What does the IRA represent?

Answer 1

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) were a paramilitary group with the goal of freeing Ireland from British rule.

They originally formed in 1913, under the name "The Irish Volunteers," in response to the Ulster Volunteer Force's creation in Northern Ireland (which was intended to help prevent the Home Rule - a document trying to let Southern Ireland vote on their own taxes)

They officially became the IRA in 1969.

Answer 2

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is an Irish Republican revolutionary military organization. It was descended from the Irish volunteers, an organization established on 25 November 1913 that staged the Easter rising in April 1916. In 1919, the Irish Republic that had been proclaimed during the Easter Rising was formally established by an elected assembly, and the Irish Volunteers were recognized by Dáil Éireann as its legitimate army. Thereafter, the IRA waged a guerrilla campaign against British rule in Ireland in the 1919-21 Irish war of independence.