Ireland History. Helpppppppppppp!?

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Not waving but drowning

RTE had a brilliant programme called 'reeling in the years' which shows archive footing of news during this period of our history, I watch it every time it is repeated as I find that you can get a feel of the time, and the reasons why the (new IRA - as my dad called them - he thought they went about it the wrong way, but he was old IRA) IRA did what they felt was necessary (although, at the time I did not agree with their tactics - but hey, I was living way down south and therefore the events had no direct impact upon my life)

Anyway, I have included a link to wiki because RTE's site will not show the 'reeling in the years' programmes before 1980.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeling_in_the_Years#Online_editions
Scroll down to Online editions and do a bit of research for yourself.

Slan

pollbee

I thought that you wanted to know about the previous 25 years of the troubles,and not the civil war?which is what courtney b gave you.

Orla C

Try wikipedia, pet.

reginaldstower

Towards another ceasefire
Friday 16 February 1996: There was a large peace rally at City Hall, Belfast, and a number of smaller rallies at venues across Northern Ireland.

Irrelevant infomer

Forget answer one, she copied and pasted it and knows fuc'k all. I can't give you brief notes on this because i was never in the PIRA or had privvy knowledge of what they did. All i can do is condense 25 years of what i have witnessed. The Pira had no tactics they took civilian lives in the name of Ireland's cause. 25 years of mayhem has done the same job one man has done by peaceful means. The minute they hung their weapons up is the day people listened to them. By the way it wasn't David Trimble or John Hume who got the ceasefires or deserved the Nobel peace prize that honour belongs to Gerry Adams and of course like all good taigs he's sidelined for denial and abuse.

zzz311

bombings, hunger strikes, trying to become political prisoners and parliament

poppy

well they were in charge of the streets no one could do anything without answering to them, catholics & protestants were kept firmly apart. They used kidnapping,brutality, hunger strikes, bombing campaigns, murder, guns and kneecapping they hid behind black masks and were very underground & would not negotiate or abide by the law, the change was a ceasefire and they began to communicate through politicians or representatives like Gerry Adams to get what they wanted.

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/dublin/bowyer.htm

http://www.anphoblacht.com/news/detail/14298

alan m

The IRA declared a ceasefire because everytime they killed a British civilian the UDA killed five of their killers. They had no choice. The ceasefire was really a surrender. Outnumbered, outgunned. In the past years they tried the usual cowardly acts of plant a bomb in a shop , run and kill anyone inside. Thankfully the UDA and other decent groups used the direct method of killing the killers so there became hardly any of them left. A ceasefire ? No . A surrender. The IRA diod more to damage the irish image abroad than anyone and ended the irish dream of a united Ireland forever. The Irish government removed its claim to N. Ireland realising the dream/fantasy was over.

Courtney B

Hi!
The Provisional Irish Republican Army or IRA, is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that considers itself a direct continuation of the Irish Republican Army (the army of the Irish Republic â€” 1919â€“1921) that fought in the Irish War of Independence.
Following the violence of August 1969, the IRA began to arm and train to protect nationalist areas from further attack. After the split, the Provisional IRA began planning for an "all-out offensive action against the British occupation."

The Official IRA were opposed to such a campaign because it would lead to sectarian conflict, which would defeat their strategy of uniting the workers from both sides of the sectarian divide.
The IRA Border Campaign in the 1950s had avoided actions in urban centres of Northern Ireland to avoid civilian casualties and resulting sectarian violence. The Provisional IRA, by contrast was primarily an urban organisation, based originally in Belfast and Derry. The Provisional IRA's strategy was to use as much force as possible to cause the collapse of the Northern Ireland administration and to inflict enough casualties on the British forces that the British government would be forced by public opinion to withdraw from Ireland
The British government held secret talks with the IRA leadership in 1972 to try and secure a ceasefire based on a compromise settlement within Northern Ireland after the events of Bloody Sunday when IRA recruitment and support increased.
Thereafter, the IRA, under the leadership of Gerry Adams and his supporters, evolved a new strategy termed the "Long War", which underpinned IRA strategy for the rest of the Troubles. It involved a re-organisation of the IRA into small cells, an acceptance that their campaign would last many years before being successful and an increased emphasis on political activity through the Sinn FÃ©in party.
IRA prisoners convicted after March 1976 did not have Special Category Status applied in prison. In response, over 500 prisoners refused to wash or wear prison clothes This activity culminated in the 1981 Irish hunger strike, when seven IRA and three Irish National Liberation Army members starved themselves to death in pursuit of political status.
In the 1980s, the IRA made an attempt to escalate the conflict with the so called "Tet Offensive". When this did not prove successful, republican leaders increasingly looked for a political compromise to end the conflict. Gerry Adams entered talks with John Hume, the leader of the moderate nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and secret talks were also conducted with British civil servants. Thereafter, Adams increasingly tried to disassociate Sinn FÃ©in from the IRA, claiming they were separate organisations and refusing to comment on IRA actions. Within the Republican Movement , the new strategy was described by the acronym "TUAS", meaning either "Tactical Use of Armed Struggle" or "Totally Unarmed Strategy".
The IRA ultimately called an indefinite ceasefire in 1994 on the understanding that Sinn FÃ©in would be included in political talks for a settlement. When this did not happen, the IRA called off its ceasefire from February 1996 until July 1997, carrying out several bombing and shooting attacks. After its ceasefire was reinstated, Sinn FÃ©in was admitted into the "Peace Process", which produced the Belfast Agreement of 1998.

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