1. Irish Republican Army - Noun
2. Irish Republican Army - Proper noun
a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland
Source: WordNetAbout 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them. Source: Internet
Discussing the report in Parliament in 2003, Labour MP Kevin McNamara said: 'It is alleged that Stakeknife was a low-ranking Irish Republican Army volunteer, who was recruited to the FRU in 1978. Source: Internet
It took its current form in 1970 after a split within the party (with the other party becoming the Workers' Party of Ireland ), and has historically been associated with the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). Source: Internet
Metcalfe, 34, with a last address at Monastery Park, Clondalkin, Dublin 22 was found guilty of membership of an unlawful organisation, styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hÉireann, otherwise the IRA, on November 24, 2015. Source: Internet
"From Peaceful Protest to Guerrilla War: Micro mobilization of the Provisional Irish Republican Army", The American Journal of Sociology, vol 94, No 6 (May 1989), pp. 1277–1302. Source: Internet
Like the Provisional IRA before it, the CIRA sees itself as the direct continuation of the original Irish Republican Army and styles itself as simply "the Irish Republican Army" in English or Óglaigh na hÉireann (Volunteers of Ireland) in Irish. Source: Internet