Editing Provisional Irish Republican Army

{{Infobox guerilla organization|native_name=Óglaigh na hÉireann|dates=December 28, 1969-July 28, 2005 (on ceasefire from July 1997)|allegiance=[[Irish Republic]]|ideology=[[Irish Republicanism]]<br>[[Irish Republicanism#Abstentionism/Electoralism|Abstentionism]] (until 1986<br>[[Socialism]] (officially from 1977)<br>[[Legitimism]]|war=[[The Troubles]]|allies='''In Northern Ireland'''<br>[[Irish National Liberation Army]] (sometimes)<br>[[Official Irish Republican Army]] (rarely)<br>Other Irish Republican organizations<br>'''Elsewhere'''<br>[[Libyan Arab Jamahiriya]]<br>[[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]]<br>[[Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia]]<br>[[Euskadi Ta Askatasuna]]|split_from=[[Anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army]]|opponents=[[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]]<br>[[Republic of Ireland]]<br>Unionist terrorist groups|image=Irish flag.png.png}}The '''Provisional Irish Republican Army''' was an [[Irish Republican]] military organization in [[Ireland]]. It was formed after the 1969 split in the [[Anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army]]<ref>{{Web citation|author=MÍCHEÁL MAC DONNCHA|newspaper=An Phoblacht|title=The Republican Movement split of 1969/1970|date=2020-01-09|url=https://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/27727}}</ref> and operated until 1997, when it went on ceasefire during the negotiations for the [[Good Friday Agreement]]. It officially disarmed and dissolved in 2005.<ref>{{Citation|author=Provisional Irish Republican Army|year=2005|title=IRA Statement on the Ending of the Armed Campaign|title-url=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:IRA_Statement_on_the_Ending_of_the_Armed_Campaign}}</ref>