the IRA

[lord twiggy1]

just want to know if any of you guy/girls know anything about the IRA


oh and hecter, no they dont have herpes

[EvilPurpleMonkey]

Which one? LOL...But seriously, there's like 5 now.

[lord twiggy1]

the origional belfast one

[Anarchy Ninja]

Like PIRA (Provencianal Irish Republican Army)?

[EvilPurpleMonkey]

Ah, I was wrong. There's six. The original IRA, The Irish republican army, The Official IRA, The provisional IRA, The continuity IRA and the real IRA. Take your pick.

[Huckleberryhound]

What do you want to know ?


Try Googling - Gerry McCabe


edit.How did i know you'd be a yank.

[lord twiggy1]

Any one is fine there all ira and do basically the same stuff

[EvilPurpleMonkey]

Ok, lets talk about the original IRA.

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) (Irish name: Óglaigh na hÉireann), sometimes known later as the Old IRA, was a military organisation descended from the Irish Volunteers which was recognised in 1919 by Dáil Éireann as the legitimate army of the unilaterally declared Irish Republic, the Irish state proclaimed in the Easter Rising in 1916 and reaffirmed by the Dáil in January 1919. In Irish, it was referred to as Óglaigh na hÉireann.

Though a series of organisations later claimed to be a continuation of the IRA from the 1920s to today, many Irish people disagree with these claims. After the signature of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921, members of the IRA who supported the Treaty formed the nucleus of the National Army founded by IRA leader Michael Collins in 1922. While the anti-Treaty IRA continued to exist after its defeat in the Irish Civil War, by the late 1930s it had lost most of the legitimacy with which most supporters of the Republican side initially regarded it. A small minority of Irish people accepts later claimants to the name as the political heirs of the original Irish Republican Army, though none had their claims accepted by Dáil Éireann.

To distinguish between the army of the Irish Republic, and later claimants to the name, the original army recognised by the Dáil is sometimes called the Old IRA.

That should be good enough for now.

[lord twiggy1]

What do you want to know ?


Try Googling - Gerry McCabe


edit.How did i know you'd be a yank.

how much do you know and i dont know, im just interested because im reading a book about some IRA guys. its called Edge of Danger by Jack Higgins. ive read some other of his books and a bunch of them have had IRA in it

[Huckleberryhound]

Well, interesting fact about the IRA

#1. Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness aren't in it....apparently

[lord twiggy1]

ya i dont know much about the IRA. just that really the new ones are basically terrorists

[Huckleberryhound]

What do you want to know ?


Try Googling - Gerry McCabe


edit.How did i know you'd be a yank.

how much do you know and i dont know, im just interested because im reading a book about some IRA guys. its called Edge of Danger by Jack Higgins. ive read some other of his books and a bunch of them have had IRA in it

What Era of The IRA are you interested in, and Are you wanting a revisionist view, or a Nationalist view....or Mad Dog Adairs view (cert 18 ) ?

[lord twiggy1]

im mostly interested in their involvment in WWII

[lord twiggy1]

and whats revisionist mean

and whos mad dog adairs

[Huckleberryhound]

Revisionist - http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/revisionist





Johnny "maddog" Adair - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/nort ... 647547.stm

[lord twiggy1]

maddog has quite the interesting story

[Huckleberryhound]

the origional belfast one

Oh, i just seen this.

The original IRA were not from Belfast.

[lord twiggy1]

really, i thought they were(obviously)

[Huckleberryhound]

maddog has quite the interesting story

If by interesting you mean "Murdering Bastard", then yes i guess you could say so.


I'll try and find a good , non-sensationalised history of the IRA on the Net, and post you a link. Giving my small piece of info would be wrong because it would be tainted with opinion, and scetchy at best (i'm not Irish, just live here)....i'll post it when i find a good link.

[Huckleberryhound]

really, i thought they were(obviously)

The UK had control of the entire Island of Ireland when the IRA was formed, the seperation (1921, i think) happened later.

[EvilPurpleMonkey]

You could go to wikipedia if you could manage to read 8 huge pages of writing. They're unbiased.

P.S. Click my link.

[Huckleberryhound]

You could go to wikipedia if you could manage to read 8 huge pages of writing. They're unbiased.

P.S. Click my link.

Dang, i was just going to post this aswell.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army

[EvilPurpleMonkey]

But did you click my link?

[Huckleberryhound]

But did you click my link?

I did that ages ago, i don't really like games like that.

[lord twiggy1]

dont clik it or hell eat your brain. oh and yes i do mean murdering bastard in a way, but i say interesting because he gets out of prison then thrown back in, then out, then back in