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To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (4726)	2/20/2007 10:00:51 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

This only proves your point... GZ

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (4726)	2/20/2007 10:14:54 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

The acronym IRA was first used by the IRB organization in America (also known as the Fenian Brotherhood). This "Irish Republican Army" of the 1860s comprised the American Fenians' paramilitary forces, organized into a number of regiments. Fenian soldiers wearing IRA insignia fought at the Battle of Ridgeway (June 2, 1866). However the term Irish Republican Army in its modern sense was first used in the second decade of the 20th century for the rebel forces of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizens Army during the Easter Rising. It was subsequently and most commonly, used for those Volunteers who fought a guerrilla campaign in 1919-1921 in support of the Irish Republic declared in 1919 By the end of the war, in July 1921, the IRA was very hard pressed by the deployment of more British troops into the most active areas and a chronic shortage of arms and ammunition. It has been estimated that the IRA had only about 3000 rifles (mostly captured from the British) during the war, with a larger number of shotguns and pistols. An ambitious plan to buy arms from Italy in 1921 collapsed when the money did not reach the arms dealers. Towards the end of the war, some Thompson submachine guns were imported from the USA; however 450 of these were intercepted by the American authorities and the remainder only reached Ireland shortly before the Truce. en.wikipedia.org