IRA: Strategies, Targets, and Methods of Operation

IRA: Strategies, Targets, and Methods of Operation

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Jacob Ward

Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA)

• Active from 1969-2005• Formed after split in IRA

due to differences in ideology

• Goal: Achieve a united Ireland by use of force

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Strategies

• Two different types of strategy

1. Violent2. Non-Violent• Changed over time• Overall goal stayed the

same

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Targets

• Politicians• Diplomats• Unionists• Loyalists• Royal Ulster

Constabulary (RUC)• British Army

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Methods of OperationViolent•Riots•Bombings•Assassinations•Kidnappings

Non-Violent•Hunger Strikes•Negotiations http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/214/b/b/

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Conclusion

• The Provisional IRA is no longer around today

• They would say that their strategies were successful in forcing the UK out

• The Good Friday Agreement has led to the IRA moving towards politics rather than using violence

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