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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.
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
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 ...
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.
On 16 January 1939, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) launched a campaign of bombing and sabotage against the civil, economic, and military infrastructure of Britain. It was known as the S-Plan or Sabotage Campaign. During the campaign, the IRA carried out almost 300 attacks and acts of sabotage in Britain, killing seven people and injuring 96. [5]
In 1974 and 1975, London was subjected to an intense 14-month campaign of gun and bomb attacks by the Provisional IRA. In one incident the Guinness Book of Records co-founder and conservative political activist Ross McWhirter was assassinated; he had offered a £ 50,000 reward to anyone willing to inform the security forces of IRA activity.
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The New IRA claimed responsibility and said it also planted an "anti-personnel device" nearby, targeting members of the security forces. [222] 18 June: The New IRA was blamed for planting a booby-trap bomb under the car of a married couple, both of whom are PSNI officers, in Eglinton. It was found and defused by the security forces. [224]