Micro-patterns of violence: disaggregating Provisional Irish Republican Army activity, 1969-1979 by Kowalski, RC

“…<p>This thesis examines the first ten years of the campaign of political violence that was waged by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) during the Northern Ireland Troubles (c.1969–1998). …”

‘Around the sky’: The Memory of Trauma in Deirdre Madden’s 'One by One in the Darkness' by Rebecca Long

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Communicative rather than coercive : re-interpreting the strategies of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) and the state up till the hunger strike of 1981 during the Northern Irish troubles by Ho, Hui Qi

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Marginalizing Memory: Political Commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising by McIntyre, Anthony

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From Guns to Government: The IRA in Context by Donnacha Ó Beacháin

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Letter from J B Morton to Mr Barry-Walsh by Morton, J. B., Anti-Partition League, APL

“…He refers to the IRA [Irish Republican Army] campaign. Dated 15 July 1939.…”
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Troubles Women: A Creative Exploration of Experience of Being a Woman in the Provisional IRA by Tracey Iceton

“…What was it like being a woman in the Irish Republican Army? Drawing on her practice-led creative writing doctoral research Tracey Iceton attempts to answer this question. …”
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From State Terrorism to Petty Harassment: A Multi-Method Approach to Understanding Repression of Irish Republicans by Robert White

“…Beginning in 1969, the Provisional Irish Republican Army conducted a paramilitary campaign designed to unite Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland, creating a 32 county democratic socialist republic. …”
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The IRA and the Partition of Ireland by Richard English

“…The Irish Republican Army (IRA) has been the most aggressively hostile opponent of the border that was established in Ireland during the 1920s. …”
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The Rules of Hijacking: Coercion and Legitimacy in the "Urban Statelets" of the IRA by Niall O'Dochartaigh

“…This paper examines the way in which the Provisional Irish Republican Army balanced coercion and legitimacy in its interactions with civilians in the Catholic urban neighbourhoods of Northern Ireland, the "urban statelets of Belfast and Derry" as one British civil servant referred to them in 1976. …”
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The Political and Military Value of the “Set Piece” Killing Tactic in East Tyrone 1983–1992 by Kevin Hearty

“…The period from 1983 to 1992 witnessed an intensification of the state use of the Special air Services (SaS) in the deployment of the “set piece” killing tactic in Northern Ireland against the Irish Republican army (IRa), a separatist insurgent group embroiled in political conflict in the region. …”
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Sources, methods, and the violence of insurgency in Northern Ireland by Kowalski, RC

“…It will explore the debate that persists among researchers concerning methodological best practice, using the violence perpetrated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) between 1969 and 1998 as a case study. …”

The political economy of the Provos: Inside the finances of the Provisional IRA—A Revision by Woodford, I, Smith, M

“…Few academically rigorous accounts exist of the financial activities that sustained the rise of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) during the Northern Ireland Troubles. …”

Newspaper discourse: Constructing representations of terrorist groups (IRA and ISIS) by Gabriella Holt

“…This research aims to fill this gap by examining the discourse used in newspapers to construct representations of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). …”
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Staging the Outcast in Brendan Behan’s Three Prison Dramas by Wei H. Kao

“…Brendan Behan’s portraits of the Irish Republican Army and the working-class community brought many previously unseen characters to light, including prison inmates, prostitutes, homosexuals and so forth. …”
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Faire corps avec la « nation » en Irlande du Nord : violence et réconciliation dans quatre pièces d’Owen McCafferty by Brigitte Bastiat

“…Published and played between 1994 and 2017, these four plays by Belfast playwright Owen McCafferty cover a historical period, from the ceasefire of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) and the loyalist paramilitaries in 1994 to Brexit referendum in 2016 through the Peace Treaty of 1998 (also called Belfast Agreement or Good Friday Agreement) that officially ended the conflict in Northern Ireland. …”
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When politics meets gender: trauma in Edna O’Brien’s House of Splendid Isolation by Chang, Tsung-chi

“…This is not only because of the ensuing Irish Civil War, but the psychological adjustments that the Irish people have to make in their partitioned land. Since the Irish Republican Army (IRA) emerged during the Anglo-Irish War (1919-21), it has been bent on terminating the British government’s control of Ireland and establishing a truly independent and unified Irish Republic through armed struggles. …”
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“I thank God that I have been in the very big push for the motherland”: The Role of Violence and Society in the Correspondence of IRA Commander Liam Lynch by Thomas Earls FitzGerald

“…This article is a thematic examination of the Irish Republican Army’s (IRA) relationship with both violence and social issues in the War of Independence (1919-1921) and Civil War (1922-1923) through an interrogation of the writings of Irish republican leader Liam Lynch (1893-1923), specifically, looking at Lynch’s understanding of the role of violence, social issues, and his crucial role in Civil War. …”
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