Why did the Irish Republican
Army (IRA) engage in terrorist
attacks?

he Provisional IRA emerged from a split in the Irish Republican Army in 1969, partly as a result of that organisation's perceived failure to defend Catholic neighborhoods from attack in the 1969 Northern Ireland riots. ... The British Army called this the 'terrorist phase' of the IRA's campaign.

Location: Primarily Northern Ireland and England

Result: Military stalemate; Ceasefire

Date: 1969–1997

Explanation:

the answer would be logic.

i belive the continental association was created to boycott all contact with british goods.

i also belive it was in december 1, 1774