Other Definitions ira (enc)
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Ira| Noun | 1. | IRA - a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent IrelandSinn Fein - an Irish republican political movement founded in 1905 to promote independence from England and unification of Ireland; became the political branch of the Irish Republican Army Eire, Ireland, Irish Free State - a republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1921 | | | 2. | IRA - a self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement; taxes on the interest earned in the account are deferred | | | 3. | ira - belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)deadly sin, mortal sin - an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace; theologians list 7 mortal sins | |
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