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1974 An IRA
bomb explodes at the Kings Arms, Woolwich.
1980 Six IRA
prisoners in Maze prison
refuse food and demand status as political prisoner
s; the hunger strike
lasts until December.
1981 Bobby Sands
MP, IRA
member, dies on Hunger Strike
after 66 days.
1990 Members of the IRA
shoot and kill Major Michael Dillon-Lee and Private William Robert Davies of the British Army
. Dillon-Lee is killed outside his home in Dortmund, Germany and Davies is killed at a railway station in Lichfield, England]].
1990 An IRA
car bomb
kills British M.P. Ian Gow, a staunch unionist.
1990 The IRA
tries to assassinate Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry at his home near Stafford, England
. Hit by at least 9 bullets, the former Governor of Gibraltar survives.
1991 The IRA
launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.
1991 The IRA
explodes bombs in the early morning at both Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
1992 An IRA
bomb explodes in the Baltic Exchange in the City of London; 3 are killed, 91 injured.
1993 Warrington bomb attacks: An IRA
bomb explodes in Warrington Town Centre and kills 2 children, Johnathan Ball and Tim Parry.
1994 Irish
government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA
and its political arm Sinn Féin
.
1996 An IRA
gang murders Detective Garda Jerry McCabe during a botched armed robbery in Adare, County Limerick.
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