** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** In the 1970s, Maj. Richard J.

After 35 years of deadly brutality, the Irish Republican Army has pledged to renounce violence and pursue independence from Britain by peaceful means -- and this time Britain is taking it seriously.

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 ...

The Irish Army's bomb disposal squad has been called out after a stockpile of War of Independence-era explosives was discovered at a farm in West Cork. Former RTÉ broadcaster Fergal Keane said he was ...

The AR-18 entered the initial design phase in 1963 and was produced from 1969 to 1985, with 1,171 total specimens built. Here’s What You Need to Know: The IRA hoped it could secure military assistance ...

He wrote a history of the Irish Republican Army and directed a project that secretly collected oral histories of paramilitary fighters. By Richard Sandomir Middle East peace may seem hopeless, but ...