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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
16 March 2000: an IRA engineer defused a bomb left outside the offices of dissident republican party Republican Sinn Féin on the Falls Road, Belfast. [1]April 2000: an IRA active service unit was intercepted by the Garda Síochána in Dublin and two members were arrested.
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]
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]
More than 200 people were injured and 21 killed when bomb blasts minutes apart tore through two city centre pubs in November 1974. Campaigners renew plea for public inquiry 50 years after ...
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 Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA), officially known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann) and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.
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]