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In February 1978, the IRA bombed La Mon, a hotel restaurant in Comber, County Down. [165] The decade ended with a double attack by the IRA against the British. On 27 August 1979, Lord Mountbatten, while on holiday in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, was killed by a bomb planted on board his boat.
McGurk's Bar bombing – the UVF exploded a bomb at a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast, killing fifteen Catholic civilians (including two children) and wounding seventeen others. This was the highest death toll from a single incident in Belfast during the Troubles. [citation needed] 11 December
The Eileen Hickey Irish Republican History Museum (Irish: Iarsmalann na Staire Poblachtach Éireannach), is a museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was established in 2007 after years of campaigning by Eileen Hickey, who collected the exhibits. [1] The museum is based in Conway Mill in the Falls Road area of West Belfast. The site is a former ...
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The Troubles in Belfast (1 C, 51 P) Pages in category "The Troubles in County Down" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
In the case of Northern Ireland, the Troubles raged for nearly 30 years between the 1960s and the 1990s, and claimed almost 4,000 lives before a ceasefire was declared in 1998.
Operation Motorman was a large operation carried out by the British Army (HQ Northern Ireland) in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.The operation took place in the early hours of 31 July 1972 with the aim of retaking the "no-go areas" (areas controlled by residents, [1] including Irish republican paramilitaries) that had been established in Belfast and other urban centres.
a small bomb exploded outside the bedroom window of an SDLP councillor in Banbridge, County Down. a bomb exploded at the home of an SDLP councillor in Cranmore Park, Belfast. a suspect device was defused by the British Army outside the home of an SDLP councillor in Ballynahinch, County Down.