The Provisional IRA called its ceasefire 25 years ago on this date (August 31st, 1994). The statement as it appeared on BBC NI's Newsline The IRA stopped all violence from August 1994 to February 1996. The ceasefire ended when a huge IRA bomb exploded in Canary Wharf, London, in February 1996 "A lot of the people that were flying flags at that time and cheering on, if it was tomorrow there wouldn't be the same people. We urge everyone to approach this new situation with energy, determination and patience.”This website on Northern Ireland and the Troubles is created and maintained by Alpha History. Changes were also afoot within the Provisional IRA.
"I have no doubt whatsoever that if we had not embarked on that initiative to get the ceasefire in 1994, the IRA would still be fighting to this very day, I have no doubt about it in my mind whatsoever," he said.Sinn Féin portrayed the ceasefire as a victory and many republicans took to the streets, waving Irish Tricolours, and a cavalcade of cars drove up and down the Falls Road in west Belfast.They included Billy McKee, one of the founding members of the Provisional IRA and a former member of its ruling Army Council. All our units have been instructed accordingly.At this crossroads the leadership of the IRA salutes and commends our volunteers, other activists, our supporters and the political prisoners who have sustained the struggle against all odds for the past 25 years. A large red button was pressed and the huge machines kicked into action.The Telegraph had gone with a dramatic front-page headline stating: "It's Over" with large photographs from three of the many incidents of the Troubles.I watched as thousands of copies rolled off the presses, were sorted into bundles and rushed to a fleet of vans parked at the back door with their doors open.
That was the line I took, that I don't belong to any political party, the only interest I have in this thing is the interest of the next victim.
These are external links and will open in a new windowThe statement was written in neat, small handwriting on a tiny sheet of paper.I had been met by a republican source and driven to a house in west Belfast where a man told me to write down what he read, and instructed me there would be no follow-up questions.Afterwards, I was driven back to the place where I had been met and quickly made my way back to the Belfast Telegraph, where I was working as political correspondent at the time.After briefing the editor, Ed Curran, about what was going to be announced in a few hours time, I started to write up the story that was going to break at 11:00 BST that morning, 31 August, 1994.The huge presses that printed the newspaper rolled into action at 10:30 BST each morning, but not that day.The ceasefire announcement was under embargo until 11:00 BST, so in an unprecedented step, a decision was taken to literally hold the presses until the moment the statement went public.I was in the print hall just as the 11:00 BST radio news bulletins announced that the ceasefire had been declared and the order was given to roll the presses. "The thing first of all, was to persuade John Hume if he were prepared to talk to Gerry Adams he would enable Gerry Adams then to talk to the IRA in a way that could at least persuade them to stop," he said.
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