Northern campaign (Irish Republican Army)

Northern campaign
Date2 September 1942 – December 1944
Location
Mainly the border area between Northern Ireland and Ireland
Result British victory
Belligerents

Northern Ireland

Ireland

IRA
Commanders and leaders
J. M. Andrews
Basil Brooke
Éamon de Valera
Hugh McAteer
Charlie Kerins Executed
Strength
Unknown ~300-500 volunteers
Casualties and losses
6 killed
Unknown wounded
3 killed
Unknown wounded

The Northern campaign was a series of attacks by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) Northern Command between September 1942 and December 1944 against the security forces in Northern Ireland. The action taken by the Northern Irish and the Irish governments as a result of these attacks shattered the IRA and resulted in the former being free from IRA activity by the end of World War II.[1] In December 1956 the IRA began its Border Campaign which lasted until February 1962.

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