Armalite and ballot box strategy
The Armalite and ballot box strategy was a strategy pursued by the Irish republican movement in the 1980s and early 1990s in which elections in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland were contested by Sinn Féin , while the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) continued to pursue an armed struggle against the British Army , the Royal Ulster Constabulary , and loyalist paramilitary groups . 
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