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1986
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First Attack

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How to Cite

Crenshaw, M., & Robinson, K. (2025). Mapping Militants Project. Rice University. https://doi.org/10.25613/G0K4-WF70
Mapping Militants Project. “Irish People's Liberation Organization.” Last modified . https://mappingmilitants.org/node/399/

Profile Contents

Narrative

Narrative of the Organization's History

Organization

Leadership, Name Changes, Size Estimates, Resources, Geographic Locations

Strategy

Ideology, Aims, Political Activities, Targets, and Tactics

Interactions

Foreign Designations and Listings, Community Relations, Relations with Other Groups, State Sponsors and External Influences

Maps

Mapping relationships with other militant groups over time in regional maps

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Overview
Formed: 
January 1, 1986
Disbanded: 
January 1, 1992

The Irish People's Liberation Organization (IPLO) split from the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) after the assassination of an INLA leader threw the organization's command structure into disarray. Like INLA, IPLO sought to unite Northern and Southern Ireland into a socialist republic independent of the United Kingdom. IPLO considered itself the legitimate custodian of this goal and sought to destroy and replace INLA. IPLO was soon forcibly dissolved by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA), the main Catholic independence-seeking group in Northern Ireland, which killed and injured a number of the group's members in a Halloween attack. Some IPLO members then rejoined INLA.

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