Word: templars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dublin from 1916 to 1921, there were only 83 true terrorists. In Belfast today, there are perhaps 50. Author J. Bowyer Bell characterizes them in his book on the I.R.A., Secret Army, as "knights templar." Writes Bell: "Certain of a true cause, possessed of the moral justification for the use of force, intimate with the long tradition of the struggle, comfortable in the company of proud men, an I.R.A. volunteer often lives a life not so much of denial as dedication, a laic pilgrim on the road to the Republic, a knight templar justified in the use of his sword...