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Wikipedia: The Irish Republican
Army (IRA) is any of several armed movements in Ireland in
the 20th and 21st centuries dedicated to Irish republicanism,
the belief that all of Ireland should be an independent republic. It
was also characterised by the belief that political violence was
necessary to achieve that goal.
The first known use of the term "Irish Republican Army"
occurred in the Fenian raids on Canada in the 1860s. The
original Irish Republican Army formed by 1917 from those Irish
Volunteers who refused to enlist in the British
Army during World War I. It was the army of the Irish
Republic, declared by Dáil Éireann in 1919. Some Irish
people dispute the claims of more recently created organisations that
insist that they are the only legitimate descendants of the original
IRA, often referred to as the "Old IRA". The playwright and
former IRA member Brendan Behan once said that the first
issue on any IRA agenda was "the split". For the IRA, that
has often been the case. The first split came after the Anglo-Irish
Treaty in 1921, with supporters of the Treaty forming the
nucleus of the National Army of the newly created Irish
Free State, while the anti-treaty forces continued to use the
name Irish Republican Army. After the end of the Irish
Civil War, the IRA was around in one form or another for forty years,
when it split into the Official IRA and the Provisional IRA in 1969.
The latter then had its own breakaways, namely the Real IRA and the
Continuity IRA, each claiming to be the true successor of the Army of
the Irish Republic...
...In April 2011, former members of the
Provisional IRA announced a resumption of hostilities, and that "they
had now taken on the mantle of the mainstream IRA." They further
claimed "We continue to do so under the name of the Irish
Republican Army. We are the IRA." and insisted that they "were
entirely separate from the Real IRA, Oglaigh na hEireann (ONH), and
the Continuity IRA." They claimed responsibility for the April
killing of PSNI constable Ronan Kerr as well as
responsibility for other attacks that had previously been claimed by
the Real IRA and ONH.