In 1995, Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, arrived in New York.
The British also fought a seemingly unending war in Northern Ireland, which brought them hundreds of Irish Republican Army prisoners committed to violent resistance.
In 1975, Ross McWhirter, co-editor and compiler of the Guinness Book of World Records, was shot dead by Irish Republican Army gunmen at his home.
London and Dublin hope their document will result in a historic declaration from the Irish Republican Army (IRA) that it will abandon all paramilitary activity.
The groups include the Basque separatist organisation ETA, Irish Republican Army dissidents and loyalist paramilitary groups from Northern Ireland, and the Greek far-left group November 17.
He said they were looking for information that related to his work in the intelligence community in Northern Ireland, including information on an Irish Republican Army informer.
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The diplomatic community's rejection of Libya centred on Col Gaddafi's backing for a number of militant groups, including the Irish Republican Army and the Palestine Liberation Organisation.
Thatcher was the target of a hotel bombing in Brighton by the Irish Republican Army in 1984, and two of her close colleagues were killed in IRA attacks.
Protestant cleric Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness of the Irish Republican Army's political ally, Sinn Fein, were sworn in as first minister and deputy minister, respectively, of the new government.
The Irish Republican Army, unusually, endured for nearly a century, until economic conditions in Ireland significantly improved, and the leaders were pressured by their own members to reach a political accommodation.
In 1988, the British government banned broadcast interviews with groups which expressed support for violence in Northern Ireland, provoking opposition charges it was handing a propaganda coup to the outlawed Irish Republican Army.
But the most popular accused culprit remains the Irish Republican Army (IRA), whom the Aga Khan and his syndicate of owners officially blamed for the kidnap, though authorities have never named a suspect.
This has been suspended for the past year, principally because the Irish Republican Army (IRA) refused to announce a definitive end to its long war against British rule in Northern Ireland (see table below).
The other threat is from people like the Real IRA (Irish Republican Army) -- unlike al Qaeda, the Real IRA are actually building 400-lb bombs, and these bombs are getting caught and intercepted due to intelligence operations.
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