Balcombe Street Gang was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) active service unit (ASU) (also known as the Balcombe Street Four or the Balcombe Street...
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forces of IRA activity. The four members of what became known as the "Balcombe Street gang", Joe O'Connell, Edward Butler, Harry Duggan and Hugh Doherty, were...
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three others were labelled the "Balcombe Street Gang" by news media after a five-day siege in the eponymous London Street. He and his co-accused were gaoled...
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others were called the "Balcombe Street Gang" or the "Balcombe Street Four" by news media during a five-day siege in the street of that name near Marylebone...
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acting suspiciously near a house in which Quinn and members of the Balcombe Street Gang were later found to have been preparing bombs. The unarmed Tibble...
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The Troubles (section Downing Street mortar attack)
England in 1974 and 1975 by Provisional IRA active service unit the Balcombe Street Gang. The British Government reinstated the ban against the UVF in October...
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December - Oxford Street bombing The Balcombe Street Gang used a car bomb for the first time, outside Selfridges department store on Oxford Street. The bomb caused...
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took place, when an Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit nicknamed the Balcombe Street Gang threw a bomb into Walton's Restaurant without warning, killing two...
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service unit who became known as the Balcombe Street Gang – whom police arrested in December 1975 after the Balcombe Street siege leading to their trial and...
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Republican Army (IRA). He is most noted for having been a member of the Balcombe Street gang. O'Connell was born in Kilkee, in rural County Clare, 'a stronghold...
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Ireland being a part of the United Kingdom. The Balcombe Street gang, who were named after the London street on which they were arrested after a six-day siege...
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policemen to confront the Balcombe Street gang. Purnell said: "I've never for one second associated Ian Blair with Balcombe Street in any shape or form, and...
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Bobby Sands (redirect from Bobby Sands street)
of his coworkers wearing the armbands of the local Ulster loyalist tartan gang. He was held at gunpoint and told that Alexander's was off-limits to "Fenian...
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attack was carried out by volunteers from the Provisional IRA's Balcombe Street Gang. The attack occurred during a period of heightened activity by the...
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The real perpetrators of the Guildford pub bombings were the IRA's Balcombe Street Gang, who admitted to the Guildford and Woolwich bombings during their...
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and was extradited to England to face charges relating to the Balcombe Street Gang's campaign in England. The capture of Keenan was a blow to the IRA...
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Army (IRA) unit nicknamed the Balcombe Street Gang, without warning, threw a bomb into Walton's Restaurant in Walton Street, Knightsbridge, London, killing...
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allowed the British government to portray the IRA as no more than a criminal gang. Armed robberies of banks, trains and small businesses across Ireland were...
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which were carried out by the Provisional IRA's Balcombe Street Gang in 1974. Reykjavik Six, a gang of youths falsely accused of the murder of two disappeared...
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work of the infamous Balcombe Street Gang who also carried out high-profile bombings in Knightsbridge, Piccadilly, Oxford Street, Woolwich, and many other...
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Balcombe Street: The IRA Reign of Terror in London. Haworth Press. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-7890-2913-3. Time November 3, 1975 BBC: Balcombe Street gang's reign...
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suppressed confessions by Provisional IRA bombers, known as the Balcombe Street Gang, claiming responsibility for the Guildford and Woolwich bombings...
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August 1975, Joseph O'Connell and Eddie Butler, members of the IRA's Balcombe Street Gang placed a bomb in the doorway of a shoe shop. A warning was phoned...
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December 2007. Retrieved 29 November 2007. Greenslade, Roy (2004). Press Gang: How Newspapers Make Profits From Propaganda. Pan Books. p. 601. ISBN 978-0-330-39376-8...
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Doherty and Harry Duggan were members of IRA active service unit the Balcombe Street Gang, that terrorised London in the mid-1970s, killing six people, injuring...
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Sinn Féin and Fianna Éireann in 1964, after being radicalised by the Divis Street riots during that year's general election campaign. In the late 1960s, a...
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was a victim of the Lacey kidnapping gang. However, the plan failed, and the gang were arrested. With all gang members from the Lacey kidnapping released...
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the M62 coach bombing and several people were killed by the IRA's Balcombe Street Gang. One of the Old Bailey bombers Marian Price explained the IRA's reasoning...
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the IRA's Balcombe Street Gang placed a bomb in the doorway of a shoe shop in Kensington Church Street in London. The Balcombe Street Gang was responsible...
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Sinn Féin (redirect from Sinn Féin (Kevin Street))
the other, led by Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, became known as "Sinn Féin (Kevin Street)", or "Provisional Sinn Féin". As the "Officials" dropped all mention of...
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