with more notorious groups like ISIS or Al-Qaeda‚ be it in current activity or geographic location‚ the Provisional Irish Republican Army serves as a good example of a more tightly knit terrorist group that covers only a small geographic region. The Provisional Irish Republican Army is a paramilitary group located in Northern Ireland‚ who used to operate throughout‚ Northern Ireland‚ the Irish Republic‚ Great Britain‚ and Europe‚ with their tactics consisting of the use of bombings‚ assassinations
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The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) was formed in 1969. The Official IRA declared a cease-fire in the summer of 1972‚ and subsequently the term IRA began being used for the organization that developed from the ’Provisional ’ IRA. Organized into small‚ tightly knit cells under the leadership of the Army Council the IRA has remained largely unchanged. It is difficult to know the exact number of IRA members because of the political and economic persecution that comes with publicly endorsing
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| |Cohort |September 2010 | |Topic |The Irish Republican Army | |Total Pages |Nine |
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The Real Irish Republican Army Introduction In July of 2012‚ a member of the Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA) approached a journalist in Derry City with a statement about the future of the organization. The statement outlined the purpose of the organization‚ and called upon the British government to remove all British military presence in “their” country. Additionally‚ the statement indicated a merger between several republican sovereignty organizations by stating that “In recent years
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The Irish Republican Army (IRA) has sought for a unified Ireland for decades through the use of violence and intimidation in the form of terrorism. Britain’s occupation of Ulster (Northern Ireland)‚ has been a controversial reign with a primarily Protestant influence on a previously Catholic area. This has led to various civil right issues and activism in the most affected parts. Politically‚ the feud is primarily about land and the unification of Ireland‚ thus the disputes over who Northern Ireland
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Assess the effectiveness of the military strategies of the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence‚ 1919-21. At the outbreak of hostilities it was apparent that the I.R.A. could not hope to win a traditional stand up military fight against a modern‚ well equipped army with the financial backing of The British Empire. In order to engage the crown forces in a guerrilla war‚ weapons and ammunition were required in large numbers. General Head Quarters (G.H.Q.) authorized smuggling operations
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Career in Physical Education “ The hearts of children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.” I feel that Quote by Carson McCellan is so true. The duty of a physical Education teacher is to educate students in grades k-12 on how important exercising and eating right is beneficial in their lives. A physical education teacher teaches indoors the majority of the times. I really want to become a physical education teacher after
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The Irish Troubles: A Quest For Peace The Irish Troubles is the name given to the political‚ cultural‚ and civil conflict that enveloped the island of Ireland for decades. The conflict is deeply embedded in the history of Ireland and the cultural difference between the native Irish and the British. As Ireland fell under the rule of England‚ cultural clashes resulted in two completely different societies living amongst one another. The Protestant British and the Catholic Irish make up the clashing
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How far was the 1981 hunger strike successful in achieving democratic status for the Irish Republican Movement? Robert Kee argues that the 1981 hunger strike failed to achieve democratic status for the Irish Republican Movement‚ because of the British government refusing the strikers’ demands‚ which Eric Black states caused ten deaths. David Beresford supports this view by arguing that the refusal was due to the then Prime Minister‚ Margaret Thatcher’s‚ political ideology. In contrast‚ Paul Wilkinson
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The Irish Civil War followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State‚ an entity independent from the United Kingdom but within the British Empire. The conflict was waged between two opposing groups of Irish nationalists over the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The forces of the "Provisional Government" supported the Treaty‚ while the Republican opposition saw it as a betrayal of the Irish Republic . Many of those who fought in the conflict had been members of
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