Official Irish Republican Army

Target entity: Official Irish Republican Army
Context triple: [The Troubles, participant, Official Irish Republican Army]

• A. Loyalist militias
  Loyalist militias were armed colonial groups in North America that supported British authority and fought against Patriot forces during the American Revolutionary War.
• B. Irish Civil War
  The Irish Civil War was a 1922–1923 conflict between pro- and anti-Treaty forces in Ireland that followed independence from Britain and shaped the country’s subsequent political landscape.
• C. The Troubles
  The Troubles was a decades-long ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland, marked by violent clashes among republican and loyalist paramilitaries, the British state, and local communities from the late 1960s to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
• D. Italian Fasces of Combat
  The Italian Fasces of Combat was the nationalist paramilitary political movement that served as the precursor to Benito Mussolini’s Fascist Party and the rise of fascism in Italy.
• E. Irish War of Independence
  The Irish War of Independence was a guerrilla conflict (1919–1921) between Irish republican forces and British authorities that led to the establishment of the Irish Free State and the partition of Ireland.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Official Irish Republican Army
Target entity description: The Official Irish Republican Army was a Marxist-oriented Irish republican paramilitary group active mainly in Northern Ireland that pursued both armed struggle and political activism during the late 1960s and 1970s.

• A. Loyalist militias
  Loyalist militias were armed colonial groups in North America that supported British authority and fought against Patriot forces during the American Revolutionary War.
• B. Irish Civil War
  The Irish Civil War was a 1922–1923 conflict between pro- and anti-Treaty forces in Ireland that followed independence from Britain and shaped the country’s subsequent political landscape.
• C. The Troubles
  The Troubles was a decades-long ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland, marked by violent clashes among republican and loyalist paramilitaries, the British state, and local communities from the late 1960s to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
• D. Italian Fasces of Combat
  The Italian Fasces of Combat was the nationalist paramilitary political movement that served as the precursor to Benito Mussolini’s Fascist Party and the rise of fascism in Italy.
• E. Irish War of Independence
  The Irish War of Independence was a guerrilla conflict (1919–1921) between Irish republican forces and British authorities that led to the establishment of the Irish Free State and the partition of Ireland.
• F. None of above. chosen