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	Armalite and ballot box strategy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The armalite and the ballot box strategy was pursued by the Irish Republican movement in the 1980s and early 1990s, viz.
		It emerged after the Hunger Strikes as a response to the electoral success of Bobby Sands in the by-election of April 1981 and pro-Hunger Strike campaigners in the Northern Ireland local elections and Republic of Ireland Dáil elections of the same year.
		Armalite, in this context, is often mistakenly said to refer to the M-16 rifle, but actually refers to the AR-18 rifle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armalite_and_the_ballot_box (518 words)

	Carlow Nationalist: Ballot box or Armalite but certainly not both (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		By “crossover” I mean that you have people who were prominent in Sinn Fein and the IRA and vice versa.
		Danny Morrison’s infamous comment about the ballot box in one hand and the Armalite in the other encapsulates the problem.
		What it comes down to is this --it is either the ballot box or the Armalite.
	www.carlow-nationalist.ie /news/story.asp?j=26971 (649 words)

	The Examiner - Opinion - 17, February, 2000
		THE fact that nobody expected yesterday’s prime ministerial talks in London to produce a quick fix solution for the North’s current difficulties, illustrates the scale of the latest crisis in a tangible atmosphere of anger, division and mistrust.
		Most fair minded people, North and South, will support the proposition of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern that participation in government can only be on the basis of a democratic mandate.
		Sinn Féin and the IRA must accept that the ballot box and the armalite cannot go together.
	ted.examiner.ie /archives/2000/february/17/current/opinionpage_7.htm (404 words)

	fenian32: Revolutionary march to Stormont
		The ‘Armalite and ballot box’ strategy was born.
		In 1984, Martin McGuinness stressed that it was “the combination of the Armalite and the ballot box” that would achieve victory, but made clear which was the weightier of the two: “The Irish Republican Army offers the only resolution to the present situation.
		Sinn Féin had thus repudiated the Armalite in favour of the ballot box long before it signed up to the Mitchell principles.
	fenian32.livejournal.com /915909.html (2617 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 18 Nov 1997 (pt 15)
		It is not reactive; it is not tactical; it is strategic and is based on the Armalite and ballot box philosophy which enables the IRA terrorist to use as much force as he considers necessary to make an impression on society in Northern Ireland and on the Government here in Westminster.
		The RUC and the Army are always expected to behave like a fire brigade: they rush out when something happens, but they do not have a strategy for dealing with terrorism, because successive Governments for the past 37 years have failed to provide that strategy and the political backcloth against which it can operate.
		It is the Armalite and the ballot box--I cannot emphasise that enough.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm199798/cmhansrd/vo971118/debtext/71118-15.htm (1946 words)

	Irish Echo Online - Editorial
		As time went by, the party's spokesmen changed this to proclaim that freedom would come via the armalite and the ballot box.
		Now, the ballot box having eclipsed the armalite, McGuinness can proclaim the importance of a good education for a democracy to function as it should.
		The case he focused on was that of the Shankill Road, the deprived loyalist ghetto in West Belfast, former bastion of Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair and his Ulster Defense Association henchmen.
	www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=13056 (431 words)

	British Armalite Rifles? - THR
		The Armalite AR-18 as made by Sterling was and is more prolific in the IRA and other terrorists in that part of the world.
		Obviously, Armalite never made any bombs, bullets, fruit baskets, plush toys, etc. Basically no one reporting or commenting on the issue can be bothered to accurately identify whatever rifle they're talking about.
		After all, the motto of the IRA is "The Armalite and the Ballot Box".
	www.thehighroad.org /showthread.php?t=68116 (1702 words)

	Commentary No. 40: Irish Nationalist Terrorism Outside Ireland: Out-of-Theatre Operations 1972-1993
		This is especially true where Irish Republican terrorism "out-of-theatre" is concerned; ie., the conduct of terrorist operations in the UK and Europe.
		The author explores the recent history of this phenomenon and provides a detailed account of this latest phase of Republican terrorism: the "Armalite and the Ballot Box".
		A recent history of Republican terrorism in Northern Ireland divides PIRA strategy into four distinct phases, the latest of which was the "Armalite and Ballot Box" from 1979-present.
	www.csis-scrs.gc.ca /en/publications/commentary/com40.asp (4517 words)

	TFF Jonathan Power Columns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is not a simple choice between the ballot or the bullet, for Sinn Fein has long had a dual Armalite and ballot box strategy.
		But the accord has put the ballot box on a higher pedestal than the bullet and reverses a long-standing, almost sacred, position of Sinn Fein/IRA never to enter into membership of a "partitionist" assembly in the north.
		Sinn Fein/IRA, it was always thought, would never give up their goal of a united Ireland, would never participate in northern political institutions that by their existence give further life to the union.
	www.transnational.org /forum/power/1998/pow13-05.html (850 words)

	Alex Maskey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He stood unsuccessfully in West Belfast in the 1982 Assembly Election.
		In 1983, as part of the armalite and ballot box strategy.
		Maskey stood for and won a by-election for a seat on Belfast City Council from the Upper Falls area and became the first member of Sinn Féin to be elected to Belfast City Council and only the second to be elected in Northern Ireland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alex_Maskey (522 words)

	Newshound: Links to daily newspaper articles about Northern Ireland
		It would have been many more years before the contradictions between the armalite and the ballot box would have made themselves felt, many more years before Gerry Adams and his close advisers would have been strong enough to steer the IRA down a road which left alone they would never have contemplated.
		After all there can be little doubt that had the hunger strikers called off their fast in July, Carron would have been opposed in the by-election by the SDLP and Sinn Féin denied a real live MP when that autumn the Army Council and the Sinn Féin ard-fheis authorised the armalite and ballot box strategy.
		This then is the Bobby Sands legacy and it is no wonder that in this the twentieth anniversary of his death and that of his nine colleagues the Sinn Féin leadership has gone to extreme lengths to present themselves as the inheritors of their political mantle.
	www.nuzhound.com /articles/moloney2001/mo4-28-1.htm (980 words)

	Camden New Journal
		The Armalite and the ballot box is the phrase that came to define the intractable political conundrum of Northern Ireland.
		The man who coined the phrase is Danny Morrison, former IRA volunteer and one-time director of publicity for Sinn Fein.
		While he is no longer a member of the IRA or Sinn Fein, Morrison’s work at the Pleasance should prove to be a fascinating cautionary tale of what happens when the Armalite achieves precedence over the ballot box in Ulster politics.
	www.camdennewjournal.co.uk /031005/f031005_02.htm (969 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Northern Ireland \| Nothing found in UVF bomb search
		Gardai would not officially confirm whether the searches were linked to a claim by the Ulster Volunteer Force that in 1981 they planted a device there during the Sinn Fein ard fheis which failed to explode.
		That Sinn Fein ard fheis is best remembered for the phrase about the armalite and the ballot box.
		Former Sinn Fein publicity director Danny Morrison, who coined the phrase, said: "We were debating the future of the republican struggle at that time, in terms of adopting an electoral strategy and the crucial debate took place on the Sunday.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/5304166.stm (331 words)

	Provisional Irish Republican Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After the success of IRA hunger strikers in mobilising support and winning elections on an Anti H-Block platform in 1981, republicans increasingly devoted time and resources to electoral politics, through the Sinn Féin party.
		Danny Morrison summed up this policy in a 1982 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis (annual meeting) as the "Ballot Box in one hand and the Armalite in the other".
		The Armalite AR-18 - obtained by the PIRA from the US in the early 1970s and an emotive symbol of its armed campaign.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army (8728 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Nicholson says Hamas must choose between the Armalite and the Ballot Box
		BETWEEN PARAGRAPHS --> Commenting on the Palestinian Parliamentary elections taking place today UUP MEP Jim Nicholson said that the radical Islamic terrorist group, Hamas must choose between the armalite and the ballot box and could not expect to gain legitimacy with the international community while simultaneously threatening Israel with death and destruction.
		“Our Province has witnessed the devastating and destabilising effects of the Republican Movement’s dual strategy of the armalite and the ballot box.
	www.uup.org /media/media_25_01_06_nicholson.htm (241 words)

	tpwwforums.com - View Single Post - I would like to know what you all think of my political views. (RE: Northern ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Though they were formed in 1905 they really came to prominence in the 80's when revolutionary nationalist Bobby Sands died hunger striking.
		They took up a policy of the 'armalite in one hand and the ballot box in the other'.
		In the past there was a case for the ballot box and the aramalite, but the time for talking has well and truly come and Sinn Fein's failure to deliver has become a nuisance.
	www.tpww.net /forums/showpost.php?p=851578&postcount=1 (574 words)

	Back to Connolly - Forward to Workers' Unity
		The roots of this decision to announce the end of the armed struggle can be traced back to the mid-1980s in the change of tack by the Sinn Fein leadership with the turn to the policy of the Armalite and the ballot box.
		In another sense one could say that the roots of this latest development go all the way back to the abandonment of armed struggle by the IRA in the 1960s, and then the split which led to the creation of the Provisional movement in the first place.
		In the case of Sinn Fein the armed struggle and the ballot box has been replaced with nothing but more ballot boxes.
	www.socialist.net /content/view/1870/28 (4649 words)

	Amazon.com: armalite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		From Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the Birth of the Irish Troubles by Niall O'Dochartaigh (Paperback - April 16, 2005)
		From Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry & the Birth of the Irish Troubles by Niall O Dochartaigh (Paperback - Jun 1997)
		From Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the Birth of the Irish Troubles (Politics/current Affairs) by Niall O Dochartaigh (Hardcover - May 1997)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&search-alias=aps&keywords=armalite&page=1 (227 words)

	Guardian \| New Sinn Féin: from Armalite to Armani
		They are calling it the tiochfaidh ar la-de-da vote, a play on the IRA's infamous slogan "our day will come".
		Tramping the leafy avenues in some of Northern Ireland's most prosperous suburbs might seem a long way from Sinn Féin's 80s battle cry of the Armalite and the ballot box.
		But many policies in its glossy 90-page manifesto - encouraging small business culture, developing the economic infrastructure - would not look out of place on the New Labour agenda.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4801176-103685,00.html (882 words)

	Peter Robinson
		I make no requirement of Sinn Fein that has not, at one time or another, been set by the Prime Minister of this United Kingdom.
		They lecture others about their democratic mandate but fail to respect the mandate of the greater number who have totally repudiated their armalite and ballot box tactics.
		If they are confident of their mandate and ability to negotiate then let them stand on the same basis as every other party.
	www.peterrobinson.org /KeyArticles.asp?Article_ID=139 (1101 words)

	Beacon Hill Elephant: Ballot Box and Armalite no More
		Beacon Hill Elephant: Ballot Box and Armalite no More
		It's not often I find myself in agreement with our senior senator, the Wizard of "Uhs," Edward Morse Kennedy.
		This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
	www.mccuin.org /blog/2005/03/ballot-box-and-armalite-no-more.html (802 words)

	Owen’s musings » Blog Archive » I’m confused (1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		No joke.With fundamentalists in charge of all the parties there is little room for compromise.
		It might have something to do with Sinn Fein/IRA realising after much horror and bloodshed that violence wasn’t getting them anywhere, and negotiation might (not to mention that Adams and McGuinness weren’t as young as they were, with all that entailed in leading a movement reliant upon the armalite).
		Interesting use of the "we", there; unlike people such as myself who have no doubt had the wool pulled over our eyes, you have a far more sophisticated and nuanced definition of terrorist organisation than Bush, Blair or Israel.
	www.owen.org /blog/445 (541 words)

	[No title]
		Clearly, neither relying on armed struggle as the major strategy nor combining electoral politics and armed struggle (the ballot box and the Armalite) were sufficient for holding off the renewed offensive of the British state and its lackeys in Ireland.
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	www.morrigan.net /irsm/plough88.htm (7464 words)

	Provos announce end to armed campaign - Topic Powered by eve community
		After more than 30 years of violence, the 'armalite and the ballot box' is no more.
		Sinn Fein has been making advances lately, but is there a future for Republicanism when the armalite's gone and only the ballot box remains?
		Given the changes NI has gone through in that regard, I'd have to say only something extraordinary could bring back a similar group.
	episteme.arstechnica.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/28609695/m/241000754731 (3238 words)

	Amazon.ca Books: ArmaLite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Armalite Maiden by Jonathan Kebbe (Hardcover - Jan 29 1990)
		Armalite and Ballot Box: An Irish-American Republican Primer by Robert E. Connolly (Paperback - Jun 1985)
		The Armalite Maiden by Jonathan Kebbe (Paperback - Aug 20 1992)
	www.amazon.ca /s?ie=UTF8&search-alias=stripbooks&field-keywords=ArmaLite&page=1 (72 words)

	Irish Peace Process on the Rocks
		If not, then what method, what policy will they adopt in the struggle to unite Ireland?
		Is the policy of the Armalite and the ballot box to be replaced by the ballot box alone?
		Does anyone really believe that Ireland can be united, that British imperialism can be booted out of Ireland by the simple expedient of winning one or two seats at Westminster, which they will never take up?
	www.newyouth.com /archives/westerneurope/britainireland/irish_peace_on_rocks.asp?format=print (1726 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ulster Unionist Peer, Lord Rogan, has called on the Government to bring closure to the decommissioning phase by suspending Sinn Fein “for however long it takes for it to deliver on its commitments under the Belfast Agreement.”
		We have waited for acts of decommissioning to bring closure to this phase of its political strategy - the armalite and the ballot box.
		Its reluctance to move from this military political philosophy has never been more apparent than in recent weeks.
	www.uup.org /media/media_10_02_05_lordrogan.htm (509 words)

	Danny Morrison - Irish republican writer and journalist
		Here you will find news, reviews and exclusives by and about Danny Morrison.
		If you still don't know anything about the man made famous by his often misquoted phrase about 'the armalite and the ballot box', then read the biography.
		Danny currently writes for a number of publications on a regular basis.
	www.irelandculture.uklinux.net (150 words)

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