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- initialism The
Provisional Irish Republican Army.
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Like many on the British left over the years, Channel 4 finds it easier to pretend that the 1969-1994 nightmare was just a re-run of the 1913-23 period, and thereby would have its audience ignore the fact that the PIRA was a wholly distinct beast, one forged in the white sectarian heat of the 1970s.
Irish Blogs 2010
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When terrorism succeeded in winning independence for the Republic, this further validated these methods leading to more support for the PIRA, etc.
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When a suspected PIRA was shot dead, there was much coverage, wherein the British Army claimed it was accidental.
Ooooh….. I didn’t know that! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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When terrorism succeeded in winning independence for the Republic, this further validated these methods leading to more support for the PIRA, etc.
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For those who served over the water, to what extent is it correct that PIRA disproportionately targeted black soldiers? on October 9, 2008 at 12: 42 pm | Reply soud1
Whilst Rome Burns………… « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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But is it good enough? so the months went by and other things occupied the minds of Gus, Carole and Fat Martin - Ireland, and the constant battles against the PIRA, who had become very active again, trying to lead the North on its inevitable journey towards the Kremlin, cloaking its activities in old clothes of spite and vengeance; problems in the Middle East; clashes throughout the world.
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Those pesky PIRA and INLA people had such a tiresome habit of blowing us up.
Thin Blue Line « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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Secret cabinet minutes on 23 October record him proposing to issue a statement making clear that the government was in no circumstances prepared to grant special status to the PIRA prisoners but that as part of the continuing process of penal reform they were prepared to allow all prisoners to wear approved civilian clothing.
National Archives: Britain lobbied pope to intervene in IRA hunger strike 2010
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The Provisional IRA, after all, had itself originally splintered off from the Official IRA because the PIRA thought the Officials had sold out to the British.
Replacing the sheep 2009
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The police do not have anything like that degree of intelligence – not least because one of the conditions Sinn Fein/PIRA laid down was the emasculation of the police.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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