Provisional Wing of the Irish Republican Army

The conflict that began in 1968 with an initially peaceful civil rights campaign against anti-Catholic discrimination descended into violence that spread to mainland Britain in the course of a bombing campaign by the provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army.

Since the militant Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army declared an indefinite "truce" last February, the casualties among British soldiers have been greatly reduced.

Bluntly, and loudly enough so his other Irish-American patrons can hear, he asks the stranger for a contribution to the terrorist Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army.

The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army sponsored disturbances in four prisons to protest conditions and the fact that an estimated 500 I.R.A. suspects are being held without trial.

Last week the militant Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army pulled a canny caper in downtown Dublin that made a mockery of Cosgrave's get-tough policy on the I.R.A.