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Article: IRA's new hard core returns to militancy
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 18, 1996
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BELFAST -- Not long before Christmas, there was a party at The
West, a club in West Belfast.
At one point, the crowd melted away from the dance floor, leaving
two men cavorting to a song by the pop group Madness. Most in the
club loved the spectacle. But some IRA men did not. They ordered
the dancers to stop and threw them out.
The confrontation revealed a strain of militant orthodoxy that
dominates thinking within the IRA. First, the IRA members did not
like men dancing together. It looked "queer," someone in the crowd
heard one of them say. But more importantly, it was not right, with
the war about to go back on.
Most people were shocked when the Provisional IRA shattered its
17-month ...