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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 Northern Ireland and ....

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.... 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 million more emigrate, only sporadic and weak resistance occurred. Organized resistance and the IRA did not become notably powerful until 1919 and has continued up to this da ....