Opinion of the IRA

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Several quite distinct organisations in the modern history of Ireland have called themselves the IRA. Which one do you mean?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

That's largely to the credit of a very different set of Nationalist political activists and not to the (P)IRA, who were a major obstacle to it for the bulk of the civil war - along, of course, with a majority of Unionist politicians, we shouldn't forget that part.