Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army)

Index Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army)

The Border Campaign (12 December 1956 – 26 February 1962) was a guerrilla warfare campaign (codenamed Operation Harvest) carried out by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) against targets in Northern Ireland, with the aim of overthrowing British rule there and creating a united Ireland. [1]

81 relations: Albert Kennedy, An Phoblacht, Anglo-Irish Treaty, Armagh, Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, BBC, Belfast, Berkshire, Bodenstown, Bren light machine gun, British Army, Cathal Goulding, Catholic Church, Charles Haughey, Civil Authorities (Special Powers) Act (Northern Ireland) 1922, County Armagh, County Fermanagh, County Laois, County Louth, Dáithí Ó Conaill, Derry, Derrylin, Edentubber martyrs, Enniskillen, Eric Dorman-Smith, Essex, Fergal O'Hanlon, Flying column, Gough Barracks, Guerrilla warfare, Internment, IRA Army Council, Irish Free State, Irish nationalism, Irish Republican Army (1922–1969), Irish republicanism, Irish War of Independence, J. Bowyer Bell, Joseph McGarrity, Lee–Enfield, Liam Kelly (Irish republican), Lisnaskea, Magherafelt, Marxism, Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland), Newry, Northern Campaign (Irish Republican Army), Northern Ireland, Official Irish Republican Army, Omagh, ..., Pan Books, Penguin Books, Press release, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Provisional Irish Republican Army campaign, Republic of Ireland, Republic of Ireland Act 1948, Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, Richard Pim, Rosslea, Royal Ulster Constabulary, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, S-Plan, Saor Uladh, Seamus Costello, Seán Cronin, Seán Garland, Seán South, Sinn Féin, Submachine gun, Teeling Column, TG4, The Troubles, Tom Barry (soldier), Tony Magan, Ulster loyalism, Ulster Special Constabulary, Unionism in Ireland, United Ireland, United Kingdom general election, 1955, Wolfe Tone. Expand index (31 more) »

Albert Kennedy

Sir Albert Kennedy, KPM (11 May 1906 - 11 October 1991) was a United Kingdom police officer: he was Inspector-General of the Royal Ulster Constabulary from 1961 to 1969.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Albert Kennedy · See more »

An Phoblacht

An Phoblacht (Irish pronunciation:; The Republic) was a weekly, and later monthly, newspaper published by Sinn Féin in Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and An Phoblacht · See more »

Anglo-Irish Treaty

The Anglo-Irish Treaty (An Conradh Angla-Éireannach), commonly known as The Treaty and officially the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland, was an agreement between the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and representatives of the Irish Republic that concluded the Irish War of Independence.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Anglo-Irish Treaty · See more »

Armagh

Armagh is the county town of County Armagh and a city in Northern Ireland, as well as a civil parish.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Armagh · See more »

Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough

Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, (9 June 1888 – 18 August 1973), styled as Sir Basil Brooke, 5th Baronet from 1907–52, was an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician who became the third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland in May 1943, holding office until March 1963.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough · See more »

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and BBC · See more »

Belfast

Belfast (is the capital city of Northern Ireland, located on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast of Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Belfast · See more »

Berkshire

Berkshire (abbreviated Berks, in the 17th century sometimes spelled Barkeshire as it is pronounced) is a county in south east England, west of London and is one of the home counties.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Berkshire · See more »

Bodenstown

Bodenstown is a townland on the outskirts of Sallins in County Kildare, Ireland, coordinates 53.262572, -6.665906.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Bodenstown · See more »

Bren light machine gun

The Bren gun, usually called simply the Bren, are a series of light machine guns (LMG) made by Britain in the 1930s and used in various roles until 1992.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Bren light machine gun · See more »

British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and British Army · See more »

Cathal Goulding

Cathal Goulding (Cathal Ó Goillín; 2 January 1923 – 26 December 1998) was Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army and the Official IRA.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Cathal Goulding · See more »

Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Catholic Church · See more »

Charles Haughey

Charles James Haughey (16 September 1925 – 13 June 2006) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach on three different occasions, 1979 to 1981, March 1982 to December 1982 and 1987 to 1992.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Charles Haughey · See more »

Civil Authorities (Special Powers) Act (Northern Ireland) 1922

The Civil Authorities (Special Powers) Act (Northern Ireland) 1922, often referred to simply as the Special Powers Act, was an Act passed by the Parliament of Northern Ireland shortly after the establishment of Northern Ireland, and in the context of violent conflict over the issue of the partition of Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Civil Authorities (Special Powers) Act (Northern Ireland) 1922 · See more »

County Armagh

County Armagh (named after its county town, Armagh) is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and County Armagh · See more »

County Fermanagh

County Fermanagh is one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland and one of the six counties of Northern Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and County Fermanagh · See more »

County Laois

County Laois (Contae Laoise) is a county in Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and County Laois · See more »

County Louth

County Louth (Contae Lú) is a county in Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and County Louth · See more »

Dáithí Ó Conaill

Dáithí Ó Conaill (David O'Connell) (May 1938 – 1 January 1991) was an Irish republican, a member of the IRA Army Council, and vice-president of Sinn Féin and Republican Sinn Féin.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Dáithí Ó Conaill · See more »

Derry

Derry, officially Londonderry, is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland and the fourth-largest city on the island of Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Derry · See more »

Derrylin

Derrylin is a village and townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Derrylin · See more »

Edentubber martyrs

On 11 November 1957 during the Border Campaign a landmine exploded prematurely in Edentubber, County Louth, Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Edentubber martyrs · See more »

Enniskillen

Enniskillen is a town and civil parish in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Enniskillen · See more »

Eric Dorman-Smith

Brigadier Eric Edward ("Chink") Dorman-Smith (24 July 1895 – 11 May 1969), who later changed his name to Eric Edward Dorman O'Gowan, was an Irish officer whose career in the British Army began in the First World War and closed at the end of the Second World War.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Eric Dorman-Smith · See more »

Essex

Essex is a county in the East of England.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Essex · See more »

Fergal O'Hanlon

Feargal O'Hanlon (Irish: Feargal Ó hAnnluain (2 February 1936 – 1 January 1957) was a volunteer in the Pearse Column of the Irish Republican Army.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Fergal O'Hanlon · See more »

Flying column

A flying column is a small, independent, military land unit capable of rapid mobility and usually composed of all arms.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Flying column · See more »

Gough Barracks

Gough Barracks was a military installation in Armagh, Northern Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Gough Barracks · See more »

Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Guerrilla warfare · See more »

Internment

Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges, and thus no trial.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Internment · See more »

IRA Army Council

The IRA Army Council was the decision-making body of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, more commonly known as the IRA, a paramilitary group dedicated to bringing about the end of the Union between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and IRA Army Council · See more »

Irish Free State

The Irish Free State (Saorstát Éireann; 6 December 192229 December 1937) was a state established in 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Irish Free State · See more »

Irish nationalism

Irish nationalism is an ideology which asserts that the Irish people are a nation.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Irish nationalism · See more »

Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)

The original Irish Republican Army (IRA) fought a guerrilla war against British rule in Ireland in the Irish War of Independence between 1919 and 1921.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Irish Republican Army (1922–1969) · See more »

Irish republicanism

Irish republicanism (poblachtánachas Éireannach) is an ideology based on the belief that all of Ireland should be an independent republic.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Irish republicanism · See more »

Irish War of Independence

The Irish War of Independence (Cogadh na Saoirse) or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and the British security forces in Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Irish War of Independence · See more »

J. Bowyer Bell

J.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and J. Bowyer Bell · See more »

Joseph McGarrity

Joseph McGarrity (1874–1940) was born in Carrickmore, County Tyrone, Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Joseph McGarrity · See more »

Lee–Enfield

The Lee–Enfield is a bolt-action, magazine-fed, repeating rifle that served as the main firearm used by the military forces of the British Empire and Commonwealth during the first half of the 20th century.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Lee–Enfield · See more »

Liam Kelly (Irish republican)

Liam Kelly (29 September 1922 – 7 June 2011) was an Irish republican, who was elected both to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland (1953–1958) (as an abstentionist) and as a member of Seanad Éireann (1954–1957) (which he did attend).

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Liam Kelly (Irish republican) · See more »

Lisnaskea

Lisnaskea is the second-biggest settlement in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Lisnaskea · See more »

Magherafelt

Magherafelt is a small town and civil parish in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Magherafelt · See more »

Marxism

Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Marxism · See more »

Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)

The Nationalist Party was the continuation of the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP), and was formed after partition, by the Northern Ireland-based members of the IPP.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) · See more »

Newry

Newry is a city in Northern Ireland, divided by the Clanrye river in counties Armagh and Down, from Belfast and from Dublin.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Newry · See more »

Northern Campaign (Irish Republican Army)

The Northern Campaign was a series of attacks by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) Northern Command between September 1942 and December 1944 against the security forces in Northern Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Northern Campaign (Irish Republican Army) · See more »

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Northern Ireland · See more »

Official Irish Republican Army

The Official Irish Republican Army or Official IRA (OIRA) was an Irish republican paramilitary group whose goal was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and create a "workers' republic" encompassing all of Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Official Irish Republican Army · See more »

Omagh

Omagh is the county town of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Omagh · See more »

Pan Books

Pan Books is a publishing imprint that first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers, owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Pan Books · See more »

Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Penguin Books · See more »

Press release

A press release, news release, media release, press statement or video release is a written or recorded communication directed at members of the news media for the purpose of announcing something ostensibly newsworthy.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Press release · See more »

Provisional Irish Republican Army

The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA or Provisional IRA) was an Irish republican revolutionary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate the reunification of Ireland and bring about an independent socialist republic encompassing all of Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Provisional Irish Republican Army · See more »

Provisional Irish Republican Army campaign

From 1969 until 1997,Moloney, p. 472 the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) conducted an armed paramilitary campaign primarily in Northern Ireland and England, aimed at ending British rule in Northern Ireland in order to create a united Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Provisional Irish Republican Army campaign · See more »

Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Republic of Ireland · See more »

Republic of Ireland Act 1948

The Republic of Ireland Act 1948 (No. 22 of 1948) is an Act of the Oireachtas which declared that Ireland may be officially described as the Republic of Ireland, and vested in the President of Ireland the power to exercise the executive authority of the state in its external relations, on the advice of the Government of Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Republic of Ireland Act 1948 · See more »

Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border

The Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, also known as the Irish border, runs for Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland, 1999MFPP Working Paper No.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border · See more »

Richard Pim

Captain Sir Richard Pike Pim, KBE, VRD, DL, RNVR (10 July 1900 – 26 June 1987) was a British civil servant and naval officer.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Richard Pim · See more »

Rosslea

Rosslea or Roslea is a small village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, near the border with County Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Rosslea · See more »

Royal Ulster Constabulary

The Royal Ulster Constabulary was the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Royal Ulster Constabulary · See more »

Ruairí Ó Brádaigh

Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (born Peter Roger Casement Brady; 2 October 1932 – 5 June 2013) was an Irish republican political and military leader.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Ruairí Ó Brádaigh · See more »

S-Plan

The S-Plan or Sabotage Campaign or England Campaign was a campaign of bombing and sabotage against the civil, economic, and military infrastructure of the United Kingdom from 1939 to 1940, conducted by members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA).

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and S-Plan · See more »

Saor Uladh

Saor Uladh (Irish for Free Ulster) was a short-lived Irish republican paramilitary organisation in Northern Ireland in the 1950s.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Saor Uladh · See more »

Seamus Costello

Seamus Costello (Séamus Mac Coisdealbha, 1939 – 5 October 1977) was a leader of Official Sinn Féin and the Official Irish Republican Army and latterly of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) and the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Seamus Costello · See more »

Seán Cronin

Seán Cronin (29 August 1922 – 9 March 2011) was a journalist and former Irish Army officer and twice Irish Republican Army chief of staff.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Seán Cronin · See more »

Seán Garland

Seán Garland (born 7 March 1934) is a former President of the Workers' Party in Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Seán Garland · See more »

Seán South

Seán South (Seán Sabhat; 1928–1 January 1957)A New Dictionary of Irish History from 1800, D.J. Hickey & J.E. Doherty, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 2003, Pg.452 was a member of an IRA military column led by Sean Garland on a raid against a Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, on New Year's Day, 1957.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Seán South · See more »

Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin (isbn) is a left-wing Irish republican political party active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Sinn Féin · See more »

Submachine gun

A submachine gun (SMG) is a magazine-fed, automatic carbine designed to fire pistol cartridges.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Submachine gun · See more »

Teeling Column

The Teeling Column was one of four armed units created by Seán Cronin for the Border Campaign in the west of Ulster.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Teeling Column · See more »

TG4

TG4 (TG Ceathair; or) is an Irish public service broadcaster for Irish-language speakers.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and TG4 · See more »

The Troubles

The Troubles (Na Trioblóidí) was an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland during the late 20th century.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and The Troubles · See more »

Tom Barry (soldier)

Thomas (Tom) Barry (1 July 1897 – 2 July 1980) was a prominent guerrilla leader in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence, when he was commander of the 3rd West Cork Flying Column.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Tom Barry (soldier) · See more »

Tony Magan

Tony (Anthony) Magan (15 December 1910 – 4 July 1981) was an Irish republican and chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (IRA).

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Tony Magan · See more »

Ulster loyalism

Ulster loyalism is a political ideology found primarily among working class Ulster Protestants in Northern Ireland, whose status as a part of the United Kingdom has remained controversial.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Ulster loyalism · See more »

Ulster Special Constabulary

The Ulster Special Constabulary (USC; commonly called the "B-Specials" or "B Men") was a quasi-military reserve special constable police force in Northern Ireland.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Ulster Special Constabulary · See more »

Unionism in Ireland

Unionism in Ireland is a political ideology that favours the continuation of some form of political union between the islands of Ireland and Great Britain.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Unionism in Ireland · See more »

United Ireland

United Ireland (also referred to as Irish reunification) is the proposition that the whole of Ireland should be a single sovereign state.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and United Ireland · See more »

United Kingdom general election, 1955

The 1955 United Kingdom general election was held on 26 May 1955, four years after the previous general election.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and United Kingdom general election, 1955 · See more »

Wolfe Tone

Theobald Wolfe Tone, posthumously known as Wolfe Tone (20 June 1763 – 19 November 1798), was a leading Irish revolutionary figure and one of the founding members of the United Irishmen, and is regarded as the father of Irish republicanism and leader of the 1798 Irish Rebellion.

New!!: Border Campaign (Irish Republican Army) and Wolfe Tone · See more »

Redirects here:

Border Campaign (IRA), IRA campaign of 1957-62, Operation Harvest.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Campaign_(Irish_Republican_Army)

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »