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Most killings took place within Northern Ireland, especially in Belfast and County Armagh. Most of the killings in Belfast took place in the west and north of the city. Dublin, London and Birmingham were also affected, albeit to a lesser degree than Northern Ireland itself. Occasionally, the IRA attempted or carried out attacks on British ...
The Troubles in Belfast (1 C, 51 P) Pages in category "The Troubles in County Down" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
10 August: UVF parcel bombs injured several people in County Down, including a Catholic woman in Hilltown and a Sinn Féin activist. [178] 10 August: The "Red Hand Commando" carried out an arson attack on a GAA club at Portaferry, County Down. [178] 11 August: A Catholic civilian was found beaten-to-death on wasteground off Sherbrook Way, Belfast.
The Eileen Hickey Irish Republican History Museum (Irish: Iarsmalann na Staire Poblachtach Éireannach), is a museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was established in 2007 after years of campaigning by Eileen Hickey, who collected the exhibits. [1] The museum is based in Conway Mill in the Falls Road area of West Belfast. The site is a former ...
McGurk's Bar bombing – the UVF exploded a bomb at a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast, killing fifteen Catholic civilians (including two children) and wounding seventeen others. This was the highest death toll from a single incident in Belfast during the Troubles. [citation needed] 11 December
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.
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The Belfast–Dublin train line was also bombed. The IRA detonated 22 bombs in Belfast's city center; nine people were killed (including two British soldiers and one Ulster Defence Association (UDA) member) from two bombs while 130 were injured. [7] 31 July – Claudy bombing: Nine civilians were killed by a car bomb in Claudy, County ...