Irish Republican Army

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Travel Dervla Murphy
The Irish DM had difficulty trying to correct the local opinions on Northern Ireland: ironically, the fiercely anti-Russian Romanians implicitly believed the Soviet depiction of the IRA as freedom fighters and Northern Ireland as another...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Devlin
The play's title is a near-translation of the phrase Sinn Féin (we ourselves, name of the political party committed to ending British rule in Ireland). AD emphasises the relationship between the political and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Katharine Tynan
She barely mentions her husband or her extreme feelings of loss she felt at his death. She spends more time discussing her children in this volume than in any before: she writes of her sons...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Betty Miller
Her daughter quotes from the radio play a passage about a child listening at night to the noises made by an IRA crowd in the street: the singing and cheering . . . . an...
Textual Production Seamus Heaney
Heaney, as a Catholic , came under political pressure to denounce British rule in Northern Ireland and to celebrate the IRA . But he continued to see two sides to the question, to admire certain...
Textual Production Lettice Cooper
It appeared in the Gollancz Detection series.
Cooper, Lettice. Unusual Behaviour. Gollancz.
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The title comes from a police announcement dating from 1981, requesting members of the public to report any unusual behaviour in the interests of catching IRA terrorists.
Cooper, Lettice. Unusual Behaviour. Gollancz.
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Textual Features Seamus Heaney
In these lectures SH again concerned himself closely with the poet's obligations to society and to humankind. The first lecture, from which the 1995 volume is titled, sets out to show how poetry's existence at...
Textual Features Catherine Byron
Once again she returns to her experience on the penitential pilgrimage to St Patrick's Purgatory. She revisits her complaints about Heaney 's depiction of the feminine, but this time she focuses on Francis Hughes
Textual Features Lettice Cooper
This novel touches on the squatters theme which LC had used in Desirable Residence. Here the police receive an anonymous tip-off that unusual behaviour is going on at two large, dilapidated and divided Victorian...
Residence Betty Miller
After IRA death threats against BM 's father , her mother took her children from Ireland to Sweden for two years, after which the parents decided on London as a permanent home.
Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii.
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Reception Edna O'Brien
The production and reception of this text was heavily influenced by the political climate of the time. EOB 's preparations for writing it included interviewing Dominic McGlinchey , the imprisoned former leader of the INLA...
Publishing Maud Gonne
MG occasionally contributed to the Workers' Republic (1898-1916), founded by James Connolly , with whom she wrote and distributed a pamphlet entitled The Rights of Life and the Rights of Property, 1897. She also...
politics Dervla Murphy
In March 1944 DM 's family gave sanctuary for a fortnight to Pat, otherwise known as Charles Kerins , a young IRA man who had shot a detective-sergeant in Dublin. He had been passed...
politics Katharine Tynan
KT greeted with optimism the truce that ended fighting between the Irish Republican Army and British troops in Ireland. Never was so happy a country,
Tynan, Katharine. The Wandering Years. Constable.
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she wrote.
Tynan, Katharine. The Wandering Years. Constable.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Michael Collins
politics Maud Gonne
In the long, agonising, and ultimately successful struggle for independence MG was again strenuously active in Ireland. She supported political prisoners and those condemned to execution, and worked with Charlotte Despard for the Irish White Cross

Timeline

11 July 1921: Fighting in Ireland between British forces...

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11 July 1921

Fighting in Ireland between British forces and the Irish Republican Army ended in a truce: the next step was to negotiate a new constitutional status for Ireland.

12 April 1923: The career as a dramatist of Sean O'Casey,...

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12 April 1923

The career as a dramatist of Sean O'Casey , labourer and IRA member, took off when his playThe Shadow of a Gunman was produced at the Abbey Theatre , Dublin, which had by...

18 June 1936: The Irish Republican Army (IRA) was declared...

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18 June 1936

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) was declared an illegal organisation.

January 1939: The IRA (Irish Republican Army) declared...

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January 1939

The IRA (Irish Republican Army) declared war on Britain in protest against the continuing partition of Ireland. A hundred bombing incidents followed.

8 March 1973: An IRA car-bomb outside the Old Bailey in...

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8 March 1973

An IRA car-bomb outside the Old Bailey in London caused widespread destruction and temporarily paralysed the City.

October 1974: Five people (a civilian and two soldiers...

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October 1974

Five people (a civilian and two soldiers of each sex) were killed and seventy injured in two pub bombings in Guildford, Surrey, attributed to the IRA .

24 November 1974: On the 54th anniversary of Dublin's Bloody...

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24 November 1974

On the 54th anniversary of Dublin's Bloody Sunday, two bombs in Birmingham pubs, allegedly planted by the IRA , killed twenty-one people and inflicted sometimes life-changing injury on at least 170 more.

22 December 1974: The home of Conservative Party leader Edward...

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22 December 1974

The home of Conservative Party leader Edward Heath was bombed, presumably by the IRA , despite a Christmas truce between the IRA and Protestant groups.

17 December 1983: A massive car bomb exploded in the early...

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17 December 1983

A massive car bomb exploded in the early afternoon in a London street close to Harrods department store. The IRA later claimed responsibility.

12 October 1984: The IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton...

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12 October 1984

The IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton where the Conservative Party was holding a conference.

14 March 1991: The Birmingham Six, wrongly convicted for...

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14 March 1991

The Birmingham Six, wrongly convicted for a fatal IRA bombing on 24 November 1974, were released..

15 June 1996: A bomb planted by the IRA destroyed a shopping...

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15 June 1996

A bomb planted by the IRA destroyed a shopping centre in the heart of Manchester, injuring about two hundred people.

29 November 1999: The first multi-party, multi-denominational,...

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29 November 1999

The first multi-party, multi-denominational, or power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland (sometimes known as the Stormont government) was appointed in place of direct rule by Britain.

28 July 2005: The Army Council of the IRA declared an end...

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28 July 2005

The Army Council of the IRA declared an end to its war against Britain, instructing all units to dump their arms and turn to purely political and democratic means
“Peace in our time?”. BBC News: Newsnight.
for ending British rule in Northern...

31 July 2007: The British Army's role in Northern Ireland,...

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31 July 2007

The British Army 's role in Northern Ireland, which had become known as Operation Banner, came to an end thirty-eight years after it began.

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