The document discusses the origins and history of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Northern Ireland from the 1960s-1990s. It covers civil rights marches, enemies of the IRA, attacks in the early 1970s including the 1979 Warrenpoint bombing and assassination of Lord Mountbatten, martyrs of the IRA, a failed 1984 bomb plot to kill the British Prime Minister, a 1991 assassination attempt on UK PM John Major, 1996 attacks, and IRA leaders.