List of attacks by the Provisional Irish Republican Army

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The list of attacks by the Provisional Irish Republican Army contains a selection of attacks attributed to the Provisional Irish Republican Army (from 1969).

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The following attacks occurred in the period from 1971 to 1996 (incomplete selection):

date place incident dead Injured
February 6, 1971 Belfast Firearms attack on British soldiers in the New Lodge neighborhood. With Robert Curtis, the first British soldier to die since the Irish War of Independence. Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark then declares a state of war with the IRA. 1 4th
February 9, 1971 at Trillick, County Tyrone Two BBC technicians and three workers die in a land mine explosion while driving their vehicle to repair a transmitter. The mine should have hit a British army patrol who was expected to inspect the transmitter. 5 0
March 9, 1971 Belfast After visiting a bar in a part of the city that is considered to be safe, three off duty soldiers of the Royal Regiment of Scotland of the British Army are lured to White Brae by IRA members under false pretenses and shot on the roadside. The incident led to an increase in the minimum age of British soldiers in Northern Ireland and the resignation of Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark, who had unsuccessfully called for an increase in the number of troops. 3 0
May 25, 1971 Belfast A British soldier is killed in a bomb attack on the Springfield Road police station and two soldiers and seven police officers are injured. The victim was later awarded the George Cross posthumously. 1 27
March 20, 1972 Belfast After a telephone warning, a car bomb exploded outside the premises of the newspaper "The News Letter" on Donegall Street. Among the dead were a soldier and two police officers. 7th 148
July 21, 1972 Belfast On Bloody Friday , over 20 bomb explosions occur within around 80 minutes in response to broken peace talks. Despite telephone warnings, a car bomb exploded in a bus depot on Oxford Street, killing two British soldiers, a police reservist and three civilians. Three more civilians died in a car bomb on Cavehill Road. In response, the British Army launched "Operation Motorman" to recapture so-called "no-go areas". It was the largest British military operation since the Suez Crisis in 1956. 9 130
March 8, 1973 London, England In the first major attack on English soil, car bombs explode in front of the Old Bailey and the Ministry of Agriculture in London, causing high property damage. Two more explosives are defused. A civilian dies of a heart attack. 1 238
17th May 1973 Omagh, County Tyrone In front of a hotel, five British soldiers are killed by a booby trap on their vehicle. 5 0
June 12, 1973 Coleraine, County Londonderry A car bomb explodes on Railway Road, killing six Protestant civilians. 6th 33
4th February 1974 Kirklees, England In the bus attack on the M62 in northern England, an explosive device detonates nine British soldiers, a woman and two children. The attack hit a coach that was supposed to be transporting British soldiers and their families back to Catterick from a weekend trip in Manchester and tightened anti-terror laws in the UK. 12 38
17th June 1974 London, England A bomb attack on the British Parliament in the Palace of Westminster causes extensive property damage. 0 11
17th July 1974 London, England A visitor dies in a bomb attack on the Tower of London . There were eight children among the injured. 1 41
5th October 1974 Guildford, England The Guildford bombings kill four British soldiers and a civilian in a pub. The later innocent suspects became known as the Guildford Four . 5 65
November 21, 1974 Birmingham, England The Birmingham bombings killed 21 pub-goers and injured over 180. The later innocent suspects came to be known as the Birmingham Six . 21st 182
17th July 1975 Forkhill, County Armagh Four British foot patrol soldiers die in a remote-controlled booby trap. 4th 0
August 27, 1975 Caterham, England A bomb explosion in a pub injures 33 people, including ten soldiers. 0 33
5th September 1975 London, England An explosive device explodes in the lobby of the London Hilton Hotel. A US general and two Lebanese businessmen were among those injured. 2 63
November 27, 1975 London, England Publisher Ross McWhirter is shot dead by two IRA men. McWhirter had offered a £ 50,000 reward for the apprehension of IRA members who had bombed London. 1 0
5th January 1976 Kingsmill, County Armagh In the Kingsmill massacre , ten Protestant men are taken from their minibus on their way home from work and shot, an eleventh survives with serious injuries. The incident is considered the culmination of the "tit for tat" murders between Catholics and Protestants. 10 1


July 21, 1976 Sandyford, Ireland British Ambassador Christopher Ewart-Biggs and a private secretary die in a bomb attack on the ambassador's vehicle. The driver and Permanent Under Secretary of State Brian Cubbon, head of the Northern Ireland Office and thus the highest ranking British civil servant in Northern Ireland, were seriously injured. As a result of the attack, the Irish Parliament passed an emergency law that allowed terror suspects to be detained for up to seven days without charge. 2 2


17th February 1978 at Jonesborough, County Armagh When it was fired with tracer ammunition, an Aérospatiale Gazelle helicopter crashed due to a pilot's error during an evasive maneuver and hit a field. Lieutenant colonel Ian Corden-Lloyd was killed. The crash was the first loss of a British aircraft by enemy action during the Northern Ireland conflict. 1 2


17th February 1978 Gransha, County Down 12 Protestant civilians died in an incendiary attack on a restaurant. 12 30th


April 17th 1979 Bessbrook, County Armagh A car bomb detonates four police officers on a motorized patrol. The explosive device is said to have weighed over 450 kg and was considered to be the largest bomb ever built by the IRA. 4th 0
August 27, 1979 Mullaghmore, Ireland Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, is killed in a bomb attack on his boat during his summer vacation . The attack also killed three other people, including Baroness Brabourne. 4th 5
August 27, 1979 Warrenpoint, County Down In the Warrenpoint attack, 18 British soldiers are killed and six others injured by two remote-controlled explosive devices. The second explosion hit forces who had been alerted as a result of the first explosion. It was the IRA's most costly attack on the British Army in the Northern Ireland conflict. After the first explosion, a British tourist was shot dead and another injured after they were mistaken for IRA fighters. 19th 7th
February 16, 1980 Bielefeld, Germany Colonel Mark Koe (43) was shot three times in the chest and shoulder at the wheel of a Citroën 2 CV on his doorstep at Joseph-Haydn-Strasse 2. He dies three hours later. 1 0
March 1, 1980 Munster, Germany Military policeman Stewart Leach (22) is seriously injured by gunshots from automatic weapons in his Ford Cortina patrol car at the Bröderichweg / Kanalstrasse traffic lights. His co-driver John Helly (25) was uninjured. 0 1
March 10, 1980 Osnabrück, Germany Corporal Steven Sims (24) is hit by five shots from a 9-millimeter revolver, one in the arm and one in the hip, while running through the woods in Heger Holz. He survived seriously injured. 0 1
January 21, 1981 at Middletown, County Armagh Politician Sir Charles Norman Lockhart Stronge and his son James are shot dead in an IRA attack on their property and the building is set on fire. The police then started one of the largest cross-border search operations in its history. 2 0
May 19, 1981 near Newry, County Armagh Five British soldiers are killed in a bomb attack on their armored vehicle. 5 0
June 10, 1981 Belfast Eight IRA men break out of Crumlin Road prison at gunpoint . Among those who escaped were four suspects charged with the murder of SAS officer Herbert Westmacott , who were convicted in absentia. 0 0
July 20, 1982 London, England The bombing in Hyde Park and Regent's Park kills 11 British military personnel and seven horses during a parade. 18 other soldiers and a police officer were among the injured. 11 22nd
November 16, 1982 Belfast An IRA killer squad shot dead Lenny Murphy, a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force and leader of the Shankill Butchers Gang, in the street. 1 0
July 13, 1983 at Ballygawley, County Tyrone Four British soldiers die in a bomb attack on a mobile patrol. 4th 0
September 25, 1983 Maze, County Down In a mass escape from the infamous Maze Prison , 38 IRA members manage to escape. A prison guard dies of a heart attack after being stabbed with a knife. It was the largest numerical escape from a British prison and became a propaganda coup for the IRA. 1 19th
17th December 1983 London, England When bombing of the Harrods department store , three policemen and three civilians are killed. 6th 90
October 12, 1984 Brighton, England Five people died in the bomb attack on the Grand Hotel in Brighton , including two prominent members of the Conservative Party who were staying here for a party conference. The attack was targeted by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher , who was also present , but survived unharmed. Patrick Magee deposited the bomb in the hotel about a month before the explosion. 5 30th
February 28, 1985 Newry A mortar attack on a police station kills nine police officers and injures around 30. It was the most casualty attack by the IRA on the RUC during the Northern Ireland conflict and led to a stronger fortification of police stations. 9 over 30
May 20, 1985 Killean, County Armagh Four police officers die in an bomb attack on their armored vehicle. 4th 0
7th December 1985 Ballygawley, County Tyrone The IRA shoots two police officers and then detonates a bomb on the premises of the Ballygawley Police Station, which causes extensive property damage. 2 3
March 23, 1987 Mönchengladbach, Germany Attack by means of a 100 kilogram car bomb hidden in a Volvo on the JHQ Rheindahlen . The officers' mess (E-Messe), where German officers and their relatives say goodbye to two colonels , was badly damaged. 31 people were injured, including the then German Major General and Chief of Staff of the Northern Army Group (NORTHAG) Hans Hoster and his wife, both of whom had permanent scars. If the building collapsed, numerous people would have been killed, according to the Federal Prosecutor's Office . The property damage amounted to two million German marks. Presumably the IRA terrorists did not want to target Germans, but suspected a dinner of high-ranking NATO officers. 0 31
April 25, 1987 at Killean, County Armagh Lord Justice Maurice Gibson and his wife are murdered by a remote-controlled car bomb. Gibson had repeatedly acquitted police officers and soldiers on charges of murdering suspected terrorists and congratulated them on their bravery. At the time of his death he was the second highest judge in Northern Ireland. 2 6th
May 8, 1987 Loughgall, County Armagh During the attack in Loughgall , the IRA drove an explosive charge with a backhoe loader onto the premises of the police station and detonated it, while other IRA members supported the project with handguns. However, soldiers from the British SAS had been informed of the attack in advance and shot the eight attackers and an uninvolved civilian from previously occupied positions. The incident is considered the most deadly attack for the IRA and the most successful anti-terrorist operation by British authorities in the Northern Ireland conflict. 9 4th
November 8, 1987 Enniskillen, County Fermanagh A bomb attack during the Remembrance Sunday ceremony honoring fallen soldiers kills ten civilians and a police officer near the war memorial. Another victim died in a coma after 13 years. 12 63
July 13, 1988 Duisburg, Germany Two bombs detonate in front of a shelter. Ten soldiers are injured. The property damage amounted to 1.5 million German marks. 0 10
March 19, 1988 Belfast Two British soldiers in civilian clothes get into an IRA funeral with their vehicle for unknown reasons and are lynched by an angry crowd. The incident is known as "Corporals killings" and gained notoriety through the fact that parts of the attack on the soldiers were captured by television cameras. 2 0
May 1, 1988 Roermond and Nieuw-Bergen, Netherlands Three British soldiers are killed and four injured in two gun attacks and a booby trap. 3 4th
June 15, 1988 Lisburn After participating in a charity run, six British soldiers are killed by a bomb exploding on their vehicle. Up until then, Lisburn was considered relatively safe as it was a predominantly Protestant city and the seat of the British headquarters in Northern Ireland. 6th 11
June 23, 1988 at Silverbridge, County Armagh The IRA succeeds in shooting down a Westland Lynx helicopter through the massive use of heavy machine guns . 0 0
20th August 1988 near Ballygawley, County Tyrone An explosive device dumped on the roadside hits a bus carrying British soldiers in the Ballygawley attack , killing eight of them. In response to the attack, the Criminal Evidence (North Ireland) Order was enacted, which enabled courts in Northern Ireland to draw adverse conclusions against silent suspects during police interrogations or trials. 8th 28
September 12, 1988 Helen's Bay, County Down Two bombs cause property damage to the home of Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service . Bloomfield, his wife and son are shocked but unharmed. 0 0
March 20, 1989 at Jonesborough, County Armagh Jonesborough IRA murders . On the way back from discussions with Irish colleagues, Chief Superintendent Henry Breen and Superintendent Robert Buchanan are shot dead in an IRA ambush. These were the two highest-ranking police fatalities in the Northern Ireland conflict. The attack also became particularly explosive because the Smithwick Tribunal came to the conclusion in 2013 that the attack had been carried out in consultation with one or more members of the Irish police. 2 0
July 2nd 1989 Hanover, Germany Corporal Steven Smith (31) is killed on his doorstep with a bomb placed under his car. 1 0
September 7, 1989 Unna, Germany Heidi Hazell , the German wife of a British soldier, is shot dead in a vehicle with British license plates. 1 0
September 22, 1989 Deal, England Eleven military musicians are killed in a bomb attack on the Royal Marines military music school. 11 21st
June 25, 1990 London, England Bomb attack on the renowned Carlton Club , killing Donald Kaberry, Baron Kaberry of Adel . 1 20th
September 6, 1990 Belfast A bomb attack on the fleet supply ship RFA Fort Victoria in the harbor of the Harland & Wolff shipyard results in high property damage, water ingress and a large list. The delivery of the ship is delayed by two years due to the damage. 0 0
September 18, 1990 Milford, England Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry is shot through a window at home and is critically injured. His wife is also hit and injured. The attack is seen as retaliation for Operation Flavius, which Terry approved . 0 2
October 24, 1990 Coshquin, County Londonderry A man accused of collaboration with the British is forced, while his family is being held hostage, to drive a car bomb into the border control post on Buncrana Road. The driver and five British soldiers are killed in the explosion. This new method of attack came to be known as "proxy bomb". 6th 0
February 7, 1991 London, England Mortar attack on the seat of the Prime Minister of Great Britain . The aim was to kill incumbent Prime Minister John Major and his war cabinet who were discussing the Gulf War. 0 4th
May 31, 1991 Glenanne, County Armagh The IRA drives a driverless truck with over 1000 kg of explosives into a British Army outpost. The force of the subsequent explosion caused extensive property damage, three soldiers were killed and ten others injured. The destroyed post was not rebuilt. 3 14th
17th January 1992 Teebane, County Tyrone In the Teebane attack, a remote-controlled bomb detonates eight Protestant workers who returned from a British army base in Omagh in their vehicle. Six more are injured. The IRA saw the workers' intention to collaborate with the occupying power. The incident sparked retaliation by Protestant paramilitaries in Belfast, in which five civilians were killed. 8th 6th
February 28, 1992 London, England Bomb attack on London Bridge station , one of the main train stations in London. 0 29
April 10, 1992 London, England A vehicle bomb explodes in the financial district of London. The headquarters of the Baltic Exchange are destroyed and the facades and windows of the surrounding high-rise buildings are damaged. Damage to property ranged from £ 700 million to £ 800 million, more than any damage caused by bombs in Northern Ireland to date. 3 91
May 1, 1992 at Cloghoge, County Armagh A van converted into a rail vehicle is loaded with explosives, driven on the M1 motorway at the level of a traffic control post parallel to the railway line and exploded. Although the approach of the vehicle is noticed, 24 soldiers are injured, one of them fatal. 1 23
September 23, 1992 Belfast After a telephone warning, a vehicle bomb weighing around 900 kg exploded in front of the forensic laboratory in Newtownbreda. The laboratory is destroyed and around 1,000 buildings in the area are damaged. 0 0
April 24, 1993 London, England A vehicle bomb explosion in London's financial district causes damage of around £ 350 million. Telephone warnings only killed one photo reporter who had bypassed the barriers. The explosion resulted in an increase in security in London, known as the "ring of steel". 1 44
October 23, 1993 Belfast A shop on Shankill Road is destroyed and eight Protestant civilians, one UDA member and one of the bombers are killed in an attempt to bomb the Ulster Defense Association's senior management . The meeting of the UDA management level there had been postponed, which the attackers did not know. The event sparked a series of Protestant retaliatory attacks on Catholic targets, killing at least 14 civilians. 10 57
March 20, 1994 Crossmaglen, County Armagh With a mortar, the IRA succeeds in shooting down a British helicopter of the Westland Lynx type, which was approaching the base in Crossmaglen. Three soldiers and a police officer are injured. 0 4th
February 9, 1996 London, England Bomb attack near South Quay in Canary Wharf , causing approximately £ 150 million damage. The Midland Bank building and South Quay Plaza I and II were destroyed. 2 over 100
June 15, 1996 Manchester, England Bomb attack in Manchester . The 1500 kg explosive charge deposited in a small truck caused the largest bomb explosion on the British Isles since the end of the Second World War. The damage caused has been estimated at £ 700 million. The explosion occurred on Corporation Street and destroyed twelve structures in the area. A telephone warning had been issued around 90 minutes earlier, which is why around 75,000 people could be evacuated. 0 212

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  1. ^ [1] Global Terrorism Database. University of Maryland. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  2. ↑ [2] DER SPIEGEL, No. 12/1980, p. 133, accessed on November 9, 2018.
  3. ↑ [3] DER SPIEGEL, No. 12/1980, p. 133, accessed on November 9, 2018.
  4. ↑ [4] DER SPIEGEL, No. 12/1980, p. 133, accessed on November 9, 2018.
  5. ↑ [5] DER SPIEGEL, No. 32/1989, p. 57 ff., Accessed on November 9, 2018.
  6. ↑ [6] Hans Hoster: The bomb attack was his "war experience"
  7. ↑ [7] Die ZEIT No. 14/1987, attack on the Rhine Army
  8. ↑ [8] DER SPIEGEL, No. 32/1989, p. 57 ff., Accessed on November 9, 2018.
  9. ↑ [9] DER SPIEGEL, No. 32/1989, p. 57 ff., Accessed on November 9, 2018.