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Northern Ireland and the Provisional IRA
2014Internationally the name of the Provisional IRA is instantly recognised. This is due to its longevity as a militant nationalist organisation, and the extensive coverage it has been given over the years in news broadcasts, movies and American drama series.
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The Provisional IRA: From Insurrection to Parliament
Irish Political Studies, 2013The Provisional IRA: From Insurrection to Parliament Tommy McKearney Pluto Press, 2011, (pb) 256pp., ISBN 9780745330747, £12.50 Tommy McKearney, born to a family of established republican pedigree,...
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The provisional IRA cease‐fire: The end and beginning of history
Contemporary British History, 1997The breakdown of the paramilitaries’ cease‐fires in Northern Ireland does not hide some significant longer‐term trends. The most significant of these is that the legitimacy surrounding the Provisional IRA's violence has been sharply eroded. This is because the British and Irish governments have converged their positions, lessening the political space ...
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Violent Nationalism in Catholic Communities: The Provisional IRA and ETA
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 2007AbstractThis paper will examine how the Provisional IRA and Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna ‐ Basque Country and Freedom ‐ (ETA) sought to legitimise and gain support for a campaign of urban guerrilla warfare by casting themselves in the role of defenders of a Catholic community.
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The Provisional IRA: An Assessment in the Wake of the 1981 Hunger Strike
Government and Opposition, 1982THE PROVISIONAL IRA (PIRA) IS THE OFFSPRING OF THE IRISH Republican Army which played such a leading part in the war for Irish independence, 1919–21. Its leaders claim to be the true inheritors of the Irish Republican tradition of struggle against the British, determined to complete the task by expelling the British presence once and for all and thus ...
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Contextualizing the Biographical Outcomes of Provisional IRA Former Activists
2019This chapter shows how, in the case of the Northern Ireland conflict (1968–1998, also known as the ‘troubles’), the British counter-terrorist policies and reintegration programs have produced the external factors and forces that have in part shaped the post-armed activism lives of the Provisional IRA (henceforth PIRA) volunteers.
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‘They Are Murderers’: The English Catholic Church and Provisional IRA Attacks on London
The London Journal, 2019This article examines the English and Welsh Catholic Church's reaction to the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) attacks on London during the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’.
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The Armalite and the Ballot Box: Dilemmas of Strategy and Ideology in the Provisional IRA
Social Problems, 1985For revolutionary movements, the twin tasks of external legitimation and grass roots mobilization often conflict with the maintenance of an exclusive organization with tight discipline, restricted membership, and doctrinal purity. With its “armalite-ballot box” strategy, the contemporary Provisional Irish Republican Army is attempting to circumvent ...
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‘Positive Neutrality’: Revisiting Libyan Support of the Provisional IRA in the 1980s
2018Global Histories: A Student Journal, Vol 4, No 1 (2018): Global Histories: A Student ...
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Political violence and economic targeting aspects of provisional IRA strategy, 1992–97
Civil Wars, 2000From 1992 to 1997, the Provisional IRA(PIRA) engaged in a protracted campaign of economic targeting against central business districts and transport systems in Britain, using a range of explosive devices. There is evidence that the campaign had significant economic and political effects, although PIRA was operating in an adverse security environment ...
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