• The Abercorn Restaurant bombing was a bomb attack that took place in a crowded city centre restaurant and bar in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 4 March...
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  • Catholic military chaplain. 4 March – Abercorn Restaurant bombing: A bomb exploded without warning in the Abercorn restaurant on Castle Lane, Belfast. Two were...
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  • The La Mon restaurant bombing was an incendiary bomb attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 17 February 1978 and has been described...
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    other public buildings. The IRA was blamed for the Abercorn Restaurant bombing in March 1972, when a bomb exploded without warning killing two women and injuring...
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    the bombing was disbanded.[when?] Loyalist paramilitaries responded to the bombing with revenge attacks on Catholics, mostly civilians. Another bomb had...
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  • The Omagh bombing was a car bombing on 15 August 1998 in the town of Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It was carried out by the Real Irish Republican...
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  • immediately. The IRA had been studying how the British Army behaved after a bombing and correctly predicted that they would set up an incident command point...
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    they killed civilian bystanders. Other examples include the Abercorn Restaurant bombing in Belfast in 1972, where two people were killed and 130 wounded...
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  • According to Ed Moloney, the bombing was considered a disaster for the IRA. Coming so soon after the horrific Abercorn Restaurant bombing which had killed two...
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  • on the reckless", but accepted their claims that they shot at gunmen and bomb-throwers. The report was widely criticised as a "whitewash". The Saville...
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  • Abercorn Restaurant bombing occurred Abercorn Place, a street in St John's Wood, London Abercorn Place, a tram stop in Blackpool (England) Abercorn Primary...
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    the bombing could purchase replacements. Thatcher went from the conference to visit the injured at the Royal Sussex County Hospital. The bombing killed...
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  • The Remembrance Day bombing (also known as the Enniskillen bombing or Poppy Day massacre) took place on 8 November 1987 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh...
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  • imprisonment for his part in the bombing and served fifteen years. The bombing sparked a series of tit-for-tat bombings and shootings by loyalists and republicans...
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  • they would have known such a huge bombing operation was being planned and who was involved. He then noted that the bombing investigation team was disbanded...
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  • with a hail of stones and petrol bombs. The besieged residents built barricades, set up first aid posts and petrol bomb workshops, and a radio transmitter...
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  • The Rose & Crown Bar bombing was a bomb attack carried out against a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast. The attack was carried out by the loyalist paramilitary...
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    High-profile attacks carried out by the INLA include the Droppin Well bombing, the 1994 Shankill Road killings and the assassinations of Airey Neave...
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  • stepped up its bombing and shooting campaign on mainland Britain. On the night of 18 November 1975 the unit chose to bomb Walton's Restaurant, in Walton Street...
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    1971 Operation Demetrius McGurk's Bar bombing Balmoral showroom bombing 1972 Bloody Sunday Abercorn Restaurant bombing Beginning of direct rule Bloody Friday...
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    This became known as the Shankill Road bombing. The UDA launched a number of "revenge attacks" for the bombing. Later that day, they fatally shot a Catholic...
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  • surrounding area. Some sources give the time of this bombing as 3:10 pm. ~2:16 pm (Brookvale Hotel) A bomb (estimated at 50 pounds (23 kg) of explosive) exploded...
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  • about the bombing. The loyalist Shankill Road had been the location of other bomb and gun attacks, including the Balmoral Furniture Company bombing in 1971...
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    Order was responsible for the deaths. Ian Paisley claimed that the petrol bombing of the Quinn home was unrelated to the Drumcree dispute: I think that if...
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  • the Mulbery Bush bombing), said in 2009 that she had spoken with two former IRA members, who referred to the Birmingham pub bombings as a mistake for...
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  • many occasions they killed civilians. Examples include the bombing of the Abercorn restaurant in Belfast in March 1972, in which two young Catholic women...
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    secret informal alliance of Ulster loyalists who carried out shooting and bombing attacks against Catholics and Irish nationalists in the 1970s, during the...
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  • claims that the MRF organised the bombing and helped the bombers get in and out of the area. Two days before the bombing, republican prisoners had escaped...
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  • anyone will be charged in connection with the bombing, a suspect was arrested on 8 September 2022. The bombing has, however, been viewed by some as a "catalyst"...
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  • retaliation for the Remembrance Day bombing four months earlier when eleven Protestants had been killed by an IRA bomb at a Remembrance Sunday ceremony....
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