Provisional Irish Republican Army

Before the Good Friday Agreement back in 1998, the capital of Northern Ireland, Belfast, was the subject of various terrorist attacks by the group known as the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).

Clinton Says She Played 'Big Role' In Bringing Peace to Northern Ireland 2008

Martin McGuinness and the Provisional Irish Republican Army he spearheaded now preach nonviolence as the way to solve political differences between Protestants and Catholics, as well as between Sunnis and Shi'ites in Iraq.

Scott Atran: Talking to Terrorists 2010

Martin McGuinness and the Provisional Irish Republican Army he spearheaded now preach nonviolence as the way to solve political differences between Protestants and Catholics, as well as between Sunnis and Shi'ites in Iraq.

Scott Atran: Talking to Terrorists 2010

Police thought Chesney played a central role as a suspected member of the paramilitary Provisional Irish Republican Army, then waging a violent struggle for a united Ireland.

James Chesney Cover-Up? Irish Catholic Leaders Deny Protecting 'Paramilitary Priest' 2010

On the evening before this event, a secret operation, involving MI5, the SIS and the Special Air Service, uncovered a bomb plot by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

In the film, Baer goes around the globe talking with bomb makers who fought for Israel's independence, the Provisional Irish Republican Army as well as various factions throughout the Middle East.

Dan Lybarger: On Car Bombs and Righteous Leaks: A Conversation With Robert Baer Dan Lybarger 2010

Mr. McGuinness, a former member of decommissioned armed dissident group the Provisional Irish Republican Army, said he and Mr. Robinson were working on legislation to deal with "contentious" political parades: "Our experience demonstrates that the way to deal with any disputes or contention is through dialogue and agreement."

Belfast Violence Attributed to Social Problems 2010

In the film, Baer goes around the globe talking with bomb makers who fought for Israel's independence, the Provisional Irish Republican Army as well as various factions throughout the Middle East.

Dan Lybarger: On Car Bombs and Righteous Leaks: A Conversation With Robert Baer Dan Lybarger 2010

The other was Martin McGuinness, also an MP, and a former member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and inmate of British prisons; at one time forbidden under the “Prevention of Terrorism Act” from entering Britain, he later became a chief negotiator for Sinn Féin.

Transversality, Part Two 2007

American Catholics saw the funerals on TV followed by the paramilitary rites of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) - the coffin draped in the tricolor Irish flag, masked men in uniform firing shots over the dead soldier.

1981 Hunger Strikes 1981