ra, the n.
(orig. Ulster) the provisional IRA.
Environment and Planning 59: As one man reported to me, ‘This is just the Brits trying to undermine the Ra [IRA]’. | ||
Distance Between Us 270: But since the Brits came and did the Ra’s recruiting . . . Fools. | ||
Outlaws (ms.) 122: Bernie’s firm is always laying it on thick with us how they’re the RA and that, not to be trifled with. | ||
Guardian 16 May 🌐 Oh we executed quite a number of the Ra. We just didn't bother with the whole tedious show trial and the decade of lawyers milking the death row system. | ||
Twitter 11 Feb. 🌐 Sinn Féin’s David Cullinane defends shouting ‘Up the ‘Ra’ after election. | ||
April Dead 176: ‘You hanging about with the ’Ra boys?’. |