[PAR] [TLE] Battle of Lenadoon [SEP] The Battle of Lenadoon was a series of gun battles fought over six days between the Provisional IRA and the British Army, having started on Thursday, 9 July 1972 in and around the Lenadoon Avenue area and spreading to other places in Belfast.  Loyalist paramilitaries and the Official Irish Republican Army were involved in some of the incidents.  There was 26 people killed in total & dozens injured making it one of the deadliest weeks of 1972 during the conflict.  With almost 500 people killed, 1972 was the deadliest year of the conflict in Ireland known as The Troubles.  It was as bad as any year since political violence broke out in Ulster during the Anglo-Irish War in the 1920s.  These gun battles started after a two-week truce between the British Army and the IRA ended. [PAR] [TLE] Official Irish Republican Army [SEP] The Official Irish Republican Army or Official IRA (OIRA) was an Irish republican paramilitary group whose goal was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and create a "workers' republic" encompassing all of Ireland.  It emerged in December 1969, shortly after the beginning of the Troubles, when the Irish Republican Army split into two factions.  The other was the Provisional IRA.  Each continued to call itself simply "the IRA" and rejected the other's legitimacy.  Unlike the "Provisionals", the "Officials" were Marxist and worked to form a united front with other Irish communist groups, named the Irish National Liberation Front (NLF).  The Officials were called the NLF by the Provisionals and were sometimes nicknamed the "Red IRA" by others.
[PAR] [TLE] Battle of Lenadoon [ SEP ] The Battle of Lenadoon was a series of gun battles fought over six days between the Provisional IRA and the British Army , having started on Thursday , 9 July 1972 in and around the Lenadoon Avenue area and spreading to other places in Belfast . Loyalist paramilitaries and the Official Irish Republican Army were involved in some of the incidents . There was 26 people killed in total & dozens injured making it one of the deadliest weeks of 1972 during the conflict . With almost 500 people killed , 1972 was the deadliest year of the conflict in Ireland known as The Troubles . It was as bad as any year since political violence broke out in Ulster during the Anglo - Irish War in the 1920s . These gun battles started after a two - week truce between the British Army and the IRA ended . [PAR] [TLE] Official Irish Republican Army [ SEP ] The Official Irish Republican Army or Official IRA ( OIRA ) was an Irish republican paramilitary group whose goal was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and create a " workers ' republic " encompassing all of Ireland . It emerged in December 1969 , shortly after the beginning of the Troubles , when the Irish Republican Army split into two factions . The other was the Provisional IRA . Each continued to call itself simply " the IRA " and rejected the other 's legitimacy . Unlike the " Provisionals " , the " Officials " were Marxist and worked to form a united front with other Irish communist groups , named the Irish National Liberation Front ( NLF ) . The Officials were called the NLF by the Provisionals and were sometimes nicknamed the " Red IRA " by others .
Which party involved in The Battle of Lenadoon emerged in December 1969?
Which party involved in The Battle of Lenadoon emerged in December 1969 ?
the Official Irish Republican Army
the Official Irish Republican Army