Night of the Long Knives (1992)

Night of the Long Knives
Part of the Troubles
Date 31 October – 1 November 1992 Location Belfast Result Successful IRA operation Surrender of IPLO Belfast Brigade on 3 November and IPLO GHQ on 7 November.
Belligerents
Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade	Irish People's Liberation Organisation Belfast Brigade Irish People's Liberation Organisation Army Council
Strength
Up to 100 volunteers	Unknown
Casualties and losses
None	1 killed 8 injured several others forced into exile

Irish People's Liberation Organisation Belfast Brigade

The Night of the Long Knives is the name given to the night of 31 October 1992, when the Provisional IRA launched a large operation to wipe out the IPLO Belfast Brigade, who most republicans felt were becoming an embarrassment to Irish republicanism due to their involvement in drug dealing, criminality and internal feuds.

The IPLO was created as a revolutionary military organisation in by Irish Republican Socialists. In 1986, expelled members of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) and those unhappy within the organisation upset with the direction the INLA was going decided to form the Irish People's Liberation Organisation (IPLO), along with a small political wing called the Republican Socialist Collective. When the IPLO was formed, its main goals was to wipe out the INLA and establish itself as the main Irish republican socialist movement. The feud lasted a year until a truce was called after several people on either side were killed. Important paramilitaries on both sides were killed, like Jimmy Brown, Gerard Steenson, and Tom McAllister. It has been speculated that the IPLO killed Mary McGlinchey, a female INLA member and wife of the former INLA Chief of Staff Dominic McGlinchey, during the feud, although nothing has ever been proven and Mary McGlinchey's killers never claimed responsibility for the killing.

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