Ira
Ira noun - Belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins).
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Provos
Provos noun - A militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland.
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Enemy Civil War: This is what is happening between the IRA and the newer Provisional IRA, or 'provos'.
Source: Film / '71 -
In the novel, the ULA is a Marxist splinter faction of the Provisional IRA (and Clancy mistakenly believed the Provos were also Marxists).
Source: Useful Notes / The Troubles -
If an organization is listed as simply "the IRA" in anything set after The '70s, then it refers to the Provisional Irish Republican Army, or "Provos", as they are often called (the IRA "proper", though not actually the oldest group with that name).
Source: Useful Notes / The Troubles
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