In November 1920, the Tans " besieged " Tralee in revenge for the IRA abduction and killing of two local RIC men.

The " Cogadh na Saoirse " medal, awarded since 1941 by the Irish government to IRA veterans of the War of Independence, bears a ribbon with two vertical stripes in black and tan.

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.

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 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.

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.

The IRA / FARC-EP connection was first made public on 11 August 2001, following the arrest in Bogotá of two IRA explosives and urban warfare experts and of a representative of Sinn Féin who was known to be stationed in Cuba.

In 1973, after a dispute with the IRA board of directors, Kendler formed two other racquetball organizations, yet the IRA remains the sport's dominant organization, recognized by the United States Olympic Committee as the American national racquetball governing body.

The two highest-ranking RUC officers to be killed in the Troubles were Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Robert Buchanan when they were ambushed by the Provisional IRA South Armagh Brigade outside Jonesborough, County Armagh, on 20 March 1989.

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.

About twenty British soldiers, three civilians and two IRA men were killed in the ensuing gun battle.

The two men were lawyers on holiday, whom the IRA shot believing they were off-duty British Army soldiers.

In November 1920, the Black and Tans besieged Tralee in revenge for the IRA abduction and killing of two Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ) men.

The building was surrounded by Auxiliaries, alerted by the firing, and in the ensuing gun fight two Auxiliaries were killed and one IRA man, Frank Teeling, was wounded and captured.

Later that day, two high-ranking IRA officers, Dick McKee and Peadar Clancy, who had helped plan the killings of the British agents, together with another man, Conor Clune ( a nephew of Patrick Clune, Archbishop of Perth, Australia ), who were being held in Dublin Castle, were tortured, and then shot.

On 27 November 1975, McWhirter was assassinated by two IRA volunteers, both of whom were members of what became known as the Balcombe Street Gang, the group for whose capture McWhirter had offered the reward.

In 1996, the Provisional IRA attacked an alternate area of Greater London in the 1996 Docklands bombing, resulting in two deaths, 39 other casualties and £ 85 million worth of damage.

On the day the new parliament first met, two RIC policemen, Constables Patrick MacDonnell and James O ' Connell, were killed at Soloheadbeg, County Tipperary, by an IRA raiding party, while on duty guarding dynamite in transit to the local mines.

Following the killing of Notarantonio, unaware of the involvement of the FRU, the IRA assassinated two UDA leaders in reprisal attacks.

It has been alleged that the FRU secretly passed details of the two UDA leaders to the IRA via " Stakeknife " in an effort to distract attention from " Stakeknife " as a possible informer.

In what became known as the Arms Crisis, two ministers, Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney were sacked from the government for gun-running for the Provisional IRA in May 1970.

The other two benefited from the amnesty to IRA members issued by Éamon de Valera upon his assumption of power in 1932.

Athenian society was split into two factions, the Philistines and the Artists.

For a time there were two factions on the campus fighting for possession of the student body.

The savages divided into two factions ; ;

The convention broke up without arriving at a compromise and the two regional factions then acted independently.

A reunion of the two warring factions took place in 1923 when the new Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin committed his party to protective tariffs, causing the Liberals to reunite in support of free trade.

The two factions were originally known as " hard " ( Lenin's supporters ) and " soft " ( Martov's supporters ).

At the end, the Congress was evenly split between the two factions.

The two factions were in a state of flux in 1903 – 1904 with many members changing sides.

At the Fifth Congress held in London in May 1907, the Bolsheviks were in the majority, but the two factions continued functioning mostly independently of each other.

The Central Powers ( German: Mittelmächte ; Hungarian: Központi hatalmak ; Turkish: İttifak Devletleri or Bağlaşma Devletleri ; Bulgarian: Централни сили ) were one of the two warring factions in World War I ( 1914 – 18 ), composed of the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria.

leading to a structure which has been called " one party, two factions ".

The interaction between the two main factions is largely complementary with each faction possessing a particular expertise and both committed to the continued rule of the Communist Party and not allowing intra-party factional politics to threaten party unity.

Within his " one party, two factions " model, Li Chen has noted that one should avoid labelling these two groupings with simplistic ideological labels, and that these two groupings do not act in a zero-sum, winner take all fashion.

The Congress became divided between two factions, between the one supporting Stalin, and those who supported Kamenev and Zinoviev.

The Congress was split between two dominant factions, radicals ( mostly Stalinists ) and moderates.

Modern studies represent Hypatia's death as the result of a struggle between two Christian factions, the moderate Orestes, supported by Hypatia, and the more rigid Cyril.

Lastly, he added two new factions to the chariot races, Gold and Purple, to race against the existing White, Red, Green and Blue factions.

The conquest of Syria by the Muslim Arabs in the middle of the seventh century introduced into the land two political factions later called the Qaysites and the Yemenites.

The sanguinary feuds between these two factions depleted, in course of time, the manhood of the Lebanon and ended in the decisive battle of Ain Dara in 1711, which resulted in the utter defeat of the Yemenite party.

However, on 28 December 2005, the leadership of the two factions agreed to submit a single list to voters, headed by Barghouti, who began actively campaigning for Fatah from his jail cell.

To complicate matters, the two leading factions of Nicene Christianity in the East, the Alexandrians and the supporters of Meletius in Antioch, were " bitterly divided ... almost to the point of complete animosity.

His closest advisors formed two factions, setting the framework for the future First Party System.