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2 November – Red Lion Pub bombing: Three Protestant civilians were killed and dozens injured by an IRA bomb attack on a Protestant bar on Ormeau Road, Belfast.; 4 December – McGurk's Bar bombing: There were 15 civilians killed and 17 injured by a UVF bomb attack on a Catholic bar in Belfast.
18 August 1972: Two British soldiers were killed in separate IRA sniper attacks in Belfast. The first soldier was killed while on mobile patrol at Excise street off the Grosvenor Road, the second soldier was killed at the junction of Beechmount Avenue & the Falls Road while manning a vehicle checkpoint. [53]
17 October - the OIRA carried out a series of orchestrated attacks on members of the Provisional IRA in Belfast. OIRA gunmen first tried to kill a man in the Albert Street area of the Lower Falls. OIRA members then opened fire in a bookmakers in the Markets area of Belfast, wounding the intended target and a 78-year-old man who tried to intervene.
three Protestant male civilians were shot and injured at a bar in Belfast; the IRA claimed one was a soldier in the Royal Irish Regiment (RIR). [306] 21 February 1993: Dunnes Stores in the Park Centre, Belfast, was firebombed by the IRA. [352] 22 February 1993: two RUC officers were injured in an IRA bomb attack on a base in Bishop Street, Derry.
The Red Lion Pub bombing was a bomb attack on 2 November 1971 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Planted by the Provisional IRA, it exploded in the Red Lion pub on Ormeau Road, killing three people and injuring about 30 others. The IRA members had given customers less than ten seconds to flee the building.
North and East Belfast, as well as Shankill, see the highest rate of loyalist punishment attacks, while West Belfast is the worst area for republican attacks. [88] The Provisional IRA, which is assumed to be responsible for most republican paramilitary punishment attacks, [19] targeted both "political
an IRA time bomb attack injured two RUC officers and demolished a civilian's home in Dunmurray, Belfast. [291] [366] an IRA unit lobbed a coffee jar bomb over the perimeter wall of Mountpottinger RUC base in the Strand Road area of Belfast. [366] an IRA attack was foiled after Gardaí in Donegal found a 1,000 lb (450 kg) bomb.
In 1972 alone, the IRA killed 100 British soldiers and wounded 500 more. In the same year, they carried out 1,300 bomb attacks and 90 IRA members were killed. [25] Up to 1972, the IRA controlled large urban areas in Belfast and Derry, but these were eventually re-taken by a major British operation known as Operation Motorman. Thereafter ...