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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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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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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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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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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Official Irish Republican Army (redirect from Official IRA)
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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Chronology of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions (1992–1999) (redirect from 1994 Provisional IRA ceasefire)
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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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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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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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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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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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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Irish People's Liberation Organisation (redirect from Irish Peoples Liberation Organisation Belfast Brigade)
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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Ulster Volunteer Force (section Brigade Staff)
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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Bloody Friday (1972) (redirect from Belfast Bomb Blitz)
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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New Irish Republican Army (redirect from New IRA)
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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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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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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Green Brigade had stepped up pro-IRA chants. Celtic have been investigated by UEFA in the past for alleged sectarian behaviour, including pro-IRA chants...
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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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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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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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Gerard Davison (category Paramilitaries from Belfast)
Provisional IRA. He was shot and killed on 5 May 2015. One of the first operations he was involved in was shooting dead of IPLO Belfast Brigade commander...
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man. This attack was initially blamed on the Real IRA. 6 May: Óglaigh na hÉireann's Derry Brigade claimed responsibility for disrupting an election count...
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Corporals killings (category Murder in Belfast)
corporals Derek Wood and David Howes were killed by the Provisional IRA in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in what became known as the corporals killings. Wearing...
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