A militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland.
Ver más 1 It will be remembered that the stickies got their nickname when they chose stick-on lilies and the provos were, briefly, called pinheads.
2 A fair dollop - according to the latest figures there are over 120,000 provos on the waiting list.
3 What do old Provos think about when they examine the present situation?
4 And the attack was the Provos ' most audacious operation against the British establishment.
5 In 1986 he dismissed the Provos and recognised the Continuity Army Council IRA.
6 It bespeaks an old-fashioned Irish nationalism in words that even canny Provos would avoid.
7 Above all, by the end the Provos were irredeemably penetrated by the intelligence agencies.
8 Even the Provos have realised that the Protestant British-Irish identity has to be accommodated.
9 Lurgan makes no sense if the Provos were serious about wanting to enter peace talks.
10 He looked round the table into the eyes of the four rather fearsome-looking IRA Provos .
11 The Provos couldn't see it, but deep red anger flushed Smith's face beneath his balaclava.
12 The comparisons between the threat the Provos posed and what is now being faced are stark.
13 Provos is the man charged with keeping those web barbarians at bay -all of them.
14 Grew up playing Cowboys and Indians (or Provos and Army).
15 The Provos stole his life and they took so much from those of us left behind.
16 A silence ensued, in which his fate was clearly being privately debated by the four Provos .
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