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This is a list of notable bombings related to the Northern Ireland "Troubles" and their aftermath. It includes bombings that took place in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Great Britain since 1968. There were at least 10,000 bomb attacks during the conflict (1968–1998). [1]
Castlerock, Northern Ireland 4 1 A mass shooting by the UDA 1993, 23 October Shankill Road bombing: Belfast, Northern Ireland: 10 57 A mass bombing by the IRA in a protestant area that killed mostly civilians. Part of "the Troubles". 1993, 30 October Greysteel massacre: Greysteel, Northern Ireland: 8: 13: A shooting by the UDA. Part of "the ...
Northern Ireland's first religiously integrated secondary school opened. 3 October Republican hunger strike ended. 10 October Chelsea Barracks bombing – The PIRA detonated a bomb outside the Chelsea barracks in London, killing two civilians and injuring 40 people. 14 November
January: The UVF began bombing Catholic-owned businesses in Protestant areas of Belfast. It issued a statement vowing to "remove republican elements from loyalist areas" and stop them "reaping financial benefit therefrom". The UVF carried out an estimated 27 bomb attacks in Northern Ireland in 1970 [26] and another four bombings in the Republic ...
Bloody Friday is the name given to the bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 21 July 1972, during the Troubles. At least twenty bombs exploded in the space of eighty minutes, most within a half-hour period. Most of them were car bombs and most targeted infrastructure, especially the transport ...
This is a list of ambushes carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; latterly IRA without "Provisional") during the Troubles. Most targeted " Crown Forces " within Northern Ireland .
Michael Gallagher, whose son Aiden died in the Real IRA bombing, took the legal challenge that resulted in a judge directing the state to act. Northern Ireland Secretary orders independent inquiry ...
He was the first British soldier killed in Ireland since the 1920s. The next day, James Chichester-Clark, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, declared on television that "Northern Ireland is at war with the Irish Republican Army Provisionals". Eight British soldiers and five civilians were injured in various gun battles around Belfast.