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15 Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023. ... Agreement proved elusive, however, and the Troubles continued throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and ...
The PIRA exploded a 2000 lb bomb at the Northern Ireland Forensic Science Laboratory in South Belfast. The laboratory was obliterated, seven hundred houses were damaged, and 20 people were injured. The explosion could be heard from over 16 km away. It was one of the largest bombs to be detonated during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. [144]
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.
By the early 1990s, although the death toll had dropped significantly from the worst years of the 1970s, the IRA campaign continued to severely disrupt normal life in Northern Ireland. In 1987, the IRA carried out almost 300 shooting and bombing attacks, killing 31 RUC, UDR and British Army personnel and 20 civilians, while injuring 100 ...
Operation Motorman was a large operation carried out by the British Army (HQ Northern Ireland) in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.The operation took place in the early hours of 31 July 1972 with the aim of retaking the "no-go areas" (areas controlled by residents, [1] including Irish republican paramilitaries) that had been established in Belfast and other urban centres.
This made the Republic of Ireland a safe haven for IRA members throughout the entire conflict, where they can safely and effectively continue to carry out operations in the UK from Southern Ireland. The UVF was led by Gusty Spence, who was imprisoned since 1966 for a sectarian murder. In July 1972, his associates on the outside staged a fake ...
3 April – Garda (policeman) Richard Fallon was murdered on duty in Dublin, the first policeman killed in the Republic of Ireland during The Troubles. 10 April – The United States Ambassador John Moore visited President De Valera at his home in Áras an Uachtaráin to present him with an Irish flag flown on the Apollo 11 moon landing mission, and a fragment from the lunar surface, as a gift ...
In 1972 The Troubles had been ongoing in Northern Ireland for three years, [3] [4] with Irish Republican paramilitaries increasingly attacking the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the British Army, and a level of societal violence & sectarian violence had appeared that had not been seen in the island of Ireland since the 1920s during the Irish Civil War.