Provisional Irish Republican Army

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The Provisional IRA emerged from the split in the Irish Republican Army in 1969-1970 out of the faction which supported the traditional republican commitment to parliamentary abstentionism. Its political counterpart was initially known as Provisional Sinn Féin.[1] Sean McStiofain was the Provisionals' first chief of staff.[2]

Notes

  1. W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.227.
  2. Patrick Bishop and Eamonn Mallie, The Provisional IRA, Corgi, 1988, p.137.