Northern Ireland - IRA?

Question

The IRA declared a ceasfire on 31 august 1994. During the previous 25 years of the "Troubles" what tactics had the IRA used to achieve its aims and how did the tactics change during the period

Answer 1

The terrorist IRA recruited young impressionable teenagers,who without prospects of employment were keen to feel a sense of belonging.Many of these young people really didnt have a clue and had been brought up on a diet of republican glorification in the run down streets of border towns.

The IRA disrespected the people of Ulsters right to choose their nationality.British people,in British territory ,governed by British.That was the will of the majority.As we know ,in a democracy ,the majority rules.In the case of Ulster,the majority to remain independent of the republic was overwhelming.

The IRA ,when not robbing banks,money laundering,drug dealing,kneecapping,administering punishment beatings and extorting money from businesses,planted bombs in areas populated by innocents in NI and england.Of course many people were killed and maimed ,often children.

Mrs thatcher undeterred by these activities,including the murder of war hero lord mountbatten,did much to cripple the activity of the IRA and sent out a message to terrorists that there will be no quarter given.The violence of the IRA terrorists achieved nothing but alienation of the public and mrs thatcher recieved much support.

Unfortunately ,the terms of the good friday agreement (aka surrender to the IRA) was not met by the IRA who have to this day not surrendered thier weapons.Indeed ,such a weapons were used by the IRA in the multi million pound bank raid and the murder of denis donaldson last year.Something that Blair in his usual sycophantic ways,overlooked as a minor hiccup and the complete surrender(aka power sharing) went ahead this week.The British of Ulster of course have been treacherously abandoned.

Answer 2

This question cannot be answered correctly because of the bitter divide that still exists between nationalist Irish and the loyalist Unionist peoples that inhabit Ireland. For the record however, it must be stated that the bigotry and indifference that was exercised as a political policy by the Unionist Parliament in Belfast and their constant refusal to treat Catholics as equal to themselves is the main reason why the IRA was reborn in 1960's Ireland. Indeed, if they had only the courage or foresight or intelligence to treat the Catholic population as equals and meet them half-way the IRA, might never have succumbed to the terror it returned on their Unionist enemies. Even in nationalist areas of Ulster the IRA, was known as I Ran Away before the Troubles took effect.The Unionists lit the torch that ignited Northern Ireland and fuel was added to the fire on Bloody Sunday. Outrage, murder and atrocity was carried out but it was not all one sided. Recent reports state that Britain's bloody hands are also involved in this conflict. The question is what tactics were used, the same tactics that were used in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Vietnam and currently Palestine and Iraq.The tactics of guerrilla warfare. The bomb, the bullet, the killing and maiming of innocents and the secret deadly games that all sides were involved in.The British media called them cowards and murderers, a lot of Irish people called them heroes.What ever one may call them depends on what side of the divide one comes from however, what is of value is that the British Govt. themselves stated that militarily alone they could never defeat them.The IRA also knew that an infinite war of attrition was also fruitless. The new policy would be quasi-political, 'a ballot box in one hand and an armalite in the other', this two-dimensional attack resulted in behind the scenes talks at the highest levels on both sides of the border and across the Irish Sea. The resulting talks ended with the cease fire and the Good Friday Agreement.Has it worked, my own view is that it has been positive for the IRA and Sinn Fein, its main political sponsor. They now have members of parliament in both Northern Ireland and the Republic and also MEPs in the E.U. Open invitations to 10 Downing St. and the White House, they have come along way.

Answer 3

Okay lets take this step by step, The name IRA has been in use since the organization was founded in 1921. From 1969 through 1997, the IRA splintered into a number of organizations, all called the IRA. They included:

the Official IRA (OIRA)
the Provisional IRA(PIRA)
the Real IRA (RIRA),and
Continuity IRA (CIRA).
The association of the IRA with terrorism comes from the paramilitary activities of the Provisional IRA, which is no longer active.
Founded In 1969, when the IRA split into the Official IRA, which renounced violence, and the Provisional IRA.

The creation of a unified Ireland under Irish, rather than British rule. PIRA used terrorist tactics to protest the Unionist/ Protestant treatment of Catholics in Northern Ireland

The IRA is a strictly paramilitary organization. Its political wing is Sinn Féin (We Ourselves, in Gaelic), a party that has represented Republican (Catholic) interests since the turn of the 20th century.
Official talks between Sinn Féin and the British government began in 1994, and appeared to conclude with the 1998 signing of the Good Friday Agreement. The Agreement included the IRA's commitment to disarm. By 2006, the PIRA appeared to have made good on its commitment. However, terrorist activity by the Real IRA and other paramilitary groups continues and, as of the summer of 2006, is on the rise, but overall what you wanted to know was that they have promised to use less guns and more talks. War will always be a bad thing no matter what side you believe in, or how right you may think you are, men fighting over land and women and children dead can never be justified in my opinion!

Answer 4

Only a 'unionist majority' in NI because the colony was carved out of Ireland to ensure a unionist majority and a "Protestant state for a Protestant people". The IRA fought a legitimate battle against the foreign occupying British who terrorised the streets of Ireland. The British are the terrorists.

Answer 5

(the troubles) have being going on in ireland long before the present troubles but the troubles with the ira did"nt just happen,northern ireland was controled by the most secterian parliament with a protestant parliament for protestant people.The start of the troubles started with a protestant council allocating a council house to a single protestant girl rather than a catholic familywith children there were protests and the civil rights movement started an nonviolent movement until a certian clergy man decided thats it and gathered a crowd (hundreds)thugs and attack the marchers but the marches go bigger and boulder and the attacks got more brutal the police in the meantime stood idlely by and did nothing until thing got out of hand and the loyalist tried to burn catholics out of their homes in a part of belfast thats when the provies came into being to defend the catholics in the city and the rest of the.counties it turned into a very nasty war where years of.hatred spilled unto the streets and across the province then the british army came on the scene to keep the peace but after awhile turned their guns on the nationalists so its been a very dirty war from then on the unionists talk as if their was no one only the ira doing the killing the loyalists and the so called security forces killed over half the dead in northern ireland so this is where the hipocracy comes in the unionsts want only the republicans to be blamed but we are all going to forgive each other and get on with it, sorry to go on so much but there are no tactics its just like all wars the combatants just try to inflict as much damage on each other and if its the innocents that suffer and it always is so be it

Answer 6

I think that the answers you received here just illustrate the adage "One man's terrorist is another mans freedom fighter". Terrorist tactics, or the ones we have come to call that, will always encounter in a situation where a smaller weaker armed force, with very limited resources, confronts a much larger one. Bombs take considerable skill to construct and to be effective but are economical and the equipment and parts are easier to fabricate and smuggle than regular military equipment.

The various wings of the IRA, the Provos having the most "effectives", guarded Irish Catholic neighborhoods from Orange, UDF and police raids. They employed pre warned bombings of what were perceived to be UDF meeting sites (Pubs etc.), RUC offices and barracks (the police) And after the "peace keeper" British Army arrived, these units were engaged and ambushed as well. The bombings in England mentioned in one of the answers were designed as a campaign to show the British public that the IRA could operate with impunity even in England.

During this time, civil liberties were pretty much extinguished, people were imprisoned without charge or trial. Brave men starved themselves to death on principle. The British government permitted the corruption of its police force, making themselves to appear as Fascists, and proved themselves willing to behave in as vile a manner as a civil government can to its citizens. Sounds familiar in many ways, doesn't it. This is also the aim of any guerrilla war. When a government, in frustration at the military successes of insurgency, begins to impose repressive measures against one part of it citizenry, because of implied sympathy to the rebels, you can be sure they will produce more converts to the "cause" than safety. And in doing so the will awaken all the ugliest parts of human behavior. Finally overwelmed with blood and stupidity It ground to a halt. And now political solutions are sought.

There hundreds of feet of shelf space on this topic. Look at some of them. They might be a primer for your future. After all its been going, off and on, for 700yrs.

"Our Day Will Come,"

Answer 7

Lol, essay question? The IRA (Irish Republican Army) which was a terror cell bent on the liberation of Northern Ireland from British ownership, used a campaign of terror for many years. They would attack targets within England and Southern Ireland, and threaten more in the event that England still claimed ownership of the land. Some of the most famous examples of their terrorism in England were the bombings of Canary Wharf in London, and Manchester City Centre, both in the Early 90's. Also many political figures and just common citizens were killed in Ireland during this time.

Answer 8

For all you gobshite brit faggots calling the IRA a "terrorist organization", you don't know fackall about terrorists until you look at your own so-called "government".


So piss off

Answer 9

They used the same tactics you would use if a foreign power took your land, enslaved your people for 800 years and had been responsible for the murder of millions of your countrymen over the centuries.
They used the same tactics as in the 1920s when England was driven out of what is now the republic of Ireland. One mans terrorist is anothers freedom fighter.

Answer 10

Your best answer is a joke and if you used any of those facts in any sort of an essay or thesis you would be laughed at. Complete nonsense.