* 1975 – Balcombe Street Siege: An IRA Active Service Unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London.

With his IRA companions seemingly dead after the attack, Fergus hides from the main body of the IRA in London, where he takes a job as a day labourer, using the alias " Jimmy ".

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.

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.

Simultaneously, the larger regular force misunderstood Percival's objective and thought it saw an opportunity created to destroy the entire IRA in Cork.

In 1974 Griffith took an opportunity to interview surviving IRA members from the 1916 Easter Rebellion: Maire Comerford, Joseph Sweeney, Sean Kavanagh, John O ' Sullivan, Brigid Thornton, Sean Harling, Martin Walton, David Nelligan ( or Neligan ) and Tom Barry are all interviewed at the ends of their lives in a programme titled Curious Journey.

* October-Russell made a speech which has been interpreted as attempting to shore up flagging belief IRA members had in the effectiveness the S-Plan was having :" England's difficulty-Ireland's opportunity " has ever been the watchword of the Gael .. Now is the time for Irishmen to take up arms and strike a blow for the Ulster people.

The Continuity IRA has its origins in a split in the Provisional IRA.

In September 1986, the Provisional IRA held a meeting of its General Army Convention ( GAC ), the organisation ’ s supreme decision-making body.

The meeting, which like all such meetings was secret, was convened to discuss among other resolutions, the articles of the Provisional IRA constitution which dealt with abstentionism, its opposition to the taking of seats in Dáil Éireann.

Thus, similar to the claim put forward by the Provisional IRA after its split from the Official IRA in 1969, the Continuity IRA claims to be the legitimate continuation of the ' Irish Republican Army ' or Óglaigh na hÉireann.

Initially, the Continuity IRA did not reveal its existence, either in the form of press statements or paramilitary activity.

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.

While the Rising and its leaders continued to be venerated by Irish republicans — including members and supporters of the Provisional IRA and the modern Sinn Féin — with murals in republican areas of Belfast and other towns celebrating the actions of Pearse and his comrades, and a number of parades held annually in remembrance of the Rising, the Irish government discontinued its annual parade in Dublin in the early 1970s, and in 1976 it took the unprecedented step of proscribing ( under the Offences against the State Act ) a 1916 commemoration ceremony at the GPO organised by Sinn Féin and the Republican commemoration Committee.

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.

Moves to make the IRA the army of the Dáil and not its rival had begun before the January attack, and were stepped up.

In April 1921, the IRA was again reorganised, in line with the Dáil's endorsement of its actions, along the lines of a regular army.

The IRA was to retain its arms and the British Army was to remain in barracks for the duration of peace negotiations.

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.

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.

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.

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

In 1976 after a series of terror attacks by the Provisional IRA, Gaddafi announced that " the bombs which are convulsing Britain and breaking its spirit are the bombs of Libyan people.

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 ".

In the United States, it is important to note that Women's Rowing is an NCAA sport, while Men's Rowing chooses to remain governed by its own regulatory body, the Intercollegiate Rowing Association ( IRA ).

On 24 April 2001, the U. S. House of Representatives Committee on International Relations published the findings of its investigation into IRA activities in Colombia.

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

These changes within the military wing of the Republican Movement were accompanied by changes in the political wing and at the 1986 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis ( party conference ), which followed the IRA Convention, the party's policy of abstentionism, which forbade Sinn Féin elected representatives from taking seats in the Oireachtas, the parliament of Ireland, was dropped.

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

The failure of the IRA border campaign in the 1950s and the accession of Lemass as Taoiseach heralded a new policy towards Northern Ireland.

The IRA was also of the opinion that a coordinated policy of assassination of leading republicans was being implemented by members of the security services.

Wilson became increasingly concerned that Tudor, with the connivance of Lloyd George, who loved to drop hints to that effect, was operating an unofficial policy of killing IRA men in reprisal for the deaths of pro-Crown forces.

Loyalist paramilitaries countered this with a defensive campaign of violence and the British government responded with a policy of internment without trial of suspected IRA members.

The IRA released a statement saying: " We meant to kill Gardiner, the political architect of the criminalization policy and the H-blocks.

Often this is done within a VUL policy because this allows a tax deferral ( for which no alternative would exist besides tuition money saved in an educational IRA or 529 plan ), provides for permanent life insurance, and can usually be accessed tax-free by borrowing against the policy.

The late 1970s and early 1980s marked a decisive change of FLNC policy, similar to the one employed by the IRA.

The SEP IRA is functionally similar to a self-settle trust, and a sound policy reason would exist to not shield SEP IRAs, but many financial planners argue that a rollover ( or direct transfer ) from a SEP IRA to a rollover IRA would give those funds protected status, too.

The IRA is used to purchase a qualified SPIA that maximizes the current income from the IRA, and this income is used to purchase a UL policy.

Disagreements on policy issues were exacerbated by the desire of the reformers to ditch the democratic centralist nature of the party structures and remove any remaining questions about alleged party links with the Official IRA, a topic which had been the subject of persistent and embarrassing media coverage.

However, in 1983, when 38 IRA prisoners broke out of the Maze prison, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, James Prior did not resign, explaining that the break-out was not caused by any policy initiative originating from him.

In 1972 the Provisional IRA adopted a policy of not mounting attacks in " other Celtic countries "-i. e.

The IRA also burned historic stately homes in retaliation for the government policy of destroying the homes of republicans, suspected or actual.

The Black and Tans who surrendered were not killed, even though this policy had been endorsed by IRA General Headquarters due to the terror and mayhem they inflicted on civilians.

Under the new policy, IRA volunteers who were caught with arms in the Republic of Ireland were ordered to dump or destroy them and not to take defensive action.

In 1954, after an arms raid at Gough Barracks in Armagh, a speaker at the Wolfe Tone commemoration at Bodenstown repeated that IRA policy was directed solely against British forces in Northern Ireland.

Clann na Poblachta ( led by former IRA Chief of Staff Seán MacBride ) withdrew its support for the government in protest over this policy.

In 1986, the Cumann na mBan opposed the decision by the IRA and Sinn Féin to drop the policy of abstentionism and aligned itself with Republican Sinn Féin and the Continuity IRA.