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 split to form contemporary ...

After 35 years of deadly brutality, the Irish Republican Army has pledged to renounce violence and pursue independence from Britain by peaceful means -- and this time Britain is taking it seriously.

The arrest follows weeks of pressure on the IRA over the alleged role of its members in the Jan. 30 killing of Robert McCartney. The 33-year-old, who lived in a working-class Cath ...

A convicted terrorist and boss of the Irish Republican Army in North America may finally be getting booted from the United States. Gabriel Megahey, 82, lived in New York for decades but a June 20 ...

LONDON, March 17 (Reuters) - Gerry Adams, one of Northern Ireland's most prominent political figures, told London's High Court on Tuesday he had never ‌been a member of the paramilitary Irish ...

On a late summer morning in 1979, Lord Louis Mountbatten, a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, boarded a small fishing boat on the coast of Ireland along with his daughter, son-in-law and ...

The AR-18 entered the initial design phase in 1963 and was produced from 1969 to 1985, with 1,171 total specimens built. Here’s What You Need to Know: The IRA hoped it could secure military assistance ...