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Counterterrorism Killings and Provisional IRA Bombings, 1970–1998 [PDF]

Terrorism and Political Violence, 2016
Counterterrorism strategies involving the killing of terrorists are a prominently used but controversial practice. Proponents argue that such strategies are useful tools for reducing terrorist activity, while critics question their effectiveness.
Paul Gill, James A Piazza, John Horgan
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From State Terrorism to Petty Harassment: A Multi-Method Approach to Understanding Repression of Irish Republicans [PDF]

Studi Irlandesi, 2017
Beginning in 1969, the Provisional Irish Republican Army conducted a paramilitary campaign designed to unite Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland, creating a 32 county democratic socialist republic.
Robert White
doaj   +4 more sources

Troubles Women: A Creative Exploration of Experience of Being a Woman in the Provisional IRA

Studi Irlandesi, 2017
What was it like being a woman in the Irish Republican Army? Drawing on her practice-led creative writing doctoral research Tracey Iceton attempts to answer this question.
Tracey Iceton
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Professionalization of a nonstate actor [PDF]

Armed Forces & Society, 2017
Can nonstate militants professionalize? That is the core question of this piece. Discussions of professionalism have spread to the state military from civilian professions such as education, medicine, and law.
Bloom M., Bourke R., Brooks D., Chief of the General Staff, Collins E., Cronin A. K., Dillon M., Durkheim E., English R., Forest J. J., Harkin G., Higate P., Huntington S. P., Janowitz M., McKittrick D., Moloney E., Oppenheimer A., O’Doherty S. P., Patrick Finnegan, Smith M. L. R., Spencer G, Thistlethwaite J.   +21 more
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IRA Associates: Understanding Non-Member Participation in the Provisional IRA

Terrorism and Political Violence
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The IRA and the Partition of Ireland

Review of Irish Studies in Europe, 2023
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) has been the most aggressively hostile opponent of the border that was established in Ireland during the 1920s. This article focuses on the fact that the IRA’s own violence emerged from a substantial, evolving and complex ...
Richard English
doaj   +1 more source

The Rules of Hijacking: Coercion and Legitimacy in the "Urban Statelets" of the IRA

Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2022
Much of the political violence literature emphasizes the importance of coercive capacity in securing both local control and local support in times of conflict.
Niall O'Dochartaigh
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The Political Economy of the Provos: Inside the Finances of the Provisional IRA—A Revision [PDF]

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2017
Few academically rigorous accounts exist of the financial activities that sustained the rise of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) during the Northern Ireland Troubles.
Woodford, Isabel, Smith, M. L. R.
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Movimientos sociales y efectos interrelacionados: El proceso de cambio social en las vidas post-movimiento de los voluntarios del IRA Provisional

Revista Internacional de Sociología, 2016
Este artículo sistematiza una perspectiva de investigación que evalúa cómo los diferentes tipos de resultados de los movimientos sociales se influyen mutuamente en el tiempo.
Lorenzo Bosi
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Irish republican music and (post)colonial schizophrenia [PDF]

, 2016
Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom, yet its postcolonial position is subject to fierce debate among British loyalists and Irish republicans.
Millar, Stephen R.
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