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On 19 March 1988, the British Army corporals Derek Wood and David Howes [1] were killed by the Provisional IRA in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in what became known as the corporals killings . Wearing civilian clothes, both armed with Browning Hi-Power pistols and in a civilian car, the soldiers drove into the funeral procession of an IRA member ...
The 1976 Andersonstown incident or the 1976 Andersonstown-Finaghy incident, was a brief altercation between members of the Provisional IRA and the British Army, in Andersonstown and North Finaghy, in August 1976. Which resulted in the deaths of 3 children who were killed when a car struck them after the man driving was shot and killed.
The IRA had correctly anticipated which doorway the RUC would take cover in and detonated a small booby-trap bomb when they arrived. The IRA claimed his death was retaliation for "RUC brutality at republican funerals". [178] [190] 13 March: two bombs exploded at Smithfield Market, Belfast 10 prior to the opening of a revamped facility.
The IRA abducted Fenton on 24 February 1989, and took him to a house in the Lenadoon area of Belfast. [10] He was interrogated by the ISU and confessed to working as an informer for Special Branch, and was court-martialled. [11] Fenton was found dead in an alley in Lenadoon on 26 February 1989; he had been shot four times.
Antrim. Andersonstown, known colloquially as Andytown, is a suburb of west Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the foot of the Black Mountain and Divis Mountain. It contains a mixture of public and private housing and is largely a working-class area with a strong Irish nationalist and Irish Catholic tradition. The district is sometimes colloquially ...
The murder of Ann Ogilby, also known as the "Romper Room murder", [1] took place in Sandy Row, south Belfast, Northern Ireland on 24 July 1974. It was a punishment killing, carried out by members of the Sandy Row women's Ulster Defence Association (UDA) unit. At the time the UDA was a legal Ulster loyalist paramilitary organisation.
Murder of Mary Travers. Mary Travers ( Irish: Máire Ó Treabhair; 1962 – 8 April 1984) was a teacher who was shot dead in Belfast on 8 April 1984 by Provisional IRA gunmen trying to assassinate her father, Thomas, a Catholic magistrate. Mary Travers was about 22 at the time.
e. The Irish People's Liberation Organisation was a small Irish socialist republican paramilitary organisation formed in 1986 by disaffected and expelled members of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), whose factions coalesced in the aftermath of the supergrass trials. It developed a reputation for intra-republican and sectarian violence ...