Some have accused him of interference in the process of government formation, others of simply reheating out-of-date intelligence. try { If you can help the following project, all the better: Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Bearing the address "Head Quarters, Dublin", it names the seven members of the IRA's ruling army council and the nine members of its general headquarters (GHQ . It concluded that the IRA still has access to some weapons, but have not sought to procure more since at least 2011. Harry McGee is a Political Correspondent with The Irish Times, Our politics teams behind-the-scenes take on events of the day. // Stop listening for mutations once we know this listener has been registered. }; } bundle: bundleValue, Most American financial support for the IRA was channeled through seemingly innocuous organisations, like the Northern Aid Committee (NORAID). document.head.append(script); URL: https://alphahistory.com/northernireland/provisional-ira/ const grantedBy = Object.keys(purchase).filter(function (key) { const updateSubscriberCookie = function (purchase) { item_group_code: "pfc_indo", return { The IRA is known and even romanticised for the incredible dedication and intensity of its members. One of the Provos first priorities was the acquisition of weapons and the money to purchase them. 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The day-to-day operations of the IRA are conducted by a seven-person Army Council, which includes the chief of staff, the adjutant general, and the quartermaster general. The Council had seven members, said by the British and Irish governments to have included Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Fin. [6] However he also claimed that it was his opinion that this by itself did not necessarily amount to a permanent split between the two organisations. Kevin Walsh, Limerick man convicted of the manslaughter of Garda. Theresa Villiers was detailing the findings of an official. 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In a statement, the DUP said: "This report largely confirms the assessment of the chief constable, in August, when he indicated that IRA structures existed and that members and former members had been involved in illegal activity though not sanctioned by the leadership who he stated were wedded to the peace process. if (isGrantedBy('whitelist_rule')) { Mr Robinson said Mr McGuinness was Chief-of-Staff of the IRA between 1978 and 1982 when republicans under his command murdered 327 people. By which he presumably meant that it was sympathetic to the British point of view, observed Small. Accessed December 18, 2015. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ira/inside/org.html, Irish Republican Army. Federation of American Scientists. in November 2012, allegedly on the orders of the Northern leadership. Northern Ireland a putrid littlestate? if (isGrantedBy('purchase')) { Provo commanders carefully vetted, trained and monitored new recruits, who were required to understand and embrace the groups values and long-term mission. subscriptionStartDate: purchase.granted_by_purchase.original_start_at, !gigyaID ? The report was compiled by the police and the security service, MI5. 1. . return; Operational decisions are made by a central command cadre of approximately 40 middle-ranking members. Operational decisions are made by a central command cadre of approximately 40 middle-ranking members. These contradictions aside, there is one overarching conclusion reached by every report published in the last 15 years the IRAs military campaign is a thing of the past and is highly unlikely to return. subscriptionFinishDate: '1111-11-11T11:11:11Z', }); const listenForFlipPayEvents = function () { In the Republic, trials for membership take place in the Special Criminal Court (where three judges hear cases without a jury, on the evidence of a Garda superintendent or higher rank) and carries a maximum penalty of five years' imprisonment. [1] Maria Gatland (born Maria McGuire 1948, Dublin, Ireland) is a councillor in the London Borough of Croydon for the Conservative Party, who has represented the South . Accusations that Sinn Fin is controlled by the army council surfaced again recently when documents were released during Northern Irelands cash-for-ash inquiry showing one of its ministers in the Northern Executive sought approval for decisions from figures who had been members of the IRA. Seamus Clarke, member of the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade; was sentenced to life for his role in the 1975, Terence "Cleaky" Clarke (died 13 June 2000), older brother of Seamus; acted as a body guard to Gerry Adams; was imprisoned for seven years after being convicted of assaulting, Seamus Finucance - senior IRA member and one of those alleged to have forced, Sean McIlvenna (1951-1984), killed by Loyalists, Michael O'Neill, Limerick man convicted of the manslaughter of Garda, Jeremiah Sheehy, Limerick man convicted of the manslaughter of Garda. File photograph: Crispin Rodwell. these men formed their own breakaway leadership group called the Provisional Army Council (December 1969). Recruitment was another Provisional IRA objective but this proved less difficult the tensions and violence of the early 1970s drove many young people straight into the ranks of the Provos. // Push initial dataLayer values into object. '&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= Copyright: The content on this page may not be republished without our express permission. However several later reports said the group continued to hold some arms. But there's more: discover your full benefits now. Henry McDonald Official IRA Terrorist, Workers PartyAgent? vars.user.subscriptionStartDate = subscriberCookie.subscriptionStartDate || ''; new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], Mac Stofin was himself an unlikely Irish Republican. Mac Stofin was supported by Seamus Twomey, a bad-tempered brawler from the Falls Road who was fanatical about driving the English out of Ireland at the point of a gun. script.async = true; [5] They formulated their own organisation and command structure, and developed strategies for propaganda, recruitment, training and the acquisition of money and weapons. That is now available to us. } In 1953, Mac Stofin was arrested and imprisoned in England, along with future IRA leader Cathal Goulding, after stealing weapons from an army base. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. The group has also received funding and weapons from Libya, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, and sympathizers in the United States. The following year, the commission seemed to slightly revise this wording to suggest the dissolution of the army council was an ongoing rather than completed process. A historians view: Change). return cookieData; She added that some individual IRA members remain involved in criminal activity, such as large scale smuggling. This website on Northern Ireland and the Troubles is created and maintained by Alpha History. const subscriberCookieStatus = getCookie(subscriberCookieName) || '{}'; The other members are Martin McGuinness, Gerard Adams, Martin Ferris, Patrick Doherty and Brian Gillen," Mr Robinson alleged. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, The founding members of the Provisional IRA were long-serving Republicans. bodyAvailable) { 3. Other IRA Army Council members have similarly chosen to distance themselves from the IRA armed struggle and its fighters by totally denying membership and leadership of the IRA and in doing so . The IRA Green Book: security and commitment (1977) window.showSubscriberElements) { Provisional IRA operatives targeted sympathisers abroad, particularly in the Republic of Ireland and the United States, where Irish expatriates and Republican sympathisers could be found. It also warns that, while it was confident in its assessment, the conclusions should not be interpreted as evidence which could be used in a criminal court. He is also close to Brian Keenan and Brian Gillen, whom security sources say are members of the IRA army council along with Mr Adams. 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Sinn Fin leader Gerry Adams was a member of the IRA army council at the time it announced its historic ceasefire in August 1994, according to a senior adviser to the British government on security and intelligence. In 2015, in a rare official statement on the topic, the office of then Garda commissioner Nirin OSullivan stated the Garda had no information or intelligence that the Provisional IRA still maintains its military structure. Mr Robinson described Mr McGuinness as "the Bogside Butcher" and alleged that as a "trigger man" he was responsible for the deaths of 12 soldiers. }; Kieran Conway Credible Witness at the Birmingham Pub BombingsInquest? Lennon had very recently been used to convict three IRA members - also members of Luton Sinn Fin - of an armed robbery. 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That day The Irish Times had reported the PSNI still believes the IRA Provisional Army Council oversees both the IRA and Sinn Fin. Stephen Fuller (d. 1984), a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence and fought with Anti-Treaty forces during the Irish Civil War (1922-23). When the GAC is not in session, the Army Council becomes the governing authority of the IRA. }); Over the weeks that followed, dozens of IRA members gravitated . } The IRA was a proscribed organization under the terms of the Offences Against the State Acts passed between 1939 and 1998 in the Republic of Ireland and under equivalent anti-terrorist legislation in the United Kingdom, making membership of it a criminal offence. const cookieExpiryInSeconds = 60 * 60 * 24 * 30; } He was one of three senior republicans arrested and later released without charge in connection with the murder of Mr McGuigan. 2. Patrick Brennan, convicted of social welfare fraud. For earlier groups such as the, Easter Rising and Irish War of Independence: 1916-1922, The Official Irish Republican Army & Post-Independence: 1922-present. if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('print_monthly') > -1) { window.GTMLoaded = false; "Provisionals' ruling body, the army council, has not dissolved", "Pressure mounts on Sinn Fin as IRA men convicted", "McGuinness, Adams and Ferris quit IRA council", "Paramilitary Groups in Northern Ireland", "De Chastelain extends stay to await IRA move", "Key members quit Sinn Fin over controls", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IRA_Army_Council&oldid=1133786232, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from June 2012, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. } Frustrated with the IRAs failure to defend Catholic communities, they gathered to form a Provisional Army Council. Accessed December 17, 2015. http://fas.org/irp/world/para/ira.htm. } Eamonn Mallie unfairly attacks England bomber MartinaAnderson, The National Union of Journalists and the Pat FinucaneCentre. mutations.forEach((mutation) => { It is clear from the comments that Harris was expressing the view of Garda intelligence, not giving his own assessment. While all the main republican and loyalist paramilitary groups from the Troubles still exist, their leaderships are, "to different degrees", committed to peaceful means, They are still organised along militaristic lines, but labels like "brigades" or "army council" make them "look more prepared for a campaign of violence than they are", None of these groups is planning or conducting terrorist attacks, and even if they wanted, they would be "unable to resurrect the capability demonstrated at their peak", The most serious current terrorist threat comes from dissident republicans, Individual members of paramilitary groups still represent a threat to national security and are engaged in organised crime, Stormont's political upheaval was sparked by, Finance Minister Arlene Foster is now acting first minister. Responding to the assessment, Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said Sinn Fin is now the only organisation involved in the republican struggle. In 1985, The Sunday Times named Thomas "Slab" Murphy as a prominent IRA member. The IRAs secretive and decentralised nature meant that many volunteers were unaware of the split, some for several weeks. Mr Robinson's revelation came during the motion of 'no confidence' in Sinn Fein minister of education Martin McGuinness, tabled last week by the DUP after Mr McGuinness admitted being second-in-command of the IRA in Derry at the time of Bloody Sunday. 15) Withhold the corpse of a Catholic British soldier, Captain Robert Nairac, denying his family the right to bury him, in unended bitterness of zeal against the SAS. Title: The Provisional IRA (. The report lists a wide range of intelligence-gathering methods used to form the conclusions including surveillance, eavesdropping, covert intelligence agents and open source information such as internet postings. It added: This situation has been brought about by a conscious decision to let it fall into disuse rather than through any other mechanism.. Following her statement, the DUP said its ministers who resigned from Stormont would now return to office. El Tortuosa , This torturer got his rank when the IRA. }; Although Murphy denied the allegation, in 1998 he lost his resulting libel case against the newspaper. In 2005, the Independent Monitoring Commission on Decommissioning said, based on Irish and UK government estimates, the IRA had disposed of all its weapons. This is a list of members of the Irish Republican Army. const getBundleValue = function (purchase, purchaseType) { It was alleged that its chief of staff was a Limerick man and that a number of other key members were from that county, until their expulsion. }; It is broken down in sub-lists of various organisations known as the IRA. In respect of loyalist paramilitaries, Ms Villiers said the assessment showed the Ulster Defence Association and the Ulster Volunteer Force had access to some weapons, despite both organisations decommissioning in 2009 and 2010. IRA Murders of Human Rights Lawyers &Judges, Brian Feeney Is Dead & Coffee with theIRA, Legacy, the IRA and Victims Part II &Quiz. The IRA's ruling body, the 'army council' still exists, but has a "wholly political focus", the Northern Ireland secretary has said. 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