The home of alleged former IRA member and Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams in Belfast was bombed by the New IRA in July 2018: Adams’ grandchildren narrowly escaped injury.
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35 years ago today, Air India flight 182 left the air traffic control radar off the coast of Ireland, killing all 329 people aboard.
On this day in 1985, Sikh extremists perpetrated the single greatest terrorist act in history when they placed a bomb on an Air India flight, killing 329.
The May 1974 car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan demonstrated that the IRA was not the only violent actor: the UVF was equally violent.
We should have learned by now that military occupation to deal with terrorism is seldom a good idea: the problem is there are few alternatives. This contribution appeared in Homeland Security Today on February 17, 2020 HOMELAND SECURITY TODAY — It is looking more and more like the U.S. will ink a deal with the […]
Independence movements sometimes spawn violent fringes: is Scotland headed in that direction?
On December 4, 1971 the Ulster Volunteer Force exploded a bomb at a bar called McGurk’s in a Catholic neighbourhood of Belfast, killing 15 and wounding 17.
On this day in 1975, six armed men boarded a train at the Dutch town of Assen and seized the passengers as hostages.
On this day in 1984, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton (England), where then UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s ruling Conservative Party was holding its annual conference. Five people died and many more were injured.
On this day in 1974, bombs went off in two pubs popular with British army personnel in Guildford that was close to several military barracks.