IRA

The acronym IRA may refer to:

Irish Republican Army

Irish Republican Army, the army of the "Irish Republic", which fought the Irish War of Independence against British rule, 1916 - 1921. Irish Republican Army (1922-1969): Originally the Anti-Treaty or Republican side in the Irish Civil War of 1922 - 1923. It split again in 1969 :– Official Irish Republican Army : in 1969, the movement split between a Marxist and a more militant traditionalist wing. The former became known as the "Official" IRA; Provisional Irish Republican Army : the traditionalist side in the 1969 split, today the largest republican paramilitary group. In the context of modern armed groups in Ireland, it is to this group that the term "IRA" nearly always refers. Continuity Irish Republican Army: a small breakaway from the Provisional IRA, formed in 1986 by those opposed to Sinn Féin taking seats in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament. Real Irish Republican Army: another small breakaway from the Provisional IRA formed after the 1997 ceasefire.

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