The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) was a group that took their name after the Irish Republican Army that fought for their independence in the 1920s. Simply put, the IRA's goal was to gain independence from the United Kingdom and to become a United Ireland. However, it has been disputed that some of their methods were more terrorist style methods and not methods of a revolutionist. Do you consider the IRA (which agreed to finally discuss based on politics purely) a revolutionary group or a terrorist group?
Easy question, easy answer.
NO, the Irish Republican Army never were, and are not now, a terrorist organization. It's sole purpose was to wage a complete and total war against the British government and their Saxon slaves, the British army, that were stationed in a foreign land against the will of the majority of the Irish people. Seeing as I am an American, and know full well of the sacrifices that were made in creating a free and just society in Colonial America and separate from the far-reaching British Empire, which covered one fourth of the entire world through the rifle and the cannon against the indigenous peoples of many proud and culturally rich nations. As the British used their cannons and repeating rifles, whilst the brave and outnumbered shook scythe and spear against a better equipped foe, we as human being born free upon this great earth must remember the freedoms given to us by both the laws of God and mankind. The English have on every year of their existence, from the Norman conquest of 1066 to the present morn of our times, for they are indeed A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY, and as such are devoid of the precious freedoms we Americans so enjoy. As they were wiping out the entire race of Tazmania, as they were oppressing and dividing the Irish people by placing within their borders absentee landlords and their soldier-tralls, in order to control a people who do not wish to be controlled. And... they shall not be any longer: at each passing dawn, the Irish people draw closer and closer towards the elusive goal of freedom and unity within their own land. As Sinn Fein and the Irish Republican Army have embraced the ballot box as a means of earning the freedom the Irish people so rightfully deserve as sentient beings upon this beautiful earth of ours.
Let all those who deny the people freedom be struck where they stand, and may they never rise to torment man again.
Tiocfaidh ár lá, our day shall come!
If someone would please present examples of their ''terrorist'' acts and what they claim to be is right, I think I can provide an argument or agreement.
Guerrilla warfare against British army personnell and military police, the use of car bombs on both British military and civilian INFERSTRUCTURE ie. buildings, businesses etc., with the standard 30 minute warning before detonation, as a means to sap capital away from the British government and make them lose taste for war, as Britain payed for all buildings destroyed from their own pocket.
Then no, they are not terrorists in the way I see it. Obviously they warned them, right? And second, they have been targeting military and not innocent civilians, and those innocents that did lose their lives were not intended. If you call them terrorists, you should also call the American colonists in the 1700s terrorists as well.
Then no, they are not terrorists in the way I see it. Obviously they warned them, right? And second, they have been targeting military and not innocent civilians, and those innocents that did lose their lives were not intended. If you call them terrorists, you should also call the American colonists in the 1700s terrorists as well.
Just remembered this, the IRA traces the roots of the Irish republican struggle back to the men and women of 1798, who shook scythe against cannon and were massacred by the British army, some years after our revolution. The 1798 rising was inspired by the American Revolution, but they didn't recieve as much help as America got from France, as the arms were captured. This the history the Irish people have endured at the hands of the British government, and the sooner it leaves Ireland for the Irish, the better.
Up the Ra.