Provos

He said: We stand united today to condemn the born-again Provos responsible for this latest attack in Derry.

Martin McGuinness condemns Real IRA's Derry bomb Henry McDonald 2010

In the 1960s, some people called themselves 'Provos' - provocateurs.

The Guardian World News Sean O'Hagan 2009

There, on the streets of Amsterdam, an obscure and playful anarchist group called the Provos staged a number of "happenings" in the early years of the decade to poke fun at the hypocrisies of bourgeois life and to demand that laws regulating drug consumption and sexual activity be liberalized.

Shades Of The'60s 2007

The cold reality is that the Provos are a small band of violent murderers.

1981 Hunger Strikes 1981

My point is this - if the Englezes truly believed that the Provos were a murder gang - as most Unionists seem to believe - then from a Unionist viewpoint they would have been the biggest Lundies since Lundy himself - for forcing the Unionist politicians (via political threats) to share power with them.

Slugger O'Toole 2009

Top Documentary Films is a free site that I visit quite often and they have just uploaded the series 'Provos' by Peter Taylor (an experienced British journalist during the troubles).

Army Rumour Service 2010

"To read some of the stories in the newspapers here in America, you would think the Provos are a gloriousliberation army, fighting to free the downtrodden masses from the yoke of some barbarous tyranny.

1981 Hunger Strikes 1981

The turning point in the contest for McGuinness arguably came a fortnight ago, when a voter in Athlone confronted him with a photograph of Private Patrick Kelly, the Irish solider shot dead by the IRA in 1983 during an army attempt to rescue millionaire businessman Don Tidey, whom the Provos had abducted in an extortion bid.

Martin McGuinness slumps in the polls as IRA past threatens bid for presidency 2011

Pat Ramsey, an SDLP councillor in Derry, described those behind the bomb attack as "born-again Provos".

Martin McGuinness condemns Real IRA's Derry bomb Henry McDonald 2010

Alphabetically structured and based of course, not ethnically profiled and comprehensive in its nature from A to Z, from Abdullah to Zenab, and including the Provos and UDA.

Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010