‘This day is a long time in coming’: Memorial to garda and soldier killed during rescue of Don Tidey
Pte Patrick Kelly and Garda recruit Gary Sheehan were shot dead by a Provisional IRA gang 41 years ago
This topic contains articles relating to the original IRA from the time of the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921). It also covers later paramilitary organisations that split to form contemporary groups, such as the Provisional IRA, Real IRA, and Continuity IRA, which were active during the Troubles in Northern Ireland and beyond.
Pte Patrick Kelly and Garda recruit Gary Sheehan were shot dead by a Provisional IRA gang 41 years ago
Judge at trial said he could not be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that statements not ‘adduced by torture’
Former police officers defend the force they served, but feel increasingly forgotten
Áine McCann says: ‘We would have been safer on the streets of Belfast where children were getting shot dead every other day’
Former Belfast monk and IRA member abducted, murdered and secretly buried by paramilitaries in 1972
Sinn Féin manifesto's bizarre plans for an investigation into RTÉ’s coverage of the conflict in Gaza are part of a worrying pattern
Radio: When the RTÉ host talks to Pat and Aisling Ryan, it’s an intriguing glimpse into an unseen and unglamorous yet vital industry
Explosions, widely blamed on the IRA, killed 21 people in the city in November 1974
Television review: Adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe book retraces abduction and murder of Jean McConville and experiences of IRA bomber Dolours Price
Shane Kenny says the then taoiseach never received the credit due for his role leading up to the Belfast Agreement
Former Methodist Church president Harold Good, whose house played a prominent role in in ending The Troubles, opens up about the challenges of peacemakers
Recent controversies are not the reason for Sinn Féin’s decline, they’re symptoms of its underlying reality
Lead investigator urges anyone with information that could help locate burial site to ignore ‘myths’ and come forward
Staging the Martin Hurson Story has caused disquiet in parts of the North. Its aim is not to glorify, says its writer
The former Sinn Féin leader alleges he was defamed in a 2016 programme and article
In a new book Edward Burke identifies the man he believes to have been responsible for the brutal killing of a Belfast Catholic family in 1922, a massacre whose repercussions continue to be felt
From the chaos of the Troubles, the movie constructs a story of hope and tenderness, proving there’s more to life than land
It is hard to believe this place once hosted vibrant industry and deadly sectarian violence
Neither republicans nor loyalists defended their communities, despite their claims. It was those in Northern Ireland who kept community ties alive while others tried to destroy them who ultimately won the argument
New writing and never-previously broadcast interviews bring alive the negotiations and nervousness before a critical moment in the Belfast peace process
'If remains are discovered, it will answer one of the questions that have swirled around the life and death of this 29-year-old soldier'
Three republicans who served time during the Troubles have no regrets about the long IRA campaign of violence
The gun used to assassinate the Free State minister for justice in 1927 was still in use in the 1970s during the Troubles
Injustice of the Legal Act has been compounded by the knowledge that nine historians will participate in this project, apparently oblivious to the trauma of families
The former prison, which housed 2,000 republicans and loyalists at the height of the Troubles, is now home to stills that can make 610,000 litres of whiskey
Compromise should never be a dirty word in any true democrat's lexicon, says former tánaiste as he unveils plaque to War of Independence hero, Sean O'Donoghue
Man who lost two sons and a brother in loyalist attack achieved own justice ‘by outliving the forces that had sought to destroy him and his family’
Mistakes in dealing with terrorism in Northern Ireland are being repeated elsewhere, argues Prof Richard English in a new book
The former priest who played a key role in the peace process reflects on the backchannel that enabled dialogue between the IRA and the UK government
Commemorative and funeral marches by non-State actors wearing uniforms are polarising, ridiculous and ultimately unrepublican
Television: Peaky Blinders creator always had strange ideas about Irish people, and the Irish characters in This Town are no different
Television: US academic gained unprecedented access to leadership of Provisionals in 1972
Mourners who forgot to wear Easter lilies handed replacements as service plays host to who’s who of republican circles
The effects of the Provisional movement’s fundraising campaign are still visible in Irish politics, north and south
An unrepentant idealogue, she said the happiest day of her life was when she took part in an attack on Strabane RUC barracks
McAuley was imprisoned for IRA crimes and domestic violence, though was previously celebrated by Sinn Féin members and TDs
Former IRA prisoner turned artist says of post-conflict Northern Irish society: ‘We’re not normal, but we’re heading towards normality’
‘Some were terrible, some were essentially excuses,’ says Prof Kieran McEvoy of the Apologies, Abuses and Dealing with the Past project
Marjorie Coulson was waiting for her boyfriend to turn up when he was murdered by the Provisional IRA near her home
The British journalist, author and politician on his campaign to help prove the innocence of six Irishmen wrongly imprisoned for bombings – and tracking down the real bombers
Seamus Kearney’s suspicions were confirmed by report’s findings – that his brother’s death could have been prevented
Report shows failings of state agents who put lives at risks and exposes ‘maverick culture’ in British intelligence
Micheál Martin says Kenova report shows PIRA’s campaign of violence ‘essentially an attack on its own community’
Those inside PIRA who gave information ‘significantly degraded and debilitated the effectiveness of terrorist groups’
Long-awaited inquiry into the activities of the British army’s top IRA agent, widely identified as Freddie Scappaticci, has cost €47m
Files seen by North’s DPP showed ‘insufficient evidence’ to press charges over Stakeknife’s operations
Operation Kenova expected to find that interventions could have been made to save multiple lives
Some of Bruton’s admirers think his role in the peace process has been unduly neglected
Prosecutors considered six files reported to them as part of investigation into Freddie Scappaticci, alleged to be IRA spy Stakeknife
Judge told James Wauchope (75) suffers from severe PTSD after being locked in truck with bomb by IRA
Darragh Gannon convincingly persuades that Irish nationalism in Britain was far from just a sideshow
Donald Clarke: Reunification will come, but Romulan annexation may come first
Thomas Tucker’s mother was abducted, murdered and ‘disappeared’ by the IRA in 1972
Difference in fuel prices meant terrorists could profit by buying fuel in Republic and bringing it across Border, said Northern Ireland secretary Mandelson
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
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