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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.
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However, since 29 December 1920, the British government had sanctioned " official reprisals " in Ireland — usually meaning burning property of IRA men and their suspected sympathisers.
The Provisional Irish Republican Army's ( IRA ) campaign against the partition of Ireland had begun in the two years prior to Bloody Sunday, but public perceptions of the day boosted the status of, and recruitment into, the organisation enormously.
Both the Official IRA and Provisional IRA had established " no-go " areas for the British Army and RUC in Derry through the use of barricades.
The official army position, backed by the British Home Secretary the next day in the House of Commons, was that the paratroopers had reacted to gun and nail bomb attacks from suspected IRA members.
March organiser and MP Ivan Cooper had been promised beforehand that no armed IRA men would be near the march.
The Inquiry rejected the sniper's account that this shot had been made in reprisal, stating the view that he and another Official IRA member had already been in position, and the shot had probably been fired simply because the opportunity had presented itself.
Maguire had also been contacted by supporters of Gerry Adams, then and now President of Sinn Féin, and a supporter of the change in the Provisional IRA constitution.
As further justification for this claim, Tom Maguire, one of those anti-Treaty members of the Second Dáil, issued a statement in favour of the Continuity IRA as he had done in 1969 in favour of the Provisionals.
In February 2006, the Independent Monitoring Commission claimed in a report on paramilitary activity that two groups, styling themselves as Saoirse na hÉireann and Óglaigh na hÉireann, had been formed after a split in the Continuity IRA.
IRA member Thomas McMahon had slipped onto the unguarded boat that night and attached a radio-controlled fifty-pound ( 23 kg ) bomb.
Moves to make the IRA the army of the Dáil and not its rival had begun before the January attack, and were stepped up.
The area had a Protestant and Unionist majority and IRA actions were responded to with reprisals against the Catholic population, including killings ( such as the McMahon Murders ) and the burning of many homes – as on Belfast's Bloody Sunday.
It has been estimated that the IRA had only about 3, 000 rifles ( mostly captured from the British ) during the war, with a larger number of shotguns and pistols.
Moreover, almost 5, 000 IRA men had been imprisoned or interned and over 500 killed.
IRA Chief-of-Staff Richard Mulcahy bemoaned the fact that they had not been able to drive the British " out of anything bigger than a fairly good size police barracks ".
He had consistently referred to the IRA as a " murder gang " up until then.
They continued to recruit and train volunteers, with the result that the IRA had increased its number to over 72, 000 men by early 1922.
Despite the fact that Michael Collins – the de facto leader of the IRA – had negotiated the Treaty, many IRA officers were against it.
On 22 March, Rory O ' Connor held what was to become an infamous press conference and declared that the IRA would no longer obey the Dáil as ( he said ) it had violated its Oath to uphold the Irish Republic.
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.
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In recent years, there have been some high profile allegations of senior IRA figures having been British informers.
In May 2003, a number of newspapers named Freddie Scappaticci as the alleged identity of the British Force Research Unit's most senior informer within the IRA, code-named Stakeknife, who is thought to have been head of the IRA's internal security force, charged with rooting out and executing informers.
McShane, a former IRA member, had been Gerry Adams ' personal driver for many years.
Their report alleged a longstanding connection between the IRA and FARC-EP, mentioned at least 15 IRA members who had been traveling in and out of Colombia since 1998, and estimated that the IRA had received at least $ 2 million in drug proceeds for training FARC-EP members.
Tánaiste Mary Harney said no deal had been done with Sinn Féin or the IRA over the three's return to Ireland adding that the Irish government would consider any request from the Colombian authorities for their extradition.
He was also highly critical of a decision taken in Belfast by McKee to assassinate members of the rival Official IRA, who had been on ceasefire since 1972.
Adams has stated repeatedly that he has never been a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ).
The call resonated with younger Northern people, many of whom had been active in the Provisional IRA but had not necessarily been highly active in Sinn Féin.
In their view, the legitimate government was the IRA Army Council, which had been vested with the authority of that Republic in 1938 ( prior to the Second World War ) by the last remaining anti-Treaty deputies of the Second Dáil.
The RUC and army arrested 342 Catholics, but key Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) members had been tipped off and 104 of those arrested were released when it emerged they had no paramilitary connections.
The IRA had been created as part of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, where employees not covered by a pension plan could contribute the lesser of $ 1500 or 15 % of earned income.
The founders of the INLA were Seamus Costello and other activists who had left or been forced out of the Official IRA in the wake of the OIRA's 1972 ceasefire and the increasingly reformist approach of Official Sinn Féin.
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Thus, the third phase of the war ( roughly August 1920 – July 1921 ) involved the IRA taking on a greatly expanded British force, moving away from attacking well defended barracks and instead using ambush tactics.
After a prolonged search, co-ordinated by the Garda Síochána-during which the search area and time involved was expanded by the Gardaí-the search was abandoned, as no body could be located in the area specified by the IRA.
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Like the killing of Cusack and Beattie the previous year, Bloody Sunday had the effect of hugely increasing recruitment to the IRA, even among people who previously would have been ' moderates '.
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The anti-treaty IRA fought a civil war with their former comrades in 1922 – 23, with the intention of creating a fully independent all-Ireland republic.
In early 1922, he sent IRA units to the border areas and sent arms to northern units.
Many of the IRA rank-and-file were against the Treaty and in January – June 1922, their discontent developed into open defiance of the elected civilian Provisional government of Ireland.
The IRA of the Civil War and subsequent organisations that have used the name claim lineage from that group, which is covered in full at Irish Republican Army ( 1922 – 1969 ).
For a genealogy of organisations using the name IRA after 1922, see List of organisations known as the Irish Republican Army.
During the Irish Civil War ( 1922 – 23 ), most of the IRA units in Cork sided against the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
The security forces were also reportedly implicated in reprisal killings of Catholics, notably the McMahon Murders on 26 March 1922, in which six Catholics were killed and the Arnon Street Massacre on 1 April, where another six were shot dead in retaliation for the IRA killing of a policeman.
The Civil War started on 28 June 1922, and the IRA was decisively defeated in the field over the following two months, being largely pinned back to Munster.
In all 77 republicans were executed by the Free State between November 1922 and the end of the war in May 1923, including Robert Erskine Childers, Liam Mellowes and Rory O ' Connor, far more than the 14 IRA Volunteers the British executed in the War of Independence.
Initially the county was held by the Anti-Treaty IRA but it was taken for the Irish Free State after seaborne landings by National Army troops at Fenit, Tarbert and Kenmare in August 1922 ..
While returning home from the unveiling ceremony, Wilson was assassinated by Irish Republican Army ( 1922 – 1969 ) | IRA gunmen.
* The Irish Public Records Office in Dublin was burnt by the IRA in 1922, destroying 1, 000 years of state and religious archives.
Initially the Government of the Irish Free State under Cosgrave wished for Healy to reside in a new small residence, but, when facing death threats from the IRA, he was moved as a temporary measure into the Viceregal Lodge, the former ' out of season ' residence of the Lord Lieutenant, the former representative of the Crown until 1922.
Just prior to the outbreak of the Irish Civil War in March 1922, the Freeman's Journal printing machinery was destroyed by Anti-Treaty IRA men under Rory O ' Connor for its support of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
The IRA held a convention in March 1922, in which they renounced their allegiance to the Dáil and vested it in their own Army Council.
The remnants of the IRA, which had split several times into ever smaller groupings since 1922, embarked on a bombing campaign in Britain ( see Sabotage Campaign ( IRA )) and some attacks in Northern Ireland ( see Northern Campaign ), intended to force a British withdrawal from Northern Ireland.
* Irish Republican Army ( 1922 – 62 ) A split from the " old " IRA that opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty that solidified the partition of Ireland following the Irish War of Independence.
He bought another country house at Hollybrook near Doyle, but in March 1922 Talbot told him bluntly that his presence in Ireland would be unwise and a target for the IRA.
In March 1919 he became IRA chief of staff, a position he held until January 1922.
O ' Duffy was the leader of the Monaghan Brigade of the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) during the successful Irish War of Independence and in this capacity became Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1922.
After briefly serving as a Member of Parliament, Wilson was assassinated by two IRA gunmen in 1922 whilst returning home from unveiling a war memorial at Liverpool Street station.
Any order to assassinate Wilson would have had to have been relayed to them by Rory O ' Connor ( then in charge of British IRA operations ) and the last assassination attempt contrived against Wilson had been set to be executed in 1921, not 1922.
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