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Jean McConville (née Murray; 7 May 1934 – 1 December 1972) [1] was a woman from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who was kidnapped and murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and secretly buried in County Louth in the Republic of Ireland in 1972 after being falsely accused by the IRA of passing information to British forces. [2] [3]
Ira Einhorn was born in Philadelphia into a middle-class Jewish family. [2] [4] As a student at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his undergraduate degree in English in 1961 before returning to complete some graduate work in the discipline in 1963, [5] [6] he became active in ecological groups and was part of the counterculture, anti-establishment, and anti-war movements of the ...
He was abducted by the IRA in the summer of 1973, somewhere in the St James area of Belfast, killed and secretly buried at Waterfoot, County Antrim. [15] Columba McVeigh, a 19-year-old from Donaghmore, County Tyrone, disappeared in 1975. The IRA alleges he had confessed to being a British Army agent, instructed to infiltrate the IRA. [16]
During the process of decommissioning the Democratic Unionist Party demanded that the IRA release photographs of the decommissioning process in order to satisfy the unionist "man in the street". [7] The IRA rejected these claims, claiming it would amount to "humiliation" , and that two clergymen would oversee the process instead. [8]
This category includes individuals killed as a direct result of Provisional IRA attacks, but not those who died carrying them out. The category is not a comprehensive list of those killed by the Provisional IRA but only those individuals who have had pages created on Wikipedia.
The car was approached by a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in British Army battle dress, who opened fire with a Kalashnikov automatic weapon, shooting her over a dozen times. The gunman got into a car driven by another person and drove away. [4] British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher described the murder of Hazell as "evil and ...
The Belfast brigade, IRA, claims responsibility for the execution of two SAS members who launched an attack on the funeral cortege of our comrade volunteer Kevin Brady. The SAS unit was initially apprehended by the people lining the route in the belief that armed loyalists were attacking them and they were removed from the immediate vicinity.
The Lichfield gun attack was an ambush carried out by the Provisional IRA (IRA) on 1 June 1990 against three off-duty British soldiers who were waiting at Lichfield City railway station in Staffordshire. The attack resulted in one soldier being killed and two others badly wounded.