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March 1994: Heathrow mortar attacks: The IRA launched a series of mortar attacks on Heathrow Airport near London. The attacks caused severe disruption but little damage. 26–27 July 1994: A group of Palestinians detonated two car bombs in London, one outside the Israeli embassy [48] and one outside Balfour House, home to a Jewish charity. The ...
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.
The 1996 Manchester bombing was an attack carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 15 June 1996. The IRA detonated a 1,500-kilogram (3,300 lb) lorry bomb on Corporation Street in the centre of Manchester, England. It was the biggest bomb detonated in Great Britain since the Second World War. [2]
28 February – 1985 Newry mortar attack: an IRA mortar attack on the Newry RUC station killed nine officers and injured thirty-seven. [31] 7 December – Attack on Ballygawley barracks: the IRA launched an assault on the RUC barracks in Ballygawley, County Tyrone. Two RUC officers were killed and the barracks was completely destroyed. [32]
Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated two improvised explosive devices during British military ceremonies in Hyde Park and Regent's Park, both in central London. The explosions killed eleven military personnel: four soldiers of the Blues and Royals at Hyde Park, and seven bandsmen of the Royal Green Jackets at Regent ...
The Provisional IRA had first attacked Great Britain in March 1973 with car bombs in London which injured over 200 people. [1] [2] Beginning in October 1974 the IRA launched a sustained bombing campaign in England [3] which lasted until December 1975 when the IRA unit responsible for the campaign was caught after a 6-day siege. [4]
The bombing badly damaged the IRA's support due to the civilian deaths and injuries. [5] In a statement issued the day after, the IRA Army Council said that IRA members had planted the bomb, but that it had not authorised the attack: The Harrods operation was not authorised by the Irish Republican Army.
The attack, carried out in 1998 by the Real IRA, was the biggest single atrocity of the Troubles. ... The inquiry seeks to determine whether the bombing could have been prevented by UK state ...