Irish Republican Army

Irish Republican Army
(IRA)
   The main republican organisation in Northern Ireland. In the late 1960s, the Provisional IRA (PIRA) broke from the original organisation and has subsequently surpassed it in influence. Until the 1990s, PIRA operated beyond the mainstream political process. Members portrayed themselves as true representatives of the nationalist community, but for many years saw no requirement for this to be sanctified by the nationalist population. Some leading figures sought to emphasise the need to participate in the formal political arena and since the beginning of the peace process have been willing to allow the Sinn Féin Party to enter into negotiations.
   Allegations of republican violence continue to be made, although on occasions such as the Omagh atrocity, it was a splinter group the Real IRA that was responsible for violence. In 2005, the IRA officially renounced the use of violence as the means of achieving Irish unifi- cation and has decommissioned a vast stockpile of weaponry under the supervision of the independent decommissioning inspectorate.

Glossary of UK Government and Politics . 2013.

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