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“This morning, another IRA kills 1 and injures 40.” This statement is all too familiar in the news of Britain and Northern Ireland. The IRA, or Irish Republican Army, is a terrorist paramilitary group that opposes the connection between North ....

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... through bombings, guerilla warfare, and other violent methods to get the point across. There has always been a tradition of armed resistance to the British military and political occupation in Ireland. This tradition generally only found effective expression when after a period of non-armed agitation, large sections of the Irish people, faced with the British governments denial of the legitimate demand for the Irish independence, exercised the right to use armed struggle….. Armed struggle and uprisings against British rule took place in 1798, 1803, 1848, and 1867, but because of the Great Hunger, which saw a million people stave and a m ...