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• n  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
• n  a city in north central Utah settled by Mormons

• During the national Liberation Day celebration two weeks ago, 140 provos and other student activists were arrested.

• Irish Republican Army
• IRA
• Provisional Irish Republican Army
• Provisional IRA
• Provos
• Provo

News & Articles

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• News in Brief: Provos Resigns
  Provost George McLendon has decided to leave his position after his five-year term ends in June 2015. McLendon is stepping down to concentrate more on teaching and research, according to a March 11 email sent to the Rice community by President David Leebron.
  March 19, 2014 - The Rice Thresher

Quotes

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• Seamus Daly in Belfast Telegraph
  It's not going to work,Daly told gardai. "I've had rows and arguments with the Provos over it." "It's a sell-out completely to the men who died on hunger strike and who died on active service."
• Fred Cobain in Belfast Newsletter
  UUP MLA Fred Cobain said: "What the Provos could not do in 30 years with bombs and bullets they will do with a stroke of a pen - and that is turning Belfast green," he said. "We are not a minority. Belfast is a unionist city and Arlene Foster...
• Michael McDowell in Irish Examiner
  There are a few people who did associate on the fringe of the Provos who've been involved in recent gangland activity, that's true,Mr McDowell told Today FM. "But that is not the same as saying the Provos are getting back into crime. If I...