How Hillary became Empress of Ireland Oct 13, 2009
It is also no coincidence that the Irish National Liberation Army, a socialist republican armed group that was active between 1974 and 1998, announced 24 hours before Clinton s arrival that it would follow in the footsteps of the larger Provisional Irish Republican Army and decommission its weapons: such a breakthrough will have been carefully organised behind the scenes to bolster Hillary Clinton s and Washington s claims to be peacemakers in Ireland (2). Hillary Clinton s ability to dominate... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Northern Ireland's consensus Mar 17, 2009
This renunciation of violence explains why Martin McGuinness of the Sinn Fein party, deputy leader of the Northern Ireland government, denounced the killers as "traitors to the island of Ireland." Contrast that with the mealy-mouthed comments Sinn Fein spokesmen would have uttered 15 or 20 years ago, when the Provisional Irish Republican Army, parent organization of the party, committed similar killings. Peter Robinson of the Democratic Unionist Party, the leader of the power-sharing government,... (Boston Globe)
When Terrorists Meet Copy Editors Mar 17, 2009
Until recently, the same newspaper used to employ a description of the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland that was slightly less misleading and also somewhat more amusing. Aware of the fact that its readers knew that there were two discrepant kinds of Christianity practiced in the province, the New York Times would do its job of being strictly informative by characterizing the IRA as "." One could see what the editors were vainly trying to donamely, to suggest that very few... (Slate)
UK lawmakers aim to 'force' Hamas talks Mar 16, 2009
"The way we got around the Northern Ireland situation was by talking to the IRA," she said of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, which waged a violent campaign against British control of Northern Ireland for decades before a peace agreement was signed. "You don't make peace by talking to your friends. You make peace by talking to your enemies," she said. (CNN -- World)
Reinventing Hamas: the steps to cease-fire and peace Feb 19, 2009
In 1994, the hard-line, militant Provisional Irish Republican Army put down their guns and put on their suits to prepare for Sinn Fein negotiations with the British. Today Northern Ireland sees a relative peace in what was once a brutal sectarian conflict spanning several centuries that seemed to have no end in sight. (The Suffolk Journal, MA)
