What was the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA ... notably with the secret importation of a series of arms shipments of 1,000 assault rifles and six tonnes of explosives from Libyan ...

Two international dignitaries with no expertise in armaments pile into a car with blacked-out windows--or maybe they are blindfolded--and are driven by a wheel-man for the Provisional Irish ...

styling itself the Irish Republican Army and remanded in custody until today when a bail application is expected to be heard. Sources say the Provisional IRA weapons had been seized by members of ...

Brian Keenan, a commanding figure during the Irish Republican Army’s long march from war ... Keenan joined the fledgling Provisional IRA in 1970, just as the outlawed group began bombing and ...

A resident reads a local newspaper in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the disarmament of local paramilitary groups, including the Irish Republican Army. Getty Images The Provisional Irish ...

He was an "old guard republican" and a ... Neil Blaney and Army intelligence officer Captain James Kelly, in the 1970 Arms Trial on arms importation charges. He was eventually acquitted, although ...

The government charged Wednesday that an Irish independence organization in Chicago has direct financial and military ties to the Provisional Irish Republican Army. U.S. Magistrate Rebecca ...

In ‘The Next One Is for You,’ Ali Watkins shows how ordinary Americans enabled a conflict playing out thousands of miles away.

Sinn Féin is also the political wing of the now disbanded Provisional Irish Republican Army, which killed over 2,000 people ...