Gardaí sacrificed IRA informer to protect a more useful one, ex-Special Branch officer claims
Murder victim John Corcoran’s fate was sealed by a ‘vacuum of silence and inaction by Garda officers of the highest rank’, JP O’Sullivan says
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 split to form contemporary groups, such as the Provisional IRA, Real IRA, and Continuity IRA, which were active during the Troubles in Northern Ireland and beyond.
Our Martin and All the Dead Voices: two republican takes on three decades of violence
Jim McVeigh writes the apologia for Martin McGuinness’s life, while Sinn Féin figure Danny Morrison revises and updates his memoir
‘Rather than rage, humanity’: James Nesbitt on working with families of the Disappeared
James Nesbitt, the actor, a patron of Northern Ireland’s largest cross-community victims and survivors group, has an appeal for people who may be able to help: ‘look into your conscience’
The Kerryman who brought New York City to a standstill
Mike Quill’s friend Dr Martin Luther King said he fought for Irish independence, labour organisation and racial equality
‘I left Ireland and became foreign correspondent for The Guardian, only to encounter echoes of Roger Casement’
Rory Carroll on his quest to chronicle a largely hidden aspect of the 1916 Rising: the two-year tracking and pursuit of Roger Casement by Britain’s security services
This week’s events brought us no closer to understanding the enigma that is Gerry Adams
‘You must pick your battles when dealing with Gerry,’ noted one senior Belfast lawyer, not at all surprised by the outcome of the case
Gerry Adams says civil case ‘verged on show trial’ and ‘should never have been brought’
Former Sinn Féin leader says he attended trial ‘out of respect’ for complainants injured in IRA bombings
Concern over legal costs brings Gerry Adams’s eight-day London high court odyssey to end
Former Sinn Féin leader leaves with win and a legal bill that, had case gone the other way, could have seen him facing huge claims
Judge made ‘extraordinary’ interventions in Gerry Adams civil case, accusers’ lawyers say
‘This outcome is not of the claimants’ making’, says McCue Jury solicitors, after action by three bombing survivors dropped
Gerry Adams welcomes decision by three victims of IRA bombings to drop civil action against him
Judge had asked plaintiffs why the case against Adams should not be dropped on two grounds
Legal case against Gerry Adams should not be thrown out, says lawyer
Three victims of IRA bombs in England are taking civil case against former Sinn Féin leader, seeking damages of £1
Gerry Adams recalls ‘very bad history’ of British rule as London civil case nears end
‘I came here to reject the accusations levelled against me’, former Sinn Féin leader says
Gerry Adams ‘stunned’ by 1996 London Docklands bombing, denies he was behind it
Follow our updates from the second day of the former Sinn Féin leader’s testimony
Gerry Adams tells court he will ‘go to grave content’ he played a role in a united Ireland
Adams in the stand in London civil suit by victims of IRA bombings
Voice from the grave fills courtroom at Gerry Adams civil action in London
Former IRA member Dolours Price relates in recording how IRA intended to bomb London in early 1970s
IRA members ‘astonished’ at Gerry Adams’s ‘brazen’ denial of role in organisation, court hears
Charge made by veteran journalist John Ware on fifth day of civil action against former Sinn Féin leader
Anna Burns: ‘When I got damaged in surgery, nothing else mattered. I’ve always lived in survival mode’
The Booker Prize-winning author on writing through the pain, growing up in Belfast’s Murder Triangle and getting sober after leaving the ‘boozy’ city for London
Son of slain prison officer claims in court Sinn Féin’s Pat Doherty sanctioned 1983 shooting
Brian Stack was chief prison officer at Portlaoise Prison and shot in the head by members of Provisional IRA
Gerry Adams was leader of IRA until mid-2000s, former senior PSNI officer tells court
Barrister for former Sinn Féin president criticised for raising policeman’s 1991 shooting of Catholic youth
Troubles seem so far away at times as Gerry Adams civil case continues
Former IRA man Shane Paul O’Doherty tells London court that former Sinn Féin leader has ‘last-man-standing syndrome’
Significance of role played by Gerry Adams in IRA became clear only after 1973 arrest, court hears
Adams was among group arrested with former IRA leader Brendan Hughes at Belfast house, retired officer tells London civil action against former Sinn Féin leader
Gerry Adams case: Berets and woolly geansaí in focus as Reeling in the Years graces London court
Three men injured in IRA attacks suing former Sinn Féin president, alleging he was in group and sat on army council
We ran the British army. In Northern Ireland, let the past be the past
The conflict began 57 years ago, yet politicians are resisting letting the past become the past
Gerry Adams removed his bulletproof vest before he reached the courtroom
Former Sinn Féin leader is in high court in London to defend civil suit taken by three victims of IRA bombings
Gerry Adams faces London court grilling over ties to IRA in high-profile civil case
Former Sinn Féin leader’s long history of denials of IRA membership will come under the spotlight in a case starting on Monday
UUP leader might have point about an Irish Government apology for conduct in Troubles
Saying sorry may not be on the agenda, but some serious reflection about State’s behaviour is warranted
What Dev did next: The lasting legacy of Ireland’s actions at the end of the second World War
While Éamon de Valera emerged from his good war thanks to his political manoeuvring, he did make one ‘unforced error’
Fianna Fáil’s founding aims haven’t aged well for the party
Unity, a social system offering equal opportunities and fair distribution of land were among them
Palestinians need unified leadership, say Bertie Ahern and Gerry Adams
Former leaders questioned in Oireachtas on Irish peace talks and conflict resolution in Middle East
Fashion rises from the ashes at new Ulster Museum exhibition
The Ulster Museum’s entire fashion collection was destroyed by fire after an IRA bomb in 1976. After 50 years of painstaking research, curation and acquisition, a new collection is reborn
Call for Ireland to apologise for the Troubles is a desperate stretch
Jon Burrows’s comparison between Bloody Sunday and Ireland’s failure to extradite terrorists will have offended nationalists and left unionists bemused
History no longer casts such a shadow over Irish politics but we can’t gloss over the past
Gerry Hutch, who plans to run in a byelection, has been a central figure in organised crime in Dublin
Taoiseach’s naming of Stakeknife puts pressure on British government to do the same
NI Secretary Hilary Benn urged to drop ‘neither confirm nor deny’ policy and formally identify agent in House of Commons
Gardaí set to give information to delayed inquest in North about man killed by Real IRA
Kieran Doherty’s body was found outside Derry, but near Donegal border, almost 16 years ago
Loyalist paramilitaries ‘community workers by day, terrorists at night’ – former PSNI chief
George Hamilton tells Westminster how loyalists are behaving in ‘same coercive, controlling way’
‘There was blood everywhere’: Senator Pauline Tully on being brutally attacked by her husband in 2014
The Sinn Féin politician was lucky to survive a frenzied stabbing attack by her estranged husband, former IRA man Pearse McAuley, as their two sons hid upstairs, on Christmas Eve 2014
Naming IRA spy Stakeknife would help recruit more Catholics to PSNI, committee hears
PSNI chief expresses frustration at UK government’s refusal to name Stakeknife
Drew Harris says prosecuting his father’s IRA killers would make little difference
Former Garda commissioner says short sentences they would receive would not ‘weigh the scales’ for 1989 murder
It’s worth asking again why Sinn Féin sent a delegation to Maduro’s inauguration
Is the ugliness of the Trump regime in Washington mirrored in Sinn Féin’s ambitions for a hard-left Chavista socialist republic in Ireland?
Health of Palestine Action hunger strikers in UK deteriorating, supporters say
Heba Muraisi is on day 65 of her protest while Kamran Ahmed has reported intermittent hearing loss on day 58
‘Some nights I do not sleep’: Families remember 16 sectarian killings in 24 hours in North
Relatives reflect on 50th anniversary of Kingsmill, O’Dowd and Reavey murders
Campaign for soldiers killed by IRA will continue until answers found, says relative
Brothers John and Joseph McCaig, who were 17 and 18, and Dougald McCaughey (23) were shot dead in Belfast in March 1971
‘They have been denied justice’: Families to mark 50th anniversary of Kingsmill massacre
Ten Protestant workmen were murdered by IRA gunmen posing as British soldiers
UK foreign minister called for earlier end to ‘counterproductive’ Sinn Féin broadcast ban
Douglas Hurd, who had introduced restrictions himself, felt six-year ban was ‘object of some derision’
British army morale at ‘low ebb’ in Crossmaglen months before ceasefire
Barracks required construction work to boost security and lack of heavy casualties was ‘due to luck’
Gerry Kelly named as ‘dominant figure’ of 1996 IRA leadership in Garda security document
Provisional IRA’s leadership outlined by assistant commissioner, who highlighted rank-and-file dissatisfaction
Northern Bank robbery ‘symptom’ of IRA criminality, Ahern told Adams
Taoiseach expressed anger at 2004 raid, carried out while Sinn Féin continued negotiations with British and Irish governments
Palestine Action hunger strikes stir memories of the IRA in 1981
UK prime minister Keir Starmer faces a real Christmas dilemma as some hunger strikers are said to be near death
Arms cache discovered in Cork attic linked to War of Independence
Army bomb disposal experts called to assist gardaí
Patrick Cooney obituary: Minister who confronted Provisional IRA with implacable resolve
Last surviving member of the Fine Gael-Labour coalition which held office from 1973 to 1977
‘I am not going to hide again’: Families of IRA victims react to Kenova report
Relations privately co-operated with investigation into British army’s top Republican spy, code-named Stakeknife
Final report into activities of British army’s top IRA agent during Troubles to be released
Agent, known as Stakeknife, widely accepted to be west Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci who died in 2023
Families appeal for new information on cases as part of National Missing Persons Day
Garda Commissioner urges relatives of missing people to give DNA to national database
Sinn Féin should study its own political history before demanding Herzog Park be renamed
Raymond McCreesh Park was given its name in 2001 following a proposal by the party
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