Talk:Irish National Liberation Army

The belief that the INLA came out of the Provisionals is totally wrong.

The INLA were a supposedly socialist organisation spawned from the Official IRA. The Official IRA comprised the socialist elements of the IRA left after the breakaway by the Provisionals. The breakup of the terror organisation could be said to have been caused by ideological differences in the organisation in the aftermath of the organisation’s calling-off of its military campaign in 1962. The change in emphasis from the military to the political in essence led to the IRA’s inability to defend the Nationalist areas of Belfast in 1969 and from that period the Belfast and Derry elements of the organisation were prominent in initiating the split.

This left elements in what was now the Official IRA, who still believed in a military solution, but their political leanings would not allow them to join the Provisionals. This was essentially the element that formed the INLA and its political wing, the Irish Republican socialist Party (IRSP).

The Provisionals maintained their organisation without a split until Ruairi O’Bradaigh, with the rejection of his abstentionist policies, and Daihi O’Conaill, along with O’Bradaigh, unable to maintain his position in the top posts in Sinn Féin, led a walkout from the 1986 Sinn Féin annual conference and set up Republican Sinn Féin as an organisation committed to the traditional republican policy. ________________________ Someone has deleted information about the INLA's internal feuds, including even the killing of their founder, Seamus Costello and also about thier criminality. I suspect that the motivation for these changes is political, but I would like to assure the moderators that the information I have re-inserted is both true and verifiable. I will provide sources if necessary. Jdorney

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INLA / IRSP

You are totally right about the Officials splitting and the INLA being born. Seamus Costello and the other INLA leader were formerley leaders of the OIRA not the PIRA. you are also right about the internal fueds, in which later the splinter group (IPLO) were formed.