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*10 December - [[1983 Royal Artillery Barracks bombing]] On 10 December 1983 a bomb exploded at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, South East London. The explosion injured five people and caused minor damage to the building. The IRA claimed they carried out the attack.
*10 December - [[1983 Royal Artillery Barracks bombing]] On 10 December 1983 a bomb exploded at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, South East London. The explosion injured five people and caused minor damage to the building. The IRA claimed they carried out the attack.
*17 December - [[Harrods bombing]] - In London an IRA [[car bomb]] explodes outside Harrods store, six people are killed (three civilians and three police officers) and over 90 people, civilians & police are injured.
*17 December - [[Harrods bombing]] - In London an IRA [[car bomb]] explodes outside Harrods store, six people are killed (three civilians and three police officers) and over 90 people, civilians & police are injured.
*25 December - A bomb explodes on [[Orchard Street (London)|Orchard Street]] in London, injuring two people.<ref>https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1996/mar/04/terrorist-incidents</ref>


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Revision as of 13:43, 5 October 2021

This is a timeline of the events and actions during the Troubles that were carried out in mainland Britain, the vast majority of which were carried out by Irish Republican paramilitaries mainly the Provisional IRA were by far the most active but both the Official IRA and the Irish National Liberation Army, also carried out a number of attacks, which included bombings and shootings. Ulster Loyalist paramilitary groups also carried out a small number of violent actions.

List of actions/attacks 1970s

1972

1973

  • 8 March - 1973 Old Bailey bombing - The Provisional IRA conducted their first operations in England exploding two carbombs in the center of London. One bomb exploded outside the Old Bailey Courthouse, injuring 180 people and one man later died from a heart attack, the bomb exploded near Whitehall injuring about 30 other people, bringing the total injured for the day to over 200. Eight members of the IRA team were convicted for their roles in the bombings & received long prison terms, including Gerry Kelly and sisters Marian and Dolours Price.[3][4]
  • 3 April - A bomb exploded at a London sorting office in Paddington. A caller claimed the bombing was carried out by a group called "The Avengers" and said that they were not the IRA, but did belong to the Irish Republican movement.[5]
  • 18 August 1973 - The Provisional IRA began their first sustained bombing campaign in England, using mainly letter bombs sent by mail & firebombs planted in major cities around England. Between the 18 August - 28 September more than 40 bombs exploded in London, Birmingham and Manchester, other bombs were found and defused, 29 people were injured from the bombing campaign.[6][7]
  • 18 August 1973 - The IRA detonated two firebombs at Harrods Department store in London causing slight damage.[8]
  • 20 August - The IRA planted three incendiary devices in shops in New Street, Birmingham. No injuries.[9]
  • 24 August - Two people are injured from a letter bomb sent to the London Stock Exchange. They were the first victims of the renewed IRA campaign in England.[10]
  • 25 August - Two men were injured when an IRA bomb exploded in the Bank of England in London. Another bomb was defused in a shop in Oxford Street.[11]
  • 27 August - An IRA letter bomb blew off the left hand of a female secretary in the British Embassy in Washington.[12]
  • 29 August - The IRA exploded two bombs at a shopping centre in Solihull. Another bomb exploded in Harrods in London. No injuries from either bomb.[13]
  • 30 August - Two Provisional IRA bombs exploded in Solihull town centre causing large damage but no injuries.[9]
  • 31 August - A bomb exploded in Old Quebec Street, Marble Arch damaging two hotels.[14]
  • September - The IRA detonate dozens of firebombs and letter bombs in cities around England during the month of September 1973 injuring over 20 people.[15]
  • 2 September - Two incendiary devices planted by the IRA in Birmingham were defused, one in Sherlock Street and the other Calthorpe Road, Edgbaston.[9]

[16][17]

  • 9 September - Several shops in Manchester were damaged by IRA firebombs.[18]
  • 10 September - King's Cross station and Euston station bombings The IRA detonated bombs at Kings Cross railway station and Euston railway station, 13 people were injured in total from both bombs.[19]
  • 12 September - Two Police officers were injured when an IRA bomb exploded at the offices of the Royal Naval Association in London. A woman collapsed and died during an evacuation following a hoax bomb alert at Euston Station in London.[8]
  • 12 September - The IRA exploded a bomb in a shopping-bag outside the offices of the Prudential Assurance Company, injuring six people.[20]
  • 13 September - An IRA bomb exploded at a Servicemen's headquarters in London.[21]
  • 15 September - A Provisional IRA device exploded in Oxford Street, London.[22]
  • 20 September - An IRA bomb exploded at the headquarters of the Duke of York barracks in Chelsea, London injuring five people, three civilians and two soldiers.[23]
  • 23 September - A British soldier died trying to defuse an IRA bomb planted in Birmingham city.[24][25]
  • 2 October - An IRA firebomb caused damage to Heathrow Airport, another bomb exploded at Colchester, Essex.[26]
  • 24 December - The Provisional IRA left two packages which exploded almost simultaneously in the late evening on Christmas Eve. One was in the doorway of the North Star public house, at the junction of College Crescent and Finchley Road, Swiss Cottage, which exploded injuring six people, and the other exploded on the upstairs verandah of the nearby Swiss Cottage Tavern where an unspecified number of people were injured.[27][28]

1974

  • 3 January - Two bombs explode in Birmingham, damaging several shops but cause no injuries.[29]
  • 5 January - Two bombs exploded within three minutes of each other. The first at Madame Tussauds, the second during the Boat Show at Earls Court Exhibition Centre. Police confirmed a telephone warning had been given shortly before both explosions allowing evacuations at both sites and there were no fatalities or injuries reported. It was later confirmed the devices had been planted by the IRA.[30]
  • 30 January - Three people were injured in three different IRA letter bombs. The first was sent to the Surrey residence of Judge Buzzard, the second to the Hertfordshire residence of Rt. Hon. Reginald Maudling. And the final device was sent to the offices of the Daily Express in Fleet Street, London.[31][32]
  • 2 February - The British MP Reginald Maudling had a letter bomb sent to his house by the IRA. It's believed the bomb was constructed by Shane Paul O'Doherty, an IRA expert bomb maker who sent dozens of letter bombs to England between 1973 and 1975.[33][page needed]
  • 4 February - M62 coach bombing An IRA bomb exploded aboard a bus carrying British soldiers and several of their family members in Yorkshire, killing nine soldiers and three civilians. At the time it was the highest number of deaths caused by an IRA bomb in England.[34] A young woman named Judith Ward was wrongly convicted of this and other bombings in England and spent 18 years in jail until she was proven innocent in 1992 and released.[35]
  • 12 February - The IRA exploded a 50 lb bomb at the National Defence College at Latimer, Buckinghamshire. Ten people were injured in the blast.[36]
  • 26 March - An IRA unit used 25 lbs of explosives to bomb the British Army Claro Barracks in North Yorkshire causing large structural damage to the barracks.[37][31]
  • 7 April - The IRA carried out bombings in Birmingham and Manchester. No deaths or injuries.[38]
  • 13 April - Kenneth Lennon was found shot dead in Chipstead, Surrey. Nobody claimed responsibility for the killing but Lennon was an IRA informer who had been rumoured to have been working for M16, it's possible an IRA unit tracked him down & shot him.[39]
  • 11 June - The IRA exploded a bomb at Queen Elizabeth Barracks in Strensall, North Yorkshire causing extensive damage but no injuries or deaths.[40]
  • 17 June - Houses of Parliament 1974 bombing The Provisional IRA bombed the British Houses of Parliament causing extensive damage, a large fire and ended up injuring 11 civilians.[41][42]
  • 14 July - The IRA carry out bombings in Birmingham and Manchester.[43]
  • 15 July - The IRA carried out five attacks with incendiary devices around Birmingham city, an attack on the Routunda building caused £250,000 worth of damages in broken glass, business's at Smethwick, Nechess & Curzon Street were also targeted.[9]
  • 17 July - The Provisional IRA bombed the Tower of London killing one man, injuring 40 people and causing extensive damage to the Tower.[44]
  • 23 July - IRA 1974 British Airways bombing attempt. No deaths or injuries.[45]
  • August - In August 1974 the Provisional IRA's Balcombe Street Gang was sent to London as "sleeper cells" awaiting instructions to start operations in London & surrounding areas like Surrey & Kent.[46]
  • 5 October - Guildford pub bombings The Provisional IRA's Balcombe Street Gang exploded two time bombs in Guildford pubs in Surrey that were popular with local soldiers. Five people were killed at the Horse & Groom pub (4 soldiers & 1 civilian) and 65 others injured. This was the start of a sustained campaign by the IRA unit in London and southern England.[47][48]
  • 11 October - IRA Bombs explode at Victory Services Club and Army and Navy Club. One injured.[49][50]
  • 22 October - Brook's bombing The IRA threw a bomb into Brook's club injuring three people.[51]
  • 24 October - The IRA bombed a cottage in the grounds of Harrow public school which used to house the head of the school's Combined Cadet Force, which was the bomber's target. Nobody was hurt in the attack. This was the first time the unit gave a telephoned warning before a bombing occurred. See: Harrow School bombing
  • 5 November - An IRA bomb exploded at the Conservative Party offices in Edmund Street, Birmingham, injuring one person a security guard. Also on the same night a bomb exploded in the center of Wolverhampton but there were no injuries.[31][9]
  • 7 November - Kings Arms, Woolwich bobing The Provisional IRA's Balcombe Street Gang threw a bomb through the window of the Kings Arms pub in Woolwich. The blast killed a soldier and a barman and injured about 35 people.[52][53]
  • 14 November - James Patrick McDade, Lieutenant in the Birmingham Battalion, of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) was killed in a premature explosion whilst planting a bomb at the Coventry telephone exchange in 1974.[54][55]
  • 21 November - Birmingham pub bombings An IRA unit active in Birmingham planted two bombs in pubs in Birmingham city. The IRA warnings were too late and 21 were people were killed in the explosions, a further 182 people were injured. A third bomb was planted in the city but defused.[56]
  • 25 - 27 November - 1974 London pillar box bombings On 25 and 27 November 1974 the Provisional IRA placed several bombs in pillar boxes and one in a hedge behind a pillar box around London, including bombs at Tite Street, Piccadilly Circus, Victoria Street & Caledonian Road, 40 people were injured in total from the several bombs.[57]
  • 30 November - The IRA threw two bombs into Talbots Arms pub in Little Chester Street, injuring eight people. See: Talbot Arms pub bombing
  • 11 December - The IRA threw a bomb into the Long Bar of the Naval and Military Club in Piccadilly. Later on there was an IRA gun attack on the London Cavalry Club. Nobody was hurt in either attack.[58]
  • 14 December - The IRA carried out a gun attack on the Churchill Hotel in London. Three people were injured in the attack.[59]
  • 17 December - The IRA planted three time bombs at telephone exchanges in London. One person George Arthur (34) who worked as a post office telephonist was killed in the blast.[60]
  • 18 December - 1974 Bristol bombing - Two IRA bombs exploded in Bristol shops injuring 20 people.
  • 19 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 £1.5 million worth of damage. There was 100 lbs of high explosives in the car, the biggest bomb the IRA had used in England at that time.[61]
  • 20 December - A bomb left by the IRA at a railway station in Aldershot was defused.[62]
  • 21 December - The IRA firebombed Harrods department store. A second bomb at the King's Arms public house in Warminster, Wiltshire was defused.[63]
  • 22 December - The IRA unit threw a bomb into the flat of former British Prime Minister Edward Heath. Heath was not home at the time of the attack and there were no injuries.[64]

1975

  • 19 January - The IRA's Balcombe Street unit fired shots into two hotels, first the Carlton Tower Hotel was shot at & then the Portman Hotel. 12 people were injured in total.[65]
  • 23 January - The Balcombe Street gang exploded a time bomb at the Woodford Waterworks pumping station in North London. Three People were injured in the blast.[66]
  • 27 January - The Balcombe Street Gang planted seven time-bombs at multiple spots in London. At 6:30 pm a bomb exploded at Gieves, in Old Bond Street. At 9:30 pm bombs exploded at the Moreson chemical plant in Ponders End and a disused gas works in Enfield. Only minimal damage was caused by these two bombs. Two further bombs exploded in Kensington High Street and Victoria Street. A warning was given of a bomb in Putney High Street and a British Army bomb-disposal officer was able to defuse the device. A warning was also given for a bomb in Hampstead and it was defused. Two people were injured from the Kensington High Street bomb.[67]
  • 26 February - Murder of Stephen Tibble - Constable Stephen Tibble was shot dead by IRA volunteer Liam Quinn while Tibble was chasing him.
  • 27 August - Caterham Arms pub bombing The IRA bombed a soldiers' pub in Caterham, Surrey. 33 people were injured including ten soldiers one of whom lost their leg. The Police said it was a carbon copy of the bombs used in Guildford pubs back in October 1974. This was the beginning of a new sustained bombing campaign by the IRA in England.
  • 5 September - London Hilton bombing - Two civilians are killed and 63 injured.
  • 9 October - 1975 Piccadilly bombing One civilian is killed and 20 injured in an IRA bomb attack outside Green Park tube station.
  • 23 October - The IRA planted a booby-trap bomb under the car of Conservative MP Hugh Fraser. A passer-by (Gordon Hamilton Fairley) noticed the bomb under the car, and by mistake detonated the device killing himself.
  • 29 October - Trattoria Fiore bombing - 17 civilians are injured in an IRA bombing in a West End restaurant.
  • 12 November - Scott's Oyster Bar bombing One person is killed and 15 others injured when the IRA threw a bomb into a Mayfair restaurant.
  • 18 November - Walton's Restaurant bombing - Two people were killed and 23 injured when the IRA threw a bomb into another Mayfair restaurant
  • 27 November - The IRA Balcombe Street unit shot dead Guinness Book of Records founder Ross McWhirter at his London home.
  • 20 December - A bomb exploded at Biddy Mulligan's pub in Kilburn, London, injuring five people. The pub was said to have been frequented by Irish republican sympathizers. The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) claimed one of its "associate units" carried out the attack.[68]

1976

  • 29 January 1976 - Twelve small bombs exploded overnight in London, starting several fires and injuring one person. Police later found a thirteenth bomb that had failed to go off.[69]
  • 13 February 1976 - Police defused a 30-pound (14 kg) bomb found at Oxford Circus station.[70]
  • 4 March - Nine people were injured when a 10-pound (4.5 kg) bomb exploded near Cannon Street station, injuring eight passengers on a nearby train. The IRA released a statement: "We now issue a solemn warning to the British public. You have given the IRA the label of terrorist... Now we will act as terrorists."[71]
  • 15 March 1976 - An IRA bomb exploded on a Metropolitan line train at West Ham station, on the Hammersmith & City section of the line. The bomber, Vincent Donnelly, possibly took the wrong train and attempted to return to his destination. However, the bomb detonated prior to reaching the City of London. Donnelly shot Peter Chalk, a Post Office engineer, and shot and killed the train's driver Julius Stephen, who had attempted to catch the perpetrator. Donnelly then shot himself, but survived and was apprehended by police.[71]
  • 16 March 1976 - An empty train was severely damaged by a bomb at Wood Green station. The train was about to pick up fans from an Arsenal football match, but the bomb detonated prior to arriving at the station, injuring one passenger standing on the platform. Three men were sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for this attack.[72]

1977

  • 29 January - The Provisional IRA exploded seven bombs in London's West End, causing large structural damage to a number of buildings. A bomb on Oxford Street inside Selfridges Department Store set a huge fire to the premises. About £500,000 was caused in damages,[73][74][75]

1978

  • 17 December - Provisional IRA bombs exploded in Manchester, Liverpool, Coventry, Bristol and Southampton, a bomb that exploded at Maggs Department Store in Clifton, Bristol injured 18 people.[76][77]

1979

  • 17 February - The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) bombed two pubs frequented by Irish Catholics in Glasgow, Scotland. Both pubs were wrecked and a number of people were wounded. It said it bombed the pubs because they were used for Irish republican fundraising, both pubs strongly denied this.[78]
  • 30 March - Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Airey Neave was killed as he left the House of Commons car park by a booby-trapped car bomb planted by Volunteers of the Socialist Revolutionary militant organization the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) in 1979. The INLA released a statement in their monthly paper on the attack:

    In March, retired terrorist and supporter of capital punishment, Airey Neave, got a taste of his own medicine when an INLA unit pulled off the operation of the decade and blew him to bits inside the 'impregnable' Palace of Westminster. The nauseous Margaret Thatcher snivelled on television that he was an 'incalculable loss'—and so he was—to the British ruling class.

    ,[79][80]
  • 1 - 8 June - A number of letter bombs were sent to parts of Birmingham, injuring four postal workers in separate incidents, in the first week of June.[81]
  • 13 December - Three more letter bombs exploded in Birmingham.[81]

List of actions/attacks 1980s

1980

1981

[88][89]

1982

1983

  • 10 December - 1983 Royal Artillery Barracks bombing On 10 December 1983 a bomb exploded at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, South East London. The explosion injured five people and caused minor damage to the building. The IRA claimed they carried out the attack.
  • 17 December - Harrods bombing - In London an IRA car bomb explodes outside Harrods store, six people are killed (three civilians and three police officers) and over 90 people, civilians & police are injured.
  • 25 December - A bomb explodes on Orchard Street in London, injuring two people.[90]

1984

  • 12 October - Brighton hotel bombing - The IRA attempted to assassinate the then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who was staying in the Brighton hotel ahead of the Tory party conference. Thatcher managed to escape with very minor injuries, but five people were killed in the blast and over 30 were injured, some badly.

1985

  • 23 June 1985 - A bomb was found at the Rubens Hotel, a tourist hotel near Buckingham Palace, and made safe, based on information obtained following the arrest of 12 people including Patrick Magee who was wanted in connection with the bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton in September 1984. It was believed to be part of a campaign and hotels in resorts throughout Britain were searched.[91][92][93]

1988

1989

  • 20 February - Clive Barracks bombing - The Clive barracks bombing was a bomb attack carried out by the IRA at Clive Barracks, Ternhill, Shropshire, England. Only two people were injured in the attack but a good deal of structural damages was done.
  • 22 September - The Deal barracks bombing was a bomb attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on the Royal Marine Depot, Deal, England. 11 Royal Marines were killed and 22 injured.
  • 19 October - The Guildford Four who were wrongfully convicted of the October 1974 Guildford pub bombings which killed five people, were released from prison after they had their convictions quashed. The group known as the Maguire Seven, who were convicted of providing bombs and explosive material to the Guildford Four had their convictions quashed separately in 1991. Both groups were exonerated with a public apology from former Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2015.[94]

List of actions/attacks 1990s

1990

  • 14 May 1990 - 1990 Eltham bombing - An IRA bomb attack on an army education office in Eltham, southeast London injured seven people.
  • 16 May - 1990 Wembley bombing The IRA planted a bomb underneath a minibus at an army recruiting centre in Wembley, northwest London on 16 May 1990, killing a soldier and injuring four others.
  • 3 June - Lichfield gun attack - An IRA active service unit ambushed three off-duty British soldiers while they waiting at Lichfield City railway station in Staffordshire, killing 1 soldier and seriously injuring the 2 others.
  • 9 June - Honourable Artillery Company bombing - 19 people were injured when the IRA exploded a bomb inside the Armoury House hall of the Honourable Artillery Company's (HAC) military barracks in London, England
  • 26 June - Carlton Club bombing - The IRA bombed the Carlton Club, St James's, Central London, which is popular with Conservative MPs. 20 people were injured in the blast and Lord Kaberry of Adel died of a heart attack caused by the bombing. In a statement, the IRA said: "Like Brighton in 1984, the IRA has brought the war directly to those who keep the British Army on the streets and in the fields of Ireland. While such occupation continues, and the Nationalist people face daily oppression, the policy makers and their military arm will not be safe." The bomb contained 15 lb of Semtex explosives.
  • 20 July - London Stock Exchange bombing - the IRA exploded a large bomb inside the London Stock Exchange. A 40-minute warning was giving and there was no injuries, but large structural damage was caused.
  • 30 July - Ian Gow, Conservative MP for Eastbourne, was assassinated by the IRA when a booby trap bomb exploded under his car at his home in East Sussex. The IRA said he was murdered due to his role in British policy decisions in Northern Ireland.
  • 18 September - An IRA team attempted to kill Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry at his Staffordshire home. Terry had been a prime target since his days as Governor of Gibraltar, in which capacity he signed the documents allowing the SAS to operate against IRA volunteers in 1988. The revenge attack took place at 9 pm at the Main Road house. The gunman opened fire through a window, hitting him at least nine times and injuring his wife, Lady Betty, near the eye. The couple's daughter, Elizabeth, was found suffering from shock. Peter Terry's face had to be rebuilt as the shots shattered his face, and two high-velocity bullets lodged a fraction of an inch from his brain.

1991

1992

  • 10 April - Baltic Exchange bombing The IRA explode a massive Semtex bomb in the heart of London's financial district, killing three people, injuring over 90 and causing over £800 million worth of damage - £200 million more than all the bombs detonated in Ireland in the previous 23 years.
  • 11 April - 1992 Staples Corner bombing - The IRA detonated a large van bomb at Staples Corner, North West London, causing a lot damage but not deaths or injuries. The bombing happened only hours after the Baltic Exchange bomb.
  • 7 June - IRA volunteer Paul Magee and another IRA volunteer shot dead Special Constable Glenn Goodman and seriously injured PC Kelly, shooting him four times.
  • 18 June - 1992 Leeds bombing - The INLA exploded four incendiary devices around Leeds city causing £50,000 worth of damage, other devices were found and defused.
  • 12 October 1992 - Sussex Arms pub bombing - The IRA exploded a time bomb in the Sussex Arms pub killing one person and injuring four others.
  • 3 December - 1992 Manchester bombing - Two IRA bombs exploded in Manchester injuring a total of 65 people.
  • 10 December - Wood Green Shopping City bombing - The IRA detonated two bombs in litter bins injuring a total of 11 people (4 police officers & 7 civilians).

1993

  • 28 January - 1993 Harrods bombing - The IRA exploded a bomb in a litter bin outside Harrods in London, injuring four people. Two Englishmen (Jan Taylor & Patrick Hayes) linked to the revolutionary socialist group Red Action were later arrested for the bombing.
  • 27 February - 1993 Camden Town bombing - The IRA exploded a bomb in a litter bin in Camden Town in London. The steel litter bin acted as shrapnel injuring 18 people.
  • 20 March - Warrington bombings - The IRA exploded two bombs in litter bins in Bridge Street in Warrington, Cheshire, due to confusing warnings phoned in by the bombers two boys Johnathan Ball (3) and Tim Parry (12) were killed in the bombings and 56 people were injured. There was widespread protests in both England and Ireland over these bombings.
  • 24 April - 1993 Bishopsgate bombing - The IRA exploded a large truck bomb which was estimated to have contained over a tone of high explosives in it outside Bishopsgate in the City of London, killing a man, injuring 44 people & causing over £350 million worth of damage. It was probably the largest IRA bomb detonated in England at that point.
  • 2 October - 1993 Finchley Road bombings - The Provisional IRA exploded three time bombs on Finchley Road in Hampstead, north London, injuring 5 people.
  • 4 October - The IRA exploded five bombs in north London, two in Archway Road, two at Tottenham Lane & one at Highgate, where a sixth bomb was found & defused, nobody was injured in any bombs, but a good deal of damage was done to nearby buildings & tube station caught in the blasts.[96][97]

1994

  • 9 - 13 March - See: Heathrow_mortar_attacks - the Provisional IRA fired 12 mortar shells onto the airports empty run way, in a series of attacks carried out on the 9, 11 & 13 March. Nobody was injured from any attacks

1996

  • 9 February - 1996 Docklands bombing At 19:01 the IRA ended its 18-month ceasefire from August 1994 when they exploded a massive truck bomb in the Docklands area in Canary Wharf. Two people were killed in the explosion, other people were injured and massive damage was caused. The blast caused an estimated £150 million worth of damage and cost insurers £170 million.
  • 18 February - Aldwych bus bombing An IRA bomb exploded prematurely in Aldwych, killing the IRA volunteer handling it - Edward O'Brien - and injuring another eight people on the bus.
  • 24 April - 1996 Hammersmith Bridge bombing - The IRA planted two bombs on Hammersmith Bridge in West London. The devices failed to off properly and only very slight damage was done to the bridge.
  • 15 June - 1996 Manchester bombing The IRA exploded a massive truck bomb in Manchester along Corporation Street near the Arndale Centre. The bomb weighed over 3,300 pounds of explosives which was the largest bomb the IRA ever detonated in England, the blast caused massive damage to the centre of the city of Manchester causing an estimated by insurers at £700 million (equivalent to £1.2 billion in 2016) – surpassed only by the 2001 September 11 attacks and the 1993 Bishopsgate bombing in terms of financial cost. Over 200 people were injured in the blast.
  • 23 September - London police shot dead Provisional IRA volunteer Diarmuid O'Neill during a raid on his home.

1997

  • 26 March - the IRA carried out a double bomb attack on a mainline railway and signal box in Wilmslow, Cheshire. There was also a hoax bomb alert on the main Doncaster line. The attacks caused major and widespread railway and traffic disruption.[98]

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