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16 March: Milltown Cemetery attack: At the funeral of the three IRA volunteers killed in Gibraltar, Michael Stone, a member of the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF), launched hand grenades during the graveside oration, killing an IRA volunteer (Caoimhin MacBradaigh) and two civilians and injuring over 50 injured; including a 10‑year-old boy who ...
13 March 1974: The IRA shot dead a British soldier (David Farrington, aged 23) at a pedestrian checkpoint on Chapel Lane, Belfast. [ 143 ] 15 March 1974: Two IRA volunteers, Patrick McDonald (aged 21) and Kevin Murray (aged 27), were killed when their landmine prematurely exploded on Aughnacloy Road, Dungannon, County Tyrone.
Stone learned that there would be minimal security force presence at the funerals, and planned "to take out the Sinn Féin and IRA leadership at the graveside". [7] He said his attack was retaliation for the Remembrance Day bombing four months earlier when eleven Protestants had been killed by an IRA bomb at a Remembrance Sunday ceremony.
The IRA Army Council sanctioned offensive operations against the British Army at the beginning of 1971. Robert Curtis was the first British soldier shot and killed by the Provisional IRA, on 6 February 1971, [5] [6] and two more soldiers were killed over the following month during rioting. [7]
Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign has fired roughly a dozen staffers — and more dismissals are expected in the coming weeks as he shakes up his big-money political operations after less than ...
The IRA placed a 50 pounds (23 kg) gelignite bomb on Shadow V, a fishing boat owned by Mountbatten, while she was harboured overnight in Mullaghmore Peninsula in County Sligo, Republic of Ireland. The bomb was detonated several hours later, after Mountbatten and his family and crew had boarded her and taken her offshore.
Lempicka's alluring portrait of the poet Ira Perrot (1930), who was her lover. / Credit: ©2024 Tamara de Lempicka Estate, LLC/ADAGP, Paris/ARS, NY. Each time Lempicka sold a painting, she made a ...
The IRA sent her with Sean Savage and Daniel McCann to the British overseas territory of Gibraltar to plant a car bomb in a heavily populated town area. The target was the band and guard of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Anglian Regiment during a weekly ceremonial changing of the guard in front of the Governors' residence , on 8 March 1988.