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  • noun a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland

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Examples

  • As the provos always start with a, cupla focal, I am far from a provo.

    The Irish Language- is there a Conservative & Unionist Policy? O'Neill 2009

  • This is 1980's Ireland at the height of the troubles, the provos, the bombs and the prison hunger strikes and all this weaves in with the story of Mel, the bog child's life.

    Bog Child 2008

  • This is 1980's Ireland at the height of the troubles, the provos, the bombs and the prison hunger strikes and all this weaves in with the story of Mel, the bog child's life.

    Bog Child 2008

  • Maybe the provos mates in the FARC have decided to make a shot at the language teaching market.

    Ruane speaks in double-forked tongues O'Neill 2008

  • This is 1980's Ireland at the height of the troubles, the provos, the bombs and the prison hunger strikes and all this weaves in with the story of Mel, the bog child's life.

    47 entries from February 2008 2008

  • Well, despite what the provos and other narrow-minded fascists may have argued, being "Irish" has always been "absolutely compatible" with also being British.

    The Republic and the Commonwealth (continued) O'Neill 2008

  • Now that the loyalists and provos have stopped firebombing each other they've ganged up on the gyppos.

    The audacity of distraction 2009

  • In all the time I spent in England, I never heard anyone say this even once; people simply no longer care one way or the other now that the provos have given up blowing up their towns and murdering their children ... but this is supposed to be a statistical-based deconstruction, so, here we go.

    The Monday Myth Deconstruction O'Neill 2007

  • Probably not any more since the provos seem to be winding down operations to concentrate on their main business of drug dealing and fuel smuggling.

    An Army Of One « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • And it must be remembered that the provos never got seven TDs elected, only five.

    Another nail in the coffin Johnny Guitar 2008

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