Cronología de las acciones del Ejército Republicano Irlandés Provisional (1992-1999)
Esta es una cronología de las actividades del Ejército Republicano Irlandés Provisional (IRA), de 1992 a 1999.
1992
Un cartel de "Francotirador en acción" , cerca de Crossmaglen, advierte a las tropas británicas de la presencia del francotirador de South Armagh.
Enero-febrero
1 de enero de 1992:
Dispositivos incendiarios dañaron gravemente una tienda de ropa en el centro de la ciudad de Belfast. [1]
Un artefacto incendiario causó daños menores en una ferretería en Belfast. [2] En el mismo local se descubrió un artefacto incendiario sin explotar. [3]
Los artefactos incendiarios destruyeron una tienda en Newtownards, en el condado de Down. El fuego se extendió a un garaje contiguo y dañó varios coches. [1] [2]
Se encontraron y desactivaron dos dispositivos incendiarios en una tienda de muebles en Bangor , Condado de Down. [3]
El IRA afirmó haber colocado dispositivos incendiarios en tiendas del parque comercial Lisburn y Sprucefield . [3]
Las fuerzas de seguridad británicas se hicieron cargo de una serie de falsas alertas de bombas en el área metropolitana de Belfast. [3]
Un dispositivo incendiario estalló en una tienda textil de Belfast y causó daños por valor de alrededor de 1 millón de libras. [1] [2]
Se descubrió un dispositivo incendiario en una tienda de alfombras en Newtownards, Condado de Down. [1]
Un dispositivo incendiario explotó en una tienda de ropa deportiva en Glengormley, Condado de Antrim. [2]
3 de enero de 1992: la esposa de un soldado del Regimiento de Defensa del Ulster (UDR) y su hija de 18 meses resultaron ilesas cuando una bomba Semtex de 2 libras (0,91 kg) explotó parcialmente debajo de su coche en Holywood Road, Belfast. [1]
4 de enero de 1992:
Una bomba Semtex de 4 libras (1,8 kg) fue descubierta cerca del cuartel militar de Weeton, Lancashire. [1]
Un dispositivo incendiario colocado en un cine de Belfast provocó daños menores. [5]
Un coche bomba del IRA de 360 kg explotó en Bedford Street, en el centro de Belfast. La bomba causó cuantiosos daños a la propiedad de la zona. [6]
Una bomba en un tarro de café fue arrojada a una patrulla móvil de la RUC en Ardilea Street, en la zona de Oldpark de Belfast. [7]
Una unidad del IRA lanzó una bomba Semtex de 2,3 kg sobre un vehículo de patrulla blindado de la RUC en la zona de New Lodge de Belfast. [8]
Una bomba trampa Semtex en una casa abandonada fue desactivada por el ejército británico cerca de Coagh, en el condado de Tyrone. [9]
5 de enero de 1992:
Una bomba del IRA de 230 kg explotó en High Street, en el centro de Belfast. La bomba causó cuantiosos daños a la propiedad de la zona. [6]
Una unidad del IRA disparó varias veces contra una patrulla a pie del ejército británico en la calle principal de Strabane, en el condado de Tyrone. [8] [10]
6 de enero de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA atacó a una patrulla a pie del ejército británico con una bomba en un tarro de café en la zona de New Lodge en Belfast; pero el dispositivo no detonó. [8]
Una bomba en un tarro de café sin explotar fue neutralizada por el ejército británico debajo del paso elevado de Leckey Road en la zona de Bogside de Derry. [9]
8 de enero de 1992:
La línea ferroviaria Belfast-Dublín se vio interrumpida entre Portadown y Dundalk por falsas alertas de bomba. [1]
Una bomba del IRA de 400 libras (180 kg) encontrada en un edificio abandonado en Silverbridge, Condado de Armagh, fue desactivada por el Ejército británico. [1]
Una bomba explosiva fue arrojada contra una patrulla del ejército británico en Stewart Street, en la zona de Markets de Belfast. No se reportaron heridos. [9]
10 de enero de 1992:
Una pequeña bomba de 2,3 kg que el IRA había dejado en un maletín explotó a 300 metros de Downing Street , en Londres. No se registraron heridos. [6]
Un coche bomba de 45 kg causó graves daños en la zona que rodea la sede de la RUC en Derry. Un soldado británico resultó herido. [11] [1]
Cinco negocios resultaron dañados por bombas incendiarias colocadas por el IRA en Ballymena. [11]
11 de enero de 1992:
Un dispositivo incendiario explotó en una tienda de ropa en Belfast causando grandes daños. [2]
Dos dispositivos incendiarios explotaron en una tienda de muebles en Lisburn causando daños menores. [2]
12 de enero de 1992: una bomba en un tarro de café fue lanzada sobre la valla perimetral de la base de las fuerzas de seguridad británicas en Strabane, condado de Tyrone, y no explotó. [12]
13 de enero de 1992:
Una bomba trampa del IRA mató a un civil católico, Michael Logue, en Coalisland , en el condado de Tyrone. La bomba había sido colocada en su coche con un imán. Fue un caso de identidad equivocada; el IRA había recibido información de que trabajaba como obrero en un cuartel del ejército británico (era carpintero de profesión), pero resultó que esto no era cierto. El IRA pidió disculpas a su familia. [13]
Una unidad del IRA abrió fuego contra una patrulla del ejército británico cerca de Clogher , en el condado de Tyrone. Los soldados también informaron haber oído una explosión. Se respondió al fuego, pero no se registraron víctimas. [9]
14 de enero de 1992:
Un dispositivo incendiario explotó en una tienda de alfombras en Belfast causando daños menores. [2]
Cientos de trabajadores fueron evacuados de la fábrica de aviones Shorts, en Belfast, después de falsas amenazas de bomba del IRA. [14]
15 de enero de 1992: una bomba en un tarro de café lanzada contra las fuerzas de seguridad británicas detonó sólo parcialmente en Strabane, condado de Tyrone. [9]
16 de enero de 1992:
El IRA colocó dos bombas Semtex en el centro de la ciudad de Derry. [5] Una explotó en las instalaciones de una compañía de seguros, la segunda en una oficina de impuestos. [15]
Una pequeña bomba del IRA colocada en el techo de la estación central de trenes de Belfast fue desactivada por el ejército británico. [9]
17 de enero de 1992:
Una mina terrestre del IRA hizo estallar un minibús en Teebane , cerca de Cookstown , en el condado de Tyrone. Mató a ocho hombres que trabajaban como contratistas de construcción para el ejército británico en Omagh; otros seis contratistas resultaron gravemente heridos. Uno de los muertos también era un soldado de los Royal Irish Rangers. [6] [16] [17]
Una pequeña bomba del IRA dejada afuera de un banco en May Street, Belfast, fue desactivada por el ejército británico. [9]
18 de enero de 1992: cinco bombas incendiarias del IRA destruyeron o dañaron gravemente varios negocios en Portadown, condado de Armagh. [14]
19 de enero de 1992: una bomba en un tarro de café fue arrojada contra una patrulla a pie conjunta del ejército británico y la RUC en Flax Street, en el norte de Belfast. No se reportaron heridos. [18] [15]
20 de enero de 1992:
El IRA se atribuyó la responsabilidad de una "explosión incendiaria" que explotó en un coche a las puertas de una discoteca en Dublin Road, Belfast. [15]
El IRA hizo explotar una bomba incendiaria en el interior de un bar y restaurante en Lisburn Road, Belfast, alegando que el local era frecuentado por miembros fuera de servicio de las fuerzas de seguridad británicas y era un lugar de reunión para informantes. [15]
El IRA se atribuyó la responsabilidad de una bomba de 2,3 kg que no explotó en el centro comercial Victoria de Belfast. [15]
22 de enero de 1992:
Un ex soldado de la UDR recibió un disparo y resultó herido cuando se dirigía al trabajo en Fyfinn Road, cerca de Castlederg, en el condado de Tyrone. [14] [15]
El IRA colocó varias bombas dentro de las murallas de la ciudad de Derry, en Butcher Street. [5] Dos de ellas fueron colocadas en un banco y en una sociedad de crédito. Un tercer artefacto en un coche que tenía como objetivo a las fuerzas de seguridad británicas explotó más tarde. [15]
23 de enero de 1992:
Un oficial de la RUC resultó herido después de que una bomba en un tarro de café fuera arrojada a una patrulla en el área de Ardoyne en el norte de Belfast. [19]
El IRA dejó una bomba incendiaria de 2,3 kg en el tejado de la estación central de trenes de Belfast. El artefacto no explotó y fue desactivado posteriormente por el ejército británico. [15]
Una bomba del IRA detonó en la línea ferroviaria de Derry, obligando a detener un tren de pasajeros. [9]
Una bomba del IRA destruyó la estación de Ulsterbus en Pennyburn Industrial Estate, Derry. [5] [20]
24 de enero de 1992:
El IRA dejó una bomba en la sucursal del Ulster Bank en May Street, en el centro de Belfast. El artefacto explotó después de que miembros del IRA entraran en el local con una bolsa de viaje y gritaran una advertencia. Una bomba incendiaria no había explotado en el mismo banco apenas una semana antes. [5] [20]
El IRA hirió a un soldado británico en un ataque con bomba en Falls Road, Belfast. [21] [9]
25 de enero de 1992: una unidad del IRA llevó a cabo un ataque con una bomba en un tarro de café contra un puesto de control conjunto del Ejército británico y la RUC en Kennedy Way, Belfast, pero ambos dispositivos no explotaron. [20]
26 de enero de 1992:
Las unidades del IRA abrieron fuego en las estaciones de la RUC de Mountpottinger y Woodbourne en Belfast. [20]
Una bomba explotó en el depósito de un contratista de construcción en la zona de Ormeau Road de Belfast. [14] El IRA afirmó que estaban realizando trabajos para las fuerzas de seguridad británicas. [20]
27 de enero de 1992:
Un civil resultó herido cuando una bomba del IRA explotó en su tienda en la parte baja de Rockdale Street en Belfast. [22] [20]
El ejército británico desactivó una bomba de carretera de 500 kg (1100 lb) con cable de mando en Liskey Road, a las afueras de Strabane, en el condado de Tyrone. [14] La Brigada de Tyrone Occidental del IRA afirmó que el ataque había sido abortado debido a la actividad de las fuerzas de seguridad británicas. [23]
28 de enero de 1992: una bomba explotó en la línea ferroviaria Dublín-Belfast, en las afueras de Belfast. [14] [20]
29 de enero de 1992:
El IRA lanzó un mortero horizontal contra una patrulla móvil de la UDR en Francis Street, en Lurgan, condado de Armagh. La Brigada del Norte de Armagh del IRA afirmó haber logrado un impacto directo. [21]
Una unidad del IRA abrió fuego contra un puesto de control conjunto del Ejército británico y la RUC en Divis Street, Belfast. [21]
30 de enero de 1992:
Una bomba incendiaria del IRA fue desactivada en Elephant and Castle , Londres. [24]
Una unidad del IRA disparó varios tiros, incluidos proyectiles trazadores, contra un puesto de control de las fuerzas de seguridad británicas en Grosvenor Road, Belfast. [25]
31 de enero de 1992:
El IRA hizo estallar bombas incendiarias en dos tiendas de Belfast, causando daños por valor de 1.000.000 de libras. [5]
Una bomba de 230 kg (500 lb) explotó en una furgoneta del IRA en el centro de Dungannon, en el condado de Tyrone, hiriendo a tres personas y causando daños importantes [26] tanto en el centro de la ciudad como en la base de seguridad. [5] [14]
1 de febrero de 1992:
Dos hoteles resultaron dañados por bombas de 45 kg [21] que fueron dejadas en sus aparcamientos en el sur de Belfast. [14]
Un hotel resultó dañado por dos bombas dejadas en su interior en el norte de Belfast. [21]
El IRA llevó a cabo un ataque con morteros contra un puesto de observación del ejército británico en Cullaville, en el condado de Armagh. No se registraron heridos. [25]
2 de febrero de 1992:
El IRA hizo detonar un coche bomba en la Avenida Botanic, en el sur de Belfast. La explosión, junto con otra bomba, causó graves daños en un hotel y daños generalizados. [27] [14]
En una zanja cerca de Cappagh, en el condado de Tyrone, se descubrió un dispositivo que contenía 2,7 kg de Semtex y metralla conectado a un cable de mando. Se encontró un segundo dispositivo en un edificio abandonado cercano. Tres hombres fueron arrestados. [28]
3 de febrero de 1992:
Una bomba del IRA dejada afuera de un banco en May Street, Belfast, fue desactivada por el ejército británico. [21]
Un civil (Gordon Hamill) fue asesinado a tiros por el IRA en Dungannon , en el condado de Tyrone. Dos hombres lo siguieron hasta un supermercado y abrieron fuego con rifles de asalto AK-47, alcanzándolo 32 veces. El IRA afirmó que el hombre era miembro de la UVF. Hamill sigue figurando como civil en la base de datos CAIN. [29] Los informes de prensa describieron posteriormente a Hamill como el "oficial de finanzas" de la UVF en el centro del Ulster. [30]
El IRA afirmó haber abandonado una bomba de 4,5 kg en la zona de Altnaveigh del condado de Armagh tras un ataque fallido en el ferrocarril Belfast-Dublín. [21]
4 de febrero de 1992:
El IRA se atribuyó la responsabilidad de varias bombas falsas colocadas en las carreteras principales de Belfast. [21]
Las bombas incendiarias del IRA dañaron varias tiendas en Craigavon. [5]
El IRA llevó a cabo un ataque con bomba en Ormeau Road, Belfast, las instalaciones de una empresa a la que acusó de "colaborar" con las fuerzas de seguridad británicas. [32]
Una unidad del IRA abrió fuego contra un puesto de control de la RUC en Corporation Street, Belfast. [32]
6 de febrero de 1992: el IRA llevó a cabo un ataque con bomba contra una patrulla conjunta del ejército británico y la RUC en Ardoyne Road, Belfast. El IRA afirmó que tres oficiales de la RUC resultaron heridos. [32]
7 de febrero de 1992: una bomba incendiaria explotó en el metro de Londres en Barking. [33]
8 de febrero de 1992:
El IRA llevó a cabo un ataque con mortero contra una estación de la RUC en Portglenone, en el condado de Antrim. [33]
Una bomba explosiva fue arrojada contra una patrulla a pie del ejército británico en la zona de Bogside de Derry. [25]
9 de febrero de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA atacó con rifles de asalto la estación de la RUC en Coalisland, condado de Tyrone. [32]
El IRA lanzó un mortero horizontal contra un vehículo de patrulla blindado en Dungannon, condado de Tyrone. El artefacto falló. [32]
10 de febrero de 1992: una bomba del IRA de 2,3 kg (5 libras) explotó en el techo de la estación central de trenes de Belfast, causando algunos daños. [32]
11 de febrero de 1992:
Una bomba del IRA de 2,3 kg explotó en una cabina telefónica en Whitehall, Londres. Cerca de allí se celebraban conversaciones entre cuatro líderes de partidos de Irlanda del Norte y el primer ministro cuando explotó la bomba. [5]
Una bomba del IRA fue desactivada en Parliament Street, Exeter . [24]
12 de febrero de 1992:
El ejército británico descubrió y desactivó un coche bomba de 300 libras (140 kg) en Merchant's Quay, Newry. [25]
El ejército británico desactivó una bomba de 200 libras (91 kg) con detonador y cable de mando después de una operación de búsqueda de tres días en el área de Forkhill del condado de Armagh. [25]
14 de febrero de 1992: las fuerzas de seguridad británicas encontraron un lanzador de mortero horizontal cerca de Magherafelt, en el condado de Londonderry. [25]
15 de febrero de 1992:
El IRA detonó un coche bomba de 110 kg en Adelaide Street, Belfast. La bomba hirió a cinco agentes de la RUC y causó daños por valor de millones de libras. [27] [33] Los agentes habrían sido supuestamente atraídos al lugar por un dispositivo más pequeño de 0,91 kg. [34]
El IRA se atribuyó la responsabilidad de dos dispositivos incendiarios que detonaron en unos grandes almacenes de lujo en Donegall Place, Belfast. [34]
16 de febrero de 1992:
Una bomba incendiaria destruyó el Shaftesbury Inn en el norte de Belfast. Dispositivos similares dañaron el club de golf Fortwilliam y el Greenan Lodge Hotel. También se desactivó una bomba en el York Hotel. [33] [35]
Los voluntarios del IRA Kevin Barry O'Donnell, Sean O'Farrell, Peter Clancy y Daniel Patrick Vincent fueron emboscados y asesinados por el SAS en Clonoe , condado de Tyrone. La unidad del IRA acababa de atacar la base de la RUC de Coalisland utilizando una ametralladora pesada DShK montada en la parte trasera de un camión robado. Los hombres fueron emboscados en un cementerio después del ataque por soldados británicos encubiertos. Otros dos voluntarios del IRA resultaron heridos durante la emboscada, pero lograron escapar. [6] [36] Un soldado británico también resultó herido durante el incidente. [37]
El IRA afirmó haber detonado una bomba de 20 libras (9,1 kg) en la línea ferroviaria entre Dunmurray y la estación central de Belfast. [34]
Se encontraron 800 libras (360 kg) de explosivos escondidos en un remolque en Dundalk, condado de Louth, después de que el propietario los recuperara en la carretera principal Forkhill-Newry tras un robo semanas antes. [25]
17 de febrero de 1992:
El IRA detonó una bomba de 15 libras (6,8 kg) en una base de la UDR en Charles Street, Portadown. [5] [34] [25]
Un ataque con bomba en un tarro de café hirió a cuatro oficiales de la RUC en la zona de New Lodge en Belfast. [33]
Una unidad del IRA abrió fuego contra la base del ejército británico de Fort Whiterock, en Belfast. [34]
Una bomba de 10 libras (4,5 kg) en un cilindro de gas en las afueras de Newry fue desactivada por el ejército británico. [25]
18 de febrero de 1992: el IRA hizo explotar una bomba en una tienda del centro de Belfast, junto con varias otras alertas de bomba que provocaron "caos". [5] [25]
19 de febrero de 1992: el ejército británico desactivó una bomba de 540 kg (1200 lb) en una furgoneta del IRA frente al palacio de justicia de Banbridge, en el condado de Down. [38]
20 de febrero de 1992:
El ejército irlandés desactivó un dispositivo de 230 kg (500 lb) cerca de la frontera en el condado de Louth. [33]
El IRA detonó una bomba de 4,5 kg en la línea ferroviaria Belfast-Larne. [39]
21 de febrero de 1992: una bomba en un tarro de café fue lanzada contra una patrulla del ejército británico pero no explotó en el área de Creggan en Derry. [25]
22 de febrero de 1992: un hombre y una mujer (hermano y hermana) resultaron heridos cuando una "bomba de detonación", una granada casera del IRA, impactó en su coche en Dungannon, condado de Tyrone. [40] El objetivo previsto por el IRA era una patrulla de las fuerzas de seguridad británicas. [38] Algunas fuentes dicen que el dispositivo era una bomba de mortero horizontal Mark-12 que impactó en el vehículo pero no explotó por completo. [41] [42]
23 de febrero de 1992: el IRA dejó un coche bomba falso en el exterior de la base de la RUC en Downpatrick, en el condado de Down. [38]
24 de febrero de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA lanzó una bomba explosiva contra una patrulla a pie de la RUC en Drumgullion, en las afueras de Newry. [38]
Un soldado británico resultó herido en un ataque con bomba en un tarro de café en Ardoyne, Belfast. [43] [44]
Una unidad del IRA lanzó una bomba en un tarro de café contra una patrulla a pie conjunta del Ejército británico y la RUC en la zona de Markets de Belfast. [38]
Una unidad del IRA disparó contra una patrulla de la RUC en Millfield, Belfast. [44]
25 de febrero de 1992: dos bombas en forma de tarro de café fueron arrojadas contra un puesto de control conjunto de la RUC y el ejército británico en Kennedy Way, Belfast. Ninguno de los dos dispositivos explotó. [44]
26 de febrero de 1992:
Una bomba incendiaria del IRA explotó en una tienda de muebles en Dunmurray, en las afueras de Belfast. [38]
Dos bases de la RUC en Woodbourne y Mountpottinger, Belfast, recibieron fuego de armas pequeñas de unidades del IRA. [44]
27 de febrero de 1992:
El IRA amenazó a cuatro empresas que participaban en obras públicas en las inmediaciones del puesto de control de "Camel's Hump" en Strabane, condado de Tyrone. Todas ellas negaron estar empleadas por las fuerzas de seguridad británicas; una empresa afirmó que había dejado de trabajar para las fuerzas de seguridad tras una amenaza del IRA tres años antes. [45]
Una unidad del IRA abrió fuego contra un puesto de control del ejército británico en la zona de Short Strand de Belfast. [39]
28 de febrero de 1992:
El IRA llevó a cabo un ataque con bomba en un tarro de café contra un puesto de control conjunto del Ejército británico y la RUC en la zona de Ardoyne de Belfast. [39]
Se produjo un intercambio de disparos entre una unidad del IRA y miembros de las fuerzas de seguridad que custodiaban un sangar cerca del cuartel de la RUC en Strabane, condado de Tyrone. [44]
Una pequeña bomba del IRA fue desactivada en la estación BR de White Hart Lane en Londres. [24]
2 de marzo de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA disparó varias veces contra soldados británicos que vigilaban un puesto de observación en lo alto de un bloque de pisos en la zona de New Lodge en Belfast. El IRA afirmó que los soldados estaban realizando trabajos para fortificar la posición. [39]
El IRA se atribuyó la responsabilidad de un dispositivo explosivo colocado en el coche de un agente de la RUC que no detonó en Glengormley, en el condado de Antrim. [39]
5 de marzo de 1992:
Una bomba del IRA de 450 kg (1000 lb) explotó cerca de la base de la RUC en el centro de Lurgan, condado de Armagh, causando grandes daños a propiedades comerciales. [47] Varios oficiales de la RUC y soldados británicos resultaron heridos. [48]
El IRA hizo explotar un gran coche bomba en Adelaide Street, en el centro de Belfast, causando graves daños. [47] [33] El IRA afirmó que la bomba estaba programada para detonar cinco minutos después de otra bomba en Lurgan ese mismo día. [49]
El IRA llevó a cabo un ataque con bomba en un tarro de café contra una patrulla de las fuerzas de seguridad británicas en los Tribunales de Justicia de Belfast. [49]
El IRA llevó a cabo un ataque con bomba en un tarro de café contra una patrulla de las fuerzas de seguridad británicas en la zona de Markets de Belfast. [49]
Un soldado británico resultó herido por una bomba trampa del IRA en Favour Royal , cerca de Augher , en el condado de Tyrone, [50] [5] [51] y tuvo que ser trasladado en avión al hospital con heridas en el brazo. [52]
6 de marzo de 1992: el IRA se atribuyó la responsabilidad de la explosión de una bomba colocada en los bajos del coche de un soldado de la UDR en Cavavaleck, cerca de Enniskillen, en el condado de Fermanagh. El ejército británico neutralizó el artefacto mediante una explosión controlada. [49]
8 de marzo de 1992:
El IRA llevó a cabo un ataque con bomba en un tarro de café contra una patrulla del ejército británico en Etna Drive, en la zona de Ardoyne de Belfast. [49]
Una unidad del IRA disparó cincuenta rondas contra soldados británicos que custodiaban un puesto de observación en lo alto de un bloque de apartamentos en la zona de New Lodge en Belfast. [39]
9 de marzo de 1992: el IRA bombardeó y destruyó una estación de servicio en la carretera Ballygawley/Dungannon, en el condado de Tyrone, con el argumento de que estaban suministrando combustible a las fuerzas británicas. [53] [54] El artefacto de 150 libras (68 kg) había sido colocado en el lugar el 7 de marzo. [39]
10 de marzo de 1992:
Una pequeña bomba del IRA explotó cerca de la estación de tren de Wandsworth Common en Londres; no hubo heridos. [24]
El IRA arrojó una bomba en un tarro de café a la estación de la RUC en Lisanskea, condado de Fermanagh, cuando entraba un vehículo, pero no se reportaron heridos. [55] [56]
El ejército británico desactivó un dispositivo antipersonal que contenía metralla y 20 kg (44 lb) de explosivos fijados a una valla que rodeaba un campo de GAA, con un puesto de tiro cercano, en Friary Road, Armagh. [57]
La policía descubrió una bomba del IRA de 1600 kg (3500 lb) lista para ser activada en un cobertizo de una granja cerca de Letterkenny, en el condado de Donegal. En el escondite también había tubos de mortero, vehículos y armas de fuego, incluida una escopeta de combate SPAS-12 . En otro escondite de la zona había lanzadores de mortero, uniformes de combate y equipos de comunicación. Tres hombres fueron detenidos. [58]
12 de marzo de 1992: un coche bomba del IRA de 50 kg (110 lb) fue neutralizado en una explosión controlada en el exterior de un hotel en Crescent Street, Belfast, por el Ejército británico, causando algunos daños. [59]
13 de marzo de 1992: el IRA llevó a cabo un ataque con bomba en un tarro de café contra una patrulla de las fuerzas de seguridad británicas en la zona de Beechmount en Belfast. [59]
14 de marzo de 1992:
El IRA llevó a cabo un ataque con bomba en un tarro de café contra una patrulla del ejército británico en la zona de Ardoyne en Belfast. [59]
Una bomba de 45 kg explotó en la carretera de Dungannon, a media milla de Pomeroy, en el condado de Tyrone. [57] Una casa cercana resultó dañada y una automovilista que pasaba tuvo que ser atendida por un shock severo. [60]
15 de marzo de 1992: una unidad del IRA armada con ametralladoras de uso general y fusiles de asalto [59] disparó más de 1.000 tiros contra dos helicópteros británicos desde el otro lado de la frontera, cerca de Rosslea, en el condado de Fermanagh. [61]
16 de marzo de 1992: una bomba del IRA de 730 kg fue desactivada en un bloque de pisos de Broom Park Heights, en la zona de Twinbrook de Belfast. Las fuerzas de seguridad creyeron que la bomba, una de las más grandes jamás encontradas, estaba destinada a perpetrar un atentado en el centro de la ciudad. [62]
17 de marzo de 1992: el ejército británico neutralizó una bomba sin explotar en un tarro de café en Francis Street, Newry. [57]
20 de marzo de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA lanzó dos bombas en tarros de café a la base del ejército británico de New Barnsley, en Belfast. [63]
Una bomba en un tarro de café fue lanzada contra una patrulla móvil de la RUC en la zona de Mountpottinger en Belfast. Un hombre fue arrestado. [57]
24 de marzo de 1992:
El IRA detonó un enorme coche bomba que contenía más de 500 kg de explosivos en Pakenham Street, Belfast. La bomba causó graves daños a la base de la RUC y a los locales comerciales cercanos. [64]
Un ataque con bomba en un tarro de café contra una patrulla de las fuerzas de seguridad británicas fracasó y el dispositivo fue desactivado posteriormente por el ejército británico en Armagh Road, Newry, cerca de Drumgullion. [57]
El ejército británico desactivó una bomba de 40 libras (18 kg) con un cable de mando destinado a las fuerzas de seguridad británicas en Cookstown, condado de Tyrone [65]. Varias familias fueron evacuadas de los alrededores. [66]
26 de marzo de 1992: una unidad del IRA abrió fuego contra una patrulla del ejército británico en las inmediaciones de la base de Musgrave Park, en Belfast. El IRA afirmó posteriormente que había disparado sesenta balas. [67]
27 de marzo de 1992:
Un puesto de observación del ejército británico situado en lo alto de un bloque de pisos en la zona de New Lodge en Belfast fue blanco de disparos. [68] El IRA afirmó posteriormente que había disparado cincuenta rondas. [67]
Se realizaron varios disparos en la base New Barnsley de la RUC del ejército británico en el oeste de Belfast. [68] [67]
Dos bombas en tarros de café fueron arrojadas a una patrulla a pie de la RUC en la zona de Poleglass [67] en el oeste de Belfast, pero no se reportaron heridos. [69]
Una agente de la RUC, Colleen McMurray, murió cuando una unidad del IRA golpeó su vehículo de patrulla con un mortero horizontal en Newry, en el condado de Down. Un agente de policía perdió ambas piernas en el ataque. [6] [70]
28 de marzo de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA lanzó una bomba explosiva sobre el muro perimetral de la estación RUC de Rosemount, en Derry. [67]
Se encontró una bomba que contenía 5,4 kg de explosivos caseros en la calle Fahan, en el centro de la ciudad de Derry. [71]
29 de marzo de 1992:
Una bomba trampa camuflada en un balón de fútbol fue desactivada tras ser descubierta dentro del perímetro de la base de la RUC en Sion Mills, en el condado de Tyrone. [67] [5]
Una unidad del IRA disparó veinte tiros contra un sangar recién construido en la estación RUC Oldpark, en Belfast. [67]
30 de marzo de 1992: una bomba explotó cuando una patrulla móvil conjunta del ejército británico y la RUC pasaba por la zona de Beechmount, en Belfast. El IRA afirmó que un vehículo había quedado inutilizado y cuatro oficiales de la RUC habían resultado heridos en un ataque con granadas improvisadas. [67]
3 de abril de 1992: una pequeña bomba del IRA detonó en la valla perimetral de una base de la RUC en la zona de Fivemiletown, condado de Tyrone. [72]
4 de abril de 1992: una bomba del IRA de 14 libras (6,4 kg) conectada a un cable de comando oculta en una tienda parcialmente construida fue desactivada por el ejército británico en Strabane, condado de Tyrone. [73]
5 de abril de 1992:
Los soldados británicos descubrieron una bomba trampa de 1,8 kg (4 libras) en Drumfurrer, en la frontera entre Tyrone y Monaghan. [74]
Los expertos en desactivación de bombas del ejército británico desactivaron una bomba en un tarro de café que se encontró tirada en la calle en Enniskillen, condado de Fermanagh. [75]
6 de abril de 1992:
Un francotirador del IRA disparó un solo tiro contra una patrulla del ejército británico, seguido de ráfagas de fuego automático desde una unidad de apoyo, en Mullaghfad, condado de Fermanagh. El IRA afirmó que había matado o herido gravemente a dos personas, incluido un soldado de civil. [72] El ejército británico negó que hubiera víctimas. [76]
Una pequeña bomba del IRA explotó cerca de Piccadilly Circus en Londres. No hubo heridos. [24]
8 de abril de 1992: una unidad del IRA disparó varios tiros contra un puesto de control conjunto del Ejército británico y la RUC adyacente a la estación de la RUC en Grosvenor Road, en Belfast. [72]
9 de abril de 1992: el ejército británico desactivó un mortero horizontal Mark 12 preparado junto a una carretera en Clogher, condado de Tyrone. [77]
10 de abril de 1992: el IRA detonó un enorme camión bomba en el número 30 de St Mary Axe, en la City de Londres . A pesar de la advertencia de evacuar la zona, tres civiles (Paul Butt, Danielle Carter y Thomas Casey) murieron y 91 resultaron heridos. Muchos edificios sufrieron graves daños, incluido el Baltic Exchange . [46] [78]
11 de abril de 1992: un gran coche bomba del IRA explotó en Staples Corner, en Londres, causando graves daños a edificios y carreteras cercanas. [79]
12 de abril de 1992: una bomba del IRA de 1,4 kg que se encontraba en un remolque explotó parcialmente en Maghera, en el condado de Londonderry. El IRA había intentado atraer a los agentes de la RUC al lugar con un solo disparo contra la estación de la RUC cercana. [80]
13 de abril de 1992:
El IRA se atribuyó la responsabilidad de coches bomba falsos colocados en intersecciones y fuera de las estaciones de la RUC en todo Belfast. [81]
Un coche bomba de 230 kg (500 lb) del IRA fue desactivado en las afueras de la base de la RUC de Castlereagh. [27] [82]
14 de abril de 1992: una bomba Semtex de 3,0 kg (6,6 lb) que estaba dirigida contra miembros de las fuerzas de seguridad fue desactivada en el patio de una construcción en Maghera, en el condado de Londonderry. [83]
15 de abril de 1992:
El IRA afirmó haber forzado la cancelación de un concierto para oficiales de la RUC en Cookstown, condado de Tyrone, con dos bombas falsas, una de ellas de tipo proxy. [80] El ejército británico llevó a cabo una explosión controlada en uno de los vehículos. [84]
Una bomba del IRA explotó parcialmente cerca de una tienda en Pomeroy, condado de Tyrone. El artefacto estaba dirigido contra miembros de las fuerzas de seguridad británicas que investigaban una bomba en la tienda; el IRA afirmó que el propietario trabajaba para las fuerzas de seguridad y recientemente había pasado información a la RUC. [85] [80]
El IRA se atribuyó la responsabilidad de una bomba colocada debajo de un coche propiedad de un miembro de las fuerzas de seguridad en Florence Court , cerca de Enniskillen, en el condado de Fermanagh. El dispositivo fue desactivado por el ejército británico. [81]
Dos bombas en tarros de café fueron arrojadas a una patrulla móvil del ejército británico en Springfield Road, Belfast, pero no explotaron. [86]
Una bomba en un tarro de café fue arrojada contra una patrulla conjunta del ejército británico y la RUC en Sheridan Street, en la zona de New Lodge de Belfast. El artefacto no explotó. [86]
16 de abril de 1992: Los agentes de la RUC abrieron fuego después de que un taxi secuestrado, conducido por un miembro del IRA (y que llevaba una bomba), se estrellara contra un puesto de control en la zona de Poleglass de Belfast. El conductor fue detenido posteriormente. [82] [87]
18 de abril de 1992:
Brendan McWilliams, un empleado del ejército británico, fue asesinado a tiros por el IRA en su casa, Nialls Crescent, cerca de Killylea Road, Armagh. Le dispararon al menos 18 tiros a través de la puerta principal con un arma de alta velocidad. [88]
Un ataque contra un miembro de las fuerzas de seguridad fue frustrado cuando se descubrió una bomba trampa durante una parada en un puesto de control de vehículos de la RUC en Larne, condado de Antrim. Los ocupantes del vehículo fueron arrestados. [89] [90]
19 de abril de 1992:
Los artefactos incendiarios destruyeron una tienda de ropa y un supermercado en Lisnaskea, condado de Fermanagh. El IRA se atribuyó la responsabilidad. [80] [91]
Se descubrieron dispositivos incendiarios del IRA en tres tiendas del centro de la ciudad de Belfast; sólo un local resultó dañado. [80]
22 de abril de 1992: el IRA dejó una bomba en la sucursal del Ulster Bank en May Street, Belfast. [5] [92]
23 de abril de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA lanzó una bomba explosiva contra un vehículo de patrulla de la RUC en la zona de Markets de Belfast. El IRA afirmó que el artefacto golpeó el parabrisas y lesionó a la tripulación. [92]
Una unidad del IRA abrió fuego contra una patrulla a pie de la RUC en la zona de Springfield Road en Belfast. Un civil que estaba sentado en un coche cercano resultó herido y su bebé estuvo a punto de resultar herido. [82]
24 de abril de 1992: el IRA disparó varias veces contra un puesto de control conjunto del Ejército británico y la RUC en el puente Craigavon, Derry. [92]
Las bombas incendiarias del IRA dañaron el bar Bellevue Arms y el castillo de Belfast en el norte de Belfast. [54] En una declaración, el IRA afirmó que la sala del piso superior del castillo de Belfast fue atacada porque era utilizada por miembros de alto rango de la Oficina de Irlanda del Norte y la RUC, y Bellevue Arms era un lugar de reunión para oficiales e informantes de la RUC. [93]
El IRA se atribuyó la responsabilidad de veinte falsas alertas de bombas que causaron importantes perturbaciones en las conexiones de transporte en la zona de Belfast. [93]
El IRA hizo explotar una bomba en la estación central de Belfast y una bomba en la estación de York Road no detonó. [92]
Un soldado británico y un niño de nueve años resultaron heridos por una bomba en un tarro de café lanzada por una unidad del IRA contra una patrulla militar en la zona de Oldpark de Belfast. [54]
Una bomba del IRA explotó en las instalaciones de un banco en Gloucester Street, en el centro de Belfast. [92] Cuatro agentes de la RUC fueron tratados por heridas menores. [94]
28 de abril de 1992:
Los agentes de la RUC dispararon varios tiros de advertencia y arrestaron a dos hombres después de descubrir una bomba Semtex de 5 libras (2,3 kg) detonada a distancia en el patio de una construcción en Patrick Street, Newry, County Down. [95]
El IRA se atribuyó la responsabilidad de una bomba de 2 libras (0,91 kg) en un automóvil que no detonó frente al juzgado de Lisburn. [92]
29 de abril de 1992: el IRA informó que había disparado varios tiros en la estación RUC de Rosemount, en Derry. [96]
Mayo-junio
1 de mayo de 1992:
Un soldado británico (Andrew Grundy) murió y otras 23 personas resultaron heridas cuando el IRA utilizó una locomotora improvisada no tripulada hecha con una furgoneta Renault Master para lanzar una bomba en un puesto de control permanente de vehículos del ejército británico en Cloghoge, en el condado de Armagh. El puesto de avanzada quedó completamente destruido (véase Ataque al puesto de control de Cloghoge ). [6]
Un ataque con bomba del IRA fue frustrado y el dispositivo se desactivó después de que una patrulla del ejército británico detectara un cable de comando cerca de Washingbay Road, Coalisland, condado de Tyrone. [97]
Una patrulla de las fuerzas de seguridad británicas resultó ilesa cuando una bomba en un tarro de café no detonó en la zona de Hill Street de Newry. [98]
3 de mayo de 1992: una bomba incendiaria explotó en un local comercial en el centro de la ciudad de Belfast. [98]
4 de mayo de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA lanzó una bomba en un tarro de café a una patrulla conjunta del Ejército británico y la RUC en Springfield Road, Belfast. [98]
Una bomba antipersonal Semtex del IRA de 5,5 libras (2,5 kg) no detonó después de que agentes de la RUC fueron atraídos a un centro comercial en Carrickfergus, Condado de Antrim. [98] [94]
5 de mayo de 1992:
El IRA llevó a cabo un ataque con bomba contra una patrulla móvil del ejército británico en la zona de Markets de Belfast. [98]
Un mortero horizontal Mark-12 disparado por una unidad del IRA pasó por encima de la estación de la RUC de Rosemount en la ciudad de Derry, dañando la base y varias casas en Creggan Road. Dos soldados y un civil resultaron heridos. [99] [100]
6 de mayo de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA lanzó una bomba en un tarro de café a una patrulla de las fuerzas de seguridad británicas en la zona de Markets de Belfast. [101]
Los explosivos de 25 libras (11 kg) colocados por el IRA y encontrados al costado de una carretera por una patrulla del ejército británico fueron recuperados y puestos a salvo en Cappagh, condado de Tyrone. [102] [103]
7 de mayo de 1992:
Una bomba del IRA de 450 kg transportada por un tractor [101] [104] explotó junto a la base de seguridad de la RUC en Fivemiletown , condado de Tyrone, hiriendo a 10 civiles y causando daños sustanciales a propiedades civiles cercanas, y daños estructurales al propio cuartel. La explosión se escuchó a 30 millas de distancia. La Brigada del IRA de Fermanagh Sur se atribuyó la responsabilidad. El 9 de mayo, un soldado británico disparó y mató al sargento mayor de su compañía (Dean Oliver) en un incidente de azul contra azul en el mismo lugar, mientras formaba parte de un destacamento de seguridad alrededor del cuartel devastado. [105] [99] [106] [107] [108]
Una patrulla del ejército británico en el oeste de Belfast resultó ilesa después de que una bomba en un tarro de café que les lanzaron no detonara. [102]
8 de mayo de 1992: una unidad del IRA abrió fuego contra una patrulla conjunta del ejército británico y la RUC en Beechmount Avenue, cerca de Falls Road, Belfast. Un civil que viajaba en una camioneta resultó gravemente herido, pero el IRA negó ser responsable y afirmó que los testigos describieron al hombre como alcanzado por el fuego de respuesta del ejército británico. [109] [54] [101]
9 de mayo de 1992:
Varios artefactos incendiarios explotaron en el Metro Centre de Gateshead , Tyne and Wear , causando algunos daños. En las semanas siguientes se descubrieron más artefactos incendiarios en los almacenes del complejo. [79] [110]
Una bomba del IRA explotó accidentalmente en Mullaghbawn , condado de Armagh, hiriendo al voluntario del IRA que la estaba montando. [111]
Una unidad del IRA lanzó una bomba explosiva contra un vehículo blindado sin distintivos de la RUC en Lisnaskea, condado de Fermanagh, pero sólo explotó el detonador. [101]
11 de mayo de 1992: una unidad del IRA llevó a cabo un ataque con una bomba en un tarro de café contra un vehículo de patrulla del ejército británico en el norte de Belfast. El IRA afirmó haber inutilizado el vehículo y herido a los soldados que se encontraban en su interior. [101]
12 de mayo de 1992:
Un paracaidista del ejército británico perdió ambas piernas después de un ataque con bomba del IRA contra una patrulla militar a pie cerca del pueblo de Cappagh , a unas pocas millas al sur de Pomeroy, en el condado de Tyrone. El incidente desencadenó una serie de enfrentamientos entre soldados británicos y habitantes locales en la ciudad de Coalisland, también en el condado de Tyrone, que duraron hasta el 17 de mayo, cuando robaron una ametralladora del ejército. Los funcionarios unionistas acusaron al Sinn Féin de instigar los disturbios. [112] Al menos tres civiles y dos soldados resultaron heridos. [113] [114]
Una unidad del IRA disparó varias veces contra las fuerzas de seguridad británicas en el puesto de control "Camel's Hump" en Strabane, condado de Tyrone. [115]
14 de mayo de 1992: el IRA llevó a cabo varios atentados con bombas incendiarias en Belfast; dos en una casa de subastas en May Street, dos en una sala de exposiciones en Shore Road, uno en un banco en May Street. Otro fue desactivado en una papelería en Gloucester Street. [116]
15 de mayo de 1992:
Dispositivos incendiarios explotaron en una tienda de ropa y una tienda de muebles en el complejo comercial Yorkgate, Belfast. [116]
Dos dispositivos incendiarios detonaron en Bow Street Mall, Lisburn. [116]
Varias residencias resultaron dañadas en la zona de Short Strand en Belfast después de un presunto ataque con bomba del IRA contra una patrulla combinada de la RUC y el ejército británico. [54]
16 de mayo de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA lanzó un mortero horizontal desde un coche aparcado contra un vehículo de patrulla de la RUC en la zona de Beechmount Avenue de Belfast. Según se informa, también se dispararon varios tiros. El proyectil no alcanzó su objetivo y cayó, sin explotar, en un parque lleno de gente. No se informó de heridos y dos hombres fueron detenidos posteriormente. [117] [118]
Tres agentes de la RUC sufrieron heridas leves después de que una bomba en un tarro de café impactara en su vehículo patrulla blindado en Dungannon, condado de Tyrone. [119] Algunas fuentes afirman que el vehículo fue el objetivo de un mortero lanzado horizontalmente en Thomas Street. [120]
19 de mayo de 1992:
Dispositivos incendiarios explotaron en una tienda minorista de catálogo en el área de Cornmarket de Belfast, causando daños importantes. [116]
Una operación del IRA para matar a un hombre que luego fue descrito en el tribunal como un "civil" en el área de Castlederg, condado de Tyrone, fue abortada después de que la unidad involucrada notó un puesto de control de la RUC cerca del pueblo de Killen. [121]
Un ataque del IRA fue frustrado después de que una patrulla del ejército británico encontrara una bomba explosiva del tipo de jarra de café preparada en Glenmurray Court, cerca de la circunvalación de Monagh, en el oeste de Belfast. [122]
21 de mayo de 1992: el IRA bombardeó la casa de un oficial de la RUC en Belfast, a menos de un cuarto de milla de la sede de la RUC. La casa estaba vacía, ya que el oficial de la RUC que había sido atacado se había mudado un mes antes por temor a un ataque de ese tipo. [123] Una hora más tarde, el ejército británico desactivó una bomba de 4 libras (1,8 kg) en la casa de un ex subdirector de policía de la RUC en North Circular Road. [124]
24 de mayo de 1992:
El IRA llevó a cabo un ataque con bomba en un tarro de café contra un puesto de control permanente conjunto del Ejército británico y la RUC en Elize Street, Belfast. [124]
Una tienda de muebles en Dungannon, condado de Tyrone, resultó gravemente dañada en un ataque con bomba incendiaria. También fue atacada una tienda de artículos generales. Se encontraron cuatro artefactos incendiarios sin detonar en ambos locales. Una tienda de muebles en Cookstown, condado de Tyrone, también resultó dañada. [125]
El IRA llevó a cabo varios ataques con bombas incendiarias en locales comerciales de Belfast. [124]
27 de mayo de 1992: el IRA disparó varias veces contra un hombre que, según afirmaron, era un miembro destacado de la UDA mientras caminaba por Springfield Road, pero escapó. [126]
28 de mayo de 1992: una unidad del IRA disparó una ráfaga sostenida de fuego automático contra el cuartel de North Howard Street, en Belfast. [126]
29 de mayo de 1992:
El IRA llevó a cabo varios ataques con bombas incendiarias en locales comerciales de Belfast; uno de los dispositivos detonó en el centro comercial CastleCourt. [126]
El ejército británico frustró un ataque del IRA contra un helicóptero Wessex cerca de Cappagh, en el condado de Tyrone, en el que se utilizó una ametralladora de uso general robada durante los disturbios en Coalisland once días antes. Un miembro de la ASU de tres hombres fue arrestado por la RUC después de huir de un coche perseguido por el Wessex; la ametralladora de uso general y otras armas fueron recuperadas de una granja. Otros dos miembros de la unidad del IRA abandonaron el coche después de prenderle fuego. [127] La política nacionalista Bernardette Devlin McAliskey sugirió que la recuperación de la ametralladora fue en realidad una maniobra publicitaria de las fuerzas de seguridad. [128]
30 de mayo de 1992: una unidad del IRA lanzó una bomba explosiva que contenía 0,45 kg de Semtex contra una patrulla de la RUC en Monaghan Street, Newry. No se informó de heridos. [126]
31 de mayo de 1992: un ataque con mortero del IRA en Crossmaglen implicó el primer uso de la bomba de mortero Mk-14. [129]
1 de junio de 1992: el IRA se atribuyó la responsabilidad de una bomba antipersonal de 91 kg abandonada en la calle Orritor en Cookstown, condado de Tyrone. Las fuerzas de seguridad británicas descubrieron un cable de mando que conducía a un edificio abandonado cercano. [126] [130]
2 de junio de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA llevó a cabo un ataque con mortero contra un puesto de control del ejército británico en Mullan Bridge, Kinawley, condado de Fermanagh. [131]
El IRA detonó un coche bomba de 91 kg en un club de golf de Cookstown, en el condado de Tyrone. El IRA acusó al club de haber organizado un evento para agentes de la RUC dos semanas antes. [126]
Una bomba trampa colocada en el coche de un oficial de la RUC en el exterior de un pub en Derriaghy, en las afueras de Belfast, fue desactivada por el ejército británico. [132] [133]
5 de junio de 1992: el IRA lanzó una bomba en un tarro de café a la casa de un soldado de la UDR que estaba fuera de servicio en Castlederg, condado de Tyrone. El artefacto Semtex no explotó y fue neutralizado por el ejército británico. [134] [135]
7 de junio de 1992:
Un oficial de policía, Glenn Goodman, fue asesinado a tiros después de detener el coche de un voluntario del IRA en la A64 en Tadcaster , North Yorkshire , Inglaterra. Otro oficial recibió un disparo y resultó gravemente herido. [6] [136] Los voluntarios del IRA Paul Magee y Michael O'Brien fueron capturados cuatro días después. Magee fue acusado y condenado por asesinato, [137] mientras que O'Brien fue declarado culpable de intento de asesinato. [138] [139]
Una bomba del IRA explotó en el Royal Festival Hall de Londres, causando daños por explosión. No hubo víctimas. [79] [140]
8 de junio de 1992:
Una bomba Semtex de 1 libra (0,45 kg) colocada en la parte inferior de un vehículo fue desactivada en Tennent Street, Belfast. [141] El IRA afirmó que el propietario era un miembro de alto rango de la UVF y que este era el tercer intento de asesinato. [140]
Una bomba de 0,91 kg explotó en el tercer piso de un hotel de Brunswick Street, Belfast. Un segundo artefacto no explotó en el restaurante del hotel. [140]
Una amenaza de bomba en el Hotel Europa de Belfast obligó a la evacuación de un evento de "Miss Irlanda del Norte". [140]
Una unidad del IRA lanzó dos bombas explosivas contra una patrulla móvil del ejército británico en la zona de New Barnsley de Belfast. [140]
9 de junio de 1992:
El IRA detonó una bomba dirigida contra agentes de la RUC atraídos por una falsa alerta de bomba en la casa de un soldado de la UDR en la zona de Antrim Road de Belfast.
Dos artefactos incendiarios detonaron en dos grandes almacenes del centro de Belfast, causando daños menores. Una ferretería en North Street y una cristalería en Newtownabbey también resultaron dañadas en un ataque con bombas incendiarias. [140]
El IRA se atribuyó la responsabilidad de veinte falsas alertas de bombas en el área metropolitana de Belfast. [140]
Una "bomba incendiaria" explotó en un garaje de Bridge End, en el este de Belfast. El IRA acusó a los propietarios de servir a la RUC. [140]
10 de junio de 1992:
Dos dispositivos incendiarios detonaron en un restaurante en el sur de Belfast. [140]
Una pequeña bomba del IRA explotó en Wilcox Place, Londres. [79]
Una furgoneta bomba del IRA explotó en el exterior del bar Braeside en Orritor, cerca de Cookstown, en el condado de Tyrone. Fuentes del IRA afirmaron que el propietario del bar "continuó colaborando" con las fuerzas británicas. [142] [143] No hubo víctimas, pero el edificio quedó envuelto en llamas [144] y varias casas quedaron destruidas por la explosión. [145]
Una bomba explosiva lanzada desde un bloque de apartamentos sobre una patrulla a pie del ejército británico en la zona de New Lodge en Belfast no explotó. [146]
12 de junio de 1992: una unidad del IRA disparó contra una patrulla del ejército británico cuando salían de su base en la zona de New Barnsley en Belfast. [146]
13 de junio de 1992: el IRA llevó a cabo un ataque con bomba contra la estación RUC de Springfield Road, en Belfast. [146]
14 de junio de 1992:
Una bomba en un tarro de café lanzada contra las fuerzas de seguridad británicas explotó parcialmente en Cupar Street, en la zona de Falls Road de Belfast, y fue desactivada más tarde. [147]
El IRA se atribuyó la responsabilidad de una bomba de 0,91 kg que explotó en la línea de ferrocarril Dublín-Belfast entre las estaciones Central y Botanic. La línea fue cerrada de nuevo al día siguiente tras varias falsas alertas de bombas. [146]
15 de junio de 1992: una bomba del IRA explotó en un taxi secuestrado en St. Albans Street, Londres, Inglaterra. [79]
16 de junio de 1992:
Una bomba del IRA de 500 lb (230 kg) fue encontrada enterrada al lado de una alcantarilla con un cable de comando que conducía a un punto de tiro cercano, en New Line Road cerca de Cookstown, Condado de Tyrone. [148] [149]
Un dispositivo incendiario detonó dentro de un negocio en North Street en el centro de la ciudad de Belfast. [146]
17 de junio de 1992: una bomba "antipersonal" del IRA cerca del Ayuntamiento de Belfast [146] hirió a cinco soldados de la UDR y a dos agentes de la RUC. [142]
18 de junio de 1992:
El IRA afirmó haber disparado más de cien rondas contra una patrulla a pie del ejército británico en Lackey, condado de Fermanagh. [150]
Un mortero horizontal Mark 12 preparado y oculto en un automóvil en Foyle Road, Derry, fue neutralizado por el ejército británico. [132]
20 de junio de 1992:
La casa de un ex oficial de la RUC fue acribillada a tiros en Pomeroy, condado de Tyrone. Las fuerzas de seguridad desactivaron una gran bomba trampa del IRA que se encontró debajo de un coche de huida utilizado por la unidad del IRA responsable. [151]
Las fuerzas de seguridad irlandesas descubrieron un cable de mando del IRA que cruzaba la frontera desde las afueras de Ballyshannon , en el condado de Donegal. Las fuerzas de seguridad británicas fueron alertadas y encontraron un artefacto explosivo en el condado de Fermanagh, que fue desactivado. [152]
21 de junio de 1992:
Una bomba en un tarro de café del IRA fue arrojada a dos oficiales de la RUC que patrullaban a pie, pero no explotó durante un festival en Benburb , condado de Tyrone. [142] [153]
Una unidad de servicio activo del IRA disparó varias veces contra el cuartel de Dungannon, en el condado de Tyrone. [150] El tiroteo tuvo lugar a las 4:00 a. m. y no hubo fuego de respuesta. No se reportaron víctimas. [154]
22 de junio de 1992: una patrulla del ejército británico devolvió el fuego tras ser atacada por francotiradores del IRA en Ballynagilly Road, [155] cerca de Cookstown, en el condado de Tyrone. Las fuerzas de seguridad acordonaron la zona. No se registraron víctimas. [156] [157] [51]
23 de junio de 1992: el IRA detonó una bomba de 4,5 kg de Semtex y metralla mientras soldados y agentes de la RUC respondían a una bomba más pequeña en un banco de Arthur Street, Belfast. El IRA afirmó que la acción era una repetición de un ataque en el mismo lugar una semana antes y que varios soldados y agentes de la RUC resultaron heridos. [150]
24 de junio de 1992: una unidad del IRA disparó 50 tiros contra soldados británicos que vigilaban un puesto de observación en lo alto de un bloque de apartamentos en la zona de New Lodge en Belfast. [158]
25 de junio de 1992: un maletín bomba del IRA explotó debajo de un automóvil en Coleman Street, Londres; un oficial de policía tuvo que ser tratado por shock. [79]
26 de junio de 1992:
Una bomba del IRA de 4,5 kg no explotó en las instalaciones de un banco en Gloucester Street, en el centro de la ciudad de Belfast. [158]
Un par de morteros horizontales en una camioneta que apuntaban a un vehículo de patrulla blindado de la RUC no detonaron en Lisnaskea, condado de Fermanagh. [158] Ambos dispositivos fueron desactivados posteriormente por el ejército británico. [159]
El IRA advirtió sobre dos bombas colocadas en bancos en Dungannon, en el condado de Tyrone. Una era una broma, pero la segunda era un artefacto viable de 2,3 kg (5 libras). [160]
Una bomba falsa del IRA causó disturbios durante varias horas en Cookstown, condado de Tyrone. [158]
27 de junio de 1992: dos agentes de la RUC escaparon por poco de sufrir heridas graves cuando una bomba magnética del IRA colocada en el techo de su coche patrulla explotó en el centro de Belfast. Los agentes se lanzaron del coche segundos antes de que la bomba detonara, después de que un hombre la colocara y huyera. 21 personas resultaron heridas. [5] [161] [162] [159]
28 de junio de 1992:
Una bomba trampa Semtex de 1,5 libras (0,68 kg) colocada en los bajos de un coche perteneciente a un miembro de las fuerzas de seguridad fue neutralizada en una explosión controlada en Barranderry Heights, Enniskillen, Condado de Fermanagh. [159]
Los agentes de la RUC encontraron un mortero horizontal preparado oculto en el interior de un coche aparcado con un agujero en el lateral en la carretera de Antrim. Dos hombres fueron detenidos. [163]
Una patrulla del ejército británico encontró un mortero horizontal preparado en el jardín de una casa cerca de Ballymurphy Road, en el oeste de Belfast. [163]
29 de junio de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA abrió fuego contra una patrulla a pie del ejército británico en la zona de Twinbrook de Belfast. [158]
Los miembros del IRA ocuparon una casa en la zona de Derrybeg, en Newry, para recuperar "materiales del IRA" que se encontraban sellados en el interior, sin que los inquilinos lo supieran. La Brigada South Down del IRA pidió disculpas por cualquier "perturbación" causada. [158]
30 de junio de 1992:
El IRA afirmó haber dejado dos bombas en Castlederg, en el condado de Tyrone. La RUC afirmó que no había logrado encontrar los artefactos después de una búsqueda; el IRA ya había advertido sobre las dos bombas el 19 de junio. [164]
Un disparo de un francotirador del IRA contra una patrulla a pie del ejército británico en Glasvney Close, en la zona de Dunmurry de Belfast, falló y entró en una casa, hiriendo a un civil con vidrios que volaron. [165]
Julio-agosto
1 de julio de 1992:
Una bomba de 0,68 kg oculta en un asta de bandera no detonó en Stewartstown, en el condado de Tyrone. El objetivo previsto por el IRA era que los agentes de la RUC retiraran la bandera tricolor irlandesa de la ruta prevista de un desfile de la Orden de Orange . [166]
Una bomba del IRA explotó en la caja de conexiones de la estación central de Belfast, interrumpiendo el servicio del ferrocarril Belfast-Portadown. [5] [167]
2 de julio de 1992:
El IRA admitió su responsabilidad por el asesinato de tres hombres, cuyos cuerpos fueron encontrados en diferentes cunetas de carreteras en el condado de Armagh. El IRA afirmó que los hombres, todos ellos miembros del IRA, eran agentes encubiertos del MI5 y de la División Especial de la RUC. [5] Véase también: Asesinato de Margaret Perry .
El IRA afirmó que se habían colocado bombas en cuatro importantes hoteles de Belfast. Tras extensas búsquedas y disturbios generalizados, no se encontraron artefactos. [168]
3 de julio de 1992: una unidad del IRA arrojó una bomba en un tarro de café contra una patrulla conjunta del ejército británico y la RUC en Camlough Road, Newry. El artefacto no detonó. [169]
5 de julio de 1992: una unidad del IRA disparó varias veces contra la estación de la RUC en Strabane, condado de Tyrone. [170]
7 de julio de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA arrojó dos bombas en tarros de café contra una patrulla móvil de la RUC cerca de la base del ejército británico de New Barnsley, en Belfast occidental. Los agentes de la RUC habían sido atraídos al exterior por una furgoneta abandonada, pero no se informó de heridos. [171] [166]
Una bomba en un tarro de café fue desactivada en Edenderry Park, Banbridge, County Down. [160]
9 de julio de 1992: una unidad del IRA arrojó una bomba en un tarro de café contra una patrulla conjunta del ejército británico y la RUC en Newry. El artefacto no detonó. [172]
11 de julio de 1992:
Un mortero horizontal dirigido contra un vehículo patrulla blindado de la RUC no detonó en Omagh, condado de Tyrone. [167]
Una unidad del IRA abrió fuego contra un puesto de control del ejército británico en Torrens Avenue, en el límite de la zona de Ardoyne en Belfast. [167]
12 de julio de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA abrió fuego contra un cordón de las fuerzas de seguridad británicas en la zona de Ardoyne de Belfast. [167]
Una unidad del IRA abrió fuego contra un cordón de las fuerzas de seguridad británicas en la zona de Iveagh de Belfast. [167]
El IRA se atribuyó la responsabilidad de una bomba de 0,45 kg colocada en los bajos de un Ford Sierra que , según afirmaron, había sido utilizada por un miembro de alto rango de la UVF en el norte de Belfast. El dispositivo fue desactivado por el ejército británico. [167]
13 de julio de 1992:
Una pequeña bomba del IRA dirigida contra las fuerzas de seguridad británicas fue descubierta desactivada y abandonada en Grosvenor Road, Belfast; el IRA afirmó que se habían visto obligados a abandonar el ataque debido a la presencia de civiles. [167]
Una bomba del IRA de 1,4 kg (3 libras) explotó en la estación Finaghy Road North, Belfast. [167]
Un perro rastreador del ejército británico murió y su adiestrador resultó levemente herido en la explosión de una bomba en la línea ferroviaria Belfast-Dublín, cerca de la Estación Central de Belfast. [173]
15 de julio de 1992: el IRA bombardeó el Balmoral Golf Club en el sur de Belfast con dos bombas incendiarias, [167] causando grandes daños. [174]
16 de julio de 1992: el IRA detonó una bomba antipersonal frente a un hotel en Ormeau Road, Belfast, mientras las fuerzas de seguridad británicas investigaban una bomba falsa cercana. [175]
21 de julio de 1992:
Dispositivos incendiarios explotaron en el complejo comercial Yorkgate en el centro de la ciudad de Belfast. [175]
Un tarro de café arrojado a una patrulla conjunta del Ejército británico y la RUC no explotó en la zona de Grosvenor Road en Belfast. [175]
23 de julio de 1992: una unidad del IRA arrojó una bomba en un tarro de café contra una patrulla del ejército británico que pasaba por Strabane, en el condado de Tyrone. El artefacto no detonó correctamente y cincuenta familias fueron evacuadas mientras se desactivaba el artefacto. [176]
24 de julio de 1992: una bomba del IRA explotó en la vía ferroviaria entre las estaciones de Belfast Central y Botanic. [175]
26 de julio de 1992: se frustró un ataque horizontal con mortero contra las fuerzas de seguridad británicas en la zona de Thomas Street de Warrenpoint, en el condado de Down. Un hombre fue detenido y posteriormente acusado. [177] [178]
27 de julio de 1992: una unidad del IRA abrió fuego contra soldados del Regimiento Real Irlandés del ejército británico que custodiaban un puesto de control de vehículos en May Street, en el centro de la ciudad de Belfast. [175]
28 de julio de 1992: una unidad del IRA lanzó dos bombas explosivas sobre el techo de un puesto de observación en la base de las fuerzas de seguridad de Whiterock, en Belfast. [175]
30 de julio de 1992:
El IRA colocó varios dispositivos incendiarios, dos de los cuales explotaron, en el Metrocentre , Gateshead, Newcastle. [179]
Dos dispositivos incendiarios explotaron en Milton Keynes , Inglaterra, causando daños mínimos. [79]
Un misil del IRA alcanzó un camión de un convoy en Newry que supuestamente transportaba materiales para construir un nuevo puesto de control del ejército británico en Cloghoge, en el condado de Armagh. [142] Otras fuentes describen un ataque con bomba detonante e informan que el camión no fue alcanzado. [160]
Una granada improvisada fue arrojada contra una patrulla móvil de las fuerzas de seguridad británicas en la parte trasera del centro comercial Castle Court en Belfast. [142]
Un ataque del IRA fue frustrado cuando el ejército británico encontró una bomba de 400 libras (180 kg) con un cable de mando escondido al lado de una carretera en Ballsmills Road, Crossmaglen, Condado de Armagh. [180]
1 de agosto de 1992: una explosión en el centro de Lisnaskea, en el condado de Fermanagh, hirió a una persona y dañó varias viviendas. [181] El IRA se atribuyó la responsabilidad. [182]
3 de agosto de 1992:
Un coche bomba de 110 kg explotó en Bedford Street, en el centro de Belfast, tras una advertencia, hiriendo a varios civiles. Un segundo coche bomba de 110 kg fue detonado a distancia por el IRA cuando oficiales de la RUC y soldados británicos se encontraban en las inmediaciones. Las explosiones causaron daños generalizados. [175] [6]
Un soldado británico (Damian Shackleton) fue abatido a tiros por un equipo de francotiradores del IRA en Duncairn Avenue, New Lodge, Belfast. Shackleton se encontraba en la escotilla trasera del techo de un Land Rover del ejército cuando dos miembros del IRA armados con fusiles de asalto dispararon veintiocho tiros desde un bloque de pisos, lo alcanzaron en el pecho y le provocaron una herida mortal. [6] [183] [184]
Un soldado británico de la Guardia de Coldstream resultó gravemente herido [185] en un tiroteo con el IRA en Pomeroy, condado de Tyrone. Un segundo soldado resultó herido, pero no resultó herido cuando la bala se alojó en su equipo. [160] [186] [187]
4 de agosto de 1992: una unidad del IRA disparó sesenta tiros contra una patrulla móvil de las fuerzas de seguridad británicas en Springfield Road, Belfast. [175] [160]
5 de agosto de 1992: una persona que llamó diciendo representar al IRA advirtió que un mortero en condiciones peligrosas había sido abandonado cerca de Florence Court , en el condado de Fermanagh. [188]
6 de agosto de 1992:
Se dispararon seis bombas de mortero contra el nuevo puesto de control del ejército en construcción cerca de Cloghoge, en el condado de Armagh. [189] El IRA dijo en un comunicado que se utilizaron cinco tubos de mortero, dos de los cuales no detonaron. [190]
El ejército británico descubrió y desactivó dos dispositivos incendiarios en un supermercado de Irvinestown, en el condado de Fermanagh. [188] [160]
7 de agosto de 1992: el ejército británico desactivó una bomba trampa situada debajo de un automóvil en Westway Crescent, Belfast. El IRA afirmó que estaba destinada a un miembro de las fuerzas de seguridad; sin embargo, la familia implicada no tenía conexiones. [160]
8 de agosto de 1992: Unidades del IRA dispararon varias veces contra los puestos de control permanente de vehículos del ejército británico en Killyvilly y Magheravelly, en el condado de Fermanagh. No se informó de heridos. [191] La Brigada del Sur de Fermanagh del IRA informó que utilizaron "ametralladoras pesadas, una ametralladora de uso general y armas automáticas" y se dispararon más de 1.000 balas en ambos ataques. [188]
10 de agosto de 1992: el IRA detonó una bomba en la línea ferroviaria Belfast-Dublín cuando un tren de carga pasaba por las afueras de Belfast. [190] [160]
11 de agosto de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA llevó a cabo un ataque con bomba contra una patrulla de las fuerzas de seguridad, pero el dispositivo no explotó en la zona de Ardoyne en Belfast. [190]
Una unidad del IRA lanzó una "granada perforante" contra un vehículo de la RUC en las inmediaciones de un puesto de control en Letterkenny Road, Derry. El artefacto no explotó. [192]
12 de agosto de 1992:
Un ataque con bomba del IRA contra el West End de Londres con una bomba de 3000 lb (1400 kg) fue frustrado después de que la policía armada allanara un apartamento en Hanwell, al oeste de Londres. [193]
El IRA mató a tiros a un ex miembro del IRA al que acusaban de ser informante en Belfast. [5]
Un miembro de una unidad de tres hombres del IRA recibió un disparo y resultó herido en un puesto de control de vehículos después de llevar a cabo un ataque con un francotirador en Strabane, en el condado de Tyrone. El coche en el que se habían dado a la fuga resultó dañado y los miembros de la unidad huyeron a pie perseguidos por un helicóptero de la RAF. Al menos uno de los voluntarios del IRA disparó contra el helicóptero, pero no se registraron impactos. [194] El voluntario del IRA herido fue finalmente detenido en las inmediaciones. [195]
Una unidad del IRA disparó varias veces contra una patrulla móvil del ejército británico cuando entraban en la base Henry Taggart en Upper Springfield Road, Belfast. [196]
13 de agosto de 1992: un francotirador lanzó un ataque fallido contra una patrulla del ejército británico en Carran Road, Crossmaglen, condado de Armagh. [197] [198] [160]
15 de agosto de 1992:
Cuatro soldados británicos resultaron heridos, dos de ellos de gravedad, por bombas en tarros de café arrojadas contra una patrulla del ejército británico y la RUC en la zona de Falls Road de Belfast. Los agentes de la RUC dispararon contra los atacantes y más tarde detuvieron a un sospechoso del IRA. [199] [142]
El ejército británico desactivó una bomba incendiaria que se encontraba en un autobús secuestrado en la zona de Creggan de Derry. [160]
17 de agosto de 1992: una bomba explosiva fue arrojada contra un vehículo de patrulla de la RUC en Camlough Road, Newry, pero no explotó. [160]
19 de agosto de 1992: dos soldados británicos resultaron heridos en un ataque con bomba del IRA en Grosvenor Road, Belfast. Además, una bomba trampa camuflada en una granada sin explotar detonó cuando un oficial técnico intentó desactivarla. [5] [200] [160]
20 de agosto de 1992:
Los pasajeros escaparon ilesos después de que una bomba incendiaria del IRA destrozara un tren en la zona de Finaghy en Belfast. [5]
Soldados británicos resultaron heridos en un ataque con bomba detonada a distancia por el IRA en la zona de Lower Ormeau de Belfast. [5] [200]
Una bomba del IRA colocada en el exterior de un banco en Cookstown, en el condado de Tyrone, no explotó y fue desactivada posteriormente por el ejército británico. También se desactivó una segunda bomba. [200] [160]
21 de agosto de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA abrió fuego contra soldados británicos y contratistas civiles en una posición del ejército británico en el centro de la ciudad de Derry. [192]
Una civil (Isobel Leyland), oriunda de Belfast y procedente de Inglaterra, murió tras recibir disparos del IRA durante un tiroteo en Ardoyne con la RUC. El IRA emitió un comunicado después del ataque pidiendo disculpas por el asesinato. [201] [202]
22 de agosto de 1992:
Una bomba explosiva fue arrojada contra una patrulla móvil de la RUC en Kilrea, condado de Londonderry. Los agentes recibieron tratamiento por conmoción después. [160]
El IRA fue responsable de varias amenazas de bombas a lo largo de tres días en Cookstown y Dungannon. [200]
24 de agosto de 1992: un soldado británico resultó herido por una bomba en un tarro de café en la zona de Twinbrook, en Belfast. [203]
25 de agosto de 1992:
Una bomba incendiaria del IRA explotó en el museo del Regimiento de Shropshire en el Castillo de Shrewsbury , Shropshire, Inglaterra, y dos dispositivos incendiarios explotaron en dos tiendas de muebles en el centro de la ciudad de Shrewsbury . [79]
Una unidad del IRA abrió fuego dos veces contra los agentes de la policía durante una persecución tras un intento de asalto a un banco en Newcastlewest , en el condado de Limerick. Los agentes estaban desarmados. La furgoneta Mazda secuestrada por los asaltantes fue encontrada abandonada a ocho millas de la ciudad. [204]
27 de agosto de 1992: en una repetición de un ataque ocurrido una semana antes, una unidad del IRA abrió fuego contra soldados británicos y contratistas civiles en una posición del ejército británico en el centro de la ciudad de Derry. [192]
28 de agosto de 1992: un soldado británico (Paul Turner) fue asesinado a tiros por un francotirador en la plaza principal de Crossmaglen, en el condado de Armagh. Estaba tomando posición en la plaza principal de la ciudad cuando un francotirador del IRA le alcanzó en el pecho con una sola bala a unos 230 metros de distancia. [6] [205]
Septiembre-octubre
2 de septiembre de 1992: se frustró un atentado del IRA y se detuvo a una persona tras el hallazgo de una bomba trampa con explosivos Semtex y un detonador en Corrody Road, en la zona de Waterside de Derry. Se evacuaron diez casas mientras el ejército británico neutralizaba los explosivos. [206]
5 de septiembre de 1992: el IRA declaró que había enviado balas a cinco empresarios protestantes que vivían en Moy, en el condado de Tyrone, para advertirles que no prestaran servicios a los miembros de las fuerzas de seguridad británicas. Un puesto de fish and chips del pueblo cerró unos días después. [207]
6 de septiembre de 1992:
Una bomba de 20 libras (9,1 kg) explotó en un restaurante chino en Dungannon, condado de Tyrone. Una segunda bomba, más grande, en las inmediaciones dirigida a agentes de la RUC en el lugar no causó heridos. El IRA afirmó que el negocio servía a miembros de las fuerzas de seguridad. [208] [209] [210]
Una pequeña bomba del IRA explotó en un Hotel Hilton en la zona de Hyde Park [211] de Londres. [79]
Una bomba Semtex de 1,5 libras (0,68 kg) con paquete detonador y cable de mando fue desactivada por el ejército británico en Dunville Park, al oeste de Belfast. [212]
8 de septiembre de 1992:
El IRA disparó y hirió gravemente a un civil protestante en su casa cerca de Markethill, en el condado de Armagh. Posteriormente, el IRA afirmó que era miembro del Regimiento Real Irlandés del Ejército británico. [5] [213]
Una bomba explotó dentro de la valla perimetral de la base de la RUC de New Barnsley, en Belfast. No quedó claro si había sido arrojada con la mano o disparada desde un lanzador. [213] [212]
11 de septiembre de 1992:
Las fuerzas de seguridad irlandesas frustraron una importante operación del IRA tras arrestar a una unidad de seis hombres en servicio activo del IRA en St. Johnston, Donegal, a lo largo de la frontera entre Derry y Strabane. Una furgoneta Toyota secuestrada en el condado de Kerry algún tiempo antes contenía tres ametralladoras de precisión (incluida una MG3 ), dos fusiles AKM, seis uniformes de combate, 1.000 cartuchos de munición, incluidos cargadores dobles para los fusiles, seis dispositivos incendiarios, dos pares de binoculares y un escáner de radio. [214] Más tarde se alegó ante el tribunal que los hombres del IRA probablemente tenían la intención de atacar un helicóptero del ejército británico. [215]
12 de septiembre de 1992: un soldado británico resultó herido en un ataque con bomba de detonación remota del IRA en Whiterock, Belfast. [5] [216] [212]
17 de septiembre de 1992: una bomba y cuatro bombas incendiarias explotaron en varios lugares de Londres. [79]
18 de septiembre de 1992: una bomba en un tarro de café lanzada por una unidad del IRA contra una patrulla de la RUC no explotó en la zona de Grosvenor Road en Belfast. [208]
19 de septiembre de 1992: un agente de la RUC resultó herido en un ataque con bomba contra una patrulla a pie en Whiterock Road, Belfast. [217] [218]
23 de septiembre de 1992: Un camión bomba del IRA de 1600 kg explotó en el exterior del Laboratorio de Ciencias Forenses de Newtownbreda , en el sur de Belfast. El artefacto demolió casi por completo el laboratorio y dañó más de 1000 casas en los alrededores. Los temblores de la explosión se sintieron a más de 19 km de distancia y la bomba fue evaluada posteriormente como probablemente el artefacto más grande jamás detonado en Irlanda del Norte. No hubo heridos en el ataque, ya que el IRA había dado un aviso de 40 minutos para evacuar el área, [219] aunque cientos de residentes tuvieron que ser tratados por shock. Se describió como tan potente como una " minibomba nuclear ". El equipo de desactivación de bombas del ejército que intentaba desactivarlo perdió la audición y varios vehículos militares resultaron dañados. [220]
25 de septiembre de 1992: una bomba en una furgoneta explotó frente al juzgado de Newry, en el condado de Down. [221] El IRA afirmó que la bomba era un "dispositivo direccional" dirigido contra contratistas civiles que realizaban reparaciones. [222]
27 de septiembre de 1992: una bomba del IRA de 450 kg fue desactivada frente al palacio de justicia de Armagh, en el condado de Armagh. [221]
28 de septiembre de 1992:
Una bomba del IRA de 230 kg (500 lb) explotó parcialmente en las afueras de la estación RUC de York Road, al norte de Belfast. [221]
El IRA disparó a un supuesto informante y lo abandonó por muerto en Belfast, pero finalmente sobrevivió a sus heridas. [5]
30 de septiembre de 1992: un miembro de la UDA (Harry Black) fue asesinado a tiros por el IRA en la casa de un amigo, Annadale Flats, Ballynafeigh, Belfast. [6]
1 de octubre de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA de 15 hombres, armados con rifles y ametralladoras, estableció varios puestos de control alrededor del pueblo de Meigh , en el condado de Armagh. [223] Detuvieron a los automovilistas y repartieron folletos acusando a dos hombres de actividad criminal. [224]
La RUC desactivó una bomba de 68 kg en un campo de Galbally, cerca de Dungannon, en el condado de Tyrone, cuatro días después de que el IRA advirtiera que había sido colocada. Seis familias fueron evacuadas de las casas cercanas. [225]
Una unidad del IRA lanzó una granada a una patrulla del ejército británico en Blackwatertown, condado de Armagh, pero el dispositivo no explotó. [226] [227]
3 de octubre de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA lanzó una "granada de impacto" a un vehículo blindado del ejército británico cerca de la base Henry Taggart en Springfield Road, Belfast, pero el dispositivo no detonó correctamente. [226]
4 de octubre de 1992:
Un joven católico fue herido de bala cerca de Castlederg, en el condado de Tyrone, en un fallido ataque del IRA contra las fuerzas de seguridad británicas. Se encontró un mortero cargado cerca. [221]
Un coche bomba que contenía metralla explotó en Newry, condado de Armagh. [221]
5 de octubre: una unidad del IRA llevó a cabo un ataque con armas de fuego, granadas y cohetes contra un vehículo blindado de la RUC en la zona de Ardoyne de Belfast. [226] [228]
7 de octubre de 1992: cinco personas resultaron heridas cuando una bomba del IRA explotó en Piccadilly , Londres. Otra bomba explotó en Flitcroft Street, Londres. [79]
8 de octubre de 1992:
Una persona resultó herida cuando una bomba del IRA explotó debajo de un coche en Tooley Street, Londres. Otra bomba explotó en Malcombe Street. [229]
Una bomba del IRA explotó junto a un puesto de control conjunto del ejército británico y la RUC en la zona de Short Strand, en Belfast. Un soldado y dos oficiales de la RUC resultaron heridos. [230] [231]
El IRA detonó una bomba de 4,5 kg en el exterior de un banco adyacente a la zona de Markets de Belfast. [230]
Dos dispositivos explosivos explotaron frente a dos tiendas en Dungannon, condado de Tyrone, destruyendo ambos edificios. [142]
Una unidad del IRA lanzó dos bombas explosivas a un puesto de control del ejército británico en Belfast; sin embargo, sólo explotaron los detonadores. [230]
El IRA llevó a cabo un ataque con armas de fuego y bombas contra los agentes de la RUC que custodiaban una barrera de seguridad en Strand Road, Derry. [232] [233] [227]
10 de octubre de 1992:
Tres soldados británicos resultaron heridos después de que dos bombas en tarros de café fueran arrojadas a su patrulla en Stewartstown Road, al oeste de Belfast. [234]
Un oficial de la RUC (James Douglas) fue asesinado a tiros por el IRA en el Monico Bar, Lombard Street, Belfast. [6] [235]
Una bomba del IRA explotó en un quiosco cerca de la comisaría de policía de Paddington Green, en Londres, hiriendo a una persona. Otra bomba del IRA explotó en el British Legion Club de Southgate. [229] [221]
12 de octubre de 1992:
Un supuesto complot del IRA para asesinar al diputado unionista Ken Maginnis fue frustrado después de que dos hombres armados fueran vistos a las afueras del Ayuntamiento de distrito de Dungannon, en el condado de Tyrone. Había sobrevivido a seis intentos previos de asesinato. [236]
Un dispositivo explosivo explotó en un baño del bar público Sussex Arms en Covent Garden , Londres, matando a una persona (David Heffer) e hiriendo a otras cuatro. [46]
13 de octubre de 1992: un agente de la RUC resultó herido cuando una bomba explosiva fue arrojada contra una patrulla en el norte de Belfast. [237] [238]
14 de octubre de 1992: el IRA detonó una bomba en un centro comercial recién inaugurado en York Street, Belfast. [230]
16 de octubre de 1992: una unidad del IRA disparó contra una patrulla móvil del ejército británico en Oldpark Road, al norte de Belfast. [239]
18 de octubre de 1992: una bomba escondida en un autobús explota frente a un hotel en Hammersmith, al oeste de Londres. No hubo víctimas. [240]
19 de octubre de 1992:
El ejército británico llevó a cabo una explosión controlada de un coche bomba de 200 libras (91 kg) en el Dukes Hotel de Belfast. [5] [227]
Una bomba del IRA explota en Oxenden Street, Londres, dejando a dos personas necesitadas de tratamiento por shock. [229]
20 de octubre de 1992:
El IRA detonó una bomba en la línea ferroviaria entre las estaciones Belfast Central y Botanic; el IRA afirmó que su intención era atraer a las fuerzas de seguridad británicas a una emboscada. [239]
Un soldado británico (Robert Irvine) fue asesinado a tiros por el IRA en su casa de Rasharkin , en el condado de Antrim. [6] [241]
Una bomba en un tarro de café sin explotar fue desactivada por el ejército británico en Ballygawley Road, Dungannon, tras una declaración del IRA. [227]
21 de octubre de 1992:
Tres personas resultaron heridas cuando una bomba del IRA detonó en el Centro del Ejército Territorial Princesa Luisa, en Hammersmith Road, Londres. Otras dos personas resultaron heridas cuando el IRA hizo estallar una bomba en una vía férrea en Edmonton , Inglaterra. [229]
El IRA detonó un coche bomba de 200 libras (91 kg) en la calle principal de Bangor, en el condado de Down, [6] hiriendo a seis oficiales de la RUC y causando grandes daños. [227]
Una unidad del IRA disparó varias veces contra contratistas civiles y soldados en la base de las fuerzas de seguridad en Grosvenor Road, Belfast. [242]
22 de octubre de 1992: una tubería de alcantarillado fue dañada por un artefacto explosivo del IRA en Wick Lane, Londres. [243]
23 de octubre de 1992:
Un dispositivo Semtex de 1 libra (0,45 kg) adherido a la parte inferior de un automóvil perteneciente a Billy Wright, un destacado paramilitar leal a la UVF (y más tarde líder del disidente LVF ), fue desactivado en Portadown, Condado de Armagh. [244]
Un coche bomba del IRA de 45 kg (100 lb) fue desactivado en las afueras de la Estación Central de Belfast. [245]
25 de octubre de 1992: una pequeña bomba del IRA explotó frente a la casa londinense del ex Secretario de Estado para Irlanda del Norte, Lord Prior, dañando un edificio y varios vehículos. [229] [245]
28 de octubre de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA hizo explotar una bomba en la casa del vicegobernador de la prisión de Maghaberry, en el condado de Antrim. [223]
Un soldado británico sufrió heridas leves cuando una bomba explotó cuando una patrulla pasaba por el cruce de Glassdrumman, Crossmaglen, condado de Armagh. [246]
30 de octubre de 1992:
El IRA detonó una bomba de 230 kg en una furgoneta frente a la base de la RUC en Glengormley, Belfast. Varias casas resultaron dañadas y varios civiles y oficiales de la RUC resultaron heridos. [5] [245]
Una pequeña bomba del IRA explotó frente al número 10 de Downing Street , la residencia del Primer Ministro británico. [229]
El IRA se atribuyó la responsabilidad de un coche bomba de 45 kg abandonado en el centro de Lisburn. La bomba no explotó. [247]
31 de octubre de 1992: el IRA eliminó a la IPLO en Belfast después de una feroz disputa interna de la organización y de acusaciones de que traficaba con drogas. El líder de la Brigada de Belfast de la IPLO, Sammy Ward , fue asesinado a tiros en Short Strand y varios otros miembros de alto rango fueron heridos en las rodillas . Se les perdonó la vida con la condición de que la IPLO se rindiera y se disolviera inmediatamente. En pocos días, ambas facciones de la IPLO se rindieron y se disolvieron. Las unidades de la IPLO en Newry y Armagh no fueron atacadas y fueron absueltas de cualquier implicación en la delincuencia o el tráfico de drogas por parte del IRA. [6] [248]
Noviembre-diciembre
5 de noviembre de 1992: el IRA bombardeó la recién inaugurada sucursal del Banco de Irlanda en Downpatrick, Condado de Down, causando graves daños. [223]
6 de noviembre de 1992:
Una bomba de 45 kg fue desactivada en la zona de New Lodge, en Belfast. La furgoneta había sido secuestrada y cargada en las cercanías poco antes de ser interceptada por las fuerzas de seguridad británicas. [249]
Un dispositivo de 4 libras (1,8 kg) adherido a una oveja muerta perteneciente a un miembro de las fuerzas de seguridad fue desactivado en Newtownstewart, Condado de Tyrone. [250]
9 de noviembre de 1992: una unidad del IRA disparó un lanzador improvisado Mark 16 de hombro contra un vehículo de patrulla de la RUC en Divismore Crescent, Belfast, hiriendo a tres oficiales de la RUC y a cuatro soldados británicos. [251]
12 de noviembre de 1992: más de treinta familias fueron evacuadas de sus hogares en la zona de Markets de Belfast mientras el ejército británico desactivaba una bomba sin explotar en un tarro de café. [252]
13 de noviembre de 1992: el IRA detonó una furgoneta bomba de 230 kg en el centro de Coleraine , en el condado de Londonderry, causando graves daños al centro de la ciudad. [6] [253] [249]
14 de noviembre de 1992:
Un francotirador del IRA disparó un solo tiro contra una patrulla a pie del ejército británico en Finnegan's Road, Forkhill, condado de Armagh. No se reportaron heridos. [251]
Un policía fue herido de bala por el IRA en el norte de Londres después de enfrentarse a dos hombres a los que había visto actuando de forma sospechosa. Los dos hombres huyeron del lugar y en una búsqueda posterior se descubrió y desactivó un camión bomba. [229]
15 de noviembre de 1992:
Un oficial de la RUC (Alan Corbett) fue abatido a tiros por un francotirador del IRA mientras se encontraba en un puesto de control de vehículos en Belcoo , condado de Fermanagh. Se supo que el francotirador utilizó un fusil de asalto AK-47 equipado con una mira nocturna y disparó un solo tiro desde un terreno elevado en el lado de la frontera del condado de Cavan . [6] [254] Otras fuentes afirman que se utilizó un fusil Barret de calibre .50 equipado con una mira nocturna. [255] [256]
Los miembros del IRA aparcaron una furgoneta que contenía una bomba de gran tamaño en la base de la torre One Canada Square en Canary Wharf , Londres. Cuando se enfrentaron a los guardias de seguridad, sacaron una pistola y escaparon en una segunda furgoneta, que más tarde fue encontrada "a unas dos millas de distancia" con una cantidad de explosivos en su interior. [257]
18 de noviembre de 1992: un frasco de dulces lleno de Semtex fue arrojado a una patrulla del ejército británico en Springfield Road, Belfast, pero no explotó. [249]
19 de noviembre de 1992: un soldado británico fuera de servicio (Ian Warnock) fue asesinado a tiros en Portadown , condado de Armagh. Un voluntario del IRA le disparó al menos 12 veces a quemarropa. El soldado logró devolver el fuego, pero no se cree que haya alcanzado a ninguno de sus agresores. [6] [254]
20 de noviembre de 1992: el IRA lanzó una bomba en un tarro de café contra un vehículo de la RUC en el parque Lisfannon, Derry. Más tarde, se llevó a cabo un segundo ataque con una bomba en un tarro de café contra soldados británicos que vigilaban un cordón cercano. [249]
21 de noviembre de 1992:
Un supuesto informante fue asesinado a tiros por el IRA en Creggan, condado de Londonderry. [258]
Dos soldados británicos resultaron heridos cuando una bomba del IRA explotó en un local de comida rápida abandonado en Falls Road, frente a Dunville Park, Belfast. [259]
23 de noviembre de 1992:
El IRA hizo estallar una bomba en las instalaciones de un banco en Gloucester Street, en el centro de Belfast. [250]
Las fuerzas de seguridad británicas desactivaron un coche bomba del IRA de 320 kg en Chichester Street, en el centro de Belfast. [249] También hubo varias bombas falsas. [249]
24 de noviembre de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA intercambió disparos con una patrulla combinada del ejército británico y la RUC en Castlederg, condado de Tyrone. Los miembros del IRA habían sido sorprendidos fuera de la casa de un soldado del Regimiento Real Irlandés . Se dispararon más de 70 tiros. [260]
Cuatro agentes de la RUC resultaron heridos en Belfast por una bomba de un frasco del IRA. [261]
Dos bombas en forma de tarro de café fueron arrojadas a la estación de policía de Grosvenor Road, sin causar heridos y con daños mínimos. Dos agentes de la policía resultaron heridos en una operación posterior cuando chocaron su vehículo. [262]
25 de noviembre de 1992: un voluntario del IRA ( Pearse Jordan ) fue asesinado a tiros por la RUC después de que su coche fuera embestido por un vehículo encubierto de la RUC en Belfast. Después de salir del coche desarmado, Jordan recibió tres disparos en la espalda por parte de un sargento de la RUC. [6] [263]
26 de noviembre de 1992: el IRA llevó a cabo ataques con bombas incendiarias en dos grandes cadenas de ferreterías en la zona de Waterside de Derry. [5] [264]
29 de noviembre de 1992: una mina terrestre del IRA destinada a una patrulla del ejército británico explotó en las afueras de la ciudad de Armagh, hiriendo a seis personas y dañando varias casas. [223]
30 de noviembre de 1992: una bomba Semtex del IRA rodeada de metralla, destinada a las fuerzas de seguridad británicas, fue encontrada junto a una escuela primaria en Pomeroy, condado de Tyrone. [265] Una declaración del IRA afirmó que el ataque fue abandonado cuando fuerzas encubiertas británicas intentaron emboscar a la unidad involucrada en la operación. [266]
1 de diciembre de 1992:
El IRA detonó una bomba en Ann Street, Belfast, dañando varios negocios e hiriendo a 27 personas. [5] [6]
El IRA detonó una bomba en un negocio de repuestos de automóviles en Ormeau Avenue, Belfast. [5] [6]
El ejército británico desactivó una furgoneta bomba del IRA en Londres tras una advertencia telefónica. [267]
Una unidad del IRA disparó un cohete contra un puesto avanzado del ejército británico situado en lo alto de un bloque de apartamentos en la zona de New Lodge de Belfast. [268]
2 de diciembre de 1992:
La policía desarmó una furgoneta bomba de 450 kg abandonada en el West End de Londres , tras una advertencia del IRA. [269] [270]
Más de cincuenta falsas alertas de bombas provocaron grandes trastornos en Belfast. [271]
3 de diciembre de 1992:
El IRA detonó un dispositivo incendiario en una zapatería en Crumlin Road, Belfast. [5] [271]
El IRA detonó dos pequeñas bombas en Manchester, Inglaterra; 64 personas resultaron heridas. [267] [269] [5] La explosión provocó daños por valor de 20 millones de libras. [272]
4 de diciembre de 1992:
Se culpó al IRA Provisional de matar a tiros a un hombre (Colm Duffy) en su granja cerca de Collon, en el condado de Louth. Había sido objeto de un tiroteo de castigo del IRA varios años antes en Carrickmacross, en el condado de Monaghan. [273]
Cuatro artefactos incendiarios explotaron en un supermercado lleno de gente en Lisburn. Se culpó al IRA. [274]
Se descubrieron dos dispositivos incendiarios en un bar de Omagh, en el condado de Tyrone. [274] [275]
7 de diciembre de 1992:
El primer mortero anticuarteles fue lanzado contra un cuartel de la RUC en Ballygawley , condado de Tyrone. [276] El ataque fracasó cuando el proyectil cayó antes de la valla perimetral y golpeó un árbol sin explotar. [277]
Una unidad del IRA disparó varios tiros contra los puestos de observación del cuartel Lisanelly del ejército británico en Omagh, condado de Tyrone. [278] [279]
8 de diciembre de 1992: según el IRA, una mina terrestre de 200 libras (91 kg) detonó prematuramente cuando un animal de granja caminó sobre ella cerca de Cappagh, en el condado de Tyrone. [280]
9 de diciembre de 1992:
El IRA detonó dos coches bomba en un aparcamiento de varios pisos en Chichester Street, en el centro de Belfast. [281] [282]
Una bomba colocada en una tienda de material eléctrico en Ormeau Road, Belfast, fue sacada al exterior, donde explotó y causó daños menores. [282]
En Londres, un camión bomba del IRA explotó parcialmente en Woodside Park. [283]
El IRA llevó a cabo un ataque con una bomba en un tarro de café contra una patrulla de la RUC en la zona de Westland Park de Derry. No se reportaron heridos. [284]
10 de diciembre de 1992:
Dos bombas del IRA explotan en el centro comercial Wood Green de Londres hiriendo a 11 personas. [283]
Una bomba trampa del IRA en un camión abandonado en un depósito de carbón durante la noche fue desactivada por el ejército británico en Moy, condado de Tyrone. [273]
11 de diciembre de 1992: un francotirador disparó un solo tiro contra una patrulla a pie del ejército británico en Belleek, condado de Fermanagh. No se reportaron heridos y no hubo respuesta a los disparos. [285]
12 de diciembre de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA atacó una torre de vigilancia del ejército británico (el cuartel de la RUC de Crossmaglen, también conocido como Borucki Sanger Golf Five Zero) con un lanzallamas improvisado remolcado por un tractor en Crossmaglen, condado de Armagh. Recibió el nombre de James Borucki, un soldado británico que murió en un atentado del IRA en Crossmaglen el 8 de agosto de 1976. El dispositivo consistía en un esparcidor de estiércol que roció la instalación con combustible, que se incendió pocos segundos después con una pequeña explosión. El puesto de avanzada estaba ocupado por soldados de los Royal Scots en ese momento. No se reportaron heridos. [286] [287]
Las fuerzas de seguridad británicas encontraron y desactivaron una bomba Semtex escondida detrás de una pared con un cable de mando en Glenalena Road, en la zona de Ballymurphy de Belfast. [284]
Una unidad del IRA disparó una ametralladora pesada contra soldados británicos que vigilaban un puesto de control de vehículos permanente en Annaghmartin, condado de Fermanagh. [288] [289] [284] [285]
El IRA lanzó dos bombas de mortero contra la base de la RUC de Roslea, en el condado de Fermanagh; una de ellas atravesó la valla perimetral. No se registraron heridos. [289] [285]
13 de diciembre de 1992:
Una unidad del IRA disparó varias veces contra una torre de vigilancia del ejército británico en Oldpark Road, al norte de Belfast. [280] [284]
Un civil católico (John Collett) murió cinco días después de un severo tiroteo del IRA en su casa de Drumleck Gardens, Derry. [5] [282]
15 de diciembre de 1992: una unidad del IRA llevó a cabo un ataque con armas de fuego y granadas contra una patrulla móvil de las fuerzas de seguridad británicas en la zona de Ballymurphy, en el oeste de Belfast. [280]
16 de diciembre de 1992: una bomba del IRA explotó en el interior de los grandes almacenes John Lewis, en Oxford Street, Londres. Una segunda bomba explotó en una parada de taxis cercana, en Cavendish Square, mientras los servicios de emergencia evacuaban a la gente del lugar del primer artefacto. Al menos dos personas resultaron heridas. [290]
18 de diciembre de 1992:
El IRA lanzó cinco proyectiles de mortero contra la base de la RUC en Markethill, en el condado de Armagh, pero sólo uno detonó. No se registraron heridos y los daños fueron mínimos. [250] [291]
El IRA disparó un cohete contra un puesto de seguridad frente al palacio de justicia en London Street, Derry. [292]
19 de diciembre de 1992: se descubrió un artefacto incendiario en una farmacia del centro comercial CastleCourt, en Belfast. Lo sacaron al exterior y lo desactivaron. [271]
20 de diciembre de 1992:
Una pequeña bomba explotó en un banco en Market Street, Belfast. [292]
Una mujer motorista le dio a un soldado británico una caja de bombones en un puesto de control en Cookstown, condado de Tyrone. Más tarde, expertos del ejército británico encontraron y desactivaron un dispositivo Semtex de 1 kg en el interior. Se sospecha que es del IRA. [293] [294] [295]
21 de diciembre de 1992:
El IRA disparó varias veces contra un sangar del ejército británico en Crossmaglen, condado de Armagh. No se registraron heridos. [292]
Una bomba del IRA no explotó en una tienda de electrónica en Ormeau Road, Belfast. [5]
El ejército británico desactivó una bomba de 540 kg colocada al borde de la carretera cerca de Belleeks, en el condado de Armagh. [292]
22 de diciembre de 1992:
Una pequeña bomba del IRA explotó en la estación de metro de Hampstead, en Inglaterra. No hubo heridos. [283] [293]
Una bomba en un tarro de café lanzada contra una patrulla de las fuerzas de seguridad británicas no detonó en la zona de Creggan de Derry. [292]
El ejército británico descubrió un mortero horizontal oculto en Andersonstown Road, Belfast, que fue desactivado más tarde. [292]
24 de diciembre de 1992:
El IRA (utilizando una palabra clave reconocida) causó disturbios en varias ciudades de Inglaterra con falsas advertencias de bombas. [296]
El IRA convocó un alto el fuego de tres días. [6]
27 de diciembre de 1992: dos bombas en tarros de café fueron arrojadas a una estación de policía en Rosemount, Derry, poniendo así fin al alto el fuego de tres días del IRA. [297]
29 de diciembre de 1992: un coche bomba del IRA causó graves daños en el Hotel Drumkeen, en el sur de Belfast. [5] [298]
30 de diciembre de 1992:
Un soldado británico fue asesinado a tiros en su casa de Cavehill Road, Belfast, por dos voluntarios del IRA que irrumpieron en la casa armados con fusiles de asalto AK-47 y dispararon al soldado al menos 13 veces a quemarropa. La esposa del soldado afirmó que el voluntario del IRA Thomas Begley era uno de los pistoleros. [6] [299]
Una bomba incendiaria del IRA explotó en un hotel del condado de Fermanagh, [5]
Una unidad del IRA lanzó una bomba explosiva contra una patrulla a pie del ejército británico en Andersontown Road, Belfast. [300]
El IRA bombardeó en Ormeau Road, Belfast, las instalaciones de una empresa de construcción a la que acusaban de trabajar para las fuerzas de seguridad británicas. [301]
31 de diciembre de 1992: miembros del IRA lanzaron una bomba en un tarro de café en la estación de la RUC de Strand Road, en Derry. [302]
1993
Enero-febrero
1 de enero de 1993:
Una bomba Semtex antipersonal de 1 libra (0,45 kg) [303] dejada por el IRA en una peluquería de Royal Avenue, Belfast, fue desactivada por el ejército británico. [304]
Ocho autobuses resultaron dañados o destruidos en un ataque con bomba incendiaria en una estación de autobuses de Derry. [305]
2 de enero de 1993:
Una patrulla conjunta del ejército británico y la RUC fue el objetivo de una bomba en forma de tarro de café lanzada por una unidad del IRA en el norte de Belfast. [306]
Una bomba en un tarro de café fue arrojada a otro campamento conjunto del Ejército británico y la RUC en la zona de Creggan en Derry. [306]
5 de enero de 1993:
Tres soldados resultaron heridos por una bomba en Belfast mientras evacuaban la zona del Ayuntamiento de la ciudad después de que se emitiera una advertencia mediante una llamada telefónica del IRA. [307]
Un francotirador del IRA disparó un solo tiro contra una patrulla del ejército británico cerca de Crossmaglen. [304]
6 de enero de 1993:
Algunas partes de Londres fueron acordonadas después de que bombas incendiarias del IRA explotaran en varias tiendas. [306]
Un artefacto explosivo de 11 kg detonó en Dungannon, condado de Tyrone, causando daños menores y ninguna víctima. Solo explotó el detonador, la carga principal no se encendió. [308] [309]
7 de enero de 1993:
Una unidad del IRA abrió fuego en la estación de policía de New Barnsley, en Belfast. No hubo heridos. [304]
El IRA colocó dos bombas en un depósito de almacenamiento de petróleo y gas en el este de Belfast. Una bomba explotó parcialmente pero no causó daños y la otra fue desactivada por el ejército británico. [308] [283] [306]
Una bomba del IRA fue desactivada en una librería de Londres. [283] [306]
8 de enero de 1993: un puesto del ejército británico fue alcanzado por dos bombas de mortero del IRA y un helicóptero Lynx fue atacado con fuego de ametralladora en la frontera cerca de Kinawley , en el condado de Fermanagh. La unidad del IRA fue atacada por un artillero de puerta del Lynx que utilizaba una GPMG. [310] [127]
10 January 1993: the IRA detonated an anti-personnel bomb at a shop in Belfast city centre after luring RUC officers to the site with a staged robbery.[303]
11 January 1993:
a bomb exploded under the car of a member of the security forces in Glengormley, County Antrim, but there were no reported injuries.[311]
the victim of an IRA punishment attack in Dungannon, County Tyrone, had to have one of his legs amputated.[306]
an IRA unit launched a rocket at an RUC base in Donegall Pass[303] in south Belfast.[306]
a former sergeant of the B-Specials (Matthew Boyd)[312] was shot dead while driving his car along Donaghmore Road, Dungannon, County Tyrone. The IRA claimed the man was a UVF commander, responsible for the killings of Catholic civilians. This was denied by the dead man's family. CAIN lists Boyd as a Protestant civilian.[313]
13 January 1993: a 30 lb (14 kg) bomb intended for security forces investigating the assassination of Matthew Boyd was defused at Dungannon, County Tyrone.[306]
14 January 1993:
the IRA fired a rocket at an RUC vehicle shortly after it left Strand Road RUC headquarters in Derry.[306][314]
the IRA fired a mortar at an RUC base in Andersonstown, Belfast.[315]
15 January 1993: the IRA exploded two bombs in Belfast, one of which ignited a fire that destroyed a car showroom.[304][316]
16 January 1993: an RUC Reserve officer was injured by an under-car booby trap bomb in Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh.[317]
18 January 1993:
British security forces escaped injury in a coffee jar bomb attack in Carrickmore,[318] County Tyrone.[319] Author Brendan O'Brien states that an IRA bomb blast targeted an Army and RUC patrol in Main Street, Carrickmore, approximately by this date, but he reports "a few injuries".[304]
the IRA carried out a coffee jar bomb attack against a British Army Saxon APC on the Stewartstown Road in West Belfast.[319][318]
19 January 1993:
the IRA's East Tyrone Brigade claimed that their volunteers uncovered and destroyed a British army observation post concealed in a derelict house in Drumcairne Forest, near Stewartstown, County Tyrone. The same source claimed a British helicopter, a military ambulance and ground troops arrived to the scene shortly after, and that local residents believed that two soldiers had been wounded.[320] Press reports say that in fact a derelict house on Castlefarm Road was destroyed by an explosion and subsequent fire, but that there were no security forces in the area at that time.[321]
an IRA unit fired several shots at the British Army watchtower overlooking the main square in Crossmaglen, County Armagh.[318] Two British soldiers were injured by splintered glass.[292]
20 January 1993:
the IRA launched a barrack buster mortar attack on Clogher RUC base in County Tyrone, causing considerable damage to the building.[306][322] Several RUC members received minor wounds.[323]
an IRA bomb attack was foiled by the RUC after they intercepted a vehicle driven by a pair of armed IRA members (one of them the brother of republican Danny Morrison) carrying two Semtex bombs intended for Belfast City Airport, at a checkpoint on the Newtownards Road, Belfast.[324][325]
22 January 1993: an off-duty British soldier and a gunman were injured in a shoot-out at Newtownstewart, County Tyrone.[319]
23 January 1993:
an RUC officer (Michael Ferguson) was shot dead by the IRA while on foot patrol on Shipquay Street, Derry. He was shot twice in the back of the head at close range by a lone gunman.[326][327]
the IRA claimed that a 600 lb (270 kg) culvert bomb targeting a British vehicle patrol failed to explode at Cappagh, County Tyrone.[319][328]
Sean Berryman, a man from County Donegal, was abducted at Buncrana,[306] interrogated and released unharmed on 26 January.[319]
24 January 1993: an IRA unit fired 200 machine gun rounds at a British army outpost at Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh.[329][330]
25 January 1993:
a bomb placed beneath an RUC officer's car was defused in Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh.[320]
two IRA incendiary devices were discovered in a shopping centre in Newtownabbey, north Belfast following a telephoned warning. A third device couldn't be located.[330]
an IRA unit carried out a sustained machine gun attack against a British Army observation at Killyvilly, County Fermanagh.[330]
27 January 1993: an IRA bomb exploded outside Harrods, London, injuring four people.[306]
29 January 1993: a small IRA Semtex device was found planted in a canteen used by loyalist prisoners in Crumlin Road Prison, Belfast.[331][332]
30 January 1993: an IRA incendiary bomb exploded inside a department store in the Richmond Centre, Derry. There were also two hoax bomb alerts in The Diamond and Ferry Quay Street. The IRA were apparently trying to interfere with RUC officers investigating the shooting of officer Michael Ferguson.[333]
1 February 1993:
a rocket was fired at a British Army mobile patrol on the Andersonstown Road, Belfast.[334][328]
a coffee jar bomb was thrown at RUC officers on the Crumlin Road, Belfast.[334][328]
an off-duty British Army RIR soldier fired a number of shots during an IRA assassination attempt near his home in Ballymagorry near Strabane, County Tyrone.[324]
3 February 1993:
two small IRA bombs exploded in England. One at South Kensington underground station in London and the other at Kent House railway station.[335]
an IRA unit fired several shots at a joint British Army-RUC patrol in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.[336]
4 February 1993:
a civilian worker was seriously injured after the IRA launched a mortar attack on the joint RUC/British Army barracks in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. The base was heavily damaged.[337][338]
an IRA unit fired half a dozen rounds at a British security forces checkpoint on Corporation Street, near Belfast's Docks area.[336]
5 February 1993: an IRA unit tried to assassinate a leading loyalist paramilitary figure in Tavanagh Street, Belfast.[320] The IRA members failed to find their target and opened fire after being confronted by a hostile crowd.[339]
6 February 1993: the IRA fired a Mark-16 grenade at a British Army patrol on Ross Street, Belfast.[340]
8 February 1993: A British soldier was ambushed and wounded while on foot patrol on Dunville Street, Belfast. Two IRA members fired a shotgun at the patrol from a house whose inhabitants they held captive. The full impact of the blast was taken by the soldier's helmet, which saved his life. The two volunteers were taken in custody some time later.[341][342]
9 February 1993:
a British soldier (Michael Beswick) was killed and four others badly wounded when three IRA remote-controlled bombs, affixed to a nearby wall and two pillars on both sides of the street, detonated as a foot patrol passed on Cathedral Road, Armagh town.[306][327][343][344]
an armed IRA assassination unit was spotted in Union Street, Portadown, attempting to kill leading UVF member Billy Wright; however he escaped and no shots were fired.[345][324][346]
10 February 1993:
a small IRA bomb exploded in a residential area of London.[306]
a British soldier was slightly injured after a coffee jar bomb was thrown at a joint British Army-RUC patrol in West Belfast.[347]
11 February 1993: an IRA assassination attempt in the Shankill area of Belfast was aborted after their target failed to appear. A group of gunmen claiming to be members of the UVF had forcibly occupied a house opposite the home of a senior loyalist on Upper Glenfarne Street.[348]
12 February 1993: an IRA member (Christopher Harte) was found shot dead in a ditch by the side of Carn Road, near Castlederg, County Tyrone. The IRA alleged he was an informer.[327]
13 February 1993:
an IRA team shot and injured leading UDA member Joe Bratty outside a bar in the Ormeau area of south Belfast. It was the fourth attempt on his life in 15 months.[348] The IRA finally succeeded in killing Bratty, along with another UDA man, in July 1994.[349]
an incendiary bomb was found and defused in a clothes shop in Wellington Place in Belfast city centre.[350]
15 February 1993: Mervyn Johnson, a Royal Irish Regiment (RIR) soldier, was shot dead by the IRA outside his home, Highfern Gardens, Highfield, Belfast. He was walking down the street when a car drew alongside and fired a burst of shots from an AK-47 assault rifle, hitting the soldier four times. As he lay wounded a second gunman stepped out of the car and shot the victim three times in the head with a handgun.[327][351]
20 February 1993:
a rocket injured four British soldiers when it hit their patrol vehicle in the Woodburn area of Belfast.[340]
three Protestant male civilians were shot and injured at a bar in Belfast; the IRA claimed one was a soldier in the Royal Irish Regiment (RIR).[306]
21 February 1993: Dunnes Stores in the Park Centre, Belfast, was firebombed by the IRA.[352]
22 February 1993: two RUC officers were injured in an IRA bomb attack on a base in Bishop Street, Derry.[306][353]
24 February 1993: an RUC officer (Reginald Williamson) was killed by an IRA booby-trap bomb attached to his car, which exploded while he travelled along Lislasley Road, near Loughgall, County Armagh.[327][351]
25 February 1993: an RUC officer (Jonathan Reid) was shot dead by a sniper while on joint British Army and RUC foot patrol in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. He was taking cover at the side of a road. When he stood up he was hit by a single bullet which struck him in the chest.[351]
26 February 1993:
a police officer was shot and injured by the IRA in Warrington, England after stopping a suspect car. Three bombs later exploded at the nearby gasworks causing extensive damage.[335]
the IRA shot and wounded a man in a shopping center at Newry, County Down.[306] The IRA claimed he was a high-profile drug dealer who had previously been arrested trying to import cannabis and apmehtmaine.[354]
a 66-year-old Protestant woman was critically injured after gunmen fired through a window of her home in Armagh town after mistaking her for an RUC detective who formerly lived at the property.[355][356]
the IRA claimed a mortar attack on the RUC base in Tempo, County Fermanagh, was unsuccessful after a firing mechanism failed to detonate.[357][358] The RUC reported that a single projectile landed inside the base but didn't explode.[324]
27 February 1993:
the IRA detonated a bomb at Camden Market in London; 18 people were injured.[306]
an IRA unit fired several rounds at British security forces establishing a checkpoint beside Belfast city centre, from a position near the New Lodge area.[358]
28 February 1993:
an IRA unit fired on a British Army checkpoint in Belfast city centre.[358]
an IRA unit assembled and launched a "barrack buster" mortar in a demonstration for journalists near Scotstown, County Monaghan.[359][360]
March–April
1 March 1993: an IRA unit launched two mortar bombs at an RUC base in Bessbrook, County Armagh; at least 11 people were injured and more than 90 houses suffered damage.[361]
2 March 1993: shots were fired at anti-terrorist detectives and a police tactical firearms unit raiding a home in north London in connection with the recent IRA bombing of Harrods. Two men were arrested and a large cache of weapons and explosives captured.[359]
4 March 1993: an IRA unit opened fire on an alleged "collaborator" as he drove along Cherry Road in Twinbrook, West Belfast.[354]
6 March 1993: Philip Martin, a former UDR/RIR soldier escaped injury when he was shot at outside his home in Pomeroy, County Tyrone, while in company of his two children. His brother, also a former UDR member, was killed just six weeks later when a booby-trap attached to his car exploded near Kildress.[362][348] Martin had left the RIR after being injured by an IRA bomb in Stewartstown.[363] The IRA claimed he was a member of the UVF.[354]
7 March 1993:
four RUC officers were badly injured when the IRA detonated a car-bomb on the Main Street of Bangor, County Down.[364]
an IRA unit attempted to kill two leading loyalists on Berlin Street in the Shankill area of Belfast. One was moderately wounded after their car was riddled with gunfire. The uninjured man had already survived a previous IRA assassination attempt in February and the injured man had been targeted by the INLA in January but they killed a civilian in a case of mistaken identity.[364][348]
an RUC officer was shot and injured at a checkpoint outside an RUC station on Grosvenor Road, Belfast.[365][366] IRA members had driven up to the checkpoint and fired several shots before lobbing a grenade.[354]
8 March 1993:
two RUC officers and three civilians were wounded by an IRA bomb blast beside a security gate in Carnegie Street, Lurgan, County Armagh.[367][354]
the IRA launched a mortar attack on Keady British Army barracks, County Armagh. A civilian contractor for the British Army (Nigel McCollum) who was working at the base was killed when three barrack buster mortars were fired into the compound. He had been operating a crane when it was struck by one of the mortars. McCollum's brother (Reginald McCollum), an off-duty RIR soldier, would be killed a year later, in 1994, by the IRA; their grandmother (Lilly McCollum) had been killed in 1983 in a republican attack on her brother, a member of the UDR.[327][368]
9 March 1993:
the IRA took over two houses in the Woodburn area of Belfast and fired a rocket from a window at a British foot patrol.[369]
an off-duty British army RIR soldier was shot and wounded by the IRA as he drove out of a bus depot in east Belfast.[306][354]
10 March 1993: Norman Truesdale was shot dead by two IRA volunteers who entered his shop in Oldpark, Belfast. The first volunteer shot Truesdale a number of times in the chest at close range and the second shot him with an AK-47 assault rifle as he lay wounded on the floor. Truesdale's family denied he was a member of any paramilitary group, but he is listed in CAIN as a member of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA).[306][327][370]
11 March 1993:
the IRA claimed responsibility for several hoax car bombs left in Lisburn and Belfast,[371] causing widespread disruption.[372][371]
an IRA unit fired 40 rounds at an observation post at Woodbourne RUC base, Belfast.[371]
an IRA unit fired several shots at a British Army RIR checkpoint in Oxford Street beside the High Court in Belfast city centre.[371]
a booby-trap bomb fell off the underside of a car driven by an RUC officer in Glengormley, County Antrim.[373][374][375]
12 March 1993: a blast bomb thrown at a British Army patrol in Shambles Lane, Dungannon, County Tyrone, failed to explode and was later defused.[376][371]
13 March 1993:
the IRA mortared a British Army observation post at Glasdrumman, County Armagh.[306]
an IRA incendiary device exploded in a furniture store in the Waterside area of Derry, causing minor damage. A second device was found in a follow-up search.[374]
an IRA unit detonated a 2 lb (0.91 kg) bomb by command wire as a British Army patrol passed in the New Barnsley area of Belfast, injuring a soldier.[371][377]
14 March 1993:
a 10 lb (4.5 kg) bomb detonated outside a bank in Gloucester Street in Belfast city centre. A second device was defused nearby in Adelaide Street.[371]
a 10 lb (4.5 kg) bomb was left in a post office in Strabane, County Tyrone, by an unmasked youth who gave a warning. Only the detonator exploded.[378]
17 March 1993:
two contractors linked to the British Army and RUC escaped injury when a bomb exploded under their van near Aghadowey, County Londonderry. One of the men, Alan Smith, was a former UDR member and active UDA gunman and was eventually shot dead by the IRA in April 1994.[379][380][381][382]
a British soldier (Lawrence Dickson) was shot dead by a sniper in Forkill, County Armagh. The patrol were in pursuit of a man who had been acting suspiciously when a single high velocity shot was fired by a sniper who is believed to have been in a nearby vehicle. The bullet hit the soldier in the side and he died a short time later. Another British soldier returned fire at the vehicle but scored no hits.[327][383]
20 March 1993:
two IRA bombs exploded in Warrington, England, killing two children (Johnathan Ball and Tim Parry) and injuring more than 50 people. A coded but inaccurate warning was issued to the Samaritans, which, police said, placed the bomb outside a Boots chemist shop in Liverpool, 16 miles (26 km) away from Boots in Warrington, where the detonation occurred.[384]
a British Army patrol escaped injury after a bomb hidden in a bus shelter detonated as they passed in Derry.[385]
21 March 1993: the IRA launched a grenade or rocket at an RUC patrol vehicle on Ardglass Road, Downpatrick, County Down. Two men were later arrested and a firearm recovered.[373]
24 March 1993:
an IRA bomb damaged an auction house at the junction of May Street and Montgomery Street in Belfast city centre.[386]
several shots were fired at the joint British Army/RUC base in Rathfriland, County Down.[373]
25 March 1993: there was a multiple weapons attack by the IRA on a British Army watchtower, the Borucki sangar, in Crossmaglen, County Armagh.[387]
30 March 1993: the IRA claimed to have thwarted a British Army undercover operation by detonating a bomb at the Glen, between Loughmacrory and Mountfield, County Tyrone,[386] on Mulnafye road.[388] The RUC reported that an explosion occurred while a joint RUC-British Army patrol were in the vicinity, and also in a follow-up operation a buried 264 lb (120 kg) roadside bomb and a command wire were discovered.[389] The IRA denied any explosives were found in a later statement.[390]
31 March 1993:
a 500 lb (230 kg) IRA bomb left in the back of a car outside a government building in Belfast was defused.[391][390]
an IRA sniper fired a single shot at a British Army foot patrol on the Oldpark Road, Belfast.[390]
1 April 1993: an IRA sniper fired a single shot in the Carlisle Square area of Belfast as the British Army dealt with several bomb hoaxes in the city.[390]
2 April 1993: an IRA unit fired over a hundred rounds at a permanent British Army vehicle checkpoint at Kilturk near Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh.[390]
3 April 1993: a British soldier was shot and injured by the IRA near Crossmaglen, South Armagh.[387]
4 April 1993: a British Army patrol was attacked with what the IRA described as an "improvised flamethrower" in Carrickmore, County Tyrone. The device consisted of 2 lb (0.91 kg) of Semtex and five gallons of petrol; the bomb exploded, but the fuel failed to ignite. A soldier was thrown several meters across the road by the blast.[390]
6 April 1993: a bomb exploded at Belfast Central Station. The area had been evacuated following a warning and there were no injuries.[392]
7 April 1993:
three British soldiers were wounded when the IRA mortared their base in Crossmaglen.[306]
the IRA detonated a bomb at a Conservative Party club in Argyle Square, London.[306]
a joint British Army-RUC patrol detected a command wire hidden in long grass beside Whiterock Road, Belfast. A soldier had been seriously injured in an attack at the same location nine months earlier.[389]
8 April 1993: a rocket was fired at a joint British Army/RUC patrol near Woodbourne RUC station, Belfast.[389]
10 April 1993: a 300 lb (140 kg) IRA car bomb was defused outside government offices on Victoria Street in Belfast city centre.[393]
14 April 1993:
a 10 lb (4.5 kg) bomb left in a gas cylinder outside CastleCourt shopping centre, Belfast, was defused.[394][393]
a 10 lb (4.5 kg) bomb left in a bank at Carlisle Circus, Belfast, was defused.[393]
15 April 1993: an IRA unit lobbed a coffee jar bomb at a British Army mobile patrol on the outskirts of the Andersonstown area of Belfast.[393]
16 April 1993: British security forces defused a Semtex and shrapnel anti-personnel bomb found on a bank of the River Mourne in Strabane, County Tyrone.[389]
17 April 1993: rail services between Belfast and Dublin were disrupted after an IRA bomb exploded along the track near Belfast Central Station.[393]
19 April 1993: an IRA bomb fell off a target's car and was smashed under the wheels of passing vehicles before being defused by the British Army near Tobermore, County Londonderry.[395]
20 April 1993: an IRA bomb exploded beside the security gate at Bishop's Gate in Derry city centre.[393]
21 April 1993: the IRA planted a booby-trap bomb under an RUC officer's car in the centre of Banbridge, County Down, but it fell off and was defused.[389][375]
22 April 1993: the small South Armagh village of Cullaville, along the border with the Republic, was taken over by an IRA unit for two hours (see Occupation of Cullaville).[396][397]
23 April 1993:
a small IRA bomb detonated at an Esso oil refinery in North Shields, England, causing moderate damage.[335]
an IRA sniper fired a single shot at British soldiers at the base of a watchtower in the New Lodge area of Belfast; one British soldier suffered shock.[389][398]
24 April 1993:
the IRA detonated a huge truck bomb at Bishopsgate in the City of London, which killed one person and injured 44 more. The explosion caused damage estimated at £350 million. The police confirmed the IRA had phoned in 18 accurate warnings before the explosion. The man who was killed (Eddie Henty) was a press photographer who appears to have slipped through the security cordon to obtain footage of the explosion.[399] The device delivered the equivalent to 1,200 kg. of TNT, and was compared with the power of a tactical nuclear device by some sources.[400][401]
two bombs exploded in hijacked minicabs in London, but there were no injuries.[46][402]
25 April 1993:
a former UDR soldier (David Martin) was killed when an IRA booby trap exploded underneath his car while travelling along Flo Road, Kildress, near Cookstown, County Tyrone.[399]
the British Army neutralised a 10 lb (4.5 kg) bomb at a bank at Finaghy Crossroads, Belfast, with two controlled explosions.[389]
26 April 1993:
the IRA attacked a British Army position near the Fury river, not far from Clogher, County Tyrone, with a lighter variant of the 'Barrack Buster' mortar.[398] The British Army reported that a 100 lb (45 kg) bomb exploded at County Bridge between Aughnacloy and Augher when a British Army foot patrol was in the vicinity.[403][404]
the IRA attacked a British security forces mobile patrol with a coffee jar bomb on Racecourse Road, Derry.[389]
an IRA command wire-detonated bomb consisting of Semtex and shrapnel hidden in a road sign at a junction was defused in Armagh city.[405][406]
27 April 1993:
a 50 lb (23 kg) bomb in a gas cylinder was discovered and defused by the British Army at Corrigan Park in the Whiterock area of Belfast. The device was connected to a firing-pack by a command wire.[373]
30 April 1993: the IRA launched a horizontal mortar at an RUC mobile patrol at Ballygawley roundabout, County Tyrone. The projectile missed the leading vehicle, and exploded on a roadside wall.[407][408]
May–June
3 May 1993: an IRA unit fired several shots at a British Army patrol at the junction of the New Lodge Road and North Queen Street.[409]
5 May 1993: the IRA lobbed a coffee jar bomb at a British security forces patrol in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.[410]
6 May 1993:
a British RIR soldier was badly injured by an IRA bomb attached to his car that exploded in Lurgan, County Armagh.[306][411]
an IRA unit detonated a 200 lb (91 kg) landmine as several British Army vehicles passed in Blackwatertown, County Armagh.[411][410]
9 May 1993:
two IRA incendiary devices ignited in the Galleries shopping centre in Bristol, causing damage but no injuries.[335]
the IRA reported they had disarmed a 120 lb (54 kg) roadside bomb in Bellaghy, County Londonderry after spotting covert British soldiers.[412] The device was defused by the British Army a week later.[413]
11 May 1993:
an IRA "Barrack Buster" mortar attack forced the evacuation of the RUC barracks at Caledon, County Tyrone,[411] though the warhead did not explode.[414]
a horizontal mortar launched at a British security forces vehicle missed in Portadown, County Armagh.[411] It was later defused by bomb disposal personnel.[414]
British security forces found and defused a horizontal mortar complete with warhead in Dungannon, County Tyrone.[410]
12 May 1993: an IRA incendiary device partially detonated in the Cornmarket area of Oxford.
15 May 1993: an IRA sniper fired a single shot at an RUC patrol car in Maghera, County Londonderry.[412]
16 May 1993: an IRA unit fired several shots at New Barnsley RUC base, Belfast.[410][415]
19 May 1993: a lone IRA member lobbed a coffee jar bomb at a British Army foot patrol on Finaghy Road North, West Belfast.[415]
20 May 1993: a 1,000 lb (450 kg) IRA bomb exploded in Glengall Street, Belfast, causing over 5 million pounds worth of damage.[306]
22 May 1993:
a 1,000 lb (450 kg) IRA bomb devastated Portadown's town centre.[306]
the IRA carried out a sniper and small arms attack on the British Army base of Killymeal, Dungannon, County Tyrone, and claimed a subsequent exchange of fire between IRA volunteers and British soldiers crewing an observation post.[415] The RUC denied that soldiers returned fire.[410]
an IRA unit fired several shots at New Barnsley RUC base, West Belfast.[415]
23 May 1993:
a 200 lb (91 kg) IRA bomb wrecked a hotel in south Belfast.[306]
an IRA bomb containing over 1,500 lb (680 kg) of explosives was detonated in the centre of Magherafelt, County Londonderry, causing millions of pounds worth of damage.[306][416]
27 May 1993:
a British soldier was shot and wounded in an IRA attack while manning a checkpoint beside Belfast Central station.[306][417][418]
an IRA unit tried to kill an alleged RIR soldier at his home in Ligoniel on the outskirts of Belfast, but their target escaped after a single shot missed.[418]
28 May 1993:
a 600 lb (270 kg) IRA car bomb left outside the offices of the Laganside Corporation in Belfast city centre was neutralised by the British Army in a controlled explosion.[418]
the IRA was responsible for over twenty-five hoax bombs in the Belfast area.[418]
several IRA members entered a bar in the Ardoyne area of Belfast and search several patrons before taking one man away and shooting him in the legs. The crowd in the bar threw bottles and chairs at the IRA members in an attempt to intervene.[410]
30 May 1993:
two IRA members boarded a train at Finaghy on the outskirts of Belfast, planted a bomb, and shouted a warning to passengers. Shortly after the train was evacuated the device exploded, extensively damaging a carriage.[419]
IRA members opened fire from a hijacked vehicle at an RUC checkpoint on the Ormeau Road, Belfast.[418][410]
31 May 1993:
a British soldier (Christopher Wren) was killed by an IRA booby trap bomb attached to his car while off duty in Moneymore, County Londonderry.[327] The East Tyrone Brigade claimed responsibility.[420]
an IRA unit fired on the home of an RUC officer in the Springvale Gardens area of Belfast. After failing to gain entry, the IRA members were fired upon by the officer.[418]
3 June 1993: an IRA unit fired 30 rounds at soldiers manning an observation post at Woodbourne RUC station, Belfast.[421]
4 June 1993: a 400 lb (180 kg) bomb left at the Killyhelvin Hotel in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, was defused by the British Army in a controlled explosion. The device had been transported in a boat across the River Erne.[421]
6 June 1993:
two RUC officers were injured after IRA members detonated a 120 lb (54 kg) bomb by command wire as a patrol vehicle passed on the Stewartstown Road, Belfast.[421][306]
the IRA launched a mortar attack on the RUC base in Carrickmore, County Tyrone. The single round exploded within the barracks perimeter,[306] resulting in some damage but no casualties. The Mark 15 mortar was fired from a Renault Trafic van.[422]
7 June 1993: the IRA detonated a bomb at a gasworks in Tyneside, England.[306]
9 June 1993: two small IRA bombs exploded at an Esso oil refinery in North Shields.[306][335]
10 June 1993:
an IRA sniper fired a single shot at a workman removing scaffolding at Grosvenor Road RUC station, Belfast. The round narrowly missed, there was speculation the sniper had used a .50 BMG calibre rifle.[423]
an IRA unit lobbed a coffee jar bomb at a British Army foot patrol in the Ballymurphy. The IRA claimed to have injured a soldier.[424]
11 June 1993:
the IRA attempted to shoot down a Puma helicopter taking off from Crossmaglen British Army base, County Armagh. A barrack-buster mortar projectile, fired from the back of a local baker's delivery van, exploded on the helipad shortly after the pilot had managed to take off. Two escorting Lynx helicopters were unable to stop the attack, that was carried out to coincide with a one-day visit to Northern Ireland by Queen Elizabeth.[387][425]
the IRA fired around twenty rounds at the British Army observation tower at Rosemount RUC base, Derry.[426]
12 June 1993: an IRA sniper armed with a .50 BMG calibre "Tejas rifle" fired a single shot at a British soldier in the Beechmount area of Belfast. The round struck his rifle and ricocheted striking his face.[423][424][427]
15 June 1993: an IRA unit fired up to fifty rounds at an RUC mobile patrol at Torrens Crescent in the Oldpark Road area of Belfast, striking an armoured vehicle.[428][424]
17 June 1993: the British Army carried out a controlled explosion on a suspect van that IRA members had abandoned beside a permanent vehicle checkpoint at Grosvenor Road RUC station, Belfast.[429]
20 June 1993: the IRA shot and wounded a Protestant man in a gun attack at his home in Bootle Street in the Shankill area of Belfast.[430] The IRA claimed he was a member of the Royal Irish Regiment.[429]
21 June 1993: the IRA was responsible for hoax bombs in and around Belfast city centre, causing widespread disruption.[429]
22 June 1993: the IRA detonated a 300 lb (140 kg)[429] bomb at the Mourne Country Hotel in Newry, damaging at least 70 nearby homes.[306][431] The IRA claimed they attacked the hotel because Secretary of State for Northern IrelandPatrick Mayhew visited a few days previously.[429]
23 June 1993:
an IRA volunteer (Joseph Mulhern) was found shot by side of road, Ballymongan, near Castlederg, County Tyrone, as an alleged informer.[327]
the IRA reported they fired a single shot at a member of British security forces shortly after he exited an armoured vehicle in Eliza Street in the Markets area of Belfast.[432]
24 June 1993: a former UDR soldier (John Lyness) died after being shot several times at close range by the IRA outside his home, Lime Grove, Lurgan, County Armagh. He had seen his killers approaching and was armed with his personal protection weapon drawn but did not have time to use it.[327][433] The shooting was claimed by the North Armagh Brigade.[434]
26 June 1993:
a British soldier (John Randall) was shot dead by an IRA sniper near Newtownhamilton, County Armagh. He had been patrolling a field when the sniper fired a single high-velocity shot from the back of a stationary vehicle which hit Randall in the stomach.[327][435]
an IRA unit fired 60 rounds at two armoured vehicles leaving Woodbourne RUC station, West Belfast.[432][436]
the British Army defused a ready 500 lb (230 kg) bomb parked in Fintona, County Tyrone.[432][436]
27 June 1993: the IRA detonated a 5 lb (2.3 kg) bomb on the Belfast-Dublin railway line adjacent to the Markets area of Belfast.[429]
28 June 1993: an IRA unit ambushed an off-duty Royal Irish Regiment soldier as he drove along Portadown Road outside Stewartstown, County Tyrone, striking his car several times. The soldier returned fire[436] and escaped uninjured.[432] Other sources claim that the shooting took place at 8:00 pm on Moor road, beside Coalisland.[437]
July–August
3 July 1993: a 100 lb (45 kg) IRA van bomb exploded outside Strabane courthouse, causing extensive damage.[306][438]
5 July 1993:
a 1,500 lb (680 kg) bomb caused extensive damage in the centre of Newtownards, County Down.[439] Nineteen people were injured.[319]
two IRA bombs, 2,000 lb (910 kg) and 800 lb (360 kg), were discovered and defused by the British Army and one man was arrested at Whitecross, County Armagh. Security forces believed they were for a repeat of the Newtownards bombing in another town.[440]
the IRA attempted to lure British security forces to a 500 lb (230 kg) van bomb in Queen Street, Belfast, with a hoax car bomb. The real device was detected and later defused by the British Army.[441]
7 July 1993: a coffee jar bomb was lobbed at a joint British Army-RUC patrol in the New Lodge area of Belfast, but failed to explode.[442]
8 July 1993:
a 500 lb (230 kg) IRA bomb in a hijacked car was defused by the British Army outside the Stormont hotel in East Belfast.[443]
the IRA launched a 'barrack buster' mortar at the RUC base in Roslea, County Fermanagh. The IRA claims that the barracks were evacuated.[444]
9 July 1993:
a 400 lb (180 kg) IRA car bomb outside British government offices in Adelaide Street in Belfast city centre was neutralised by the British Army in a controlled explosion.[444] A hoax car bomb in the same street was also destroyed.[445]
the British Army defused a suspect device in a hijacked taxi abandoned at Mountpottinger Road, East Belfast.[445]
Fifty houses from a housing estate in Dungannon, County Tyrone, were evacuated after a mortar,[436] that according to the IRA was a Mark 15 type,[444] was fired at the town's RUC compound.[446] The mortar bomb didn't explode on impact and was defused after three hours of work.[447] The IRA statement also claims that the barracks had to be evacuated.[444]
10 July 1993:
the IRA launched a horizontal mortar at an RUC armoured vehicle in the William Street area of Derry. The IRA reported the projectile glanced off.[444]
a barn near Dungannon, County Tyrone, was hit by an IRA mortar bomb that appeared to have detonated prematurely. A suspected IRA volunteer was later arrested at Newtownstewart while heading towards the border. He was apparently injured in the mishap and admitted to a Belfast hospital under armed guard.[448]
11 July 1993: an IRA unit lobbed two coffee jar bombs at a joint British Army-RUC mobile patrol on the Oldpark Road, North Belfast. There were no reported injuries.[444]
13 July 1993:
the IRA claimed they fired shots to disperse a mob of Loyalists attacking Catholic homes in the Twinbrook area of West Belfast.[449]
a horizontal mortar was fired at a joint British Army-RUC patrol from a parked car in William Street, Derry.[436]
an IRA bomb attack was foiled when anti-terrorist police arrested an IRA member carrying a Semtex and petrol device at Staples Corner, Hendon, in north-west London.[450]
14 July 1993: seventeen shots were fired just across the border from Aughrim, County Cavan, at a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint at Gortmullan in County Fermanagh.[451][436]
15 July 1993:
an IRA unit detonated a 250 lb (110 kg) car-bomb near the Markets area of Belfast after luring British security forces to the site. The explosion caused extensive damage to Belfast central station.[306][449]
16 July 1993: an IRA bomb exploded at the front entrance of a bank in Strabane, County Tyrone.[449]
17 July 1993: a British soldier (Kevin Pullin) was shot dead by a sniper while on foot patrol, Carran Road, Crossmaglen, County Armagh.[327]
18 July 1993:
a 300 lb (140 kg)[449] IRA car bomb was defused in the town of Banbridge, County Down, by a British Army disposal team which carried out a controlled explosion; 50 houses were evacuated for a lapse of five hours.[452]
a shrapnel bomb containing 2.2 lb (1.00 kg) of Semtex was defused in the Markets area of Belfast.[453]
19 July 1993: the IRA left several hoax car bombs across Belfast, causing significant disruption.[449]
20 July 1993: an IRA unit fired several shots at a joint British Army-RUC checkpoint near the Short Strand area of Belfast. The IRA men had taken a family captive in their home to launch the attack.[454]
22 July 1993: a Semtex booby-trap bomb attached to a car belonging to a member of British security forces was defused by the British Army in Rathcoole, County Antrim.[436]
23 July 1993: the IRA claimed responsibility for a 100 lb (45 kg) bomb which exploded inside the Culmore checkpoint compound on the Derry-Moville road.[455] The explosion blew out a section of the protective fence.[456]
24 July 1993: a British soldier was injured after a coffee jar bomb was thrown at a combined British Army/RUC patrol in the New Lodge area of Belfast.[457]
29 July 1993: the IRA tried to kill a man they claimed was a senior UDA member in Walmer Street, off the Ormeau Road, Belfast, but he wasn't home.[458]
30 July 1993:
an IRA sniper fired on RUC officers in the Ardoyne area of Belfast, but there were no reported injuries.[459]
a bomb attack was foiled when a British Army RIR patrol spotted a primed 20 lb (9.1 kg) device connected to a command wire in Pomeroy, County Tyrone. One man was arrested.[460]
31 July 1993:
a British Army mobile checkpoint is fired at by an IRA sniper at Newtownhamilton, County Armagh. The British patrol manning the checkpoint returned fire.[461]
a coffee jar bomb was thrown at a combined British Army/RUC patrol in the Shaw's Road area of West Belfast. There were no reported injuries.[462] The IRA reported it was a horizontal mortar attack.[458]
2 August 1993: the RUC found a 600 lb (270 kg) bomb during an arms search at a farm outside Cookstown, County Tyrone.[436] It was believed to be intended for an IRA attack on the commercial centre of the town.[463]
4 August 1993:
a remotely operated tractor carrying a 1,000 lb (450 kg) bomb careered off course driving towards a British Army checkpoint and was defused outside Belleeks, County Armagh.[436] A straw-stuffed dummy had been placed in the driver's seat so as not to alert the soldiers manning the checkpoint.[464][465]
a former member of the security forces escaped injury after a 2 lb (0.91 kg) Semtex bomb fell off his car on the Strabane Road, Castlederg, County Tyrone. The device was later defused by the British Army.[466]
Gardaí foiled an IRA operation after intercepting three large primed bombs each 500 lb (230 kg) were found in a barn near Ballybofey Co. Donegal. Four people were arrested and a firearms recovered. The bombs were neutralised by the Irish Army.[466][467]
6 August 1993: a 50 lb (23 kg) car bomb left in Alfred Street in Belfast city centre only partially exploded.[468]
7 August 1993: a horizontal mortar launched at a joint British Army/RUC mobile patrol in the Lenadoon area of Belfast missed its target.[436][468]
8 August 1993: British security forces believed they foiled a bomb attack after discovering a 200-meter long command wire in the Middletown area of South Armagh.[436]
12 August 1993:
a 3,000 lb (1,400 kg) IRA van bomb was intercepted by British security forces in the Ballyoran area of Portadown. The driver escaped, the intended target was unclear.[469]
a 4.4 lb (2.0 kg) Semtex bomb in a holdall in an alleyway off the Ormeau Road, Belfast, was defused by the British Army.[436]
British security forces recovered a mortar launch tube from a building site in the Westrock area of West Belfast.[436]
13 August 1993:
the IRA firebombed six premises in Bournemouth, England, and also detonated a bomb on the pier.[306]
an IRA bomb exploded at the front entrance of a bank in Castle Street, Strabane, County Tyrone.[470][471]
five RUC officers and four civilians were wounded when a 250 lb (110 kg) IRA car bomb exploded outside a restaurant in South Belfast.[306][470]
14 August 1993: a 21 lb (9.5 kg) IRA bomb, targeting British security forces, exploded in Butcher Street Derry.[306][470]
15 August 1993: a 6 lb (2.7 kg) IRA bomb targeting a new British government building on Franklin Street in Belfast city centre partially exploded.[472][473][470][436]
18 August 1993: the IRA detonated a 150 lb (68 kg) car-bomb in Dublin Road, in the centre of Belfast city.[470] The blast caused over 750,000 pounds worth of damage.[306]
20 August 1993:
an IRA mortar attack on Newry's courthouse wounded ten people, among them a 10-year boy and two RUC officers. The courthouse had been closed since 1985, following a previous IRA attack.[474]
a rocket propelled grenade fired by an IRA unit narrowly missed an RUC vehicle at Peter's Hill, Belfast.[319][436] Three RUC officers were treated for shock afterwards.[436]
22 August 1993: the IRA detonated a bomb on Gloucester Street, Belfast, causing considerable damage.[306]
23 August 1993: the IRA detonated a car-bomb outside a bank on the Ormeau Road causing extensive damage.[306]
25 August 1993: the IRA fired around thirty rounds at the British Army observation tower at Rosemount RUC base, Derry.[475]
26 August 1993: the IRA carried out a rocket attack against a joint RUC-British Army convoy as it travelled along Lower Stanfield Street in the Markets area of Belfast.[476][477]
27 August 1993:
the IRA mortared Lisnaskea RUC barracks in Fermanagh. Over 60 nearby homes were damaged in the attack.[306] Several civilians and RUC officers were injured.[436]
the IRA detonated a bomb on the Belfast-Dublin railway line in Belfast.[477]
28 August 1993: British police defused an IRA bomb in London; the device was left within London's brand new high-tech security barrier dubbed the "Ring of Steel" built after the Bishopsgate bombing.[306]
29 August 1993: gunshots were exchanged between the Provisional IRA and the Official IRA in the Markets area of Belfast.[306]
31 August 1993:
the IRA detonated a 600 lb (270 kg) car-bomb at a shopping centre in Derriaghy, on the outskirts of Belfast, causing over 1 million pounds worth of damage and injuring two RUC officers.[478] A second bomb detonated minutes later at a nearby cricket club.[306][479]
two British soldiers and an RUC officer were treated for shock after only the detonator of a 4.5 lb (2.0 kg) Semtex bomb[480] in a car exploded near their patrol in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.[306][477][481]
a Semtex booby-trap bomb attached to an RUC Reserve officer's car in Armagh was defused.[480]
a 600 lb (270 kg) car-bomb failed to fully detonate outside a hotel in Newtownabbey on the outskirts of Belfast.[477]
September–October
1 September 1993: the British Army defused a 250 lb (110 kg) bomb buried in the ground near Cullyhanna, County Armagh. A second 500 lb (230 kg) bomb was found nearby in what the RUC called a "sophisticated" trap.[482][306]
3 September 1993: a 1,000 lb (450 kg) IRA van-bomb detonated outside Armagh Courthouse causing widespread damage in the centre of Armagh City.[306][466]
4 September 1993: the IRA began an undeclared suspension of operations for one week, timed to coincide with a visit to Ireland by an American delegation led by former Congressman Bruce Morrison. The group held a meeting with Sinn Féin.[439]
10 September 1993:
Belfast's transport links were disrupted by a number of IRA hoax alerts.[306] Hijacked vehicles containing hoax bombs were left outside various British security forces bases in the city.
an IRA unit fired several shots at two British armoured vehicles exiting Oldpark RUC station, North Belfast.[483][484]
an IRA unit fired several shots at a fortified observation post Woodbourne RUC station, West Belfast.[483][484]
13 September 1993:
the IRA detonated a 300 lb (140 kg) car bomb[484] at Stormont hotel in East Belfast, injuring an RUC officer and two civilians.[306]
several shots were fired at Killyvilly vehicle checkpoint, County Fermanagh. British soldiers returned fire; hundreds of rounds were exchanged during the gun battle. There were no reported injuries.[482][485] The IRA's South Fermanagh Brigade later denied responsibility, claiming the incident had been orchestrated by the British Army to coincide with a wake nearby to discredit the IRA.[486]
14 September 1993:
the IRA detonated a bomb at the Fir Trees hotel in Strabane, County Tyrone, causing serious damage.[306]
an IRA bomb exploded outside a bank in Belleek, County Fermanagh. A second 60 lb (27 kg) bomb was defused at the Carlton Hotel nearby.[306][484]
An IRA "test site" was found by a British Army patrol in a remote area at the Sperrin Mountains, near Greencastle, County Tyrone.[487]
15 September 1993:
the IRA shot dead a Catholic man (Adrian McGovern) outside his home, Stoneyford Road, Lisburn, County Antrim. He was a contractor to the BA/RUC. The IRA claimed he had been supplying the RUC with information on republicans.[306][488]
the IRA attempted to kill an alleged senior UDA member at his home in Hazelfield Street in the Shankill area of Belfast. The IRA claimed a struggle ensued in which shots were fired after an armed Loyalist appeared at the door before a hostile crowd forced the unit to leave.[489]
16 September 1993: three IRA incendiary devices were made safe in two separate cinemas in London.[490]
18 September 1993:
the IRA claimed responsibility for hoax bomb alerts at the Stormont Hotel in East Belfast and at the Chimney Corner Hotel in County Antrim.[489][491]
a British soldier was wounded when an IRA unit threw a blast-bomb at his patrol in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.[306]
an IRA unit fired a rocket at a joint British Army-RUC patrol exiting an RUC base at Strand Road, Derry, but the projectile failed to explode.[482][492]
23 September 1993: a fierce exchange of gunfire occurred between a number IRA armed trucks and British Army helicopters in south County Armagh, east of Crossmaglen. The IRA units used a large number of assault rifles and at least one heavy-machine gun. A Puma helicopter, ferrying the 3rd Infantry Brigade Commander,[493] was hit. All the IRA volunteers managed to slip away in their vehicles, but a number of weapons were confiscated in the aftermath (see Battle of Newry Road).[387][306]
24 September 1993: a soldier was wounded in a bomb attack on an RUC/BA mobile patrol in West Belfast.[306] IRA sources claim that two British Army armoured vehicles were knocked down.[494]
27 September 1993:
a 300 lb (140 kg) IRA car-bomb caused extensive damage in Gloucester Street in Belfast city centre.[482]
a large IRA car-bomb wrecked commercial premises in Boucher Crescent in south Belfast. A female RUC officer was caught in the blast and suffered severe shock while attempting to evacuate a children's play centre. Around one hundred children were in the centre at the time of the explosion.[306][482]
30 September 1993: a hotel in Markethill, County Armagh was badly damaged in an IRA bomb attack. Several homes were also damaged including one belonging to the MP for Newry and Armagh Seamus Mallon.[306][495]
1 October 1993:
six IRA firebombs detonated in commercial premises in Belfast, Lisburn and Newtownabbey.[306]
the IRA reported they lobbed a grenade at Strand Road RUC base, Derry. The RUC didn't verify the claim, although witnesses reported hearing a small bang.[496]
2 October 1993:
three IRA bombs exploded in Hampstead, North London, injuring six people.[306] The IRA stated that four devices exploded in three different locations.[497]
an IRA unit fired 25 rounds at Oldpark RUC station in North Belfast, the IRA claimed they targeted a British Army technician working on a surveillance mast.[497][498]
3 October 1993: a 200 lb (91 kg) IRA car bomb exploded outside a hotel in Newtownabbey, County Antrim. A nearby school was also damaged.[306]
4 October 1993:
five IRA bombs detonated in North London, injuring four people and destroying a number of businesses.[306]
the IRA bombed two businesses in North Belfast, on Duncrue Street and Oldpark Road.[319][497]
the IRA bombed a pub on Botanic Avenue near Belfast city centre. The IRA claimed it was frequented by off-duty RUC officers.[497]
an inert IRA bomb was discovered in a tavern in the New Lodge Road area of Belfast.[497]
5 October 1993:
an IRA horizontal mortar bomb bounced off an RUC vehicle on Fanad Drive, Derry.[302][499]
an IRA sniper fired a single shot at a British Army patrol near Crossmaglen, County Armagh.[500]
8 October 1993:
an IRA unit fired over 200 rounds at the RUC barracks at Middletown, County Armagh; RUC members returned fire.[501] A Presbyterian church, a primary school, and a convent were also hit, narrowly missing a civilian.[502]
two IRA bombs exploded in North London.[306]
9 October 1993: the IRA attacked a British Army base in Kilkeel, County Down, with a 12-tube Mk-15 multiple mortar, causing extensive damage to the barracks.[503][306][504][498]
10 October 1993: the IRA reported that two British Army patrols became the target of anti-personnel explosive devices in Milltown, near Loughmacrory, County Tyrone.[503]
12 October 1993:
IRA incendiary devices detonated in four commercial premises in Belfast and one in Lisburn.[306][498]
a coffee jar type bomb was neutralised by the British Army in Etna Drive in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.[498]
15 October 1993: two bombs inflicted some damage on the fortified[505] courthouse at Cookstown, County Tyrone,[51][506][507][508] in an attack also aimed at the adjoining British Army checkpoint.[509][510] Fifty families[511] were evacuated to a nearby church hall.[512] IRA sources claimed that there were RUC and British Army casualties, but the RUC denied this.[506]
17 October 1993:
a man was shot and seriously injured at his home in South Belfast. The IRA's original target was Joe Bratty, a senior member of the UDA/UFF, whose car was parked outside.[513][514]
a British soldier sustained an ear blast injury[515] when a firework bomb was thrown at a British Army foot patrol in Dungannon, County Tyrone.[516]
18 October 1993:
British security forces disarmed a large bomb buried in a quarry near Cappagh, County Tyrone. A command wire led to an ignition pack nearby.[517] Security forces believed the IRA's target was an RUC or British Army patrol present to supervise blasting at the site.[518]
the IRA carried out a bomb attack against the RUC barracks in Castlederg, County Tyrone. A restaurant was damaged and a civilian (Annie Bogle, 73) died from a heart attack.[306][319][519]
an incendiary device was discovered in a furniture shop in Newtownabbey and later neutralised by the British Army.[498]
19 October 1993:
a British soldier was wounded by a blast bomb in Belfast,[306] while patrolling Ardoyne's Edna Drive.[520]
a 0.75 lb (0.34 kg) booby-trap bomb attached to the underside of an RIR soldier's car was spotted and later defused in Maghera, County Londonderry.[506][498]
20 October 1993:
the IRA carried out a horizontal mortar attack against an RUC mobile patrol near Fort George in Derry. The launcher was welded to the roof of a vehicle.[521][498] According to the IRA, the weapon was a normally shoulder-held device and detonated by an IRA member inside the vehicle, who then drove off.[522]
an IRA unit lobbed a coffee jar bomb attack at British security forces mobile patrol in Horn Drive in the Lenadoon area of Belfast.[521]
21 October 1993: the manager of a security firm with contracts to the British Army was shot dead by the IRA at his home in Glengormley, County Antrim.[306]
22 October 1993: an IRA unit lobbed a coffee jar bomb at RUC officers in the Falcarragh Drive in the Lenadoon area of Belfast.[521]
23 October 1993: Shankill Road bombing: eight civilians, one UDA member and one IRA volunteer (Thomas Begley) were killed when an IRA bomb prematurely exploded at a fish shop on Shankill Road, Belfast. The IRA's intended target was a meeting of loyalist paramilitary leaders, which was scheduled to take place in a room above the shop. However, unbeknownst to the IRA, the meeting had been rescheduled.[523]
24 October 1993: an IRA bomb exploded on a railway line in Berkshire, England. Other devices were defused at Reading and Basingstoke stations.[306] A fourth device detonated near Brill in Buckinghamshire.[521]
25 October 1993: an IRA unit carried out a gun attack on a British checkpoint in Derriaghy on the outskirts of Belfast.[306][524]
28 October 1993: a fire broke out at bookshop in Belfast city centre. The RUC believed an incendiary device was the cause.[498]
29 October 1993: a small IRA bomb exploded in Edwards Square, London.[490]
30 October 1993: the IRA exploded several incendiary bombs in a British government office in Arthur Street in Belfast city centre.[524]
November–December
1 November 1993: British Army experts defused a 145 lb (66 kg) roadside bomb intended for a security forces patrol at Tullyara Road in Pomeroy, County Tyrone.[525][526]
2 November 1993: an RUC officer (Brian Woods) died two days after being shot by an IRA sniper while at an RUC Vehicle Check Point (VCP), Upper Edward Street, Newry, County Down. A single shot hit him in the neck.[327][527]
3 November 1993: a coffee-jar bomb was thrown at an RUC patrol in Bryson Street in the Short Strand area of Belfast.[306] The IRA claimed they injured four RUC officers.[524]
4 November 1993: an anti-personnel bomb targeting British security forces was defused in a coal yard on Stewartstown Road, Belfast.[526]
7 November 1993:
an IRA unit fired on a joint British Army/RUC checkpoint on the Grosvenor Road, Belfast.[526]
a British soldier was shot and wounded by an IRA sniper while on a foot patrol in Spamount street, New Lodge Road, Belfast.[306][528]
an IRA unit attacked with machine-gun fire and a barrack-buster mortar an RUC base in Caledon, County Tyrone. A nearby church and several houses were also damaged, and more than 50 people were evacuated.[306][528]
9 November 1993:
a 500 lb (230 kg) van bomb was defused in Essex Street in the Ormeau Road area of Belfast.[529][526]
an IRA bomb with up to 200–250 lb (91–113 kg) of home-made explosives in a wheelie bin was defused at Drum Road, Cookstown.[526][530][531]
10 November 1993: a 2 lb (0.91 kg) Semtex jar bomb thrown at a British security forces patrol in the Stewartstown Road area of West Belfast failed to explode and was later defused.[532][533][534]
11 November 1993: a Semtex under-car booby-trap bomb attached to a van was neutralised by the British Army in Bleach Green Avenue, Newtownabbey, County Antrim.[526]
12 November 1993: for the second time in less than a year, a manure spreader, converted into an improvised flamethrower and pulled by a tractor, doused Borucki sangar in Crossmaglen with 1,100 imperial gallons (5,000 L) of petrol. A small explosive device ignited the fuel stream and a nine meters-high fireball engulfed the tower. Four Grenadier Guards inside were rescued by a Saxon armored vehicle.[287][535][536]
16 November 1993: a soldier was wounded by an IRA bomb in the Turf Lodge area of Belfast.[526][306]
21 November 1993: an IRA unit attacked with gunfire the house of a former UDR soldier in Cookstown, County Tyrone; no one was injured.[537] The IRA claimed the former soldier was a member of the UVF.[538]
23 November 1993: a Semtex undercar booby-trap bomb failed to explode after falling off a car in Portadown, County Armagh; a magnet on the device had fixed itself to a manhole in the middle of a busy road.[539]
24 November 1993: a British soldier was injured after a coffee jar bomb was thrown at a joint British Army-RUC patrol in the New Lodge area of Belfast.[540]
27 November 1993:
a bomb containing 50 lb (23 kg) of home-made explosives planted at Poleglass Roundabout in West Belfast was defused by the British Army following an IRA warning that they had aborted an operation.[541]
a blast bomb was thrown at a British Army patrol in the New Lodge area of Belfast.[542]
29 November 1993:
the IRA fired several shots at the home of an RUC officer in the Portadown Road area of Armagh town. The attack was intended to lure security forces into range of a 2,000 lb (910 kg) bomb hidden in a trailer, but the IRA claimed they aborted the operation because of the presence of civilians as the mobile patrol passed.[306][543]
a car with a mounted Mark-16 horizontal mortar was found by security forces parked close to a school in Cookstown, County Tyrone. The RUC suspected it was an IRA attempt to ambush an RUC/British Army patrol. The primed mortar was defused by British Army technicians, who had to carry out six controlled explosions on the vehicle before declaring the device safe.[544][545]
an IRA unit fired several shots at a joint British Army/RUC foot patrol on the Springfield Road, Belfast.[542]
an IRA unit lobbed a coffee jar bomb at a British Army foot patrol in the Brompton Park area of Ardoyne, North Belfast.[542]
an RUC officer and a civilian were injured when a bomb exploded as a joint British Army-RUC patrol passed at the junction of the Antrim Road and Duncairn Avenue in the New Lodge area of Belfast.[548][549]
an IRA unit opened fire on Oldpark RUC base in North Belfast.[550]
an IRA unit opened fire on a security forces base in the Whiterock area of West Belfast.[550]
an IRA unit opened fire on Broadway Tower base in West Belfast.[550]
an IRA unit opened fire on a British Army RIR sangar at the Belfast Law Courts adjacent to the Markets area.[550]
several shots were fired at a British Army patrol in Clogh Forest near Rosslea, County Fermanagh. The soldiers returned fire. There were no reported injuries.[551]
2 December 1993:
a British soldier (Paul Garrett) was shot dead by a sniper while on foot-patrol, Victoria Street, Keady, County Armagh. He was hit in the stomach by a single bullet fired from a nearby hill.[327][552]
a 1,100 lb (500 kg) bomb, targeting an RUC mobile patrol, was defused by the IRA after the remote detonator failed in the Poleglass area of Belfast. Nearly eight hundred pupils from a nearby primary school were evacuated.[306][553]
an IRA unit lobbed a coffee jar bomb at British security forces foot patrol emerging from Henry Taggart base on the Springfield Road.
3 December 1993: the IRA detonated a 15 lb (6.8 kg) bomb after luring three RUC officers to a vacant house in the Loyalist Glenbryn Park area of North Belfast.[551]
7 December 1993: an IRA unit mortared Newtownbutler RUC barracks in Fermanagh.[306]
12 December 1993:
two RUC officers (Constables Andrew Beacom and Ernest Smith) were shot dead by the IRA East Tyrone Brigade while traveling in their civilian-type patrol car in Fivemiletown, County Tyrone.[327] The patrol car was on Main Street when it was hit by at least 20 shots from both sides of the road. In a follow-up operation a British Army Lynx helicopter received automatic fire from an IRA unit.[554][555] (See 1993 Fivemiletown ambush)
an IRA unit opened fire on a retired RUC officer and his wife as they drove home from Fortwilliam Golf Club in North Belfast. They were only slightly injured.[556][557]
13 December 1993: a 90 lb (41 kg) anti-personnel device was found by British security forces on Glen Road in the Andersonstown area of West Belfast.[558][551]
14 December 1993:
an IRA bomb exploded on a railway track in Woking, Surrey, England, disrupting commuter services.[306]
two soldiers were wounded by a trip wire bomb blast at a railway near Ebrington Barracks in Derry.[499][559][560]
an IRA attack was foiled after British security forces uncovered a 1,100 lb (500 kg) bomb in the Markets area of Belfast. The IRA said the bomb was intended for a "specific target" nearby.[558][551]
16 December 1993: two further IRA bombs on the Surrey railway were defused.[306]
19 December 1993:
an IRA landmine attack on a British mobile patrol at Buncrana Road, Derry using a 500 lb (230 kg) bomb left four civilians in a passing car - one adult and three young children - in need of hospital treatment. A suspect was arrested at his home eight hours later, where traces of Semtex were found.[306][561] Damages were estimated at £450,000.[562]
a small IRA bomb went off at a derelict farm near Cookstown, County Tyrone. The explosion was designed to appear accidental to lure British security forces into the vicinity of a larger 160 lb (73 kg) bomb, which failed to detonate.[563][564]
20 December 1993:
a British soldier and a civilian were wounded in an IRA remote-detonation bomb attack on a mobile patrol in the Suffolk area of Belfast.[306][565][566]
a number of IRA firebombs exploded in stores and a post-office in London causing minor damage. Seven incendiary devices were made safe.[306][565]
23 December 1993: the IRA announced a three-day Christmas ceasefire.[306]
27 December 1993:
the IRA launched a mortar attack on an RUC base in Fintona, County Tyrone. Two civilian passers-by were wounded. It was the first of a number of attacks marking the end of the Christmas ceasefire.[306][567] Damage was estimated at £125,000.[562]
the IRA carried out a coffee jar attack on Springfield Road RUC base in Belfast. Five people were hospitalised and several nearby homes were damaged.[568][306]
the IRA launched a gun and bomb attack on a British Army base in Portadown, County Armagh.[306]
28 December 1993: a British soldier was injured when the IRA fired a horizontal mortar at a foot-patrol in Belfast.[569]
29 December 1993:
a mortar was defused by the British Army on the Falls Road near Whiterock Road junction.[568][551]
the IRA carried out a horizontal mortar attack in the Poleglass area of Belfast. No reported injuries.[568][551]
an IRA unit fired a missile at a British patrol on Upper Library Street in Belfast.[306] A soldier received shrapnel wounds. The IRA claimed that this was a new armour-piercing mortar projectile.[570]
30 December 1993:
a British soldier (Daniel Blinco) was shot dead by an IRA sniper while on foot-patrol in Crossmaglen, County Armagh.[327][569]
an IRA unit carried out a gun and rocket attack on a British Army mobile patrol in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.[568][551] The IRA unit launched the attack from the garden of a house owned by a couple they took hostage. One soldier was slightly wounded.[571]
Members of a joint British Army/RUC patrol escaped injury when an IRA landmine exploded in the environs of West Belfast.[571]
1994
January–February
1 January 1994:
almost a dozen premises in and around Belfast were firebombed by the IRA including the Linen Hall Library, causing £1,000,000 worth of damage.[572][573]
the IRA forced a man to carry a bomb in his car to the British Army RIR base in Cookstown, County Tyrone. The device was declared a hoax after being neutralised by the British Army in controlled explosions. Also, a taxi driver was forced to carry a hoax bomb to the RIR base in Dungannon, County Tyrone, but was stopped by a British patrol.[568][574] Up to 100 families were evacuated from their homes.[575]
3 January 1994: an IRA unit fired several shots at a civilian as they drove out of Rockwood British Army base in Castlederg, County Tyrone. The driver narrowly escaped injury but was treated for shock.[576] The IRA's West Tyrone brigade claimed they fired 68 shots at a car driven by undercover British soldiers.[577]
6 January 1994:
an IRA unit fired two rockets at a British Army armoured mobile patrol on the Springfield Road Belfast.[572][578][576]
7 January 1994:
an IRA unit lobbed a coffee jar bomb at a joint RUC-British Army patrol in the New Lodge Road area of North Belfast.[578]
an IRA unit launched a horizontal mortar[578] attack against an RUC-British Army patrol in the Andersonstown area of Belfast.[579][580] The IRA claimed they scored a direct hit, wrecking an RUC vehicle.[578]
10 January 1994:
two British soldiers were seriously injured by an IRA booby-trap inside their base in Crossmaglen, County Armagh,[572] following a mortar attack on the barracks.[573] The bomb was hidden in the launcher vehicle, which had been recovered by explosives technicians.[581][582][576]
11 January 1994:
three RUC officers were injured when their patrol vehicle was hit by an IRA rocket in the Short Strand area of Belfast.[572]
a 500 lb (230 kg) IRA bomb was defused by the British Army on Malvern Avenue in Derry.[573][576]
the RUC foiled an IRA attack after locating a coffee jar bomb in an apartment building in the New Lodge area of Belfast. The device was neutralised by the British Army.[576]
12 January 1994:
a female British soldier was shot twice and seriously wounded by an IRA sniper in the New Lodge area of Belfast.[583][584] Troops returned fire. An RUC officer and a number of civilians suffered minor injuries when a bomb aimed at a British Army patrol demolished a nearby building 50 minutes later. A loaded rifle was recovered and two men arrested in the aftermath.[585]
a coffee jar bomb was thrown at an RUC vehicle at a security barrier in Lurgan but failed to explode.[576]
15 January 1994: the IRA exploded a total of eleven incendiary devices in commercial premises in Belfast, Newtownards, Finaghy, and Newry.[572][586]
16 January 1994: seven men were arrested after an IRA barrack buster mortar was positioned in firing range of a permanent vehicle checkpoint near Clogher, County Tyrone.[572][576]
19 January 1994: three stores in Coleraine and Limavady were damaged by IRA firebombs. Devices were also found in four other premises.[572]
20 January 1994:
the IRA claimed responsibility for a coffee jar bomb attack on British security forces closing a security barrier on the Donegall Road, Belfast.[587][576]
British security forces disrupted a planned ambush when they found a command wire leading from a culvert to a firing device at Cappagh, County Tyrone.[576]
22 January 1994:
a British Army Land Rover was hit by an IRA horizontal mortar[587] while on patrol in Poleglass, West Belfast.[572]
the IRA shot and wounded a man in the Hatfield Bar on the Ormeau Road, Belfast; they claimed he was involved in numerous acts of criminality.[587]
23 January 1994:
two civilians were injured when an IRA bomb intended for security forces exploded in a farmhouse at Cabragh, near Dungannon, County Tyrone.[572]
an IRA incendiary device severely damaged a fabric shop in the Lisnagelvin area of Derry.[588]
an IRA incendiary device triggered water sprinklers in a furniture shop in Strabane, County Tyrone, causing extensive damage.[589]
24 January 1994:
incendiary bombs were found in a hardware store in Derry.[588]
an RUC officer returned fire and escaped injury after an IRA unit opened fire at him in Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh.[572]
an IRA unit opened fired on construction workers at the Belfast Law Courts. Afterwards a bomb exploded nearby in a hijacked taxi but British security forces escaped injury.[587][590]
a horizontal mortar was defused in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.[576]
27 January 1994:
an IRA member was hospitalised after a horizontal mortar he was preparing exploded in Derry.[573]
IRA bombs exploded in three stores in Oxford Street, London.[572]
28 January 1994:
a British army patrol escaped injury when only the detonator on an IRA bomb exploded in the Stewartstown area of West Belfast.[573][576]
an IRA firebomb exploded in Oxford Street, London, and another was discovered.[572]
29 January 1994: two IRA firebombs were found in stores in Oxford Street, London.[572]
30 January 1994: the IRA fired a rocket at a British Army post atop an apartment block in the New Lodge area of Belfast.[572] The IRA claimed it was the 25th time they had attacked the position.[591]
1 February 1994:
the IRA launched a mortar attack on a British Army border post in Cloghoge, County Armagh.[572]
an IRA attack was foiled after British security forces found a rocket launcher with a primed warhead in Springhill Park, Strabane, County Tyrone.[592]
3 February 1994:
the IRA carried out a rocket attack against an armoured RUC patrol vehicle on the Woodvale Road in North Belfast.[593]
an IRA unit planted a bomb outside the home of the RUC assistant Chief Constable in Derry.[572]
5 February 1994:
an IRA unit opened fire on British security forces carrying out repairs at Oldpark RUC base, North Belfast.[593]
IRA firebombs severely damaged a wholesaler on the Boucher Road, Belfast. Devices also exploded in a supermarket and pub. Further firebomb finds were made in a commercial premises on the Donegall Road.[572][588]
6 February 1994: three British soldiers were seriously injured, one "severely" when an IRA horizontal mortar hit their patrol vehicle in Poleglass, West Belfast.[572][592]
10 February 1994:
undercover RUC officers intercepted an IRA unit armed with assault rifles and a coffee jar bomb in the Belmont area of Belfast; the RUC, based on an intelligence tip-off, believed their intended target was a RUC detective Chief Superintendent who lived nearby. The same officer had been seriously injured in a previous IRA assassination attempt in November 1983.[594][595]
the British Army defused an improvised IRA grenade in Market Square, Lurgan, County Armagh, primed and ready for an attack.[594][592]
11 February 1994:
an IRA car bomb exploded beside a British Army foot patrol in Crossmaglen. No injuries were reported. Only individual equipment was damaged by shrapnel.[596]
a Mark-16 mortar attack on Antrim Road RUC station, Belfast, was foiled after British soldiers and RUC officers raided a house on the Cavehill Road overlooking the base. Three men and one woman were arrested.[597]
12 February 1994: a coffee jar bomb was thrown at British troops by an IRA unit in Cookstown, County Tyrone, but the device failed to explode.[598][599]
13 February 1994:
the IRA fired several shots at the British Army observation tower at Rosemount RUC base, Derry.[600]
an incendiary device exploded in a restaurant in High Street Belfast. Further devices exploded in a furniture and carpet store on North Street.[588]
16 February 1994: four British soldiers were wounded by an IRA roadside bomb, one seriously, while on patrol at Short Strand, east Belfast. An RUC officer was also injured.[601]
17 February 1994:
an RUC officer (William Beacom) was killed and two others seriously injured when the IRA fired a homemade rocket at an RUC patrol vehicle on Friendly Street in the Market Quarter, South Belfast.[572]
an IRA bomb detonated prematurely in the Turf Lodge area of Belfast.
18 February 1994: an IRA incendiary device was defused in a shop at Charing Cross, London.[565]
19 February 1994: a number of incendiary devices were left in shops in London, including Burton stores in Regent Street and New Oxford Street. One device destroyed a newsagents shop, three caused minor damage, and several others were made safe.[46]
20 February 1994:
the IRA attacked eleven commercial premises in Belfast with firebombs, including several supermarkets and an electrical store.[588]
an IRA unit fired a rocket at a British Army patrol vehicle in Poleglass, West Belfast.[572] The soldiers inside were treated for shock and ear injuries.[592]
21 February 1994:
an IRA mortar attack destroyed an RUC base and caused widespread damage in Beragh, County Tyrone.[572]
an IRA attack was foiled after RUC officers spotted a command wire in Etna Drive, Ardoyne. Three men were arrested and the British Army defused the attached bomb.[592]
25 February 1994:
a motorcycle dealership on the Boucher Road, Belfast was destroyed in an IRA incendiary bomb attack.[588]
the IRA planted several incendiary devices in commercial premises in Derry; a timber yard was gutted but firemen prevented the flames spreading to a nearby oil storage depot. Two pubs in the city were also damaged.[588]
three men were arrested and a mortar neutralised by experts after a British patrol noticed suspicious activity at a house in the St. James's Road area of Belfast.[602]
March–April
1 March 1994: a car with 300 kg (660 lb) of explosives inside was intercepted by British security forces at a checkpoint near Pomeroy, County Tyrone. A further 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) of explosives were also found in a derelict house nearby.[603]
3 March 1994:
the IRA carried out a horizontal mortar attack on a British Army mobile patrol at the Monagh Bypass west Belfast.[572][603]
the British Army defused a small Semtex bomb placed beside Rosemount RUC station in Derry. Fifty homes were evacuated for the duration of the operation.[603][604]
5 March 1994: Irish security forces foiled a barrack buster mortar attack on a British Army checkpoint at Clady, County Tyrone. The mortar, mounted to a 4x4 vehicle, was found near Castlefin, County Donegal and destroyed in a controlled explosion.[588]
8 March 1994: four Mark-6 mortar shells[605] were fired from a car towards Heathrow Airport near London. The shells landed on or near the northern runway, but failed to explode.[46]
10 March 1994:
the IRA launched a second attack on Heathrow Airport, firing four mortar shells over the perimeter fence which landed near Terminal Four but failed to explode.[46]
an off-duty RUC officer (John Haggan) was shot dead by the IRA at the Dunmore Greyhound Stadium, off Antrim Road, Belfast. The officer was in the lounge when he was shot in the head by an IRA volunteer and shot again as he lay on the ground. A second IRA volunteer fired into the ceiling to cover their escape.[572][606]
the IRA fired a horizontal mortar at a British Army vehicle on Culmore Road, Derry. The projectile scored a hit, but there were no reported injuries.[302][603]
incendiary devices were found in a shop in Ann Street and a shop in Donegall Arcade in Belfast city centre. No damage was caused.[603]
11 March 1994: an IRA unit drove into Belleek, County Fermanagh to launch a machinegun attack from a hijacked van up-armoured with sandbags and steel plating but returned across the border after failing to encounter a British Army patrol.[607]
13 March 1994:
the IRA defied tightened security to launch a third attack on Heathrow Airport, firing five mortar shells over the perimeter fence which landed near Terminal Four but failed to explode.[46] Later that night both Heathrow and Gatwick airports were closed for two hours after coded telephoned bomb threats were received.[608]
an IRA arms cache was discovered at a college in Belfast. A grenade, a rifle, a pistol, a homemade bomb, a number of detonators, 2 lb of explosive and over 1,500 rounds of ammunition were captured.[572]
in a statement demanding direct talks with the British government, the IRA also claimed despite having advance knowledge they had decided not to assassinate a member of the British Royal Family, Princess Anne, while she was visiting a BAFTA awards ceremony at Belfast Grand Opera House the previous night. The IRA said they wanted to avert a surge in sectarian violence.[607]
15 March 1994: train services were disrupted after a small Semtex bomb was found on a railway line near Sevenoaks railway station in Kent, England. Police believed the IRA had planted the device in December 1993.[609][610]
19 March 1994: a shell from a Mark-15 mortarhit a British Army Lynx helicopter attempting to land at a base in Crossmaglen. an RUC officer was pulled out of the blazing helicopter before it exploded.[572][580]
21 March 1994:
an IRA unit launched a shoulder-fired[611] mortar at a joint British Army-RUC patrol in North Belfast. The projectile exploded but missed its target.[612]
a Mark-15 barrack buster mortar vehicle was discovered at Ballyrath Road outside Armagh city and defused by the British Army.[603]
22 March 1994:
an IRA member lobbed an improvised grenade at British soldiers as they exited Springfield Road RUC base, Belfast.[611]
Orpington railway station on the outskirts of London was closed after a worker found part of an IRA incendiary device timer on a track.[613] Police believed the device was planted three months earlier.[610]
23 March 1994:
a primed horizontal mortar launcher was defused in the front garden of a home in the Shaw's Road area of West Belfast. Armed IRA members had taken the occupants hostage.[614]
the IRA claimed responsibility for an incendiary bomb attack which destroyed a furniture warehouse in East Belfast.[611][603]
a Mark-15 barrack buster mortar mounted in a white Renault van was neutralised by the British Army. The vehicle had been hijacked near Swatragh, County Londonderry, on 14 March.[603]
24 March 1994: the IRA carried out a mortar attack on Newtownbutler RUC station, County Fermanagh. The device failed to explode and there were no reported injuries. The device was one of the most powerful IRA mortars yet recovered; containing 260 kg (570 lb) of explosives, 100 kg (220 lb) more than a typical barrack buster.[615][616]
31 March 1994:
Portadown RUC base came under attack from an IRA unit using rockets and automatic weapons. An RUC officer manning the front guard post was injured.[572][617]
an RPG-7 rocket and several shots were fired at an RUC base in Garvagh, County Londonderry. One RUC officer was treated for shock and minor injuries.[618]
1 April 1994:
the IRA planted a 200 kg (440 lb) bomb anti-personnel bomb on Nursery Road in Armagh city.[619] The explosives were neutralised by the British Army.[620]
an IRA mortar attack on Roslea RUC station, County Fermanagh, failed.[619]
2 April 1994: loud explosions were heard near Crossmaglen, County Armagh. A follow-up operation by British security forces failed to trace the source of the explosions; allegedly the IRA were testing an iteration of their Mark 15 barrack-buster mortar.[621]
3 April 1994: Two IRA masked militants made a public statement at a hall in Carrickmore, County Tyrone, where an Easter Sunday concert was being performed. The declaration said that "the Republican movement had never been stronger, more united and confident".[622]
5 April 1994: the IRA began a three-day ceasefire in an attempt to show it was serious about bringing about an end to the conflict.[572]
8 April 1994: the three-day IRA ceasefire ended at midnight.
9 April 1994:
an IRA unit attacked two checkpoints (Clonnaty Bridge and Kilturk) near Newtownbutler, Fermanagh with automatic weapons.[572] One of the attacks on an outpost manned by the British Army lasted five minutes.[623][572][624]
an IRA unit fired an improvised rocket at a British patrol in Stewartstown road, Belfast.[572][621]
a coffee jar bomb was thrown over the perimeter fence of Oldpark RUC station, North Belfast. One RUC officer was treated for shock.[621]
a permanent border checkpoint at Aughnacloy, County Tyrone, became the target of an improvised mortar fired by an IRA unit at midday.[572][625] An IRA East Tyrone Brigade statement reports that the militants took over and blocked the road between the checkpoint and the border, then issued a 30-minute warning before the attack. The mortar was transported and fired by a tractor.[626] The barrack-buster projectile, described as a "very large" device, overshot the installation and landed in an adjacent housing estate, forcing its evacuation.[621][625] DUP Derry councillor Alderman Campbell was incidentally passing the checkpoint enroute to a peace conference at Wiclow at the time of the attack.[627] According to some sources, the device exploded but caused little damage.[628]
10 April 1994: an IRA incendiary bomb badly damaged a furniture store in Strabane, County Tyrone.[629]
12 April 1994: an IRA bomb detonated in the garden of a house as a joint British Army-RUC patrol passed in the Ardoyne area of Belfast. Eight people had to be treated for shock.[630][620]
13 April 1994: the IRA carried out a 'Barrack Buster' mortar attack on Newry RUC station. The projectile failed to detonate on impact.[631][632][620]
15 April 1994: an RUC patrol came under IRA rocket attack in Armagh town.[572] The warhead glanced off the windscreen and exploded nearby. The officers inside and two bystanders were treated for shock.[620]
17 April 1994:
an IRA remote-detonation bomb attack targeting RUC officers was aborted near Stewartstown, County Tyrone. The IRA claimed the presence of civilians forced them to defuse and remove the device.[632][573] A bogus car bomb had been left earlier outside Stewartstown RUC station.[633]
an IRA booby trap bomb failed to detonate at the home of a British soldier in Carmoney on the northern outskirts of Belfast. A British Army response team had been lured to the site by a hoax car bomb parked outside.[632][573][620]
20 April 1994:
an RUC officer (Gregory Pollock) was killed when the IRA fired a horizontal mortar at a British Army patrol in the Waterside area of Derry City. Several other RUC officers were injured.[579][634][603]
the IRA shot and injured Bobby Dougan, a leading member of the UDA, outside his home in the Suffolk area of Belfast.[635] He had previously escaped an INLA assassination attempt in October 1993 and the IRA finally succeeded in killing him in February 1998.[636][637][638][632]
21 April 1994: an IRA member was shot and wounded by the RUC in a car chase in South Armagh. He was arrested afterwards for trying to purchase detonators in Arizona, USA.[573]
23 April 1994:
the IRA launched a horizontal mortar at an RUC patrol vehicle in the Stewartstown Road area of Belfast but missed. There were no reported injuries.[639]
the IRA attempted to kill an alleged British Army RIR soldier at his home in the Woodvale area of Belfast.[640]
24 April 1994: the IRA shot dead two men (John McCloy and Alan Smith) as they sat in a stationary car, at Main Street, Garvagh, County Londonderry. The IRA alleged that Smith was a senior member of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) involved in several attacks[640] but this was denied by family and friends. Alan Smith was a former member of the UDR and had survived two previous IRA assassination attempts.[641][573] However, in January 2022 a report released by the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland named Alan Smith as being linked by the RUC to several murders committed by loyalist paramilitaries.[382]
25 April 1994:
a British soldier was injured when a mortar hit Crossmaglen British Army base, County Armagh.[642][573]
the RUC security base at Pomeroy, County Tyrone, became the target of automatic rifle fire from a ten-militant IRA unit, according to an IRA statement.[643]
Sixteen alleged drug-dealers were kneecapped by the IRA across Belfast.[572]
26 April 1994: an alleged drug dealer (Francis Rice) was shot five times in the head and his body dumped on a grass verge beside Half Moon Lake, off Suffolk Road, Belfast. Earlier in the day a three-man IRA unit burst into his home and he had escaped by jumping out a first story window.[572][644]
28 April 1994: a former UDR soldier (Eric Smyth) was shot dead by the IRA outside his home, Salters Grange Road, near Armagh town.[579]
29 April 1994: Michael Brown, a native of County Leitrim, was found shot dead by the IRA by the side of Omeath Road, near Newry, County Down. He was killed as an alleged informer.[579]
May–June
1 May 1994: two alleged drug dealers were kneecapped by the IRA.[579]
2 May 1994: the IRA claims that one of its units launched a rocket at an observation post at the Belfast High Court security cordon.[645]
6 May 1994: an IRA unit fired an RPG-7 rocket[646] at a British Army patrol in the Lenadoon area of Belfast. A woman who was standing nearby was wounded by shrapnel.[579]
9 May 1994: an IRA unit armed with both heavy and light machine guns carried out a sustained attack on a British Army border checkpoint at Kilturk, near Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh.[646]
11 May 1994: an IRA unit fired several shots at a British observation post at Townhall Street in Belfast city centre.[579][647]
12 May 1994:
the homes of two RUC officers were bombed by the IRA in the Waterside area of Derry.[648] The second bomb was defused.[647]
an IRA unit launched a mortar at an RUC base in Newry.[579]
an IRA unit fired a rocket at a British patrol in Poleglass, West Belfast.[579]
13 May 1994: Fred Anthony, a civilian employed by the RUC, was killed by the IRA after a booby trap bomb exploded beneath his car as he drove along Hill Street, Lurgan, County Armagh. His three-year-old daughter was seriously injured.[579][649]
14 May 1994: a British soldier (David Wilson) was killed when the IRA detonated a bomb next to a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint at Castleblaney Road, Keady, County Armagh. Another soldier was injured.[579][650]
18 May 1994: an IRA caller warned that a booby-trap bomb placed under a car had failed to explode; no details were given but it was believed by security forces to belong to an RUC officer in the Castlederg, County Tyrone, area.[651]
20 May 1994: an IRA unit fired on a British Army observation post atop Broadway Tower in the Iveagh area of West Belfast.[652]
21 May 1994:
a Royal Irish Regiment (RIR) soldier from Cookstown, County Tyrone, was kidnapped by the IRA and later found shot dead in a field near Mullaghcreevie housing estate in Armagh town. His brother Nigel (a British Army employee) had been killed during an IRA mortar attack the previous year, and their grandmother (Lilly McCollum) died in 1983 in an attack on her brother, a member of the UDR.[579][653]
an IRA volunteer (Martin Doherty) manning the doors of The Widow Scallan's pub in Dublin was shot dead while the UVF attempted a bomb and gun attack on IRA and Sinn Féin republicans gathered inside at an event.[579]
an IRA rocket missed an RUC Land Rover on a mobile patrol in Guildhall, Derry. Several windows were shattered in the surrounding area.[579]
23 May 1994:
the IRA shot dead a security guard (Nigel Thomas Smith) in central Belfast. The man had been training with the British Army but had been discharged on medical grounds.[654][647]
the IRA used a motor boat stolen from Foyle Search and Rescue Service to cross Lough Foyle and plant an explosive device at the jetty of Fort George British Army base in Derry. Two soldiers were wounded, and one of them was permanently blinded by the blast.[499][573]
the IRA left a 30 lb (14 kg) bomb at a boat club near Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh.[655]
the IRA fired a rocket at Tennent Street RUC station, Belfast.[647][656][657]
an IRA unit abandoned a primed Mark 15 barrack buster mortar launcher between Moy and Benburb, County Tyrone, because of intense security forces activity.[647]
25 May 1994: the British Army defused two coffee jar bombs in the Upper Stanfield area of the Markets, Belfast.[647]
26 May 1994: a 400 lb (180 kg) bomb was defused by the British Army after being found in a derelict farmhouse in Cappagh, County Tyrone.[658]
27 May 1994: an IRA unit raked a British Army checkpoint with gunfire from a Ford Transit van at Aughnacloy, County Tyrone, then crossed the border into the Republic. British soldiers returned fire.[659][51]
28 May 1994: the IRA reported firing a ".50 armour-piercing shell" at a British armoured vehicle in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.[660]
30 May 1994: an IRA unit launched a mortar attack on a British Army base in Tempo, County Fermanagh.[579] The projectile overshot the base and exploded beside several homes and a school.[661]
31 May 1994: an IRA anti-personnel shrapnel bomb hidden in a car failed to detonate and was defused in Crossmaglen, County Armagh.[662]
1 June 1994:
an IRA sniper fired a single shot at British Army checkpoint in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. A soldier narrowly escaped injury when he turned to speak to a colleague.[663]
the IRA claimed responsibility for an under-car booby-trap bomb which fell from a vehicle entering North Queen Street RUC station, Belfast.[660]
2 June 1994: an IRA coffee-jar bomb attack on the High Court of Belfast left one worker injured.[579] A single volunteer cycling on a mountain bike threw the improvised grenade over the security fence; a plainclothes RUC officer fired several shots at him as he escaped on foot.[664][665]
4 June 1994: Billy Wright a leading UVF loyalist paramilitary (and later leader of the breakaway LVF) was injured in an IRA bomb attack in Portadown.[579] A second bomb exploded when security services were responding to the incident in which three RUC officers and a 10-year-old boy received minor injuries.[666] About 20 houses were damaged.[667]
6 June 1994:
an IRA unit launched an armour-piercing projectile at an RUC armoured vehicle in the Poleglass area of Belfast. British soldiers in the convoy returned fire.[668]
a British Army bomb disposal team carried out the controlled explosion of a suspect device on a railway line in Kent, England, following IRA warnings.[668][665]
7 June 1994:
the British Army defused a van containing a 100 lb (45 kg) bomb parked outside the RUC base in Dromore, County Tyrone.[665]
the British Army made safe a 1.54 lb (0.70 kg) command-wire detonated Semtex bomb discovered in a garden in the Monagh Road area of West Belfast.[665]
10 June 1994:
an IRA active service unit armed with AK-47 rifles fired several shots at a Garda escort vehicle during a robbery of a postal van on the Kilmallock/Bruff road in County Limerick.[669]
three British soldiers were wounded when an IRA unit mortared a military checkpoint in Crossmaglen, South Armagh.[579]
two incendiary devices were discovered and neutralised in a business on Oxford Street, London.[46]
11 June 1994:
an IRA sniper fired a single shot at a British Army checkpoint on the Dundalk Road, Crossmaglen, County Armagh. Soldiers returned fire but there were no reported injuries.[670]
an incendiary device detonated in a shop in Oxford Street, London. A second device failed to detonate.[46]
12 June 1994:
the IRA detonated a bomb but no members of the security forces were injured in Alfred Street, Belfast.[573]
an IRA horizontal mortar attack was foiled after being discovered in a firing position in an empty house in Belfast. Three men present were arrested.[671][665]
13 June 1994:
the IRA launched a horizontal mortar at a British Army Saxon APC on the Monagh bypass, Belfast.[573][672]
an IRA bomb exploded at a railroad station in Hertfordshire, England.[579] The IRA warned they had planted two other devices on the tracks.[672]
an IRA sniper fired a single shot at a British soldier manning a checkpoint but missed near Kinawley, County Fermanagh.[672]
17 June 1994: the IRA launched a horizontal mortar at an RUC patrol in West Belfast, but missed their target.[573]
20 June 1994:
the IRA carried out a gun, rocket, and grenade attack on an RUC patrol in the Ainsworth Avenue area of Belfast.[573][673][674]
the British Army neutralised the remnants of a Semtex coffee jar bomb found on waste ground in Clady, County Tyrone.[665]
26 June 1994:
the IRA launched a mortar attack on Pomeroy RUC base, County Tyrone.[572][675][676] The East Tyrone Brigade claimed they used a barrack-buster mortar bomb that landed within the walls of the base. The British Army claimed that the mortar exploded in a bog just outside the barracks' perimeter fence.[677]
an IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at a British Army Land Rover on Suffolk Road, West Belfast. There were no reported injuries.[572][677]
28 June 1994: an IRA unit fired a rocket from a hijacked vehicle at Grosvenor Road RUC station, Belfast.[677]
July–August
2 July 1994: three IRA Mk-15 mortar rounds hit the Royal Irish Regiment barracks and its surroundings at Malone Road, Belfast, damaging buildings inside the compound.[678] A number of people attending a wedding in a nearby church were treated from shock.[679] A total of seven people was injured.[579] The IRA said it was their first use of the Mk-15 type mortar in Belfast.[680]
5 July 1994: an unexploded coffee jar-type anti-personnel bomb was found and defused by the British Army in Patrick Street, Newry.[681]
8 July 1994: two British soldiers were seriously injured when their patrol vehicle was hit by a horizontal mortar in the Suffolk area of Belfast.[579][682][683]
10 July 1994: IRA members launched a gun attack on the home of DUP politician Willie McCrea, in Magherafelt, County Londonderry; there was some damage but no injuries.[684] It was later reported that the IRA leadership reprimanded and stood down the East Tyrone Brigade unit responsible for the shooting.[685]
11 July 1994:
a member of the Ulster Democratic Party, Ray Smallwoods, was shot dead by the IRA in Lisburn. A five-member IRA unit consisting of four men and one woman took over a nearby house the night before. As he left his home the next morning one IRA volunteer ran down the street and blasted him several times with a shotgun. Smallwoods was a leading member of the UDA and was one of those involved in the unsuccessful assassination attempts on the lives of Bernadette and Michael McAliskey.[579][686]
a mercury tilt-switch bomb was defused by the British Army on Halliday's Road in a loyalist area of North Belfast. The IRA was blamed.[687][688]
12 July 1994:
a two-ton IRA lorry bomb was discovered in Heysham, England.[579]
an RAF Puma helicopter was hit by an IRA mortar over Newtownhamilton, County Armagh, and forced to crash-land on a GAA pitch.[572][689][688]
13 July 1994:
a bomb exploded at the home of a former DUP councillor on Rogully Road near Moneymore, County Londonderry. IRA members were believed to be responsible.[690]
a barrack buster mortar was defused by the British Army at a workshop in the Shantallow area of Derry shortly before an attack.[573] IRA members had occupied the premises and taken several people hostage.[688]
14 July 1994: a bomb with an attached command wire was found in the Hazelwood Avenue area of Belfast. IRA members had abandoned the planned ambush after occupying a nearby house for several hours.[691]
15 July 1994: three constables, an arrested Sinn Féin councillor and an elderly woman motorist were wounded when an IRA unit on an armed heavy truck ambushed an armoured RUC vehicle in Killeeshil, near Dungannon, County Tyrone (see Killeeshil ambush).[572][692]
17 July 1994: a female Catholic civilian from Belfast (Caroline Moreland) was shot dead by the IRA, who alleged she was informer. Her body was found at Clogh, near Rosslea, County Fermanagh.[693]
18 July 1994:
an IRA unit dropped a 4 lb (1.8 kg) Semtex bomb onto a British Army patrol from a high-rise building in the New Lodge area of Belfast but the bomb failed to explode.[694][688]
British security forces defused an anti-personnel bomb containing 2.2 lb (1.00 kg) of Semtex in the Short Strand area of Belfast.[688]
20 July 1994:
the IRA launched a mortar attack on a British Army border observation post three miles from Crossmaglen, County Armagh.[572][694][688]
an RUC officer was injured in Cookstown, County Tyrone, when an IRA roadside bomb struck an RUC mobile patrol.[572] The IRA claim that the device contained 1 pound (0.45 kg) of Semtex and shrapnel, and was set off by command wire.[695][688]
21 July 1994: an IRA suitcase-bomb was discovered at Reading railway station, Reading, England.[696]
22 July 1994: IRA incendiary bombs damaged several businesses in Belfast city centre and the city suburbs.[573][697] The incendiary bomb attacks were accompanied by dozens of hoax bomb alerts. Hoax bombs were also left at three railway stations over the weekend.[697]
24 July 1994: the IRA detonated a 500 lb (230 kg) landmine as an RUC patrol vehicle passed in Castlewellan, County Down.[579][697]
25 July 1994: a British soldier was shot and wounded by an IRA sniper in Crossmaglen, County Armagh.[572][697]
26 July 1994: an IRA improvised grenade launcher was found concealed in a bin by an RUC patrol in Hillman Street in the New Lodge area of Belfast, with a command wire leading from the bin to the rear of houses. Several people were arrested in a follow-up operation.[698]
28 July 1994: the IRA attached a booby-trap bomb to the underside of an RUC officer's car at a hotel in Newcastle, County Down. The device was spotted and later defused by the British Army.[699][688]
29 July 1994:
up to 46 people were injured when the IRA fired three mortar bombs into Newry RUC base; 38 civilians, three RUC officers and five British soldiers were among the wounded.[579][700] One of the injured soldiers was described as "very serious" and another "critical".[688]
an IRA unit lobbed an improvised grenade at British soldiers after luring them out of Springfield Road RUC station, Belfast, with a hijacked van; as they retreated to safety a remote bomb was detonated. The IRA claimed to have injured two soldiers.[699]
the IRA abandoned hoax car bombs across Belfast, causing widespread disruption.[701]
31 July 1994: two senior UDA members, Raymond Elder and Joe Bratty, were shot dead by the IRA on the Ormeau Road in Belfast.[579] The pair were ambushed by two IRA gunmen armed with AK-47 assault rifles. Up to 50 shots were fired and Bratty was hit at least 18 times. As the UDA men lay wounded on the ground one of the IRA volunteers leaned over them shooting at close range. As the IRA unit made their escape in a getaway car they were pursued by the RUC, shots were exchanged before the IRA car was brought to a halt but the gunmen escaped on foot.[702]
3 August 1994: three British soldiers were injured when the IRA mortared the joint RUC/British Army base in Newtownhamilton, County Armagh.[579][699]
6 August 1994: the IRA fired a grenade from a vehicle at a sangar at the junction of Chichester Street and Oxford Street, beside Belfast High Court. An RUC officer and a civilian were injured.[573][688] Other sources reported that a soldier was also hurt.[703]
8 August 1994: an off-duty British soldier from the Royal Irish Regiment (Trelford Withers, aged 46) was shot dead by the IRA in Crossgar, County Down.[579] The soldier was shot twice in the side of the head by a lone IRA gunman. He was the last British soldier to be killed before the IRA's 1994 ceasefire.[704]
12 August 1994:
the IRA reported they fired three mortars at a British Army observation tower at Glassdrummond, County Armagh.[705]
the IRA claimed responsibility for a horizontal mortar found deployed in the Whittaker Street area of Derry, but stated the device had not been primed.[705]
13 August 1994:
an explosive device left in a bicycle detonated in a shopping centre in the beach town of Bognor Regis, West Sussex, damaging 15 shops but causing no injuries.[46]
an explosive device left in a bicycle found on Brighton Pier was made safe using a controlled explosion.[46]
17 August 1994:
the IRA bombed the loyalist Grove Tavern pub on the York Road; patrons were ordered to exit the building by IRA members before the bomb exploded.[573][705]
the IRA attempted to bomb the loyalist Berlin Arms pub in the Shankill area of Belfast but were unable to gain entry. The device was later defused by the British Army.[705]
18 August 1994:
Martin Cahill, a Dublin criminal, was shot dead by the IRA outside his home in Rathmines.[579] He was shot four times at close range with a .357 Magnum revolver through the window of his car. The IRA claimed he was closely associated with the UVF and had aided them in the attack on the Widow Scallans Pub in Dublin on 21 May 1994 in which an IRA volunteer was shot dead.[706]
the IRA exploded two blast incendiaries at the Kimberley Inn off the Ormeau Road. The IRA claimed that like other attacks that week, the premises was targeted because it was used by loyalist paramilitaries to plan attacks.[707]
the IRA was responsible for hoax bomb alerts at about a dozen loyalist pubs and clubs across Belfast. RUC sources believed they were to facilitate intelligence-gathering on loyalist paramilitaries and security forces.[708]
21 August 1994:
the IRA mortared a joint RUC/British Army base in Rosslea, County Fermanagh.[572] No casualties were reported and a timed secondary device destroyed the launch vehicle afterwards.[707]
an IRA bomb destroyed the empty car of a British soldier in Maghera, County Londonderry.[572][709]
23 August 1994: an IRA unit armed with two general-purpose machine guns fired 100 rounds at a joint RUC/British Army checkpoint on Craigavon Bridge, Derry from the east bank of the Foyle.[710][711][688][712]
25 August 1994: British security forces uncovered a command wire leading to a roadside device (absent explosives) in the area of Annaghmore Road, Coalisland, County Tyrone.[713]
26 August 1994:
an IRA mortar bomb missed the RUC base at Donemana, County Tyrone.[572]
the IRA launched a mortar attack on the RUC station in Belleek, County Fermanagh;[573] 60 families were evacuated in the aftermath.[572][710]
an IRA mortar bomb exploded prematurely in its launch tube at a car-park in Downpatrick, County Down, injuring 10 people.[573][714][710]
27 August 1994:
an IRA mortar bomb fired from a farm trailer exploded 200 yards short of Cloghoge checkpoint, County Armagh.[715]
an IRA unit lobbed two improvised grenades into Tennent Street RUC station, Belfast. Afterwards a primed horizontal mortar was found in a car behind the base and defused by British security forces.[715][710]
29 August 1994: the IRA fired a rocket at the RUC base in Toome, County Antrim.[573]
30 August 1994:
incendiary devices damaged two stores in Belfast, on Boucher Road and on Newtownards Road.[715]
an incendiary device was defused outside a B&Q store in Belfast.[716]
the IRA carried out a coffee jar bomb attack on an RUC base at Springfield Road, Belfast.[715]
the IRA launched a mortar bomb at Fort Whiterock British Army base at Springfield Road, Belfast.[715]
a huge booby-trap bomb, disguised to look like a primed IRA Mark-15 improvised mortar in firing position, was found inside a van near Pomeroy RUC base, County Tyrone. The 550 lb (250 kg) device was defused by British army technicians.[717]
a blast incendiary bomb exploded outside Hanover House, a restaurant in Coagh, County Tyrone, following an IRA telephone warning.[718][719] The restaurant received minor damage, while five cars parked nearby were struck by shrapnel.[713]
31 August 1994:
shots were fired at British security forces in the vicinity of New Barnsley RUC station in Belfast.[720][721]
shots were fired at an RUC station in Belleek, County Fermanagh, less than an hour before the IRA ceasefire.[720][721]
shots were fired in the Markets area of Belfast, just ten minutes before the IRA ceasefire came into effect. There were no reported injuries.[720]
explosions were reportedly heard in the vicinity of Cappagh, County Tyrone, half an hour before the IRA ceasefire.[722][721]
IRA members fired small arms in the outskirts of Pomeroy around midnight.[723][724][722]
the IRA declared the first of two ceasefires in the 1990s: "Recognising the potential of the current situation and in order to enhance the democratic process and underlying our definitive commitment to its success, the leadership of the IRA have decided that as of midnight, August 31, there will be a complete cessation of military operations. All our units have been instructed accordingly."[725][726]
September–December
6 September 1994: six IRA volunteers attempted to escape from Whitemoor Jail in Cambridgeshire, England.[572]
22 September 1994: a Derry man sustained a broken leg in an IRA punishment beating.[572]
16 October 1994: several shots were fired from an IRA weapon in Brook Drive, near Woodburn RUC station in West Belfast. Security sources believed it was an accidental discharge during transit.[727]
10 November 1994: a Post Office worker (Frank Kerr) was shot dead when IRA members raided a Royal Mail sorting office in Newry.[579] The IRA admitted their men had carried out the attack but claimed it was not sanctioned by the Army Council and that the ceasefire still stood.[728]
1995
29 April 1995: a drug dealer suspected of importing ecstasy tablets into Northern Ireland was shot dead by two gunmen in a bar in central Belfast. The IRA did not claim responsibility but security forces stated that they were responsible. This killing was the first planned assassination by the IRA since the 1994 ceasefire.[729]
5 September 1995: Tony Kane (aged 29) was shot dead by the IRA as he sat in his car in Andersonstown, Belfast. Kane had been named as a drug dealer on posters placed around West Belfast.[730]
8 December 1995: Paul Devine (35), an alleged drug-dealer was killed by an IRA unit. He shot seven times in the back and head in south Belfast. The victim had previously served time in prison for handling stolen goods.[731][732]
18 December 1995: Francis Collins (40), who had been a former member of the IRA, was shot dead at his shop in Lepper Street, New Lodge, Belfast. Responsibility for the killing was claimed by Direct Action Against Drugs (DAAD), a cover name (pseudonym) used by the IRA.
19 December 1995: Chris Johnston (38), a Catholic civilian, was shot dead outside his home in Cooke Street, off Ormeau Road, Belfast. Responsibility for the killing was claimed by Direct Action Against Drugs (DAAD), a cover name (pseudonym) used by the IRA.[732]
27 December 1995: Martin McCrory (30), a Catholic civilian was shot dead at his home, Norglen Parade, Turf Lodge, Belfast. Responsibility for the killing was claimed by Direct Action Against Drugs (DAAD), a cover name (pseudonym) used by the IRA.[732]
1996
February–April
2 February 1996: fifty-seven shots were fired at the home of an RUC officer near Moy, County Tyrone. British security forces believed the IRA were involved.[733]
9 February 1996: the IRA ended its 1994 ceasefire with a massive lorry-bombing in East London adjacent to the South Quay DLR station in London Docklands. Two civilians (Inan Ul-Haq Bashir and John Jefferies) were killed in the bombing. The initial estimate of the damage caused was £85m.[734]
15 February 1996: a bomb placed in a phone booth on the Charing Cross Road in London was made safe using a controlled explosion.[46]
18 February 1996: an improvised high explosive device detonated prematurely on a bus in Aldwych, in central London, killing Edward O'Brien, the IRA operative transporting the device and injuring 8 others.[735]
9 March 1996: the IRA claimed responsibility for a small bomb which exploded on the Old Brompton Road in London.[736]
31 March 1996: the IRA handed over £20,000 pounds of captured cannabis to a priest in Newry who then handed it over to the RUC. The IRA said they had captured it from a drug-dealer.[737]
6 April 1996: the IRA attempted to destroy Hammersmith Bridge after installing two devices containing nearly 30 lb (14 kg) of Semtex on the south bank of the River Thames, London. Though the detonators exploded, the bomb failed to ignite.[738] The bridge was closed for three years to endure a major restoration following the bombing.[739]
17 April: the IRA exploded a bomb outside The Boltons on Earl's Court Road in west London at 10pm. A warning was given and there were no injuries but extensive damage was caused to the surrounding area.[740][741]
15 June 1996: the IRA detonated a 3,000 lb (1,400 kg) bomb in Manchester, injuring 212 people and causing damage valued at £411m but no fatalities. This was the largest IRA bomb ever detonated in Great Britain, and the largest bomb to explode in Great Britain since the Second World War.[743][744]
28 June 1996: an IRA unit mortared a British Army base at Osnabrück in Germany. The attack caused widespread damage when a shell landed near the base's fuel depot.[745]
13 July 1996: an IRA unit in Ardoyne, north Belfast were responsible for three separate gun attacks during the widespread unrest that followed the RUC's decision to force the Orange Order march at Drumcree. IRA Brigade staff ordered an inquiry and carried out disciplinary measures in response; the IRA had yet to re-commence operations in Northern Ireland at this time.[746]
16 September 1996: a Catholic civilian (John Devlin) was shot dead at his friend's home in the Markets area of Belfast. Responsibility for the killing was claimed by Direct Action Against Drugs (DAAD). He had recently been ordered to leave Northern Ireland by the IRA.[742][747]
23 September 1996:
a man escaped an attack by DAAD gunmen by jumping out a window in the Roden Street area of Belfast.[747]
an English-born IRA volunteer, Diarmuid O'Neill, was shot dead by British police during a raid on his home in Hammersmith, London.[742]
7 October 1996: the IRA detonated two car bombs at the British Army's Northern Ireland HQ, Thiepval Barracks, killing a British soldier, Warrant Officer James Bradwell (who died four days later of multiple wounds), and injuring 21 other soldiers and 11 civilian workers (see Thiepval barracks bombing).[748][749]
5 December 1996: the security forces found IRA shoulder-fired MK16 launchers in the Whiterock area of Belfast.[747]
8 December 1996: the IRA shot dead an alleged drug dealer (Peter 'Psycho' Judge) at his girlfriend's apartment at Foster Terrace, Ballybough, Dublin.[750][751]
11 December 1996:
an IRA mortar attack on a British Army base at Girdwood, Belfast, was foiled by the security forces.[752]
a 1 kg (2.2 lb) Semtex bomb was found in a wheelie bin in Duncairn Gardens, Belfast following a call made to the Samaritans using an IRA code word.[752]
20 December 1996: an RUC officer was shot and injured in an IRA gun attack in a Belfast children's hospital. The officer was protecting DUP Councillor Nigel Dodds.[736][753]
1997
January–February
1 January 1997: two bombs containing approximately 500 lb (230 kg) of explosive were defused at Belfast Castle.[754][755] The IRA claimed responsibility, stating they had been forced to abandon the bomb because of security forces activity.[756]
5 January 1997: a 250 lb (110 kg) bomb was defused in a derelict building near Cullyhanna, County Armagh. Reports suggested the device had been in place for some time rather than recently planted.[754][756]
6 January 1997:
an RUC officer was injured when an IRA rocket hit a security hut at the Royal Courts of Justice in Belfast.[754][757]
in the call claiming responsibility for the Courts rocket attack, the IRA also claimed to have left bombs at several sites in Belfast.[756]
7 January 1997: the IRA claimed responsibility for a mortar bomb attack on an RUC vehicle patrol at Templemore Road in the Shantallow area of Derry. There were no reported injuries.[758][759]
10 January 1997:
an IRA statement was issued in the Andersontown News saying that "action" would be taken against informers.[754]
the IRA claimed responsibility for numerous bomb alerts in Lisburn and Belfast. British Army bomb disposal units carried out several controlled explosions in response.[760]
11 January 1997:
the RUC base in Tempo, County Fermanagh was mortared by the IRA.[754] Two mortar shells landed inside the base, one crashing through the building's roof, but both failed to detonate.[761]
several shots were fired at a British Army observation post on the roof of high-rise block of flats in the New Lodge area of Belfast.[762] The IRA is suspected.[761]
13 January 1997: an IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at a joint British Army/RUC patrol on Kennedy Way in Belfast. There were no injuries.[754][755]
18 January 1997:
an IRA unit fired two horizontal mortars at an armoured RUC patrol in Downpatrick, County Down. There were no injuries.[754][755] The weapon was a new dual-tube type, according to the IRA.[763]
an IRA horizontal mortar attack was foiled after an RUC patrol spotted two men acting suspiciously in Crawford Square, Derry.[764]
20 January 1997: an IRA unit hurled two explosive devices at a British armoured vehicle as it left Mountpottinger RUC barracks, County Antrim. There were no injuries.[755]
26 January 1997: three British soldiers were thrown off their feet after an IRA bomb attached to their car exploded as the driver examined it in Ballynahinch, County Down. One soldier was slightly injured.[765][763][766]
27 January 1997: an IRA unit fired an RPG rocket[767] at an RUC Land Rover in Toome, County Antrim.[754]
28 January 1997: an IRA unit fired two horizontal mortars at an armoured RUC patrol on the Springfield Road, Belfast. Two civilians were injured.[768][754]
5 February 1997: the IRA carried out a horizontal mortar attack against an RUC patrol at Dungannon, County Tyrone. More than 40 families were evacuated in the aftermath.[769][767]
6 February 1997:
an improvised explosive device was thrown at an RUC mobile patrol in the nationalist area of Killwilkie state, Lurgan, County Armagh.[769]
a horizontal mortar was discovered by British security forces in Prince's Street, Lurgan.[767]
7 February 1997: the IRA fired three shots at an unmarked British Army Isuzu Trooper vehicle near Antrim town. The two soldiers inside did not return fire and weren't injured.[767][770]
9 February 1997: the IRA reported a Volunteer threw an explosive device at an RUC patrol in Pomeroy, County Tyrone, injuring an RUC officer.[767] News reports described the incident as a horizontal attack and stated three RUC officers were injured.[771]
10 February 1997:
a 1,000 lb (450 kg) landmine[767] was discovered on the A5 motorway between Strabane and Omagh, County Tyrone. The IRA said it was intended for a British patrol but the presence of civilians in the area forced them to disarm the device.[772]
12 February 1997: a British soldier was shot dead by a sniper near the British Army base in Bessbrook, County Armagh. Lance Bombardier Stephen Restorick was the last British soldier to be killed in Northern Ireland during Operation Banner.[773]
13 February 1997: an IRA anti-personnel shrapnel and Semtex bomb was defused in the Kilwikie area of Lurgan, County Armagh.[774]
20 February 1997: an IRA ambush was foiled after the RUC uncovered two AK-47 rifles and an improvised grenade in Conway Lane on the outskirts of West Belfast. Two men were arrested.[775]
22 February 1997: an IRA mortar unit was intercepted by the RUC in Caledon, County Tyrone, on its way to carry out an attack on a British security facility.[754] IRA sources claimed that a five-mile (8 km) chase followed before the IRA volunteers managed to escape on foot.[776]
27 February 1997: an IRA mortar attack on a joint RUC/British Army patrol in the Falls Road area of Belfast was aborted and the device later defused by British security forces.[777]
March–April
2 March 1997: a primed IRA mortar was discovered near Warrenpoint, County Down[778] and disarmed by the British Army following warnings from the IRA.[777]
6 March 1997: the IRA detonated a 2 lb (0.91 kg)[779] bomb on Glenalina Road, Belfast as a joint British Army/RUC patrol passed.[780]
7 March 1997: an IRA bomb left near Dungannon, County Tyrone, was defused by the British Army.[754]
13 March 1997:
an armoured Land Rover from the 2nd Battalion, the Royal Tank Regiment was hit and damaged by an IRA RPG rocket[779] in Ardoyne, Belfast. A soldier in the observation post at the vehicle's roof hatch was injured.[781] Several people were arrested in the aftermath.[768]
two British soldiers and an RUC officer were injured in an IRA remote-detonation bomb[779] attack in the Short Strand area of Belfast.[781][754][782]
the IRA issued a statement claiming two coffee jar bombs had been thrown at British soldiers in the Poleglass area of West Belfast but failed to explode.[781]
18 March 1997:
the IRA warned a bomb had been left in Derrylin, County Fermanagh. The village was sealed off for a time.[754]
26 March 1997:
the IRA carried out a double bomb attack on a mainline railway and signal box in Wilmslow, England. There was also a hoax bomb alert on the main Doncaster line. The attacks caused major and widespread railway and traffic disruption.[783]
a 1 kg home-made bomb was thrown by IRA volunteers to the Army/RUC base at Coalisland, County Tyrone. The device blew a hole in the perimeter fence. Undercover British soldiers shot and seriously injured 19 year-old republican Gareth Doris seconds later. The soldiers left the scene under the protection of the RUC after being cornered by a crowd and after firing shots in the air. Two women were wounded by plastic bullets fired by RUC officers (see 1997 Coalisland attack).[784]
28 March 1997: an IRA unit lobbed two blast bombs at a joint RUC/British Army patrol in Roslea, County Fermanagh.[785]
29 March 1997:
a 900 kg (2,000 lb) IRA bomb was discovered by a road and defused at Ballykinler British Army base, County Down.[768]
an RUC officer was badly wounded when he was shot by a sniper outside Forkill joint security base, County Armagh.[786]
3 April 1997: the discovery of two bombs on main motorways in England following coded warnings by the IRA resulted in widespread disruption.[787]
6 April 1997: The British Grand National horse race at Aintree Racecourse was abandoned after the IRA warned that bombs had been planted in the area. No explosive devices were found.[787]
10 April 1997:
a group of sixteen undercover SAS members restrained seven people, at least four of them IRA volunteers, part of one of the two sniper teams which operated in South Armagh, and handed them over to the RUC, after tracking the IRA militants to a farm complex. The owner of the farm was also arrested. Three men were released on 17 April.[788]
a female RUC officer was shot and badly wounded by an IRA sniper firing from a vehicle in Derry City.[789][790]
the IRA attacked two British border checkpoints near Rosslea, County Fermanagh, one at Killyvilly and the other at Clonatty Bridge. Both facilities were raked with sniper and automatic gunfire.[791]
14 April 1997: a civilian went into hiding after he was badly beaten in an IRA punishment attack in Derry.[789]
18 April 1997: a series of bombs and bomb alerts brought Britain's transport system to a halt and effectively cut all the main routes connecting England to Scotland. Bomb alerts closed large sections of the M6 motorway. a bomb exploded closing Leeds railway station while another bomb explosion at a rail bridge in Doncaster halted both rail and motorway traffic.[792]
21 April 1997: IRA bomb hoaxes almost entirely closed down London's transport links. King's Cross, St. Pancras, Charing Cross, Paddington, Baker Street and all three railway stations at Watford junction were evacuated due to bomb alerts. Soon after alerts closed Gatwick, Stansted and parts of Heathrow airports. By 9:00 am, at the height of the rush hour, London was 'gridlocked' with a ten-mile (16 km) jam on the M25.[citation needed]
25 April 1997: two bombs planted by the IRA blew up next to M6 motorway in central England. A 132,000 volt electricity pylon was damaged.[793]
29 April 1997: Britain's transport industry claimed minimum losses of £30 million after a series of IRA bomb alerts in southern England brought traffic to a standstill.[citation needed]
May–July
31 May 1997: a massive IRA landmine was discovered in Poleglass, West Belfast. The IRA said the device was intended for a British patrol but claimed the attack was abandoned due to the proximity of civilians to the ambush site. The firing mechanism was disabled and a warning phoned in.[794]
1 June 1997: several rifle rounds were fired at New Barnsley joint British Army-RUC base in West Belfast. There was speculation that the IRA were responsible, although the INLA were suspected also.[795]
2 June 1997: the IRA claimed they abandoned an anti-personnel bomb near Girdwood Barracks in the Antrim Road area of Belfast, following an attack aborted because of the presence civilians.[796]
5 June 1997: the IRA carried out a punishment attack with a sawn-off shotgun in the Markets area of Belfast. The victim later had his leg amputated.[797]
10 June 1997: the IRA carried out a gun attack on an undercover British Army unit in Derry.[798] There were no reported injuries.[754]
16 June 1997: two RUC officers (John Graham and David Johnston) were shot dead in an IRA ambush while on foot patrol in Lurgan, County Armagh. Both officers were shot at point blank range in the back of the head.[799][800]
25 June 1997: an IRA gun attack on an RUC patrol in the Dunmurry area of south Belfast was foiled by British security forces. One man was arrested and two AK-47 rifles recovered. The RUC initially raided the wrong house, firing CS gas canisters inside and putting a gun to the owners head. The RUC later apologised.[801]
26 June 1997: an IRA unit fired a rocket propelled grenade at an RUC armoured patrol in north Belfast. The rocket glanced off the vehicle and exploded in an empty building.[802]
an RUC patrol manning a mobile checkpoint on a bridge over the river Lagan in Lower Ormeau was engaged with an AK-47 rifle by a lone IRA volunteer, according to republican reports.[803][804]
an IRA volunteer shot at a stationary RUC armoured vehicle beside the local RUC base in Coalisland, County Tyrone, seriously wounding a female RUC officer.[805][803]
a military base in West Belfast came under gun and grenade attack from an IRA unit. A Protestant teenager was shot in the shoulder.[805]
another Army base at the end of Lenadoon Avenue suffered a similar attack, according to republican sources.[803]
the IRA claimed that one of their units fired a rocket at an RUC patrol on Hallidays Road area, New Lodge, Belfast.[803][806]
the IRA claimed to have forced a British Army riot squad to retreat from the Belfast Markets area after engaging them with machine gun fire.[803][806]
an IRA active service unit exchanged fire with RUC/British Army forces setting up a checkpoint at Falls Road, according to republican sources.[803]
7 July 1997:
an RUC mobile patrol driving through Crumlin Road was forced to withdraw from the Ardoyne area when it was hit by 20 rounds fired from an IRA unit. The RUC returned fire.[803]
an IRA volunteer fired 15 shots at a British soldier who was firing plastic bullets at rioters at the junction of Woodvale and Crumlin Roads, forcing him to take cover.[803]
an IRA sniper fired a single shot at an RUC constable at Alliance Avenue.[803]
RUC forces received small arms fire at Armagh town amid widespread unrest, which included damage to local businesses and the beating of a Protestant teenager.[768]
The IRA claimed to have engaged an RUC patrol and a security checkpoint in the city with gunfire followed by a petrol bomb attack.[803]
a train near Lurgan, County Armagh, was boarded by seven IRA masked men and set on fire, destroying five carriages. In a crossing just 50 yards from the spot, eight men wearing combat jackets and balaclavas directed traffic for several hours.[807]
8 July 1997:
an RUC officer was shot in the arm and leg during unrest in the Garvaghy Road area of Portadown.[803][808]
IRA militants firing automatic weapons beat off an attempt by British soldiers and RUC officers to regain control of the streets around a Catholic housing in North Belfast where rioters had erected barricades.[809]
9 July 1997:
a landmine was planted by the IRA near Dungannon, County Tyrone, where there was also a bomb alert.[768]
IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon, County Tyrone.[810]
11 July 1997:
three British soldiers and two RUC officers were injured when the IRA launched a gun and bomb attack on their Saxon armoured vehicle at a checkpoint in Oldpark, North Belfast.[811]
an IRA unit threw a blast bomb at an RUC patrol in the Suffolk area of Belfast.[811]
12 July 1997: a Mark-15 mortar bomb was fired at Newtownhamilton British Army barracks, South Armagh. The shell exploded just outside the perimeter fence,[812] on waste land beside the base helipad.[813]
13 July 1997: the IRA claimed responsibility for shooting two men in the knees in Newry. They claimed the men were criminals who had been responsible for assaulting two members of Sinn Féin as well as stealing from local businesses.[814]
17 July 1997: Former IRA member and Sinn Féin councillor Paul Butler and "other republicans" claimed to have uncovered an abandoned British Army observation post concealed in a flat in the Summerhill area of Twinbrook, Belfast, The apartment was allegedly used during the riots to track the neighbours' movements. A number of British Army items was found.[815]
19 July 1997: the IRA declared a second ceasefire. They state that: "We have ordered the unequivocal restoration of the ceasefire of August 1994. All IRA units have been instructed accordingly".[816][817]
September–December
12 September 1997: four IRA volunteers stopped a member of the Continuity IRA (CIRA) in Ardoyne and confiscated his gun.[754]
October 1997:
the Continuity IRA accused the IRA of destroying one of their bombs south of the border before it could be transported north.[818]
an IRA volunteer assaulted and injured a Continuity IRA volunteer as he attempted to place a bomb in a bank in Derry City.[818]
10 December 1997: Liam Averill, an IRA volunteer, escaped from the Maze Prison by dressing up as a woman and boarding a coach which was transporting prisoners' families.[754]
1998
9 February 1998: a convicted drug-dealer (Brendan Campbell) was shot dead by the IRA on Lisburn Road, Belfast.[819][820]
10 February 1998: The IRA was believed to be responsible for killing UDA member Bobby Dougan. Sinn Féin was temporarily excluded from peace talks as a result on 20 February. He had previously escaped an INLA assassination attempt in October 1993, and was shot and wounded by the IRA in April 1994.[636][637][638]
19 February 1998: suspect smuggler Kevin Conway was abducted from his home at Lurgan and shot dead, allegedly by IRA members.[821]
20 February 1998: A CIRA a 500 lb car bomb exploded outside the RUC base in Moira, County Down. Seven RUC officers and four civilians were hurt. Journalist Toby Harnden reported that the Provisional IRA South Armagh Brigade took part in the CIRA operation.[822]
23 February 1998: a CIRA 300 lb car bomb exploded near the RUC base on Edward Street in Portadown, County Armagh. Toby Harnden says that the Provisional IRA South Armagh Brigade was also involved in this incident.[822]
10 March 1998:
the IRA were allegedly responsible for a fire bomb attack which destroyed the Derby House bar on Stewartstown Road, west Belfast. The RUC said masked men were seen at the bar at just before the explosion; the owner said a member of staff had been threatened by four men who said they were from the IRA and demanded to be let into the premises.[823][638]
The Provisional IRA is suspected of firing six mortar bombs at an RUC base in Armagh city. Unionist politician David Trimble said the RUC believed there was some IRA involvement.[638]
23 March 1998: Volunteers from the Provisional IRA South Armagh Brigade assisted dissident republicans in a mortar attack on a security base at Forkhill, according to Toby Harnden.[822]
24 March 1998: The Provisional IRA South Armagh Brigade also aided dissident republicans in a mortar attack on a British Army watchtower at Glassdrumman, according to Toby Harnden.[822]
19 July 1998: a civilian from New Lodge, Belfast (Andrew Kearney) was shot in the legs and died of his injuries. His family claimed he was killed by the IRA after he got the better of an IRA volunteer in a physical confrontation in North Belfast.[819][820]
8 October 1998: the USA removed the Provisional IRA from its list of foreign terrorist organizations.[824]
21 November 1998: Gerard Moran, an alleged drug dealer was shot dead by the IRA in Dublin.[825]
1999
27 January 1999: a former IRA volunteer and RUC informant (Eamon Collins) was found dead near Newry, shortly after testifying against Thomas "Slab" Murphy, leader of the South Armagh Brigade in a libel case with the Sunday Times. Collins was badly beaten and had a spike pushed through his face.[826][827]
9 May 1999: Brendan Fegan, a convicted drug dealer,[828] was shot dead by the IRA in Newry.[820][829]
13 June 1999: Paul Downey, a drug dealer,[830] was kidnapped from a hotel in Newry by an IRA unit. He was shot in the head and his lifeless body dumped near Beleek.[820][829]
17 June 1999: Double agent/former informant Martin McGartland was shot six times in an IRA assassination attempt at his home in Tyneside, England. He survived despite serious injuries.[831][832]
30 July 1999: Charles Bennett was shot in a punishment attack outside a GAA club in West Belfast. He died of his injuries a short time later. The IRA is believed to have been responsible.[820][829] It is believed he was suspected of stealing IRA weapons.[830]
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