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 ...
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Aug. 15, 1998: An IRA splinter group called Real IRA, carries out the deadliest paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland during a car bombing in Omagh in Northern Ireland, leaving 29 dead and more than 200 wounded. Oct. 16, 1998: In recognition of the Good Friday Agreement, John Hume, the...
The Real IRA planted a string of car bombs in Northern Ireland towns in 1998 in a bid to undermine support for that year’s Good Friday peace accord, which sought to end a three-decade conflict that claimed 3,700 lives. Police prevented deaths in several other car bombings with swift evac...
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of opposition to Ireland split into two parts of the South and the North treaty by the British and repression. The Irish Republican Army declared for the realization of the North-South reunification continue to struggle, and the exercise of violence. 1939 began manufacturing bombings ...
Today, no one in the republican movement denies that he was an IRA man or that he was involved in the bombings, but they argue now, as they did then, that the confession given to RUC officers in Omagh was beaten out of him. [ ‘The M...
“We have witnessed on numerous occasions that they are willing to put the lives of local people at risk in their reckless haste to carry out bombings and shootings. “Most starkly they have a chilling indifference to hiding lethally dangerous weapons and bombs in places where local people can...
THE Bloody Sunday victims have got justice -- but will the IRA give justice to the 21 innocent victims of the Birmingham pub bombings? Or is justice a one-way thing to the IRA? Will Sinn Fein dig into its bulging coffers of U.S. dollars and compensate the victims of its murderous cam...
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...