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    The Belfast Brigade of the Provisional IRA was the largest of the organisation's brigades, based in the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The nucleus...
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    The Belfast Brigade of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) was formed in March 1921 during the Irish War of Independence, when the IRA was re-organised by...
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  • The Official IRA's Belfast Brigade was founded in December 1969 after the Official IRA itself emerged in December 1969, shortly after the beginning of...
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  • Thumbnail for Provisional IRA South Armagh Brigade
    The South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) operated during the Troubles in south County Armagh. It was organised into two...
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  • Brendan Hughes (category Paramilitaries from Belfast)
    republican and former Officer Commanding (OC) of the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). He was the leader of the 1980 Irish hunger...
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  • Thumbnail for UDA South Belfast Brigade
    The UDA South Belfast Brigade is the section of the Ulster loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), based in the southern quarter...
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    part of a brigade, such as the Belfast Brigade, Derry Brigade, South Armagh Brigade, and East Tyrone Brigade. In late 1973 the Belfast Brigade restructured...
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    The East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan Brigade was one of the most active republican...
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    nationalists in Belfast (apparently in reference to members who would glue Easter lilies to their uniforms), and they were sometimes nicknamed the "Red IRA" by others...
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  • "Belfast Brigade" is an Irish folk song to the tune of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic". The song is about the Belfast Brigade of the Irish Republican...
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  • After extracting confessions from IRA Volunteers who were working for the MRF, the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade attacked the Military Reaction Force...
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    Thomas Murphy, chief of staff Brian Arthurs, Commander, Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade Bernard Fox, a former hunger striker (on 24 September 2006, The...
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  • campaign 1969–1997 Provisional IRA South Armagh Brigade Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade Toolis, Kevin (2015). Rebel Hearts:...
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  • The Provisional IRA Honey Trap killings occurred on 23 March 1973. Volunteers from the Provisional IRA's (IRA) Belfast Brigade shot dead three off-duty...
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  • Thumbnail for Michael Collins (Irish leader)
    the northern IRA was cut off. Belfast Brigade (IRA) leader Roger McCorley stated: "When Collins was killed the northern element [of the IRA] gave up all...
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  • Thumbnail for Irish National Liberation Army Belfast Brigade
    National Liberation Army Belfast Brigade was the main brigade area of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). The other Brigade areas were in Derry which...
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    cause. On 27 May, Spence sent four UVF members to kill IRA volunteer Leo Martin, who lived in Belfast. Unable to find their target, the men drove around the...
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    Belfast Brigade formally surrendered to the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade adjutant, which brought an end to the group in Belfast. Outside Belfast the...
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  • Shankill Road bombing (category Provisional IRA bombings in Belfast)
    Adair confirmed that he had been in the building that morning. The IRA's Belfast Brigade launched an operation to assassinate the UDA's top commanders, whom...
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  • explosively formed projectile in Belfast. A civilian car was also hit by debris, but there were no injuries. The Real IRA claimed responsibility. In November...
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  • The UDA West Belfast Brigade is the section of the Ulster loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), based in the western quarter...
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  • Thumbnail for Bloody Friday (1972)
    name given to the bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 21 July 1972, during the Troubles. At least twenty...
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    1973 Old Bailey bombing (category Provisional IRA bombings in London)
    out by an 11-person active service unit (ASU) from the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade. The unit also exploded a second bomb which went off outside the...
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  • Thumbnail for Greysteel massacre
    October 1993, an IRA bomb prematurely exploded as the bombers were carrying it into a fishmongers on the Shankill Road, Belfast. The IRA's intended target...
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  • Irish Republican Army (IRA), from 1992 to 1999. 1 January 1992: incendiary devices severely damaged a clothes shop in Belfast city centre. an incendiary...
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  • Northern Ireland. The first IRA team sent to England included eleven members of the Belfast Brigade, who hijacked four cars in Belfast, fitted them with explosives...
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  • Provisional IRA and the British Army. It started on Thursday, 9 July 1972 in and around the Lenadoon Avenue area and spread to other places in Belfast. Loyalist...
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  • Ivor Bell (category Paramilitaries from Belfast)
    in the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who later became Chief of Staff on the Army Council. Bell was the IRA's representative...
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    Collins; the only Northern IRA leader to join the anti-Treaty side was Belfast commander Joe McKelvey.[citation needed] The Northern IRA launched a renewed military...
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  • Roger McCorley (category Paramilitaries from Belfast)
    of the Belfast Brigade of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1922. He was commandant of the Brigade's first battalion...
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