IRA Disbanded

[Surf3rDud3]

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) (Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann[1]) was an Irish republican revolutionary military organisation descended from the Irish Volunteers, established 25 November 1913 and who in April 1916 staged the Easter Rising.[2] The Irish Volunteers were recognised in 1919 by Dáil Éireann (its elected assembly) as the legitimate army of the unilaterally declared Irish Republic, the Irish state proclaimed at Easter in 1916 and reaffirmed by the Dáil in January 1919. Thereafter, the IRA waged a guerrilla campaign against British rule in Ireland in the Irish War of Independence from 1919-1921.

The original IRA split in 1922. After the signing 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. However, a high proportion of the IRA was opposed to the treaty. 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. Having lost the civil war, this group remained in existence, with the intention of overthrowing both the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland and re-establishing the Irish Republic declared in 1919.



Yea well its finally gone they quit fighting.....I think its funny cuz theyve fought for along time....

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

[||§§||Foehammer]

Um...lol.

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

They aren't done.

[||§§||DVtriple6]

Sadly this is a conflict that likely will never end. Too much bad blood on that island. A lot of it actually. For instance the massacre in Derry also known as Black Sunday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1972)). Even though it is a long time ago, those people will never forget that day or others like it.

Not long ago I saw the movie Black Sunday, a very strong movie and it illustrated very well what makes the IRA tick.
Never forget, one man's terrorist is often another man's freedom fighter. =\

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

Freedom fighters CAN use terrorist tactics, but they do not have to. Terrorist acts are the last acts of desparate people, but to use things like explosives and chemical weapons against large groups of people is just wrong no matter the cause. They ar enot fighting for thier or another person's lives, they are fighting for an ideal, which is fine, but should not be handled that way.

[||§§||DVtriple6]

True, I'm not saying their means are fair so to speak. They have claimed responsibility for a LOT of car bombs and other stuff even in London which has killed many innocent people. Nothing justifies such actions. But in that conflict their are no "good" and "bad" side, sadly they are both "bad" at least it seems that way to me.

I have sometimes wondered what it would be like growing up in such a place, armed troops patrolling your neighborhood, riots, roadblocks etc.

[||§§||Hand_O_Death]

I agree trip, very sad indeed.