IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Irish Republican Army mean? 

• IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY (noun)
  The noun IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

IRA; Irish Republican Army; Provisional IRA; Provisional Irish Republican Army; Provos

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Meronyms (parts of "Irish Republican Army"):

Sinn Fein (an Irish republican political movement founded in 1905 to promote independence from England and unification of Ireland; became the political branch of the Irish Republican Army)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Eire; Ireland; Irish Republic; Republic of Ireland (a republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1921)