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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 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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  • 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 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 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Billy McKee (category Provisional Irish Republican Army members)
    the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade. From the start, there was intermittent feuding between McKee's men and his former comrades in the Official IRA, as...
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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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    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". 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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  • Seamus Twomey (category Provisional Irish Republican Army members)
    republican activist, militant, and twice chief of staff of the Provisional IRA. Born in Belfast on Marchioness Street in the historic Pound Loney district...
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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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  • Gerard Davison (category Provisional Irish Republican Army members)
    the 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 2 February: The Provisional IRA threw a gelignite bomb from a passing car at a British Army building on the Shankill Road, Belfast where 50 troops were...
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    1976 Andersonstown incident (category Provisional Irish Republican Army actions)
    driving was shot and killed. On 10 August 1976 a member of the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade, Daniel 'Danny' Lennon (23) stole a light blue Ford Cortina...
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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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  • by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Troubles. During the initial phase of the Troubles (1969-1972), the Provisional IRA was poorly...
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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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