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  1. The Irish Republican Army ( IRA) is a name used by various resistance organisations in Ireland throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Organisations by this name have been dedicated to anti-imperialism through Irish republicanism, the belief that all of Ireland should be an independent republic free from British colonial rule.

    • New IRA

      The New Irish Republican Army, or New IRA, is an Irish...

    • IRA (Disambiguation)

      Ira (name), a Hebrew, Sanskrit, Russian or Finnish language...

    • Irish Citizen Army

      Irish Citizen Army group outside ICA HQ Liberty Hall under a...

    • Official IRA

      The Official Irish Republican Army or Official IRA (OIRA;...

  2. Robert Erskine Childers. (Show more) Irish Republican Army (IRA), republican paramilitary organization seeking the establishment of a republic, the end of British rule in Northern Ireland, and the reunification of Ireland. The IRA was created in 1919 as a successor to the Irish Volunteers, a militant nationalist organization founded in 1913.

  3. The Provisional Irish Republican Army ( Provisional IRA ), officially known as the Irish Republican Army ( IRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann) and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent republic ...

  4. May 15, 2019 · March 20, 1993: Two boys, ages 3 and 12 are killed, and another 50-some people were injured, during an IRA bombing at a shopping area in Warrington, England where bombs were placed in trash cans ...

  5. The Official Irish Republican Army or Official IRA (OIRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann) was an Irish republican paramilitary group whose goal was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and create a "workers' republic" encompassing all of Ireland. [2] It emerged in December 1969, shortly after the beginning of the Troubles, when the ...

  6. The original IRA. The Irish Republican Army (Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann) was formed from the joining of a part of the Irish Brotherhood with the union's Irish Citizens Army militia after the Easter Rising of 1916. After the unilateral declaration of independence by the Irish Parliament in 1919, the IRA continued the war against British ...

  7. The IRA: 1919 to 1968. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) was at the epicentre of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. A secretive paramilitary group seeking the reunification of Ireland, the IRA was one of the 20th century’s most prolific and dangerous terrorist groups. The full history of the IRA, however, predates the Troubles by a half-century.

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