This issue tell about “S-PLAN”. The S-Plan or Sabotage or British Campaign was a campaign of bombing and sabotage against the civilian, economic and military infrastructure of the United Kingdom from 1939 to 1940, conducted by members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
Campaign Sabotage Plan (S-PLAN) carried out by the IRA against England to destroy the power of Great Britain in northern Ireland, the purpose of the IRA in doing this is they want the unity of Northern Ireland where and the Republic of Ireland, the Republic of Ireland wants hostility against nationalists / Minority Catholics by the Unionist/Protestant government and police force. and it is hoped that from the S-Plan this will be the final showdown with the British, in which it is expected to force the British to negotiate on the issue of reunification
Following a power struggle within the IRA during the mid-1930s, Seán Russell was reappointed to the IRA in April 1938 and elected to the IRA’s Army Council in absentia. At the IRA General Army Convention that followed, Russell and his supporters secured enough support to secure a controlling majority within the Army Council and for Russell himself to be appointed Chief of Staff, head of the organization. It was at this time that Russell began the process of preparing for an incursion campaign on British soil – a strategy he had decided on from the mid-1930s onward. The IRA in Northern Ireland supported Russell and his plans for a campaign that would end partition. However, the Northern Irish government introduced internments in December 1938 and several hundred IRA activists were detained during World War II.
The Republic of Ireland had a difficult birth. Ruled by Great Britain since the 13th century, its citizens, many of whom repressed Catholicism, struggled to escape English domination for the next few
hundred years. Ireland’s situation changed dramatically in the early 20th century . In 1919, the Republic of Ireland was proclaimed by Sinn Fein, an Irish nationalist party. Facing civil war in Ireland, Britain divided the island in 1920, with a separate parliament in the northeast which was dominated by Protestants and mostly Catholics in the south and northwest.
The Provisional Irish Republican Army ( PIRA ; commonly known as the IRA or Provos ) was a paramilitary organization that sought Irish unity . They believed that this could be achieved only by carrying out a campaign of violence against British rule in Northen Ireland .
