Terrorism is an act of using violence as a tool to pursue political goals. Usually, terrorist groups use more than one type of violence to conduct their action to spread terror on the public and threatening the government. Through terrorism terrorists seek to have a chance to pursue their political goals such as gaining freedom and independence or establishing a new state. The purpose of this article is to elaborate further on the discussion of terrorism involving heterogeneous violence or threat with a political aim. The causation issue at play is between terrorists’ political goals and the use of heterogeneous violence. Terrorist groups possess a political agenda that leads them to conduct their terrorist acts by using several modes of violence. The explanation in this paper is focused on the correlation between the Irish Republican Army (IRA)'s heterogeneous violence and its political goals. The first part of the paper analyses the types of violence and the various strategies that are conducted by the IRA to pursue its political goals. The second part discusses IRA’s political goals and whether it has succeeded or not in achieving them. The paper shows that this terrorist organization has political goals which lead it to use various types of violence regardless of whether their terrorist acts are successful or not.
