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The Fenian dynamite campaign (also known as the Fenian bombing campaign) was a campaign of political violence orchestrated by Irish republican paramilitary groups in Great Britain from 1881 to 1885.
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On Saturday 13 December 1884 two American-Irish Republicans carried out a dynamite attack on London Bridge as part of the Fenian dynamite campaign. The bomb went off prematurely while the men were in a boat attaching it to a bridge pier at 5.45 pm during the evening rush hour. [1]
On 16 January 1939, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) launched a campaign of bombing and sabotage against the civil, economic, and military infrastructure of Britain. It was known as the S-Plan or Sabotage Campaign. During the campaign, the IRA carried out almost 300 attacks and acts of sabotage in Britain, killing seven people and injuring 96. [5]
Bourke was appointed a trustee of the Clan's "skirmishing fund" in spring 1877, but he quickly came to oppose O'Donovan Rossa's plan to use the skirmishing fund for a "Dynamite Campaign" to be waged in Great Britain, which Bourke denounced as "foolish and immoral". Against Bourke's wishes, the Fenian dynamite campaign would commence in 1881. [1 ...
In April 1867, the supreme council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood condemned the Clerkenwell Outrage as a "dreadful and deplorable event", [4] but the organisation returned to bombings in Britain in 1881 to 1885, with the Fenian dynamite campaign. [5]
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