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 ".

The IRA, formed in 1895, preceded the NCAA by at least ten years and provided a guideline for the rules of eligibility and sportsmanship later adopted by the NCAA when it was formed.

Director Neil Jordan, in later interviews, attributed this failure to the film's heavily political undertone, particularly its sympathetic portrayal of an IRA fighter.

The War of Independence was fought between the army of the Irish Republic, the Irish Republican Army ( known now as the " Old IRA " to distinguish it from later organisations of that name ), and the British Army of the United Kingdom.

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.

Sean MacStiofain, the first chief of staff of the Provisional IRA was a prominent member in his later life.

Spence later wrote " At the time, the attitude was that if you couldn't get an IRA man you should shoot a Taig, he's your last resort ".

In support of this theory, Craig was later executed by his UDA colleagues for " treason ", an inquiry having found some evidence of his part in the murder of other top loyalists by the IRA.

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.

By the early 1990s, a new leadership had emerged on the Shankill Road following the killing of powerful South Belfast Brigadier and the UDA's Deputy Commander John McMichael in 1987 by a booby-trap car bomb planted by the IRA ; less than three months later, the Supreme Commander Andy Tyrie resigned after an attempt was made on his life.

His father later saves him from IRA justice, as they are about to kneecap him, and he is sent off to London for his own good.

The Official IRA was associated with Official Sinn Féin, later renamed Sinn Féin the Workers Party and then The Workers ' Party, and now known as the Workers ' Party of Ireland.

However, the Provisionals would rapidly become the dominant faction, both as a result of intensive recruitment and because some Official IRA units ( such as the Strabane company ) later defected to them.

Initially there was much confusion among republicans on the ground, Martin McGuinness for example, joined the Official IRA in 1970, unaware that there had been a split and only later joined the Provisionals.

His strong leadership skills and determination were clearly evident in 1970 when allegations ( later disproved in court, though questions since have emerged challenging that verdict in one case ), that the hardline republican Minister for Agriculture, Neil Blaney, and the Minister for Finance, Charles Haughey, were involved in an attempt to use £ 100, 000 in aid money to import arms for the Provisional IRA.

South Belfast Brigadier John McMichael was killed by the Provisional IRA in December 1987 but it was later admitted that UDA member James Pratt Craig, a rival of McMichael's within the movement, had played a role in planning the murder.

IRA man and future Irish politician, Todd Andrews recalled later, " the fact is that the majority of the IRA raids were abortive.

Some of the police later claimed that they were fired on first by IRA sentries, but this has never been proven.

She would later be supportive of peaceful Sinn Féin initiatives, although she was never a supporter of IRA violence, some of the worst of which was inflicted in a 1974 bombing of her home city of Birmingham.

In 1942, IRA and ERC joined forces under the name International Relief and Rescue Committee, which was later shortened to the International Rescue Committee.

He later became an IRA advisor to the IRA Executive during the 1950s Border Campaign.

The Irish government first detained the IRA's leaders under the Offences Against the State Act and later introduced internment for all IRA activists.

Although there were many IRA men — both Official and Provisional — present at the protest, it is claimed they were all unarmed, apparently because it was anticipated that the paratroopers would attempt to " draw them out ".

Paddy Ward claimed he was the leader of the Fianna Éireann, the youth wing of the IRA in January 1972.

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 Provisional IRA convention delegates opposed to the change in the Constitution claimed that the convention was gerrymandered " by the creation of new IRA organisational structures for the convention, including the combinations of Sligo-Roscommon-Longford and Wicklow-Wexford-Waterford.

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.

The CPS claimed that Bruce Kent, the general secretary of CND and a Catholic priest, was a supporter of IRA terrorism.

Anti-treaty writer Dorothy Macardle has claimed that 70 to 80 percent of the IRA was against the Treaty.

When challenged on this, Maguire claimed that, as the IRA “ were no longer the same as they used to be ”, he disagreed with the organisation.

Whenever it claimed responsibility for its attacks, the UVF usually claimed that those targeted were IRA members or IRA sympathisers.

Other times, attacks on Catholic civilians were claimed as " retaliation " for IRA actions, since the IRA drew most of its support from the Catholic community.

It is claimed that some RIC helped the IRA in this attack.

The IRA claimed that the office above the shop was regularly used by the UDA for meetings and one was due to take place shortly after the bomb exploded.

IRA historian J. Bowyer Bell stated, with respect to the Provisional IRA, that, " There was some support in Belfast, although less than claimed " ( p. 367 ).

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.

Until recently republican paramilitary groups, such the Provisional IRA, often claimed that their campaigns derived legitimacy from this 1918 mandate, and some still do.

* Irish Republican Army ( IRA ), a name claimed by multiple groups

The Black and Tans were not subject to strict discipline in their early months in Ireland and as a result, their deaths at the hands of the IRA in 1920 were often repaid with arbitrary reprisals against the civilian population.

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 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.

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.

The new leadership of the Irish Republic worried that the IRA would not accept its authority, given that the Volunteers, under their own constitution, were bound to obey their own executive and no other body.

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.

Furthermore, it instructed all IRA units to reaffirm their allegiance to the Irish Republic on 2 April.

They asserted that their " IRA Army Executive " was the real government of a still-existing Irish Republic.

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.

According to Shane MacGowan, amongst the reasons of the breakup was disagreement concerning the political orientation of his songs, the band not wanting to sing too obvious pro-republican songs — though some of their previous songs were already politically engaged: for instance, Streams of Whiskey is about the poet and IRA member Brendan Behan.

The IRA demands the release of other jailed IRA members, threatening to execute Jody in three days if their demands are not met.

Individuals who find themselves disqualified from a Roth IRA may contribute to their Roth 401 ( k ).

** Arms Crisis in the Republic of Ireland: Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney are dismissed as members of the Irish Government, for accusations of their involvement in a plot to import arms for use by the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland.

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.

" Prior to this, Adams had maintained a policy of refusing to condemn IRA or their splinter groups ' actions.

" However he was soon to begin negotiations with IRA leaders to recognise their authority and end the conflict.

In their twenties, his sons were under a kidnap threat from the IRA.

The following month the civil war was brought to an end, when the remaining Anti-Treaty IRA guerrillas announced a ceasefire and dumped their arms.

Henceforth, the IRA Army Council perceived itself to be the legitimate government of the Irish Republic and, on this basis, the IRA and Sinn Féin justified their rejection of the states of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland and political abstentionism from their parliamentary institutions.