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Fighting Talk: The Statements of “The IRA/New IRA”

Journal abstract With the advent of the new violent dissident merger, “The IRA/New IRA,” the group and its affiliates have had to legitimise their new existence. They have utilised the[…]

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- in Debate
The role of trust in deciding which terrorist faction to join

Research based on interviews with Irish Republican activists has shown that trust plays a greater role than ideology in how members pick sides when terrorist groups splinter. CREST’s Emma Barrett[…]

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- in Research
Ferocious Times: The IRA, the RIC, and Britain’s Failure in 1919–1921

Journal abstract The 1916 Rising was, in military terms, a shambolic failure. Despite the fact that Britain was locked in a gruelling struggle with Germany, the Rising was still utterly[…]

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- in Groups · Ideologies · Research
From “former comrades” to “near enemy”: the narrative template of “armed struggle” and conflicting discourses on Violent Dissident Irish Republican activity (VDR)

Journal abstract This article critically evaluates how competing discourses on what has been labelled Violent Dissident Republican activity (VDR) can be mapped onto pre-existing narrative templates on “armed struggle” that[…]

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Crossing the Rubicon: Deciding to Become a Paramilitary in Northern Ireland

Journal abstract Northern Ireland has endured a history of violence since its inception in 1922. The last forty years have been characterised by sustained political conflict and a fledging peace[…]

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- in De-radicalisation · Groups · Regions · Research · UK
Rebels’ Perspectives of the Legacy of Past Violence and of the Current Peace in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Journal abstract Former members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and organizers of peaceful civil rights organizations were interviewed to assess how these individuals interpreted the current social conditions in[…]

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