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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.
The IRA issued a statement, saying:
A month later, on 18 February, Liam Forde, O / C of the IRA Mid-Limerick Brigade, issued a proclamation stating that: " We no longer recognise the authority of the present head of the army, and renew our allegiance to the existing Irish Republic ".
On 28 March, the ( anti-Treaty ) IRA Executive issued statement stating that Minister of Defence ( Richard Mulcahy ) and the Chief-of-Staff ( Eoin O ' Duffy ) no longer exercised any control over the IRA.
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.
The IRA traditionally uses a well-known signature in its public statements, which are all issued under the pseudonym of " P. O ' Neill " of the " Irish Republican Publicity Bureau, Dublin ".
Likewise in the aftermath of the 1986 split in the Republican Movement, Maguire signed a statement in 1986 but was issued posthumously in 1996, he conferred this " legitimacy " on the Army Council of the Continuity IRA ( who provided a firing party at Maguire's funeral in 1993 ).
IRA volunteers were sworn in as Gardaí detective officers and were issued handguns, ammunition, badges and whistles.
After several days ' speculation as to those responsible for the shooting, the IRA issued a statement claiming responsibility for what it termed Murphy's " execution ":
The syndicate issued a statement blaming the IRA for the crime.
He succeeded Liam Lynch as IRA Chief of Staff in March 1923, and issued the cease fire and dump arms orders on 24 May 1923 that effectively ended the Irish Civil War.
On 16 July 2002, the Provisional IRA issued a statement of apology to An Phoblacht, which read:
The other two benefited from the amnesty to IRA members issued by Éamon de Valera upon his assumption of power in 1932.
In November 1922, anti-Treaty IRA commander Liam Lynch issued a general order to his forces to shoot Free State Senators.
* May 28-The government releases two captured documents issued by the IRA on May 24.
Five days after the blast the IRA issued a statement in which it claimed responsibility, but regretted causing injury to civilians.
On 7 January 2005 Hugh Orde, the service's Chief Constable, issued an interim report in which he blamed the Provisional IRA for the robbery.
On 18 January 2005 the Provisional IRA issued a two-line statement denying any involvement in the robbery: " The IRA has been accused of involvement in the recent Northern Bank robbery.
Lynch then issued his orders, which were acted upon by IRA men, who killed TD Sean Hales and wounded another TD outside the Dáil.
On 16 February 2005, the IRA issued a statement denying involvement in the murder and calling on the perpetrators to " take responsibility ".
On 8 March 2005, the IRA issued an unprecedented statement saying that four people were directly involved in the murder, that the IRA knew their identity, that two were IRA volunteers, and that the IRA had made an offer to McCartney's family to shoot the people directly involved in the murder.

IRA and statement
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.
In the statement the new relationship between the Aireacht and the IRA was defined clearly.
A group of former Provisional IRA members calling itself the Irish Republican Army made its first public statement later that month claiming responsibility for the killing.
He made a settlement with the State in early 1997 which included an agreement to publish a statement on the settlement, stating, inter alia, that the State had intercepted his telephone conversations for reasons of State security — Browne had written much about the IRA in the early-to mid-1970s — while accepting that Browne had himself never been involved in subversion or crime.
The IRA released a statement saying: " We meant to kill Gardiner, the political architect of the criminalization policy and the H-blocks.
Although he has always emphasised that it was a collective declaration, he was the primary author of the statement ending the IRA Border Campaign in 1962.
Cheshire's assistant chief constable denied there had been a second warning and said: " If the IRA think they can pass on their responsibility for this terrible act by issuing such a nonsensical statement, they have sadly underestimated the understanding of the British public ".
Albert Reynolds, the Irish Taoiseach, said that he accepted the IRA statement as implying a permanent ceasefire.
* Friday 9 February 1996: One hour after a statement ending their ceasefire, the Provisional IRA detonated a large lorry bomb near South Quay DLR station in the London Docklands, killing two people, injuring 40, and causing £ 150 million worth of damage.
The IRA statement said that the ceasefire was ended because " the British government acted in bad faith with Mr Major and the unionist leaders squandering this unprecedented opportunity to resolve the conflict " by refusing to talk with Sinn Féin.
However, with the abandonment of large scale political violence ; complete decommissioning by the IRA ; and a statement from the Army Council that ' the war is over ', the majority of unionists have overcome their innate scepticism to believe that it has.
On 28 October, the Irish Bulletin, a news-sheet produced by Dáil Éireann's Department of Publicity, published Barry's statement alleging torture, which had been organised by Dick McKee, the IRA Commandant of the Dublin Brigade.

IRA and on
* 1979 – An IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place in Brussels.
He was killed during an IRA attack on the RIC barracks in Rathmore, County Kerry, on 11 July 1920.
On 10 August Bombardier Paul Challenor became the first soldier to be killed by the Provisional IRA in Derry, when he was shot by a sniper on the Creggan estate.
He claimed McGuinness, the second-in-command of the IRA in the city at the time, and another anonymous IRA member gave him bomb parts on the morning of 30 January, the date planned for the civil rights march.
The report concluded that an Official IRA sniper fired on British soldiers, albeit on the balance of evidence his shot was fired after the Army shots that wounded Damien Donaghey and John Johnston.
The GAC passed motions ( by the necessary two-thirds majority ) allowing members of the Provisional IRA to discuss and debate the taking of parliamentary seats, and the removal of the ban on members of the organisation from supporting any successful republican candidate who took their seat in Dáil Éireann.
This argument is based on the view that the surviving anti-Treaty members of the Second Dáil delegated their " authority " to the IRA Army Council in 1938.
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.
After a failed attempt to bomb Canary Wharf, a large IRA bomb exploded at South Quay on 9 February 1996.
* 1974 – M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England.
Fenian soldiers wearing IRA insignia fought at the Battle of Ridgeway on 2 June 1866.
The fear was increased when, on the very day the new national parliament was meeting, 21 January 1919, members of the IRA Third Tipperary Brigade led by Seán Treacy and Dan Breen seized a quantity of gelignite and two Royal Irish Constabulary constables ( James McDonnell and Patrick O ' Connell ) were shot dead in the process.
As part of the ongoing strategy to take control of the IRA, Brugha proposed to Dáil Éireann on 20 August 1919 that the Volunteers were to be asked, at this next convention, to swear allegiance to the Dáil.
Brugha was nominally the superior as Minister for Defence, but Collins's powerbase came from his position as Director of Organisation of the IRA and from his membership on the Supreme Council of the IRB.
The second phase of the IRA campaign, roughly from January to July 1920, involved attacks on the fortified police barracks located in the towns.
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.
In Dublin, the " Squad " and elements of the IRA Dublin Brigade were amalgamated into the " Active Service Unit ", under Oscar Traynor, which tried to carry out at least three attacks on British troops a day.
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.
In this regard, the IRA acted to a large degree as an agent of social control and stability, driven by the need to preserve cross-class unity in the national struggle, and on occasion being used to break strikes.
The most contentious areas of the Treaty for the IRA were abolition of the Irish Republic declared in 1919, the status of the Irish Free State as a dominion in the British Commonwealth and the British retention of the so called Treaty Ports on Ireland's south coast.

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