Riots ensue in Belfast and 100,000 attend his funeral. During the strike, he is elected to a vacant seat in British Parliament, but dies May 5. March 1, 1981: Bobby Sands, an Irish-Catholic IRA member, starts what will become a 66-day hunger strike. READ MORE: The IRA Assassination of Lord Mountbatten: Facts and Fallout 27, 1979: An IRA bomb kills four, including a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, Lord Mountbatten.

2, 1975 following secret talks with the British, The ceasefire is then extended on February 8, but the truce ends just a month later when the IRA says “we achieve more in wartime than in peacetime.”Īug. 22, 1974: The IRA announces a Christmas-season ceasefire until Jan. This marks the deadliest year of the long-running conflict, with nearly 500 casualties, more than half of them civilians.ĭec.

21, 1974: Targeting two pubs in Birmingham, England known to be popular among off-duty law enforcement, the IRA sets off bombs that kill 21 and injure 182. The British retaliate 10 days later, with Operation Motorman, bringing in tanks to enter “no-go” areas controlled by the IRA in Derry and West Belfast. July 21, 1972: Twenty-plus IRA bombs explode in Belfast, leaving nine dead and 130 injured on what will come to be called Bloody Friday. July 7, 1972: Unsuccessful secret peace talks take place between the IRA and British government in Chelsea’s Cheyne Walk, the first meeting of the two groups since 1921. The shooting lead hundreds to join the IRA. The British Army falsely called the victims gunmen and bombers-a report finalized in 2010 found none of the dead were threats. 30, 1972: Known as Bloody Sunday, 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights demonstrators are killed, with 15 wounded, by British paratroopers during a civil rights march in Derry in Northern Ireland. The Provisional IRA soon becomes known as simply the IRA, while the other faction, known as the Original IRA, quickly diminishes in stature. 28, 1969: Aiming to protect the Catholic minority from discrimination from loyalist militants and the Protestant-Majority police force, the Provisional Army Council, officially splinters off from the IRA. Bloody Sunday Leads to New IRA Recruits Lord Mountbatten Is Assassinatedĭec.

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