Irish Republican Army

Cars and trucks were used in some of the worst attacks perpetrated by the Irish Republican Army during the “Troubles” between Protestants and Catholics in Ireland from the 1970s to the late 1990s. In 1981, a car laden with explosives rammed into the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, killing 61 people. It was the ...

Kevin Braney (aged 44), with an address at Glenshane Crescent, Tallaght, Dublin 24 and Ciaran Maguire (aged 30), of Kippure Park, Finglas, Dublin 11, have both pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hEireann, ...

All escapees were members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and had been convicted of taking part in armed paramilitary campaigns during Ireland's anti-colonial civil war in the British-dominated six counties of the north of Ireland. It seems that even the Indie Fest programmers might not have ...

Sinn Fein was commonly understood to be the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, a paramilitary organization that had used violent tactics to advance the minority's political cause. While Adams repeatedly denied membership in the group— advocating political action over violence—he had been ...

Nothing has changed," says Robert Henry, a former Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner. Henry, who spent six years in prison in the 1980s, joined the IRA as a teenager in West Belfast. "There was hero worship. Republicans were role models," he says. "My playground as a child became my battleground ...

The violence here was impacted by the presence of the Irish border, which runs through forest, rivers and farmland along the south of the county and allowed the Provisional Irish Republican Army, or IRA, to mount attacks and quickly cross the border to safety. Many of their targets were members of the ...

Evans, at 28, had a European detention order issued in his name for his role in the murder of Butterfly, considered to have been one of the leaders of the Real IRA, a splinter group from the IRA (Irish Republican Army) in March 2013. Evans was arrested for his role in the killing, which was carried out with ...