Sentence examples for border campaigns from inspiring English sources

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.

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 truth, this was as much due to the bankrupt state of the organisation following the failed 1956-62 border campaign as to the ideological shift that Mac Giolla – who had been both interned and imprisoned during that period – presided over.

Since the Irish war of independence there have been several mutations of the IRA from a mass movement of armed fighters in the 1918-1921 Anglo-Irish war to a small band of diehards who conducted the 1958-62 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.

Half of them were armed, with pistols and revolvers and some rifles," Gilchrist said, reminiscing on his group's 30-day border campaign that drew national media coverage.