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.

BBC faces legal costs bill of more than €3m after jury finds it defamed Gerry Adams

Former Sinn Féin president said he took case to ‘put manners on British Broadcasting Corporation’

Awarding €100,000 to Gerry Adams is like spitting on the graves of those killed by IRA, says Austin Stack

Austin Stack (56) was a teenager in 1983 when his father, Brian, was shot by the IRA

Gerry Adams v BBC libel case: What the jury didn’t hear

Mr Justice Owens ruled that evidence of Denis Donaldson’s daughter was not relevant to questions to be decided by jury

The contrast between Kneecap charges and flag-festooned Northern Ireland is absurd

Complaints of one-sided treatment may often be simplistic or partisan, but that only underscores the corrosive effect of inconsistent application of the law

Human remains discovered at site of previous search for ‘Disappeared’ victim

Joe Lynskey was abducted, shot dead and secretly buried by the IRA in August 1972

‘Nobody knew things were going to get so bad’: Catholic RUC officer’s defaced headstone at centre of Troubles exhibition

Exhibition part of efforts to help people on both sides of the Border who are suffering due to traumatic experiences caused by terrorism

A former British army officer and author on former IRA members opening up to him: ‘Trust is a huge issue’

Jonathan Trigg says it has been slow work getting former IRA members to open up to him, but some have done so, sharing their experiences and thoughts - and asking about British army training

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

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

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

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

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