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What is the IRA and what has it fought for?
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is the name that has been used by a number of paramilitary groups in Ireland and Northern Ireland, all with the aim of ending British rule and establishing an independent republic within a unified Ireland. Willing to use violence – even regarding it a necessary tactic – the IRA has been classified as illegal and a terrorist organisation by the British and Irish authorities.
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When was the IRA formed?
The movement for ‘home rule’, or self-government of Ireland, gained momentum in the 19th century, and gave way to revolutionary efforts in the 20th century. Following the Easter Rising of 1916 – a failed uprising in Dublin against British rule – existing paramilitary groups such as the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army were succeeded by a new group, the IRA, in 1919.
The most boring thing an old man might say to me when I was young: “You don’t know you’re born. You lot have it easy.”
My father grew up in a world in which he was better off in each successive decade than in the one before it.
He had lived through two World Wars, as a small child who presumably took little notice of the first one, though psychologists say you can be influenced for life by events in those infant years.
He was seven years old when border posts went up just yards from his home. I can remember being seven, the building sites we played on in Riverdale, so presumably he remembered that for the rest of his life, too. He lived through the depression of the hungry Thirties and, for some reason he never fully explained, retained from that period a gripe against farmers.