Unofficial 1916 Rising, Tan War Provos Sticks INLA IPLO CIRA RIRA

IRISH NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY   Arm Saoirse Náisiúnta na hÉireann     The Irish National Liberation Army ( Arm Saoirse Náisiúnta na hÉireann) or INLA was formed in December 1974 as a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist guerrilla organization by disaffected members of the Official IRA who themselves broke away from the main IRA in 1969.  The INLA was founded along with its political wing the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) at the Spa Hotel in Lucan, South Dublin on the 10th of December 1974. The meeting was chaired by INLA founder & it's first Cheif of Staff Seamus Costello, a native of Bray in County Wicklow. In its early days it went through several different names including the "Peoples Liberation Army" and the "People's Republican Army" until eventually the name the INLA stuck.                                        (Seamus Costello ^ INLA ...

In February Irish Republican activist and former Republican Sinn Fein (RSF) member Cait Trainor during a anti-internment protest gave a heart-felt and passionate speech about the continuing harassment & internment of Republican prisoners in the six north eastern counties of Ireland. The speech was delivered outside the GPO in Dublin. Cait in my opinion is the best Republican public speaker of the last 5 - 10 years and she is still only very young and has a very, very bright future ahead of her. And I wish her all the best for what ever she does in the future, I'm all most positive it will involve helping further the goals of Irish Republicanism, as she is a lovely human being and a dedicated Irish Republican and Democratic Socialist . Here is a video of Cait outside the GPO.

(Jim Lynagh one of the leaders of the Active Service Unit ^) On 11 August 1986 the  East Tyrone Brigade  of the  Provisional Irish Republican Army  (IRA) attacked the  Royal Ulster Constabulary  (RUC) base at  The Birches, County Armagh . The base was first raked with gunfire before being completely destroyed by a bomb, which was driven through the gate of the base in the bucket of a  JCB  driven IRA Volunteer  Declan Arthurs . Background [ edit ] In the wake of the  1981 Irish hunger strike  in which ten  Irish Republican  prisoners died the IRA's East Tyrone brigade became one of the most active brigades during  the Irish conflict  in 1980's. [1]  Two of the Brigades most successful and high-profile attacks occurred in Ballygawley, County Tyrone. The first in 1983 killed four members of the  Ulster Defence Regiment  in the  Ballygawley Land Mine Attack . [2]  The n...