'Ra

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ra"

English

Proper noun

'Ra

1. Alternative form of RA (republican army; IRA).
   • 2017, Malachi O'Doherty, Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life:

     She says, 'It was all Ooo Ah, Up the 'Ra, and the place went ballistic.'

   • 2021, Ian Cobain, Anatomy of a Killing:

     As one volunteer put it: 'When you join the 'Ra, you're told straight up, you'll either spend a lot of time in jail or you'll die.'

   • 2021, Alan Parks, The April Dead:

     I'll just tell the 'Ra boys to back off because Harry McCoy's decided his pal Faulds is innocent.

   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 248:

     The fucking 'Ra told me, matter of fact.