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17 January – Dunmurry train bombing: An IRA bomb prematurely detonated on a passenger train near Belfast, killing three civilians and injuring five others. 7 March – an INLA active service unit planted two 10 lb. bombs at Netheravon British Army camp in the Salisbury Plain Training Area. Only one bomb detonated and caused damage, started a ...
Pan Books ISBN 978-0-330-35396-0; Stevenson, Jonathan (1996). "We Wrecked the Place": Contemplating an End to the Northern Irish Troubles. Free Press ISBN 068482745X; Taylor, Peter (1998). Provos: The IRA and Sinn Féin. Bloomsbury ISBN 978-0-7475-3818-9; Taylor, Peter (1999). Loyalists: War and Peace in Northern Ireland. Bloomsbury ISBN 978-0 ...
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.
Actions and attacks of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (1969 to present day). Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total ...
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 IRA had been studying how the British Army behaved after a bombing and correctly predicted that they would set up an incident command point at the stone gateway on the other side of the road. At 17:12, thirty-two minutes after the first explosion, another 800-pound (360 kg) bomb hidden in milk pails exploded at the gateway, destroying it ...
28 April: an IRA bomb derailed a CIÉ goods train travelling from Dundalk to Belfast. The bomb exploded just after the train crossed the border at Kilnasaggart in South Armagh, throwing the middle wagons off the tracks. [125] [135] 3 May: a 400–500 lb (180–230 kg) IRA bomb caused extensive damage in Clady, County Tyrone. [125]
The bombings weakened public support in the United States for the Irish republican cause. [3] The CIA and the FBI ramped up their anti-IRA activity, and public opinion polls showed that sympathy for the IRA in particular, and Irish re-unification in general, plummeted in the United States in response to the attacks.