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Politics and propaganda of the provisional IRA

Terrorism, 1981
Abstract So long as the declared objective of the Provisional IRA's violent campaign was the abolition of the Protestant‐dominated Northern Ireland Government, many Northern Catholics gave political or moral support. Propaganda mobilized this audience and was also directed outwards, mainly towards America and Britain, utilizing ancient myths, current ...
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Sectarianism Revisited: The Provisional IRA Campaign in a Border Region of Northern Ireland

Terrorism and Political Violence, 2010
This article revisits the debate, hosted by this journal in the 1990s, on whether the Provisional IRA campaign was sectarian. In the light of current debates about how Northern Ireland deals with its past, it challenges the analysis that emphasises the non-sectarian ideology of republicanism and ignores the effects of IRA violence.
Henry Patterson
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The provisional IRA: A case study

Terrorism and Political Violence, 1991
The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) is a militant, nationalist organisation which aims at ending British rule in Northern Ireland by violent means and at establishing a united Irish republic. It has the support of a substantial proportion of Northern Irish Catholics, and sufficient armaments to continue its campaign for the forseeable future ...
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Negotiating the Provisional IRA ceasefire

2016
This chapter looks at the changes made by the Labour government to security policy and the establishment of talks with senior Provisional IRA representatives, both designed in order to secure the ceasefire. It also considers the expectations of Labour ministers and senior NIO officials going into the ceasefire.
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Playing the ‘Green Card’ ‐financing the provisional IRA: Part 1

Terrorism and Political Violence, 1999
In the first of two articles on the fundraising activities of the Provisional IRA (PIRA), the extent and nature of the PIRA's finance operations are described. The areas of kidnapping for ransom, armed robbery, extortion and drug trading, although very specific, serve to illustrate the nature and potential complexity of fundraising activities, the ...
John Horgan, Max Taylor
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Playing the 'green card' - financing the provisional IRA: part 2

Terrorism and Political Violence, 2003
This is the second of two articles detailing aspects of the financial operations of the Provisional IRA (PIRA). While the first article highlighted some of the socioorganizational factors both underpinning and limiting the nature and extent of certain fundraising activities by the PIRA, this article presents details of activities traditionally elusive ...
John Horgan, Max Taylor
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The water and the fish: Public opinion and the provisional IRA in Northern Ireland

Terrorism, 1981
Abstract The methods and goals of the Provisional IRA make it difficult to categorize it simply as a “terrorist” group. Its longevity and its affinity to Irish political culture suggest that it will not be defeated by force but by being rendered irrelevant.
E Moxon-Browne
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Fraying at the edges: the Provisional IRA ceasefire

2016
This chapter considers Labour policy in Northern Ireland during the Provisional IRA ceasefire. In the dialogue facilitated by Brendan Duddy the British representatives made a number of statements to the effect that the government was willing to withdraw from Northern Ireland.
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‘Anxious for peace’: the Provisional IRA in dialogue with the British government, 1972–75

Irish Studies Review, 2012
This article looks at the backchannel dialogue that took place between the Provisional IRA and the British government from 1972 to 1975, a time when violence was at its peak. Interest in this notoriously murky subject has grown in recent years. Articles, several book-length narrative histories and a biography have covered its various aspects.
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The Provisional IRA, the Irish border, and Anglo-Irish relations during the Troubles

Small Wars and Insurgencies, 2013
Henry Patterson
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