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Dublin and Monaghan bombings – the UVF exploded four bombs (three in Dublin, one in Monaghan) in the Republic of Ireland. They killed thirty-three civilians and wounded a further 300. This was the highest number of casualties in a single incident during "The Troubles". It has been alleged that members of the British security forces were involved.
18 August – Prominent Dublin criminal Martin Cahill (45), known as The General, is shot dead in his car by the IRA at the road junction where Oxford Road meets Charleston Road in Rathmines. The IRA alleged that Cahill had connections to the UVF and had sold the group stolen paintings.
The following is a timeline of actions during The Troubles which took place in the Republic of Ireland between 1969 and 1998. It includes Ulster Volunteer Force bombings such as the Dublin and Monaghan bombings in May 1974, and other loyalist bombings carried out in the 1970s, '80s and '90s, the last of which was in 1997.
Timeline of the Troubles in Dublin; 0–9. 1970 Dublin fires; 1994 Dublin-Belfast train bombing; B. ... 1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings; F. Richard Fallon (police ...
Timeline of the Northern Ireland Troubles (1966–1998) Timeline of the Troubles in the Republic of Ireland (1969–1998) Timeline of the Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain (1969–1997) List of bombings during the Northern Ireland Troubles (1969–1998)
12 April 2005: A Dublin man, Joseph Rafferty, was shot and killed in a shotgun attack in Dublin. The IMC and the family of the deceased have claimed that the IRA were responsible. The IRA has denied any involvement. [26] May 2005: The IRA is believed to have been responsible for intimidating a family to leave their home in Belfast. [27]
From these ranks came those who launched the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly. Two-and-a-half years after the executions of sixteen of the Rising's leaders, the separatist Sinn Féin party won the December 1918 general election in Ireland with 47% of the vote and a majority of seats, and set up the 1919 ...
2009 reenactment of a Provisional IRA unit in Galbally, County Tyrone. Chronologies of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions detail activities by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.