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July 21, 1972: Twenty-plus IRA bombs explode in Belfast, leaving nine dead and 130 injured on what will come to be called Bloody Friday. The British retaliate 10 days later, with Operation...
From January 1939 to March 1940, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) carried out 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.
1 August – 1998 Banbridge bombing: A dissident republican group calling itself the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) detonated a bomb in Banbridge, County Down, injuring 35 people and causing extensive damage.
Irish Republican Army, republican paramilitary organization seeking the establishment of a republic, the end of British rule in Northern Ireland, and the reunification of Ireland. It was created in 1919. Learn more about the IRA, including its history.
Here is a timeline of some of the worst bomb attacks on mainland Britain by Irish dissident groups in the last 35 years.
It used guerrilla tactics against the British Army and RUC in both rural and urban areas, and carried out a bombing campaign in Northern Ireland and England against military, political and economic targets, and British military targets in mainland Europe.
The Omagh bombing, carried out by members of the Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA, or New IRA), was the deadliest and most-damaging attack to have occurred during the three-decades-long civil conflict known as the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
The Real IRA was responsible for the 1998 Omagh Bombing in County Tyrone, in which 29 people were killed, the deadliest single bombing in the history of the conflict in Northern Ireland. In December 1969, the IRA divided into “Official” and “Provisional” wings.
the indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets by the ira in 1938 provoked a popular reaction which sustained the british police in a successful counter attack against terrorism. TODAY THE IRA IS BITTERLY DIVIDED BETWEEN THE OFFICIAL AND PROVISIONAL WINGS.
At first, the provisional IRA, or "provos" conducted sniper attacks, assassinations, and several small bombings in the province, and appeared to have little public support. Then, in January...