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ARTICLES RELATED TO Provisional Irish Republican Army - Weaponry and operations | | | |  Provisional Irish Republican Army - Weaponry and operations: Encyclopedia II - Provisional Irish Republican Army - Weaponry and operationsIn the early days of the Troubles from around 1969-71, the IRA was very poorly armed, having available only a handful of old fashioned weapons left over from the IRA's Border campaign of the 1950s. Such weapons included Lee-Enfield rifles, Webley revolvers, and Thompson submachine guns. Their explosives were primarily gelignite - a commercial explosive which they either bought or stole from civilian sources. In the first years of the conflict, the Provisionals' main activity was providing firepower to defend nationalist areas against attacks ...
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1971: First British soldier on security duties, Gunner Curtis, killed by the IRA in current campaign in North Belfast. Three unarmed British soldiers abducted while off duty in Belfast and subsequently shot. IRA suspected but responsibility never admitted.
1971: Mother of ten, Jean McConville, is abducted and killed by the Provisional IRA, allegedly for informing the British Army of IRA activities, although her family contend that she was killed for comforting a wounded British soldier. The IRA would deny any involveme ...
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| | | | Provisional Irish Republican Army - Weaponry and operations: Encyclopedia II - Provisional Irish Republican Army - P. O'Neill The PIRA traditionally uses a well-known signature in its public statements, which are all issued under the pseudonymous name of "P. O'Neill" of the "Irish Republican Publicity Bureau, Dublin".
According to Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, it was Seán Mac Stiofáin, as chief of staff of the Provisionals, who invented the name. However, under his usage, the name was written and pronounced according to Irish orthography and pronunciation as "P. Ó Néill". Ó Brádaigh also maintains that there is no particular significance to the name, thus discounting claims that it is a reference to Sir Phe ...
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| | | | Provisional Irish Republican Army - Weaponry and operations: Encyclopedia II - Provisional Irish Republican Army - Infiltration The IRA has often been infiltrated by British Intelligence agents, and in the past some IRA members have been informers. IRA members suspected of being informants were usually executed after an IRA 'court-martial'.
In May 2003 a number of newspapers named Freddie Scappaticci as the alleged identity of the British Force Research Unit's most senior informer within the Provisional IRA, code-named Steakknife, who is thought to have been head of the Provisional IRA's internal security force, charged with rooting out and executing informers. Scappaticci denies that th ...
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| | | | Provisional Irish Republican Army - Weaponry and operations: Encyclopedia II - Provisional Irish Republican Army - End of the armed campaign On July 28, 2005, the Provisional IRA Army Council announced an end to its armed campaign. In a statement read by Séanna Breathnach, the organization stated that it has instructed its members to dump all weapons and not to engage in "any other activities whatsoever" apart from assisting “the development of purely political and democratic programmes through exclusively peaceful means". Furthermore, the organization authorised its representatives to engage immediately with the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (IICD) to verifiably put its arms beyond use "in a way which will ...
See also:Provisional Irish Republican Army, Provisional Irish Republican Army - Origins, Provisional Irish Republican Army - Organisation, Provisional Irish Republican Army - Weaponry and operations, Provisional Irish Republican Army - Categorisation, Provisional Irish Republican Army - Strength and support, Provisional Irish Republican Army - Activities, Provisional Irish Republican Army - The Belfast Agreement, Provisional Irish Republican Army - End of the armed campaign, Provisional Irish Republican Army - Notable events, Provisional Irish Republican Army - P. O'Neill, Provisional Irish Republican Army - Infiltration, Provisional Irish Republican Army - Footnotes Read more here: » Provisional Irish Republican Army: Encyclopedia II - Provisional Irish Republican Army - End of the armed campaign |
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| | | | Provisional Irish Republican Army - Weaponry and operations: Encyclopedia II - Provisional Irish Republican Army - Activities According to the CAIN research project at the University of Ulster, the Provisional IRA was responsible for the deaths of 1,706 people during the Troubles up to 2001. This figure represents 48.4 percent of the total fatalities in the conflict. 497 of these casualties were civilians, 638 of the casualties were from the British Army (183 from the Ulster Defence Regiment and 455 from other regiments). Another 271 of the casualties were members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Of its victims, 340 were Northern Irish Catholics, 794 were Northern ...
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| | | | Provisional Irish Republican Army - Weaponry and operations: Encyclopedia II - Provisional Irish Republican Army - Organisation The IRA is organised hierarchically. It refers to its ordinary members as volunteers (or óglaigh in Irish). Up until the late 1970s, IRA volunteers were organised according to where they lived. Volunteers living in one area formed a company, which in turn was part of a battalion, which likewise made up brigades.
In the late 1970s, the geographical organisational principle was abandoned by the IRA in many areas in Northern Ireland owing to its inherent security vulnerability. In its place came smaller ...
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| | | | Provisional Irish Republican Army - Weaponry and operations: Encyclopedia II - Provisional Irish Republican Army - Categorisation Due to its frequent use of bombs; its killing of hundreds of policemen, soldiers and civilians, predominantly though not exclusively in Northern Ireland; its status as an illegal organization; its role in racketeering, bank robberies, street 'justice' and the fact that the unionist/loyalist majority in Northern Ireland wanted to continue living under British rule, it is internationally considered a terrorist group [1], although its suppo ...
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| | | | Provisional Irish Republican Army - Weaponry and operations: Encyclopedia II - Provisional Irish Republican Army - Strength and support The Provisional IRA has several hundred members, as well as tens of thousands of civilian sympathisers in Ireland, mostly in Ulster. In 2005, Irish Minister for Justice Michael McDowell told the Dáil that the organization had "between 1,000 and 1,500" active members [2]. However, the movement's appeal was hurt badly by more notorious bombings widely perceived as atrocities, such as the killing of civilians attending a Remembrance Day ceremony at the cenotaph in Enniskillen in 1987 (the IRA maintain that their target was a contingent ...
See also:Provisional Irish Republican Army, Provisional Irish Republican Army - Origins, Provisional Irish Republican Army - Organisation, Provisional Irish Republican Army - Weaponry and operations, Provisional Irish Republican Army - Categorisation, Provisional Irish Republican Army - Strength and support, Provisional Irish Republican Army - Activities, Provisional Irish Republican Army - The Belfast Agreement, Provisional Irish Republican Army - End of the armed campaign, Provisional Irish Republican Army - Notable events, Provisional Irish Republican Army - P. O'Neill, Provisional Irish Republican Army - Infiltration, Provisional Irish Republican Army - Footnotes Read more here: » Provisional Irish Republican Army: Encyclopedia II - Provisional Irish Republican Army - Strength and support |
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| | | | Provisional Irish Republican Army - Weaponry and operations: Encyclopedia II - Provisional Irish Republican Army - Origins The Provisional IRA has its ideological and organisational roots in the pre-1969 anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army. This organisation split into two groups at its Special Army Convention in December 1969, mainly over the issue of abstentionism and over the question on how to respond to the escalating violence in Northern Ireland. The two groups that emerged from the split became known as the Official IRA (which espoused a ...
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| | | | Provisional Irish Republican Army - Weaponry and operations: Encyclopedia II - Provisional Irish Republican Army - The Belfast Agreement The IRA ceasefire in 1997 formed part of a process that led to the 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement. The Agreement has among its aims that all paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland cease their activities and disarm by May 2000. This is one of many Agreement aims that have yet to be realised.
Calls from Sinn Féin have led the IRA to commence disarming in a process that has been overviewed by Canadian General John de Chastelain's decommissioning body in October 2001. However, following the collapse of the Stormont power-sharing g ...
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