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.
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Six months after ‘Bloody Sunday’ the Irish terrorist group IRA carried out bomb attacks in Belfast that became known as ‘Bloody Friday’.
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Bombing in Belfast (July 13, 2018)
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.
On this day in 1996, the PIRA set off a three-tonne truck bomb in downtown Manchester UK, injuring more than 200 but killing no one.
Wherever you fall on the terrorist/freedom fighter scale you have to admit that the brutal 1978 killing of UK missionaries in Rhodesia is terrorism.
The May 1974 car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan demonstrated that the IRA was not the only violent actor: the UVF was equally violent.
The Hillcrest Bar bombing, also known as the Saint Patrick’s Day bombing, took place on 17 March 1976 in Dungannon. The Ulster Volunteer Force detonated a car bomb outside a pub crowded with people celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day.
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 […]
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.