Talk:Official Irish Republican Army

message: By what stretch were the INLA/IRSP Maoist? As I understand it, even in its early days the Republican Socialist Movement included leftists of many different stripes.  64.229.184.240, 20 Sept
: I found that one odd too.  Is there any evidence to support it?  Because if not, it should go.  Bernadette McAliskey was a leading light in the early IRSP before the nutters took over.  She was fairly hard left, but not Maoist by any stretch of the imagination.  --Red King 23:02, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it don't say that no more. If anyone wants to put it back in, a reliable source should be quoted. Palmiro | Talk 23:24, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Mao and Seamus Costello?

message: Hi all, I'm rather new to the Wiki (just joined up a few days ago), but the whole WikiProject concept seems like an effective tool for gathering a group of people together to work on a specific subject. I'm primarily interested in contributing to areas related to Irish nationalism, and the Irish Republican Army, and I've noticed a few of you have quite a lot of involvement in the same area. So, I wonder if anyone would be interested in forming a WikiProject focusing on Irish Nationalism? Wikipedia:WikiProject Irish Republicanism seems like a good title to me! WP:IRA would be a great shortcut! I'm posting this up on many different pages, so I would especially appreciate it if, if you're interested, you would join me at User talk:Johnathan Swift#WikiProject IRA. Erin Go Bragh 06:40, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject IRA? 

message: Official IRA -> Official Irish Republican Army. Regardless of the merits of the "Official IRA" name the PIRA, CIRA and RIRA all follow the latter standard, so this should be the same for the sake of consistency. One Night In Hackney303 17:09, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: seconded.--Vintagekits 17:13, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed move

message: The article states that OIRA were confined mainly to the Falls Road and Markets areas of Belfast but seeing as Ballymuphy saw quite a bit of activity such as feuding between the INLA and OIRA surely Ballymurphy should be added to the article.jeanne (talk) 07:14, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Two of the men responsible for  the murder  fled to  Cork ,  where they were looked after by  local Official IRA  contacts" is hardly them having units in Cork. It's the nature of all variants of the IRA that they have "contacts" like that all over the place. I'm unsure where Ballymurphy comes into it either as that was largely Provo territory. I think we're trying to point out their most active areas or pockets of support, not everywhere they had members. One Night In Hackney303 20:47, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: ONIH,I'm not trying to be contentious nor authoritarian, but I happen to know from a reliable source that the OIRA were somewhat active in the Ballymurphy area.In fact, there were many attacks on members of OIRA by INLA and vice-versa.But I agree that Ballymurphy was a very strong Provo stronghold.The OIRA members who lived there were given a lot of stick.Unfortunately,ONIH, I absolutely cannot list my source for this info;I can only say ,that in 1986,I had a boyfriend from Ballymurphy.But obviously,I cannot state his name, so I suppose my additions to article cannot be adequately05:56, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll take a look at the sources I have later, but I'm dubious. Ballymurphy didn't see much armed activity for quite some time, as the policy of the "unnamed" Provo OC there was to radicalise the people by encouraging them to riot against the British Army each day, and shootings and bombings were deliberately discouraged to allow this to happen. Therefore I'm somewhat dubious that while this was happening the Sticks were particularly active in Ballymurphy, or at least active enough to merit a mention. One Night In Hackney303 17:29, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

text: Alas,ONIH,my boyfriend didn't exactly provide me with names and I have no doubt that what little he used to tell me was the truth;but I'll admit before I knew him ,I hadn't realised there was any sizeablejeanne (talk) 11:27, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

text: ONIH,as I recall "S" as I shall henceforth refer to my ex-boyfriend,did tell me something about there being mostly action taken against the British Army rather than bombings,etc.Would this be the reaction of the PIRA to the Springfield Road massacre in July 1972 when the Catholic priest was shot dead by the British along with several young people?Also,"S" did tell me he left home at 16 and spent the next few years living in various digs and kipping at friend's houses.He seemed to have lived near the Springfield Rd.So what you are saying ONIH,is beginning to refresh my memory of the conversations I used to have with"S".Perhaps he was referring to the Falls Rd. area  and not Ballymurphy after all.In 1972 he would have been about 16 years old.Yeah, ok I probably made a mistake due to my faulty memory.Have you found anything, by the way?jeanne (talk) 15:46, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

text: It's been about 5 months since I posted this in regards to areas of activity for the Sticks. ONIH is no longer at Wiki but can any other editor discover the truth as to whether or not the OIRA had much support in Ballymurphy and Cork. I happen to personally know that there were Sticks in Ballymurphy as well as Cork as late as 1979.--jeanne (talk) 16:57, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

text:  Mock the Week (a UK comedy television show) hardly counts as being evidence of anything.Coolavokig (talk) 08:06, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Areas of activity

message: They shot Seamus Costello in 1977. They did some stuff after that too. The only sensible date for the infobox is when they declared a ceasefire surely? O Fenian (talk) 03:08, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: After giving this more thought the only date which can be sourced for them to have actually stopped is May 1972. Otherwise you are looking at an event and deciding "there's nothing after it", which may or may not be true. Even in 2005 they were called largely inactive, are we going to go back to the bizarre "1969-current" version with no source to say they are currently active as of 2009? A caveat about some activity since 1972 may be the best way to deal with it, but the only possible date that can go in the infobox is 1972, no other date can be sourced. O Fenian (talk) 11:35, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Why stop at 1975?

message: In the infobox it says its leaders were unknown; wasn't Cathal Goulding one of the leaders? If so, his name should be in the infobox.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 19:05, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leaders 

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message: The Officials were known as 'the Stickies' throughout nationalist Belfast – not merely by those in the West of the city. This is a glaring error in the Intro Billsmith60 (talk) 18:32, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Stickies'