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Provos: The IRA and Sinn Fein Peter Taylor
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK

May 15, 2014 - That's an interesting thesis as regards Sinn Féin and the IRA losing 'international backers' but I'm trying to think of any that would have affected them substantially by 1998. For McIntyre the blame for the dissident actions lies with the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin – but not in the way that hardline Unionists often claim: 'The Provos need to come out and say their campaign was wrong and that they were the product of British state policy in 1969, not of ideology. But Joanne's death ensured that the Government would continue to receive his vital information about the workings of the Sinn Fein and Provo machine. Feb 24, 2011 - Every documentary I've seen has been dominated by interviews with Provos – I'm not sure I've actually seen a single interview with a former OIRA militant from that period (early/mid 1970s) as part of any popular histories of the troubles. Their support appears to have been not from the USSR or it is bold claim on haass part though, that some irish americans built networks for the provo's in the states was not with that states blessing or approval i would presume. After being beaten senseless by a British Army patrol, he was even beginning to accept the IRA's armed campaign against so-called Crown targets – including his former fellow British soldiers. Oct 7, 2009 - Terrorist attacks by the Provisional IRA occurred throughout the 1980's and early 1990's. Mar 2, 2014 - A PARATROOPER who served in Northern Ireland on Bloody Sunday has told of his outrage that elderly British soldiers are living under the “shadow of prosecution” while suspected IRA terrorists are given amnesty. John Downey, suspected of the 1982 Hyde Park bombing which killed four Household Cavalry soldiers, was freed because he had been sent an amnesty letter as part of a deal between the Government and Sinn Fein in the Good Friday agreement. Sep 16, 2012 - Here he ponders if Sinn Fein can politically allow the dissidents of the New IRA to develop like the former Provos. Nov 5, 2009 - Northern Ireland's deputy first minister, Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness, said the various IRAs still intent on fighting the war with Britain were 'traitors to the island of Ireland'. Joanne's 'crime', in the eyes of the IRA, was to carry Crown papers – Government-issued census forms.