The attack on Cloghoge checkpoint was an unconventional railway bomb attack carried out on 1 May 1992 by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) against...
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codenamed Operation Mutilate. 1990 British Army Gazelle shootdown Attack on Cloghoge checkpoint Drummuckavall ambush Glasdrumman ambush Operation Conservation...
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bombing Benny's Bar bombing Bloody Friday (1972) Claudy bombing Attack on Cloghoge checkpoint 1973 Coleraine bombings 1970 Crossmaglen bombing Donegall Street...
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ambush 1991 - Cappagh killings 1992 - Clonoe ambush 1992 - Attack on Cloghoge checkpoint 1992 - Coalisland riots 1992 - South Armagh sniper campaign...
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pounds. 1 May – Attack on Cloghoge checkpoint: The IRA used a modified van that ran on railway tracks to launch an unconventional bomb attack on a British Army...
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The Milltown Cemetery attack (also known as the Milltown Cemetery killings or Milltown massacre) took place on 16 March 1988 at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast...
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April 1992—29 February 1996 Battle of Žuč 8 June The Troubles Attack on Cloghoge checkpoint 1 May Transnistria War Battle of Tighina 19–21 June Croatian...
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On 7 December 1985 the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) attacked the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) base at Ballygawley, County Tyrone. Two RUC...
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Proxy bomb (category Attacks on military installations in Northern Ireland)
and told to drive the van to the accommodation block at Cloghoge permanent vehicle checkpoint. Before he drove off, a senior IRA member seemed "to have...
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1969 Northern Ireland riots (category Arson attacks on vehicles in Northern Ireland)
were six bomb attacks on electricity and water infrastructure, causing blackouts and water shortages. At first the attacks were blamed on the Irish Republican...
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Forensic Science Laboratory bombing (category Attacks on government buildings and structures in Northern Ireland)
after a coded warning, the bomb exploded. Teebane bombing Attack on Cloghoge checkpoint Provisional Irish Republican Army campaign 1969–1997 CAIN -...
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Warrenpoint ambush (redirect from Narrow Water Attack)
the Narrow Water massacre, was a guerrilla attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA) on 27 August 1979. The Provisional IRA's South...
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1994 British Army Lynx shootdown (redirect from Crossmaglen mortar attack (1994))
Class Two, died on 6 April 2011 in a crash while driving his motorcycle between Abingdon and Oxford. There was a second mortar attack on a British military...
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Omagh bombing (category Attacks on government buildings and structures in Northern Ireland)
any checkpoints, and the two cars were in constant contact by mobile phone. At 14:19, the bomb car was parked outside S.D. Kells' clothes shop on Omagh's...
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Murder of the Quinn brothers (category Residential building arson attacks in Northern Ireland)
Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in a firebomb attack on their home in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland on 12 July 1998. The crime was committed towards...
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chapter 145 [dead link] "British Embassy attacked in Dublin". 25 February 2006. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 17 September...
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McGurk's Bar bombing (redirect from Bomb attack on McGurk's Bar)
days. Eyewitnesses asserted that the checkpoints around McGurk's were removed just an hour before the attack. On the evening of Saturday 4 December 1971...
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vehicle checkpoint at Cloghoge, County Armagh. The outpost was completely destroyed (see Attack on Cloghoge checkpoint). an IRA bomb attack was foiled...
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Holy Cross dispute (category Attacks on schools in the United Kingdom)
claiming that Catholics were regularly attacking their homes and denying them access to facilities. The picket resumed on 3 September, when the new school term...
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Miami Showband killings (section Bogus checkpoint)
trappings of a regular military checkpoint". Crozier told police, and later a court, that he had not played a large part in the attack. He refused to name his...
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On Wednesday 20 September 2000, the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) carried out an attack on MI6's SIS Building headquarters in Vauxhall, Lambeth, London...
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South Armagh Sniper (1990–1997) (category Sniper attacks)
to conceal themselves from British observation posts. The sniper attack on a checkpoint at Newry killed Constable Brian Woods and was officially reported...
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The Troubles (redirect from Consultative Group on the Past)
soldier killed during the Troubles, was shot dead at a checkpoint on the Green Rd near Bessbrook on 12 February 1997 by the IRA's South Armagh sniper. The...
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Shankill Road bombing (category Attacks on buildings and structures in Belfast)
intelligence failed to act on a tip off about the bombing. The loyalist Shankill Road had been the location of other bomb and gun attacks, including the Balmoral...
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Loughinisland massacre (category Attacks on bars in Northern Ireland)
shooting on the Shankill Road in Belfast. Senior UVF members had been meeting in a building nearby. According to one senior member, after this attack the UVF...
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Drummuckavall ambush (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
in 1981 and Operation Conservation in 1990. Attack on Cloghoge checkpoint Attack on Derryard checkpoint Glasdrumman ambush Operation Conservation Timeline...
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later be used in other bombings on British Army installations in County Armagh, such as the attack on Cloghoge checkpoint. 4 September 1991: seven business...
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Bloody Sunday (1972) (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
drive Donaghy to hospital, but the car was stopped at a British Army checkpoint. They were ordered to leave the car and a soldier drove it to a Regimental...
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deadliest attack of the conflict known as the Troubles (although the deadliest single incident would be the Omagh bombing in 1998), and the deadliest attack in...
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in the east of the city to be blown up, although this attack also failed. The feud rumbled on for several months in 1976 with a number of people, mostly...
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