The Abercorn Restaurant bombing was a bomb attack that took place in a crowded city centre restaurant and bar in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 4 March...
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The La Mon restaurant bombing was an incendiary bomb attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 17 February 1978 and has been described...
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they killed civilian bystanders. Other examples include the Abercorn Restaurant bombing in Belfast in 1972, where two people were killed and 130 wounded...
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Catholic military chaplain. 4 March – Abercorn Restaurant bombing: A bomb exploded without warning in the Abercorn restaurant on Castle Lane, Belfast. Two were...
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The 1973 Old Bailey bombing (dubbed as Bloody Thursday by newspapers in Britain) was a car bomb attack carried out by the Provisional IRA (IRA) which...
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the Mulbery Bush bombing), said in 2009 that she had spoken with two former IRA members, who referred to the Birmingham pub bombings as a mistake for...
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the bombing was disbanded.[when?] Loyalist paramilitaries responded to the bombing with revenge attacks on Catholics, mostly civilians. Another bomb had...
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other public buildings. The IRA was blamed for the Abercorn Restaurant bombing in March 1972, when a bomb exploded without warning killing two women and injuring...
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The Omagh bombing was a car bombing on 15 August 1998 in the town of Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It was carried out by the Real Irish Republican...
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The Remembrance Day bombing (also known as the Enniskillen bombing or Poppy Day massacre) took place on 8 November 1987 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh...
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Bloody Friday (1972) (redirect from Belfast Bomb Blitz)
surrounding area. Some sources give the time of this bombing as 3:10 pm. ~2:16 pm (Brookvale Hotel) A bomb (estimated at 50 pounds (23 kg) of explosive) exploded...
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Lee's 2015 novel High Dive, a fictionalised account of the bombing. The 2015 play The Bombing of the Grand Hotel by Julie Everton and Josie Melia. These...
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massacre McGurk's Bar bombing Balmoral showroom bombing 1972 Bloody Sunday Abercorn Restaurant bombing Donegall Street bombing Beginning of direct rule...
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This became known as the Shankill Road bombing. The UDA launched several "revenge attacks" for the bombing. Later that day, they fatally shot a Catholic...
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on the reckless", but accepted their claims that they shot at gunmen and bomb-throwers. The report was widely criticised as a "whitewash". The Saville...
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According to Ed Moloney, the bombing was considered a disaster for the IRA. Coming so soon after the horrific Abercorn Restaurant bombing which had killed two...
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killings Red Lion Pub bombing McGurk's Bar bombing Balmoral showroom bombing Bloody Sunday Abercorn Restaurant bombing Donegall St bombing Battle at Springmartin...
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massacre McGurk's Bar bombing Balmoral showroom bombing 1972 Bloody Sunday Abercorn Restaurant bombing Donegall Street bombing Beginning of direct rule...
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imprisonment for his part in the bombing and served fifteen years. The bombing sparked a series of tit-for-tat bombings and shootings by loyalists and republicans...
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High-profile attacks carried out by the INLA include the Droppin Well bombing, the 1994 Shankill Road killings and the assassinations of Airey Neave...
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many occasions they killed civilians. Examples include the bombing of the Abercorn restaurant in Belfast in March 1972, in which two young Catholic women...
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location of the Birmingham pub bombings in 1974. The bomb was similar in size to those used in the BBC bombing and Ealing bombing that year, but only the detonator...
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himself. 29 October - Trattoria Fiore bombing - 17 civilians are injured in an IRA bombing in a West End restaurant. 3 November - Three people were injured...
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with a hail of stones and petrol bombs. The besieged residents built barricades, set up first aid posts and petrol bomb workshops, and a radio transmitter...
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March 1988, three unarmed IRA members alleged to have been preparing for a bomb attack on British military personnel were killed by the Special Air Service...
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they would have known such a huge bombing operation was being planned and who was involved. He then noted that the bombing investigation team was disbanded...
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Military Reaction Force (section McGurk's Bar bombing)
claims that the MRF organised the bombing and helped the bombers get in and out of the area. Two days before the bombing, republican prisoners had escaped...
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retaliation for the Remembrance Day bombing four months earlier when eleven Protestants had been killed by an IRA bomb at a Remembrance Sunday ceremony....
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Rosie (21 September 2002). "Does this letter prove a priest was behind IRA bombing?". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 20 May 2010. Richardson, Louise; Art...
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dominant analysis was that Protestant Irishmen and women would never be bombed into a united Ireland. The only way forward was to have both sides embrace...
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