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19 July 1972: A Protestant civilian (Henry Gray, aged 71), was shot dead by IRA members while trying to prevent the bombing of a bar in Springfield Road, Belfast. [81] 20 July 1972: A Protestant civilian, (Robert Leggett, aged 50) was shot dead attempting to stop an IRA bomb attack on his business premises, Springfield Road, Belfast. [53]
8 May: a Protestant civilian was found shot dead on wasteground at Forthriver Road, Belfast. He had also been robbed. Detectives said he may have been mistaken for someone from the Republic, due to his Fermanagh accent. [122] 10 May: the UDA shot dead a bus driver on Crumlin Road, Belfast for working during the strike.
Bloody Friday is the name given to the bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 21 July 1972, during the Troubles.At least twenty bombs exploded in the space of eighty minutes, most within a half-hour period.
19 November: the INLA shot dead a civilian (Thomas Orr) outside his workplace, Ulster Bank on Boucher Road, Belfast. It emerged that the shooting was a case of mistaken identity. The intended target had been an RUC Reserve officer who worked at the bank. The officer had sold a car to the victim two weeks earlier.
Bog Meadows is an area on the outskirts of west Belfast of 47 acres of grassland and woodland managed by the Ulster Wildlife Trust - grid reference: J3172. [1] The M1 motorway passes through this area. To the west of the area lies Milltown Cemetery and St. Louise's Comprehensive College.
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.
The Bayardo Bar attack took place on 13 August 1975 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.A unit of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), led by Brendan McFarlane, launched a bombing and shooting attack on a pub on Aberdeen Street, in the loyalist Shankill area.
a rocket was fired at a British Army mobile patrol on the Andersonstown Road, Belfast. [334] [328] a coffee jar bomb was thrown at RUC officers on the Crumlin Road, Belfast. [334] [328] an off-duty British Army RIR soldier fired a number of shots during an IRA assassination attempt near his home in Ballymagorry near Strabane, County Tyrone. [324]