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 Derry Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) operated in the city of Derry, Northern Ireland, and its surroundings during the Troubles...
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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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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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Brendan Hughes (category Provisional Irish Republican Army members)
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 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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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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1973 Old Bailey bombing (category Provisional IRA bombings in London)
carried 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...
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Billy McKee (category Provisional Irish Republican Army members)
leader of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. McKee was born in Belfast on 12 November 1921, and joined the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1939. During...
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The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA), officially known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann) and informally...
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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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From 1969 until 1997, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) conducted an armed paramilitary campaign primarily in Northern Ireland and England, aimed...
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Ivor Bell (category Provisional Irish Republican Army members)
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 Belfast Brigade. The lyrics were changed to 'the British Army came to Belfast to shoot the people down...' "Christy Moore - Belfast Brigade"...
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Joe Cahill (category Provisional Irish Republican Army members)
imprisonment of Billy McKee, Cahill became the commander of the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade. He held this post until the introduction of internment in...
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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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The IRA Army Council was the decision-making body of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, a paramilitary group dedicated to bringing about independence...
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Battle of Lenadoon (category Provisional Irish Republican Army actions)
gunmen from the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade. Although the British Army claimed Edward Brady was an IRA member, and the Official IRA at the time claimed...
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Official Irish Republican Army (redirect from Official IRA)
Irish Republican Army (IRA) split into two factions. The other was the Provisional IRA. Each continued to call itself simply "the IRA" and rejected the other's...
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Volunteer (Irish republican) (redirect from IRA volunteer)
"Volunteer". On the other hand, Joe Cahill, the commander of the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade in 1971, said in a press conference after the introduction...
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Timeline of British undercover forces in Operation Banner (category Provisional Irish Republican Army actions)
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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by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), from 1992 to 1999. 1 January 1992: incendiary devices severely damaged a clothes shop in Belfast city centre...
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sacrifice in their quest for Irish Freedom' Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade "Garden of Remembrance - Falls Road - Belfast - Political Revolutions on Waymarking...
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Army failed to protect the homeless Catholics in Lenadoon. Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade leaders Seamus Twomey and Brendan Hughes, who were especially...
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Donegall Street bombing (category Provisional Irish Republican Army actions)
which had originally placed the device in a nearby street. The Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade admitted responsibility for the bomb, which also injured 148...
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activities by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) from 1980 to 1989. For actions before and after this period see Chronology of Provisional Irish Republican...
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Seamus Twomey (category Provisional Irish Republican Army members)
prominent in the establishment of the Provisional IRA. By 1972, he was Officer Commanding of the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade when it launched its bomb campaign...
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Battle of St Matthew's (category Provisional Irish Republican Army actions)
night of 27–28 June 1970 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was fought between the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), and Ulster loyalists in the...
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Real Irish Republican Army (redirect from Real IRA)
split in the Provisional IRA by dissident members, who rejected the IRA's ceasefire that year. Like the Provisional IRA before it, the Real IRA saw itself...
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Official IRA Belfast Brigade OC Billy McMillen who was rumored to have been killed by Gerard Steenson and Brendan McNamee (a former Provisional IRA volunteer)...
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