Red Lion Pub bombing was a bomb attack on 2 November 1971 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Planted by the Provisional IRA, it exploded in the Red Lion pub...
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England Red Lion Inn, Southampton Old Red Lion, Holborn, London, England Red Lion, Belfast, Northern Ireland, subject of the 1971 Red Lion Pub bombing The...
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victims of the IRA. 2 November – Red Lion Pub bombing: Three Protestant civilians were killed and dozens injured by an IRA bomb attack on a Protestant bar on...
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The Birmingham pub bombings were carried out on 21 November 1974, when bombs exploded in two public houses in Birmingham, England, killing 21 people and...
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Droppin Well bombing or Ballykelly bombing occurred on 6 December 1982, when the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) detonated a time bomb at a disco...
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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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Richard (21 July 2022), "Guildford pub bombing FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS" (PDF), IN THE MATTER OF THE GUILDFORD PUB BOMBINGS 1974 AND IN THE MATTER OF THE INQUESTS...
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A pub bombing or a public house bombing is an attack on a pub or public house using explosives and other bombing making material like nails, bolts, screws...
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most common pub names is the Red Lion. This list contains both modern and historical examples. Although the word "the" appears on much pub signage, it...
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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...
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Glenanne gang (redirect from 1976 Step Inn pub bombing)
a planned bombing and shooting attack against a nationalist pub, Tully's in Belleeks. Mitchell had shown him the floor plans of the pub's interior which...
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campaign was the bombing of commercial targets such as shops and businesses. The most devastating example of the Provisionals' commercial bombing campaign was...
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Unionists. This can be seen with the Red Lion Pub bombing by the IRA being followed by the McGurk's Bar bombing, both targeting civilians. Specifically...
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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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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...
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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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nationalist neighbourhoods attempted to disrupt the army with barricades, petrol bombs and gunfire. In the Catholic district of Ballymurphy, ten civilians were...
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cause as much carnage as the Omagh bombing three years prior. The bombing was the last successful Irish republican bombing on British soil outside Northern...
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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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course of an armed robbery. When the IRA ended the ceasefire with the bombing of the London Docklands in February 1996, some republicans had already...
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the fourth. By then, Murphy was using the upper floor of the Brown Bear pub at the corner of Mountjoy Street and the Shankill Road near his home as an...
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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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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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thing as political murder, political bombing or political violence. There is only criminal murder, criminal bombing and criminal violence. We will not compromise...
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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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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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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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day broke. The bomb was part of a Real IRA bombing campaign which included the Ealing bombing on 2 August 2001 and an attempted bombing in Birmingham city...
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the bombing of commercial targets such as shops and businesses. The most effective tactic the IRA developed for its bombing campaign was the car bomb, where...
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about the bombing. The loyalist Shankill Road had been the location of other bomb and gun attacks, including the Balmoral Furniture Company bombing in 1971...
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