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17 January – Dunmurry train bombing: An IRA bomb prematurely detonated on a passenger train near Belfast, killing three civilians and injuring five others. 7 March – an INLA active service unit planted two 10 lb. bombs at Netheravon British Army camp in the Salisbury Plain Training Area. Only one bomb detonated and caused damage, started a ...
The Provisional IRA. London: Corgi. ISBN 978-0-552-13337-1. Bourke, Richard (2003). Peace in Ireland: The War of Ideas. London: Pimlico. ISBN 1844133168. Carroll, Rory (2023). Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown. London: HarperCollins GB. ISBN 978-0593419496.
This is a list of ambushes carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; latterly IRA without "Provisional") during the Troubles. Most targeted " Crown Forces " within Northern Ireland .
Ballygawley bus bombing; 1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing; 1998 Banbridge bombing; Battle of Lenadoon; Bayardo Bar attack; List of attacks on British aircraft during The Troubles; 1978 British Army Gazelle downing; 1988 British Army Lynx shootdown; 1990 British Army Gazelle shootdown; 1991 British Army Lynx shootdown
2009 reenactment of a Provisional IRA unit in Galbally, County Tyrone. Chronologies of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions detail activities by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of ...
8 March - 1973 Old Bailey bombing - The Provisional IRA conducted their first operations in England exploding two car bombs in the center of London. One bomb exploded outside the Old Bailey Courthouse, injuring 180 people and one man later died from a heart attack, the bomb exploded near Whitehall injuring about 30 other people, bringing the total injured for the day to over 200.
This category includes individuals killed as a direct result of Provisional IRA attacks, but not those who died carrying them out. The category is not a comprehensive list of those killed by the Provisional IRA but only those individuals who have had pages created on Wikipedia.
Another IRA bomb was discovered at a Household Cavalry camp in Surrey. [138] 20 September 1973: five people were injured when an IRA bomb exploded at the headquarters of the Duke of York in London. [138] 22 September 1973: a civilian (James Brown, aged 26) was found shot dead on Foyle Road, Derry; the IRA claimed he was an informer. [117]