The CIRA continues to oppose the Belfast Agreement and, unlike the Provisional IRA ( and the Real IRA in 1998 ), the CIRA has not announced a ceasefire or agreed to participate in weapons decommissioning — nor is there any evidence that it will.

On 31 January 1919 the IRA organ, An tÓglách (" The Volunteer ") published a list of principles agreed between two representatives of the Aireacht, acting Príomh Aire Cathal Brugha and Richard Mulcahy and the Executive.

Both sides agreed that the IRA's allegiance was to the ( elected ) Dáil of the Irish Republic, but the anti-Treaty side argued that the decision of the Dáil to accept the Treaty ( and set aside the Irish Republic ) meant that the IRA no longer owed that body its allegiance.

The IRA agreed to a ceasefire in February 1975, which lasted nearly a year before the IRA concluded that the British were drawing them into politics without offering any guarantees in relation to the IRA's goals, and hopes of a quick victory receded.

After further failed talks in December 1920, the guerrilla conflict was brought to an end in July 1921, with a truce agreed between the IRA and the British.

As part of the talks, the IRA agreed to a temporary ceasefire beginning on 26 June.

Held was instructed to produce a previous agreed means of identification that would prove that he was an emissary sent by the IRA.

However, although the IRA called a three-day ceasefire for the talks, no permanent end to violence was agreed upon.

In October 2011 he welcomed the news that the National Transitional Council of Libya had agreed compensate victims of IRA bombings.

In 1993 Scappaticci approached the ITV programme The Cook Report and agreed to an interview on his activities in the IRA and the alleged role of Martin McGuinness in the organisation.

The organisation had the support of the IRA, which had agreed to its formation at its General Army Convention in January 1929.

The IRA agreed to halt attacks on the British security forces, and the security forces mostly ended its raids and searches.

* 2011-In November 2011, the Sunday World agreed to issue a public apology to convicted Old Bailey bomber and IRA Volunteer turned Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly.

Many IRA officers interpreted the truce only as a temporary break in fighting.

The IRA negotiated a short-lived truce with the British government and an IRA delegation met with the British Home Secretary, William Whitelaw at Cheyne Walk in Chelsea.

Furthermore, as one of the negotiators, Michael Collins, later admitted ( and he was in a position to know, given his role in the independence war ), the IRA at the time of the truce was weeks, if not days, from collapse, with a chronic shortage of ammunition.

Violence between the IRA and the British was ended in July 1921, but nine men, four British soldiers and five IRA men, were killed in a shootout in Castleisland on the day of the truce itself, indicating the bitterness of the conflict in Kerry.

Despite the truce, Costello was shot dead as he sat in his car on the North Strand Road in Dublin on 5 October 1977 by a member of the Official IRA, Jim Flynn who happened to be in the area at the time.

The two IRA factions arranged a truce between them after the OIRA killing of Provisional activist, and Belfast brigade D-Company commander, Charlie Hughes ( a cousin of the well known Republican Brendan Hughes ).

While the truce was welcomed by enthusiastic crowds, and some arrangement beyond the Home Rule Act 1920 provisions was in prospect, it was also evident that the IRA military campaign had not secured the 32-county republic claimed by the Dáil, and that a separate government in Northern Ireland was now functioning.

Southern Ireland never became a functioning political entity, and, following a truce between the IRA and the British beginning on 11 July 1921, a political settlement was reached in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921.

On 10 February 1975, the IRA Army Council, which may have included Ó Brádaigh, unanimously endorsed an open-ended cessation of IRA " hostilities against Crown forces ", which became known as the 1975 truce.

It is argued by some that by the time the truce collapsed in late 1975 the Provisional IRA had been severely weakened.

In addition, after a truce was declared in July 1921, the local IRA killed a number of alleged informers.

The IRA had been expanded hugely in 1922, from perhaps 15, 000 men before the truce with the British in July 1921, to over 72, 000 by November 1922.

On 10 February 1975, the Provisional IRA and British government entered into a truce and re-started negotiations.

Some Provisionals wanted no part of the truce, while British commanders resented being told to stop their operations against the IRA just when — they claimed — they had the Provisionals on the run.

The security forces boosted their intelligence offensive during the truce and thoroughly infiltrated the IRA.

They hoped to force the IRA to retaliate and thus hasten an end to the truce.

Following the IRA ceasefires between 1994 and 1996 and since 1997, demilitarisation has taken place as part of the peace process, reducing the military presence from 30, 000 to 5, 000 troops.

It emerged from a split in the Provisional IRA in 1986 but did not become active until the Provisional IRA ceasefire of 1994.

On 21 January 1994, on the 75th anniversary of the First Dáil Éireann, Continuity IRA volunteers offered a " final salute " to Tom Maguire by firing over his grave, and a public statement and a photo were published in Saoirse Irish Freedom.

It was only after the Provisional IRA declared a ceasefire in 1994 that the Continuity IRA became active, announcing its intention to continue the campaign against British rule.

* 1994 – The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.

The Downing Street Declaration was issued on 15 December 1993 by Major and Albert Reynolds, the Irish Taoiseach, with whom he had a friendly relationship: an IRA ceasefire followed in 1994.

* Tim Pat Coogan, The IRA: A History ( 1994 )

These negotiations led to the IRA ceasefire in August 1994.

Eventually, along with John Hume and Gerry Adams, he did manage to induce the IRA to call a complete ceasefire on 31 August 1994.

In 1994, the Irish government was heavily involved in negotiations which brought about an IRA ceasefire.

Since the IRA ceasefire of 1994, Sinn Féin have become the largest nationalist party in the Northern Ireland, overtaking the SDLP in 2001.

Bognor Regis town centre was damaged in 1994 by an IRA device left in a bicycle outside Woolworth's.

On 15 February 1995, following the 1994 IRA ceasefire, English football hooligans caused the referee to abandon the game after just 27 minutes.

In September 1994 while under the govenorship of Brodie Clark, six prisoners including Andy Russell London Gangster Paul Magee and other IRA members, escaped from the prison's Special Secure Unit after smuggling a gun into the prison.

The most notable of these being the IRA ceasefire which was called on 31 August 1994 and ended on 9 February 1996 with the Docklands bombing.

While Adams offered nothing new, and violence escalated within weeks, the president later claimed vindication after the IRA ceasefire of August 1994.

The peace process, when discussing the history of Northern Ireland, is often considered to cover the events leading up to the 1994 Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) ceasefire, the end of most of the violence of the Troubles, the Good Friday ( or Belfast ) Agreement, and subsequent political developments.

On 6 April 1994 The Provisional IRA announced a three day Ceasefire or " Temporary Cessation of Hostilities " to run from Wednesday 6 April-Friday 8 April 1994.

Five months later, on Wednesday 31 August 1994, the Provisional IRA announced a " cessation of military operations " from midnight.

* Saturday 19 July 1997: The IRA announced the renewal of its 1994 ceasefire as of 12. 00pm on 20 July 1997.

Similar demonstrations occurred in 1995 and 1996 when the IRA ended its ceasefire, called in 1994, by bombing London and Manchester.