BombingsSabotageAt various moments in the twentieth century the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in its various incarnations have used the tactic of infrastructural bombing, notably in their 1939 attacks in England on electricity pylons and in the summer of 1971 in Northern Ireland on its electrical ...
Devastation caused by the massive truck bomb in Bishopsgate, London The 1990s. The Provisional IRA continued its attacks in England during the 1990s, carrying out more than 20 bombings or sabotage operations. In February 1991 volunteers launched three mortars at 10 Downing Street, the official ...
In 1969 the IRA (Irish Republican Army) was formed. They were a Catholic Irish nationalist group that used guerrilla tactics like bombings and assassinations to oppose British rule and oppression in Ireland. Their main goal was to fight the british that took over their home. The IRA would ...
the last British stronghold in the island. In January 1939 IRA leaders declared war in Britain and formulated a military strategy known as the ‘S Plan’. Over the next eight months, IRA operatives bombed a number of government targets in England, killing seven people and ...
Sinn Fein- an Irish republican political movement founded in 1905 to promote independence from England and unification of Ireland; became the political branch of the Irish Republican Army Eire,Ireland,Irish Republic,Republic of Ireland- a republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island...
Graduation for Students 35 Years on; EDUCATION: First Ceremony Axed in IRA BombingsGraduation for Students 35 Years on; EDUCATION: First Ceremony Axed in IRA BombingsByline: Duncan Gibbons ; Tina JundayCoventry Evening Telegraph (England)
There had been 32 bombings, with one in Coventry earlier that month when a bomber was killed trying to plant a device at the Coventry Exchange. But it was the Birmingham outrage which caused the worst death toll of any bombing in Northern Ireland or Britain, a grim record of carnage o...
With London bombings. Britain's public service ethos comes to the fore. The article reports that London, England's well-prepared emergency services were able to help bombing victims rapidly, as a well-rehearsed disaster plan was put into effect. According to paramedic David Whitmore, the spirit...
Ulster, and terrorism, headed the domestic agenda and the Birmingham pub bombings on 21 November 1974, which killed 21 people and injured 182, prompted calls for national identity cards. The idea was rejected by then home secretary Roy Jenkins, however, as expensive and ineffective. The papers ...
IRA like This.So Why Do These People Keep Telling Us That Relentless Bombing Is the ONLY Way to Defeat Bin Laden?; Moral Fibre Jibe Is Really an Attack on Those 'Off-Message' Straw Wants Our Humility but His Party Offers None Short Tells Us Not to Get 'Emotional' over the Bombings ...