IRA

Irish Republican Army (IRA), The modern incarnation is sometimes refered to as the Old IRA, is a military organization descended from the Irish Volunteers which was recognized in 1919 by Dáil Éireann as the legitimate army (from the perspective of Irish republicans) of the unilaterally declared Irish Republic, the Irish state proclaimed in the Easter Rising in 1916 and reaffirmed by the Dáil in January 1919. In Irish, it was referred to as Óglaigh na hÉireann.