BBC backgrounder] was arrested Wednesday night and charged Thursday with nine counts of tax evasion, totaling $3.7 million. [read post]
8 Sep 2009, 4:02 am
[JURIST] British officials met Tuesday with lawyers for victims of Irish Republican Army (IRA) [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] bombings in the 1980s and 90s to discuss seeking compensation from Libya. [read post]
30 Nov 2006, 5:44 am
The bloody-minded Irish Republican Army finally tires of its trademark mahyem and murder, and now this happens: ALLEGED IRA chief... [read post]
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]
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]
4 May 2005, 7:36 am
[JURIST] Sean Gerard Hoey, a member of the Irish Republican Army [BBC backgrounder], was charged Wednesday with the murder of 29 people in the largest terrorist bombing in the history of Northern Ireland's "troubles. [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]
8 Jun 2009, 7:51 am
[JURIST] The Belfast High Court on Monday found [judgment text; judgment summary, DOC] four men and the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) responsible for the 1998 Omagh bombing [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] in a civil case brought by victims' families. [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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
