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[216] [217] [218] The financial backbone of the Provisional cause in America was the Irish Northern Aid Committee , which was estimated to have raised $3.6 million between 1970 and 1991, including for supporting families of dead or imprisoned IRA members, lobbying and propaganda efforts, and sometimes purchasing weapons for the Provisional IRA.
This was the deadliest attack in England during the Troubles. The "Birmingham Six" would be tried for this and convicted. Many years later, after new evidence of police fabrication and suppression of evidence, their convictions would be quashed and they would be released. 10 December
The Time of Troubles (Russian: Смутное время, romanized: Smutnoye vremya), also known as Smuta (Russian: Смута, lit. 'troubles'), [1] was a period of political crisis in Russia which began in 1598 with the death of Feodor I, [2] the last of the House of Rurik, and ended in 1613 with the accession of Michael I of the House of ...
8 March - 1973 Old Bailey bombing - The Provisional IRA conducted their first operations in England exploding two car bombs in the center of London. One bomb exploded outside the Old Bailey Courthouse, injuring 180 people and one man later died from a heart attack, the bomb exploded near Whitehall injuring about 30 other people, bringing the total injured for the day to over 200.
Andrew J. Wilson in his book Irish America and the Ulster Conflict 1968-1995 wrote that: The most effective measures taken by US law enforcement agencies, however, were against IRA gunrunning . . . The convictions secured by US law enforcement agencies against the gunrunning network in the mid-1980s caused serious problems for the IRA.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Troubles. The Troubles – historical ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it is sometimes described as an "irregular war" or "low-level war".
The Troubles: A Dublin Story: Luke Hanlon Crime, Drama. 2023 United Kingdom Dead Shot: Tom Guard Charles Guard Action, Thriller. Based on the book The Road to Balcombe Street. 2023 Ireland United Kingdom Baltimore: Joe Lawlor Christine Molloy: Thriller. Rose Dugdale: 2023 Ireland In the Land of Saints and Sinners: Robert Lorenz: Action, Crime ...
Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland is a 2023 British documentary television miniseries covering the Northern Irish conflict, the Troubles.Directed by James Bluemel as a follow-up to his 2020 series Once Upon a Time in Iraq, it consists of five episodes that features interviews with members of Republican and Loyalist paramilitaries, members of the British Army who served in Northern Ireland ...