Irish Republican Army (1922-1969)

:This article deals with the Irish republican organisation opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty, styling itself Irish Republican Army, as it existed from the time of the Treaty in 1921 to the split between the Official Irish Republican Army and the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1969. See List of IRAs for a full list of organisations using the name.

Footnotes

• {{Note|PB}} The term The Irregulars was first coined by Piaras Beaslaí
• {{Note|dump}} IRA offered to decommission in 1923 by Ed Maloney, Sunday Tribune. http://www.nuzhound.com/articles/moloney2000/mal31-12.htm
• {{Note|defence}} Óglaigh na hÉireann is the legal name of the Irish Defence Force - Section 3, Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Act 1923. also Section 16, Defence Act 1954.
• {{Note|rear}} Legion of the Rearguard Proinsias MacAonghusa Quotations from Eamon de Valera isbn 083426848 page 36; Aiken's order page 92
• {{Note|Schuetz}} J Bower Bell ? The Secret Army, pages 262-264; also Enno Stephan Spies in Ireland, pages 226, 245 and 275