orig. Israel Gershvin born Dec. 6, 1896, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Aug. 17, 1983, Beverly Hills, Calif. U.S. lyricist, brother of the composer George Gershwin. He briefly attended City College of New York, then did odd jobs until his brother asked him to write lyrics for his melodies; their first collaboration was "The Real American Folk Song," in the musical Ladies First (1918). The renowned Gershwin partnership resulted in such idiomatic and ingenious songs as "'S Wonderful," "I Got Rhythm," "Embraceable You," "Summertime," and "It Ain't Necessarily So." After his brother's death Ira collaborated on a number of musicals, including Lady in the Dark with Kurt Weill (1940), Cover Girl with Jerome Kern (1944), and A Star Is Born with Harold Arlen (1954)
(full title Continuity Irish Republican Army) an Irish Republican paramilitary organisation that split from the Provisional IRA in 1986 and does not endorse the ongoing ceasefire in Northern Ireland
One of the two groups formed following a split in the IRA in 1969, advocating a united socialist Ireland but opposed to the use of violence or terrorism
The original Irish Republican Army organisation, operating against British forces in the early 1920's, as distinct from the more modern group operating in the latter half of the 20th century
One of the two groups formed following a split in the IRA in 1969, advocating a united socialist Ireland and supporting the use of terrorism and violence
an illegal military organization that wants Northern Ireland to leave the UK. In 1969, a group that favoured the use of violence, bombing etc separated from the main IRA, and officially this group is called the "Provisional IRA". But in fact when people talk about the "IRA", they usually mean this group
a group that in 1998 exploded a bomb in the town of Omagh in Northern Ireland, which killed 28 people and injured more than 200. The Real IRA was formed in 1997 by members of the IRA who disagreed with the peace process