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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.
Influential Irish-American group still pushing for 32-county unity, but not at any cost
Ancient Order of Hibernians deeply invested in Ireland, but its attitudes have changed with the times
Growing up a communist in Troubles-era Belfast: We were treated more like ‘comrades’ than children
Poet Sinéad Morrissey’s elegiac memoir describes growing up in Troubles-era Belfast with communist parents
Demolition man: Gerard McCann on Fanum House, said to be one of Belfast’s ugliest buildings
The building just across the road from the loyalist Sandy Row area housed offices of RTÉ, Sky and The Irish Times
Legal challenge to inquest into IRA man killed in SAS ambush is rejected
Tony Doris had planned to kill former Ulster Defence Regiment soldier
Formal inquiry ordered into Northern Ireland Troubles legacy investigative body
Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery has faced multiple issues since inception
‘They’re still here’: Dissident republicans still active and have not gone away
Northern peace process still has ‘a way to go’ following recent attack at Lurgan PSNI station
Denis Donaldson: Man charged with murder of former IRA member
Arrest followed extradition from Scotland on foot of European Arrest Warrant
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
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
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
‘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’
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’
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