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Irish Republican Army (IRA) The 1939 Coventry bombing was an act of terrorism committed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 25 August 1939 in which a 5.1 lb (2.3 kg) bomb upon a bicycle was placed in Coventry city centre in the West Midlands of England as part of the organisation's 1939–40 S-Plan campaign. [ 2 ]
11 May: The terrorist threat level in Great Britain was raised to "substantial" by Home Secretary Theresa May and MI5 because of the threat posed by the group. [232] June: A five-man New IRA hit team were in Dublin's north inner city looking for two leading gangsters after one of their associates was shot dead in a gangland feud.
This is a timeline of the events and actions during the Troubles that were carried out in Great Britain, the vast majority of which were carried out by Irish Republican paramilitaries mainly the Provisional IRA were by far the most active but both the Official IRA and the Irish National Liberation Army, also carried out a number of attacks, which included bombings and shootings.
12 December 1993 - An Army Air Corps Lynx received automatic rifle fire [122] (the IRA's report stated they used "heavy weapons") from members of the East Tyrone Brigade [123] over the surroundings of Fivemiletown, County Tyrone, while searching for the perpetrators of an IRA ambush on an undercover RUC mobile patrol in the town, where two RUC ...
Michael McKevitt (Irish: Mícheál Mac Dhaibhéid) (4 September 1949 – 2 January 2021) was an Irish republican and paramilitary leader. [1] He was the Provisional Irish Republican Army's Quartermaster General. Due to the Provisional IRA's involvement in the Northern Ireland peace process, he formed the Real IRA in protest.
On 10 March 1971, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) shot dead three off-duty British soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Royal Highland Fusiliers. The soldiers were from Scotland and two were teenage brothers. They were lured from a pub in Belfast where they had been drinking, driven to a remote location and shot by the roadside. Three ...
The IRA said in a statement the day after the bombing from Dublin that "the attack was aimed at a party of British soldiers". The statement added: The attack is attributable to the state of war which exists between the British government who occupy Northern Ireland and the oppressed Irish people who strike out through the Irish Republican Army.
The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed on 6 December 1921 and narrowly ratified by Dáil Éireann (the Irish Parliament) on 7 January 1922. [1] [2]Although the Treaty was negotiated by Michael Collins, the de facto leader of the IRA, and had been approved by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the IRA's senior ranking officers were deeply divided over the decision of the Dáil to ratify the Treaty.