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Guns

These weapons were used by IRA members and were sometimes bought with funds raised in the United States by groups sympathetic to the IRA's cause.

Gas

This caustic substance was used by British authorities in Northern Ireland throughout The Troubles to attempt to disperse protesters advocating for a united Ireland.

Touts

This term was used by the IRA for people it considered traitors and informants to the British.

Black Beret

This piece of clothing symbolized that its wearer was a member of the IRA.

Hunger Strikes

This tactic was used by several IRA members - some to the point of their deaths - to protest their treatment by British authorities while in prison.

Dirty Protest

This concerted resistance effort within a prison in Northern Ireland involved prisoners coating the walls of their cells with their own excrement.

Bloody Sunday

This protest in January of 1972 in the Bogside...

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