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IRA agrees to officially 'lay down its arms' on

this day in 2005

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July 28, 2021
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ON July 28, 2005, the Provisional IRA announced that it would officially
be laying down its arms, effectively drawing a line under the Northern
Ireland conflict.

While the peace process had began years earlier, and the Good Friday
Agreement had been signed seven years prior, this disarmament declaration
was music to the ears of everyone involved in bringing peace to the island of
Ireland.

IRA leaders said their work would focus solely on peaceful political means
from then on out, and that all paramilitary activity would cease.

They invited two independent witnesses to view the secret disarmament

documents, confirming their commitment to ending the violence - Catholic TRENDING
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It would take another two months before "the totality of the IRA's arsenal"
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had been dismantled and decommissioned, but on July 28, everything was
put into motion. World’s only LGBTQ+
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One thousand rifles were turned in, as were 90 handguns, 30 heavy machine secures home in Ireland
for next five years
guns, two tonnes of plastic explosive, seven flamethrowers, 11 rocket-
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said of the disarmament: "This may be the Magee longlisted for
day when finally, after all the false dawns and dashed hopes, peace replaced world’s largest literary
war, politics replaces terror on the island of Ireland." prize for young writers

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