The London bombings. On June 17th 1974 a Provisional IRA bomb exploded in Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament, rupturing a gas pipe and starting a fire. An IRA volunteer telephoned through a warning six minutes before the bomb exploded, allowing the area to be cleared. The warning ...
By Sengupta, Kim Newspaper article from The Independent (London, England) Article detailsBeginning of article IN THE 1970s, the Cold War was barely beyond the permafrost and there appeared to be no end in sight to the bloody attrition of Northern Ireland. Britain had retreated from east of ...
The Birmingham pub bombings were terrorist bomb attacks on two pubs in Birmingham, England, that were carried out on November 21, 1974. The explosions killed 21 people, making it the deadliest attack on English soil during the Troubles.
Beginning in 1970, the Provos carried out bombings, assassinations, and ambushes in a campaign they called the “Long War.” In 1973 they expanded their attacks to create terror in mainland Britain and eventually even in continental Europe. It was estimated that, between 1969 and 1994, the ...