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What's the name of the terrorist group located in Northern Ireland that fought against the British during the later twentieth century?

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Republican paramilitaries carried out a guerrilla campaign against British security forces as well as a bombing campaign against infrastructural, commercial and political targets. Loyalists targeted republicans/nationalists and attacked the wider Catholic community in what they described as retaliation.

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Provisional Irish Republican Army

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