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 split to form contemporary groups, such as the Provisional IRA, Real IRA, and Continuity IRA, which were active during the Troubles in Northern Ireland and beyond.

Gerry Adams defamation trial: laughs from the jury, a judge’s intervention and a ‘very fine story’ about a hedgehog

Former Sinn Féin president tells judge the IRA attempt to kill Margaret Thatcher was ‘legitimate’

Gerry Adams tells defamation trial he never joined the IRA

Judge tells jury claims made in documentaries they are being shown may be relevant to the issue of Adams’s reputation

Gerry Adams defamation case: Former Sinn Féin leader ‘not prepared to speculate’ on who was or was not in IRA

Court hears Adams continues to work with families of three men ‘disappeared’ by the IRA during Troubles who have not been found

Journalists pay tribute to late Lyra McKee as her picture is unveiled at Belfast’s Reporters Bar

Accomplished writer and campaigner died after being struck in the head by a bullet in Derry

Good Trouble: The Selma, Alabama and Derry, Northern Ireland Connection 1963-1972 by Forest Issac Jones

A wide-ranging story about connections between the two civil rights movements

Radio review: ‘It sounded like a big mosquito’ - anger over drones fills the airwaves

Radio: RTÉ presenter is a likable substitute for Joe Duffy, while Newstalk’s Kieran Cuddihy launches an unusual free-speech crusade

Kingsmill massacre report: Watchdog identifies series of failings in investigation

Ten Protestant men shot by republican gunmen posing as British soldiers in 1976

The last confession of ‘Disappeared’ IRA man Joe Lynskey – a priest recalls, more than 50 years on

For the first time, an Irish priest tells the story of the confession he heard from Joe Lynskey shortly before he was murdered by the IRA a half-century ago

Memoirs of Dan Mulvihill: Fulfilling the dream of a veteran of the old IRA

A tape recording from 1984 revealed an elderly republican’s ambition to publish his life story - four decades on, it has finally come to pass

Justice for my Father by Austin Stack: An account of 40 years of relentless probing into prison officer’s IRA murder

Story of Brian Stack’s killing and its aftermath is an important and bleak retrospective on Ireland during the Troubles

Joe Lynskey Disappeared case: ‘When he came out of the monastery he came out for the cause. And the cause executed him’

Maria Lynskey had the funeral arrangements in place for her uncle before her family’s hopes of finding his remains were dashed for the second time in a decade

‘They may never get closure’: Annyalla locals on Lynskey family’s search for murdered relative

Co Monaghan village residents fear remains of Joe Lynskey, one of the IRA’s Disappeared, may never be found

Joe Lynskey remains are not those exhumed in Monaghan, tests show

Grave did not contain remains of murdered former IRA member or ‘any of the Disappeared’, says independent commission

Freddie Scappaticci’s final years in a sleepy Surrey town: Neighbours were ‘sickened’ when they found out who he really was

The man known as Stakeknife, a senior British army agent in the IRA, was hidden away in middle-class suburban comfrot in Guildford

Unravelling an Irish-American family mystery: my great-grandfather arrived in the US in 1922, on the run as an IRA man

Delving into her family history led author Ali Watkins to explore one of the least known and most effective gunrunning operations in contemporary American history, and the ways the Irish diaspora view Ireland

Minister for Justice seeks approval to provide Special Criminal Court judgments to UK’s Omagh bomb inquiry

The non-jury SCC lacks power to order transcripts, High Court judge hears

The Sorrow and the Loss by Martin Dillon: Women whose lives were blighted by the Troubles

Too often the reader is left wanting to know more about these women and their lives

Sinn Féin’s Doherty defends going to funeral of ‘friend’ and ex-IRA man ‘Bik’ McFarlane

Sinn Féin has faced criticism for its tributes to Brendan McFarlane, who died last month

Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane obituary: IRA figure linked to kidnapping, killings and prisoner escape

He became a firm supporter of the peace process

UK ‘has not ruled out’ inquiry into killings by Provisional IRA internal security unit

UK government’s argues the issue needs to be revisited after final Operation Kenova report is produced, solicitor representing family of one of the victims says

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