On 31 October 1923 a 42-year old jeweller and father of four was shot and killed on St Stephen’s Green in Dublin in what was likely an anti-Semitic attack.
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On October 21, 2007 PKK terrorists killed at least 17 Turkish soldiers and wounded 16 others near Turkey’s border with Iraq.
On May 5, 1881 Fenians exploded a bomb at the Chester Barracks in Chester, England: there were no casualties
Beginning on this day in 2002 a 21-year old college student planted a series of pipe bombs in rural mailboxes across five midwestern US states.
On this day in 1992, the PIRA detonated a one-ton homemade bomb hidden in a white van in front of the Baltic Exchange building at the heart of London’s financial district.
On this day in 1991 the IRA launched mortars at the offices of UK Prime Minister John Major in 10 Downing Street
In what appeared to be a tit-for-tat attack, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) bombed a furniture store in Belfast in December 1971, killing four
The Fenians were Irish Americans seeking to put pressure on Britain to free Ireland and hence could be seen as ‘freedom fighters’. Except that they carried out attacks in Canada and assassinated one of the leaders of Canadian independence. So, are they terrorists instead? Borealis dives into the neverending debate of freedom fighter vs terrorist.
On this day in 1979, The Provisional IRA executed a spectacular terrorist attack when they bombed the boat of Queen Elizabeth’s cousin Lord Mountbatten.
On this day in 2004, at least 18 people were killed, mostly children, by a bomb planted by Assam separatists in NW India.