It should not be confused with the Real IRA faction of the same name that began using the same title in 2009.

He remained close to the IRA, giving assistance to republicans deported from Britain and mediating in disputes between IRA factions.

Another argument is that it was promoted to undermine the IRA's support and stir tension between the two IRA factions.

The plan was allegedly to start a feud between the two IRA factions, which would distract them from their fight against the security forces and drain their support.

After these deaths, the two IRA factions in Belfast negotiated a ceasefire and directed their attention instead at the British Army in the city.

"Do you think this local IRA faction is dangerous?"

Soon the family get unwittingly caught up in an attempt by an extreme IRA faction to blow up a limousine carrying one of the Royal family.

This attack was not the opening shot of the war, as skirmishes had taken place between pro- and anti-treaty IRA factions throughout the country when the British were handing over the barracks.

Mountbatten's 'execution', claimed the IRA faction responsible, 'was a way of bringing emotionally home to the English ruling-class and its working-class slaves.that their government's war on us is going to cost them as well.

If the last 100 years in Ireland have taught the British nothing else, surely it has taught them how anything deemed to be unfair against nationalists has the potential to create support for IRA factions?