text: is political terrorism an exclusive activity of nongovernmental actors? if this is false give an example and support your opinions with facts. ireland, the ira was/is the militant branch of sinn fein, a politically recognised party of ireland, in fact when sinn fein set up the assembly of ireland there were attempts to officially recognise the ira as the army of ireland. despite being part of a relatively credible political party, the ira performed many acts of political terrorism, including the infamous brighton bombings.  note that this is also labelled as 'geurilla warfare' by some commentators, to be fair the idea of political terrorism depends on your point of view i suppose