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Negotiating the Provisional IRA ceasefire
2016This 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, 1999In 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, 2003This 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 ...
Max Taylor
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Sectarianism Revisited: The Provisional IRA Campaign in a Border Region of Northern Ireland
Terrorism and Political Violence, 2010This 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.
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Fraying at the edges: the Provisional IRA ceasefire
2016This 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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The water and the fish: Public opinion and the provisional IRA in Northern Ireland
Terrorism, 1981Abstract 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.
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‘Anxious for peace’: the Provisional IRA in dialogue with the British government, 1972–75
Irish Studies Review, 2012This 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 Moral Parameters of Violence: The Case of the Provisional IRA
Journal of British Studies, 2021AbstractOver three decades, the Provisional Irish Republican Army waged a campaign of violence that claimed the lives of some two thousand people. This article explores the moral framework by which the IRA sought to legitimate its campaign—how it was derived and how it functioned.
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The Provisional IRA, the Irish border, and Anglo-Irish relations during the Troubles
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