The Troubles did not break out on a specific date, but it is generally agreed that they began in 1969. The seeds of the ...

As an independent investigation into a double agent named ‘Stakeknife’ draws to a close, families seeking answers may soon ...

Two men killed at an Irish Republican Army (IRA) funeral in West Belfast today were undercover British soldiers on plain clothes surveillance duty. Report shows funeral cortege of Kevin Brady ...

One of the latter groups, the Provisional Irish Republican Army, broke off from the Irish ... followed by her younger sister Marian's birth in 1954 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

A new BBC documentary tells how in 1972 the Irish Republican Army (IRA) allowed an American ... The BBC film is "astonishing", said the Belfast Telegraph, and it may not be the end of the matter.

They greased themselves in butter and boot polish to squeeze out the portholes of the ship and swam 270 meters through an ice-cold Belfast Lough in a bid to escape the floating prison. The near ...

Gerry Adams, president of the staunchly pro-Irish Sinn Fein party, called on the Irish Republican Army to being disarming in an effort to save the teetering Northern Ireland Assembly. The ...

Charlie Flanagan , who served as both a justice and foreign affairs minister, predicted that vital intelligence information held by the Republic of Ireland may not be made available to the UK inquiry ...

Irish Republican Army This topic contains articles relating to the original IRA from the time of the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921). It also covers later paramilitary organisations that ...