Sentence examples for border campaign from inspiring English sources

David O'Connell had been active in the IRA's unsuccessful border campaign which was abandoned in 1962.

The border campaign ended with the recognition by the then IRA leadership that there was no stomach for further violence.

Another rebellious minority – the remnants of the republican movement who refused to accept the IRA's defeat in the 50s border campaign – formed the nucleus of the Provisional IRA.

In 1956, in the IRA's Northern Ireland border campaign, codenamed Operation Harvest, Ó Brádaigh was part of the planning group and second in command of the western attack.

As IRA chief of staff, he penned the ceasefire standing the organisation down and bringing a formal end to the border campaign.

In May 2010, almost midway between the 2009 killings and the murder of Constable Kerr, a memorial was unveiled at Enniscorthy in County Wexford to the "Edentubber Martyrs": four members of the IRA killed when the landmine they were assembling exploded prematurely in November 1957 during the so-called border campaign.

He took to the streets just as the IRA, having been stood down after abortive Border campaigns in the 1950s, was re-arming.

As a young medical conscript assigned to one of the regime's border campaigns, he was pressed into service one day when his superior was away to monitor the vital signs of a prisoner under hideous interrogation by Moller, the unit's commandant.

Soon after, she met her current husband, Jose Luis Villa, who is now a driving force of the cross-border campaign to secure her release.

The commander of the US war against the Islamic State (Isis) placed the Syria side of his cross-border campaign on the back burner on Friday and could not predict when Iraqi forces will recapture territory from the jihadist army.

The cross-border campaign prompted Nike to press managers at Mexmode to reinstate the ousted workers, to create a formal grievance process, to address complaints of harassment by its managers and to improve cafeteria conditions.