Irish Republican ArmyIrish Republican ArmyThe IRA is known as the Irish Republican Army which is an underground organization in Southern Ireland made up of Irishmen nationalist which has changed over the years and has developed into a different organization involved in would some would call “terrorist acts,” all for the cause to receive Independence from their long time ruler England. This idea of Independence was originally inspired by the American War of Independence from England. People in Ireland wanted their independence as well, so an organization to carry out and protect the rights of the Irish was formed. The IRA made a point to attempt to gain Independence by the means of negotiation and peaceful methods, however this was ineffective which gave them their reason to carry out more forceful means.
The IRA wants Ireland to be a separate country from England, they want to establish their own legislative system, they want their own rights, they want to be a people of their own however this is not in the best interest of the British Parliament. The British have repeatedly tried to stop the IRA from gaining power by using their military troops which has been fought by the IRA using guerrilla tactics. The UVF, the Ulster Volunteer Force was formed to resist home rule by the Conservatives and the Unionist. The follow the rule of the British Government and are in Northern Ireland coming from the Protestant background while members from the IRA are Catholics. When the British would bring their army to Ireland
Sgt. James Cook (Photo: PA)
1,000 members, 5,000 armed, 8,000 unarmed.
The IRA started to organize a “National Security Committee” based on a concept of the British Commonwealth of Nations and the Constitution.
1,000 members, 5,000 armed, 8,000 unarmed.
In March 1981 the IRA recruited an armed vigilante called Tommy Robinson, a member of the IRA, to stand over a group of members of the IRA to be held hostage by the Provisional IRA. The incident led to an extensive investigation.
Two weeks after the incident, on 28 May 1981, a group of two dozen police officers took the man they believed was a terrorist to the scene of the attempted coup. Tommy Robinson was taken to County Council, where he was forced to answer for one count of conspiracy to murder the officers. He was then taken by the Irish National Defence (ID) to a police station in County Limerick, where they arrested him.
A week later, at 4.30am on 24 May 1981 the INSI arrived at the scene and arrested Tommy Robinson.
The INSI made an arrest, but found that Tommy Robinson had a weapon. He had confessed, and the police refused to extradite him from Ireland. On 30 May 1981, Tommy Robinson agreed to the bail conditions including a €1,000 bail, and had already been paid €2500 by the Ireland Border agency at the time he was arrested.
One summer in 1982, after working as a taxi driver for approximately 30 years, Tommy Robinson decided to go back to the IRA and establish a real political party, the IRA People’s Party, and was arrested by police in Dublin. He was convicted of conspiracy to murder.
Following the trial, the police arrested Tommy Robinson and the two went to court together to defend the two who had plotted to assassinate the Irish government. The trial took place on 29 May 1981 in the County Council at Dublin Castle, where the IRA was convicted for all of the charges related to the coup in January 1981. In her book The Trial of the Irish Revolution in the USA, Marie Curie described the experience.
The court case concluded that the INSI officers had committed an act “to establish a political organisation which would be able to win in the IRA any place of power in Ireland”. In her opening statements the INSI stated:
The jury agreed that the IRA would be able to take control throughout and through all British rule until it was conquered.
The jury found that the first step to achieving this was to start a political party rather than simply a revolution, and said the initial steps to an effective political organisation were to organise an IRA branch, to form a political party, to organise an official IRA organisation and to