Chronology of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions (1990–1999)
This is a chronology of activities by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), from 1990 to 1999. For actions before and after this period see Chronology of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions.
1990[]
January–February[]
- 2 January 1990:
- Ulster loyalist Harry Dickey, a member of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and Ulster Democratic Party, was killed by a Provisional IRA booby trap bomb attached to his car outside his home, Larkfield Manor, Sydenham, East Belfast.[1][2]
- an IRA unit threw a blast bomb at a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) base in Stewartstown, County Tyrone.[3]
- 3 January 1990:
- 4 January 1990:
- 5 January 1990: several shots were fired and a blast bomb thrown at Antrim Road RUC base, Belfast.[6]
- 9 January 1990:
- a UDR soldier (Olven Kilpatrick) was shot dead by the IRA on Main Street, Castlederg, County Tyrone. In a follow-up operation, two RUC officers were injured by a bomb left by the IRA unit.[2][7]
- the IRA claimed responsibility for a 25 lb (11 kg) anti-personnel bomb defused by the British Army at Hazelwood, Poleglass, Belfast. The IRA claimed they had aborted the operation because of the presence of civilians.[6]
- 10 January 1990:
- the IRA detonated a bomb hidden in a derelict house by command wire as a British Army patrol passed in Stratheden Street in the New Lodge area of Belfast.[8]
- an IRA unit threw two blast bombs at a three-vehicle British Army-RUC convoy on the Springfield Road, Belfast. The IRA claimed to have scored hits on two of vehicles.[8]
- 11 January 1990:
- a part-time UDR soldier escaped injury after he discovered a bomb under his car which was subsequently destroyed when the device exploded in Maghera, County Londonderry.[5]
- four companies were forced by IRA threats to issue public statements that they would not supply contractors working for British security forces in Northern Ireland.[9]
- an IRA unit threw a blast bomb into the RUC station in Randalstown, County Antrim.[8]
- an IRA unit threw a blast bomb into the RUC station in Toomsbridge, County Antrim.[8]
- 12 January 1990:
- 13 January 1990: a small bomb caused some damage to the perimeter fence at Lisanelly Barracks, Omagh, County Tyrone.[5]
- 15 January 1990: a 1,000 lb (450 kg) bomb exploded outside Sion Mills RUC station. Several homes were extensively damaged, although there were no injuries. A second 1,000 lb (450 kg) van bomb, targeting security forces driving to the scene of the first along the Sion Mills road, was defused after failing to detonate.[10][11][12]
- 16 January 1990: the IRA was blamed for two letter bombs defused at Aldershot Garrison in Aldershot, England, both addressed to senior British Army officers.[12][13]
- 17 January 1990: the IRA detonated a car bomb in the multi-storey car park of the Victoria Shopping Centre on Chichester Street, Belfast.[11]
- 18 January 1990: an attack on a member of British security forces was apparently foiled after a revolver and 3.3 lb (1.5 kg) of Semtex explosives was found ready in Cookstown, County Tyrone.[14]
- 20 January 1990:
- 22 January 1990:
- RUC Inspector Derek Monteith was shot dead by an IRA unit in Kilburn Park, Armagh town. Up to 30 rounds were fired through his kitchen door, hitting him five times in the head, neck and body.[7][18]
- the IRA planted a 25 lb (11 kg) bomb in a snooker hall adjoining Queen Street RUC station in Belfast city centre. The bomb was discovered and defused by the British Army.[19][20]
- 27 January 1990:
- 28 January 1990: a civilian (Charles Love) was killed when he was hit by debris when an IRA bomb exploded on Derry's walls during a Bloody Sunday march. The security forces described his death as a "freak accident" as he was a quarter of a mile from the bomb, which was targeting security forces.[22] Love was a member of Republican Youth. He is commemorated at a Sinn Féin-organised march in his home town of Strabane each year.[23]
- 2 February 1990:
- an IRA bomb exploded in a CastleCourt shopping complex in Belfast city centre causing minor damage. It was the fourth bomb attack at the premises in two years.[17]
- an IRA bomb threat caused disruption on the Dublin-Belfast railway line.[17]
- a bomb attached to the underside of a car belonging to a member of the security forces was spotted by its owner in Castlederg, County Tyrone.[24]
- 4 February 1990: a bomb attached to the underside of a building contractor's car in Portadown, County Armagh exploded prematurely during gale-force winds. Nearby houses were damaged but no reported injuries.[25]
- 6 February 1990: a part-time RUC Reserve officer survived a bomb attack at his farm at Lack, County Fermanagh.[17]
- 7 February 1990:
- a car bomb exploded in Waring Street, near Belfast city centre.[26]
- the Short Brothers factory was damaged by a bomb. The IRA warned that they would not leave any warnings for further attacks on the factory. In a further statement issued on February 10, the IRA reversed this decision and indicated they would continue to issue warnings.[10][17]
- the IRA detonated a large Semtex shrapnel bomb as a British Army mobile patrol passed on the Monagh bypass in the Turf Lodge area of Belfast.[27]
- 11 February 1990:
- three British soldiers were injured when their Gazelle helicopter was forced out of the sky and destroyed after being hit by machine-gun fire from an IRA unit on a border area south of Clogher, County Tyrone (see:1990 British Army Gazelle shootdown).[28]
- a 1 lb (0.45 kg) Semtex booby-trap bomb attached to the underside of a car was defused in Portrush, County Antrim.[29]
- 16 February 1990: an off-duty UDR soldier was shot and injured as he drove a tractor at Drummanor Forest Park off the Cookstown-Omagh road, County Tyrone.[30]
- 17 February 1990:
- 19 February 1990: the IRA detonated a 2 lb (0.91 kg) Semtex bomb by command wire as a joint British Army-RUC patrol approached in Mizen Gardens, Belfast.[33]
- 20 February 1990:
- the IRA bombed a British military recruitment office in Leicester, England. Two people were injured.[13]
- a van and a car driven by an IRA unit carrying light machine guns were spotted by a British Wessex helicopter near Newtownhamilton, South Armagh. The IRA unit split up in several vehicles, but one of the cars was pinpointed by the aircraft, and three IRA volunteers were arrested by a party of three soldiers and two RUC officers after landing from their helicopter in Silverbridge. Afterwards, a crowd of 40 civilians attacked the security forces, allowing the escape of the three IRA men. A number of automatic weapons were confiscated in the aftermath by the RUC, among them two light machine guns.[34]
- an IRA booby-trap bomb disguised as a brick in a wall was defused by the British Army on the Ballymurphy Road, West Belfast.[35]
- an IRA unit fired several shots at British soldiers in the vicinity of Woodbourne RUC station, Belfast.[33]
- 21 February 1990: a single mortar mounted in a tractor was fired at Kinawley RUC station. An explosion was reported in the area, although it's unclear whether the projectile hit the base.[32][36]
- 23 February 1990: a bomb exploded in Newry train station, demolishing a ticket booth and severing part of the railway line, as delegates from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) were travelling the organisation's annual women's conference.[37]
- 24 February 1990:
- a 2 lb (0.91 kg) Semtex booby-trap bomb attached to the underside of a car belonging to a member of the security forces was defused after falling from the vehicle outside a social club in Cookstown, County Tyrone.[36]
- an incendiary bomb caused "minor" damage to a newly-opened hardware chain store at Lisnagelvin in Derry.[37] The IRA denied responsibility and alleged "Loyalist racketeers" were behind the attack.[36]
- a 90 lb (41 kg) bomb partially exploded in the foyer of the Slieve Donard Hotel, County Down, during an ICTU conference. It was suspected the attack, and another the previous day, were linked to an ICTU protest campaign against IRA bomb attacks on the Dublin-Belfast railway.[38] The IRA denied any knowledge of the ICTU conference and claimed the hotel was targeted for serving members of British security forces.[36]
- an IRA unit fired twenty shots at Woodbourne RUC station, Belfast. There were no reported injuries. The following day the IRA claimed the attack was a warning to contractors carrying out work on the base.[39]
- 25 February 1990: the IRA bombed a British Army recruitment office in Halifax, West Yorkshire.[13]
March–April[]
- 4 March 1990: a 10-man IRA unit attacked an RUC station in Stewartstown, County Tyrone, using an improvised flamethrower consisting of a manure-spreader towed by a tractor to spray 600 gallons of a petrol/diesel mix to engulf the base in flames, and then opened fire with rifles and an RPG-7 rocket launcher. The next day the IRA threatened any contractor who took on repair of the station.[32][40][41][42]
- 8 March 1990: an off-duty UDR soldier, Thomas Jamison, was shot dead by the IRA at Tullynure, near Donaghmore, County Tyrone. He was driving a lorry for a building firm which was contracted to the British Army. A three-man IRA unit attacked the lorry with a grenade and fired over 30 shots into the cab.[7][43]
- 16 March 1990: the first use of the Barret M82 sniper rifle in Northern Ireland by the South Armagh sniper teams. A British soldier suffered minor head injures when a bullet pierced his helmet on Castleblaney Road, County Armagh.[44][45]
- 18 March 1990: a bomb exploded on West Street in Stewartstown, County Tyrone.[46]
- 20 March 1990: two bombs exploded at the Short Brothers missile factory in the Castlereagh area of Belfast, damaging a new heavy fuel tanker installation. Four workers were treated for shock.[47]
- 22 March 1990: a taxi driver was forced to drive a 350 lb (160 kg) bomb to an RUC station in Cookstown, County Tyrone. The device was defused.[48]
- 24 March 1990:
- two bombs - 2 lb (0.91 kg) and 90 lb (41 kg) of explosives - were detonated after British security forces had been lured by a hoax call to a petrol station on the Buncrana Road, Derry. There were no reported injuries.[47]
- a gun battle erupted between an IRA unit and undercover British forces at Cappagh, County Tyrone, when a civilian-type vehicle driven by an undercover agent was fired on by IRA volunteers without warning, according to Archie Hamilton, then Secretary of State for Defence. Hamilton stated that there were no casualties, although the IRA was adamant it had killed two undercover British soldiers.[49][50]
- 25 March 1990:
- 28 March 1990:
- 29 March 1990:
- a 200 lb (91 kg) IRA bomb extensively damaged Tennent Street RUC station in Belfast.[50]
- RUC vehicles were fired upon in three separate incidents in Belfast at Tennant's Street, Oldpark Road, and Oldpark Avenuem following the interception of a hoax bomb.[53]
- an IRA unit fired several shots at Donegall Pass RUC station, Belfast.[53]
- 2 April 1990:
- a 500 lb (230 kg) IRA van bomb was defused by a controlled explosion outside Fort George British Army base in Derry.[54][55]
- after luring British security forces to hoax car bombs at Springfield Road and Springfield Parade, IRA units opened fire on Whiterock and Broadway Tower security forces bases.[53]
- 6 April 1990:
- 8 April 1990: a 1,000 lb (450 kg) bomb, disguised as an RUC patrol vehicle, was driven into Musgrave Street RUC station, Belfast. The device was defused by the British Army.[56]
- 9 April 1990: four UDR soldiers (Michael Adams, John Birch, John Bradley, Steven Smart) were killed when the IRA detonated a landmine under their patrol vehicle on Ballydugan Road, Downpatrick, County Down. The landmine contained over 1,000 lb (450 kg) of explosive and was so powerful that the vehicle was blown into a nearby field.[7][58] See: 1990 Downpatrick roadside bomb
- 10 April 1990: an IRA unit threw a grenade at a British Army patrol as they exited Henry Taggart Barracks in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast.[56]
- 12 April 1990: two 10 lb (4.5 kg) bombs exploded at the CastleCourt shopping centre in Belfast a week before it opened, coinciding with a media launch.[10][50]
- 16 April 1990: the IRA shot dead Irish People's Liberation Organisation (IPLO) volunteer Eoin Morley in Newry. He was dragged from his girlfriend's house and shot twice in the back. The IRA released a statement claiming Morley had joined the IPLO "contrary to IRA Standing Orders" and as well as involved in criminal activity had also passed on information to the IPLO leading to the seizure of IRA arms dumps, but later apologised for the killing, claiming they had received false information.[59][60]
- 20 April 1990: a 1,000 lb (450 kg) IRA bomb, camouflaged behind a wall close to a reservoir in Creggan Estate, Derry, was defused by the British Army.[61]
- 22 April 1990: an IRA unit fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a British Army mobile patrol on the Monagh bypass in the Turf Lodge area of Belfast. Several shots were fired as they escaped the scene. The IRA claimed to have scored a direct hit, but this was denied by the RUC.[62]
- 26 April 1990: several homes were damaged after mortar shells destined for an RUC station exploded prematurely in their launchers in Portadown, County Armagh.[10]
- 27 April 1990: a British Army contractor (Kenneth Graham), was killed by the IRA when he triggered a booby-trap bomb attached to his car in Kilkeel, County Down.[7][63]
- 28 April 1990:
- the IRA claimed responsibility for hoax bombs in Newry, County Down, Fintona, County Tyrone, and Moy, County Tyrone.[64]
- a bomb was detonated inside a lamp post in Sloan Street, Lisburn, as British soldiers investigated a warning about a car containing a 200 lb (91 kg) bomb. The car bomb was later defused.[65][66][67]
- an IRA mortar launcher detonated prematurely, slight damaging a military checkpoint in Strabane, County Tyrone.[68][69]
- a British soldier was shot and wounded in the leg when an IRA unit fired a heavy machine gun at an observation post near Cullyhanna, County Armagh.[15][64]
- a seventeen-year-old girl was arrested for being in possession of a Semtex bomb after a bus travelling to Aldergrove International Airport outside Belfast was stopped and searched by British security forces.[70]
- an IRA mortar attack failed when the devices exploded prematurely in their launcher on Culmore Road, Derry.[64]
- 29 April 1990:
- a bomb exploded at a border post at Newry. The IRA later said two devices that failed to explode remained in the area.[68]
- British Army experts defused a 900 lb (410 kg) bomb found in a housing estate in Dungannon, County Tyrone.[68]
- motorists drove over unexploded drogue bombs on the Newcastle Road in Castlewellan, County Down. The devices were later made safe by the British Army.[69]
May–June[]
- 1 May 1990: Gardaí foiled an IRA bank robbery in Enniscorthy, County Wexford. One man was seriously wounded.[66]
- 2 May 1990:
- 4 May 1990: a civilian security guard foiled an IRA bomb attack on British Army quarters in the Langenhagen barracks in Hannover, West Germany. Three men had penetrated perimeter fence carrying two Semtex devices.[66]
- 6 May 1990: a British soldier was shot dead when an IRA unit launched an attack on a British Army foot patrol near Cullyhanna, County Armagh. The patrol had become suspicious of a derelict building after seeing smoke coming from the chimney on a hot day. As they approached they came under heavy machine gun fire and one soldier was shot in the head. Lance Sergeant Graham Stewart died of his wounds the following day. The patrol was airlifted to safety (see Operation Conservation).[7][75]
- 8 May 1990: the British Army defused a bomb left by the IRA in the CastleCourt shopping complex in Belfast.[66]
- 11 May 1990: an IRA unit threw a drogue bomb at RUC mobile patrol as it passed through the Duncairn Gardens area of North Belfast. A vehicle was damaged although the RUC officers inside narrowly escaped injury.[76][77]
- 12 May 1990: the IRA detonated an incendiary device by command wire as an RUC vehicle passed the Rath roundabout in the Creggan area of Derry.[78]
- 13 May 1990: seven people were hurt after a bomb exploded at Army education corps headquarters in England.[10]
- 14 May 1990: a joint British Army/RUC patrol came under rocket attack in west Belfast.[66]
- 15 May 1990: an IRA unit lobbed an "impact grenade" at an RUC mobile patrol in Copperfield Street in the Tiger's Bay area of Belfast. The IRA claimed to have scored a direct hit.[78]
- 16 May 1990:
- a 10 lb (4.5 kg) IRA Semtex bomb left adjacent to the headquarters of the Police Authority in Victoria Street, Belfast, was defused.[78]
- the IRA detonated a bomb under a military minibus in London, killing Sgt. Charles Chapman, and injuring four other soldiers.[7][79]
- an IRA unit carried out a gun and rocket attack on an RUC mobile patrol at Clogher, County Tyrone. The IRA claimed a warhead became embedded in the armour of an RUC vehicle and failed to explode.[80]
- 17 May 1990: a 300 lb (140 kg) car bomb was defused on a country road in County Armagh.[81]
- 18 May 1990: British Army bomb experts dug up and defused a 650 lb (290 kg) bomb in a ditch at a roadside outside Coalisland, County Tyrone.[81]
- 21 May 1990:
- a car bomb abandoned near Lifford Bridge, Strabane, County Tyrone was defused by bomb disposal experts from the British Army and Irish Defence Forces.[82]
- a 1.5 lb (0.68 kg) booby-trap bomb attached to the underside of a car belonging to an RUC officer[80] was defused in Cookstown, County Tyrone.[83]
- a British soldier suffered shrapnel injuries when a bomb exploded between two patrol vehicles in the Turf Lodge area of West Belfast.[84][80]
- 22 May 1990: an IRA suspect from Cookstown, County Tyrone was arrested in north London after a brief car chase. Two Kalashnikov rifles were recovered in the back of the car.[85]
- 23 May 1990:
- 24 May 1990: a new type of very large 500 lb (230 kg) mortar partially exploded and was later defused outside an RUC station in Omagh, County Tyrone.[86][87]
- 27 May 1990: two Australian tourists, Nick Spanos and Stephen Melrose, were shot dead in the Netherlands, having been mistaken for off-duty British soldiers from a base across the German border.[7] The IRA said it "deeply regretted the tragedy".[75]
- 28 May 1990: an IRA unit carried out a blast bomb attack on a joint UDR-RUC patrol in Cromac Square in the Markets area of Belfast.[87]
- 29 May 1990: an RUC officer spotted a 1.5 lb (0.68 kg) Semtex bomb attached to the underside of his car in County Antrim. More than thirty houses were evacuated while the British Army defused the device.[88]
- 30 May 1990: an IRA unit threw a blast bomb at a British security forces patrol in the Markets area of Belfast.[86]
- 1 June 1990:
- a British soldier (Robert Davies) was killed and two others wounded when they were shot at close range by an IRA unit while waiting for a train at Lichfield railway station in Staffordshire, England.[7][89]
- a British Royal Artillery officer, Michael Dillon-Lee, was shot dead by the IRA in Dortmund, West Germany. He was one of the most senior soldiers killed in the conflict – holding the rank of Major. In a subsequent car chase a West German police officer was injured when the IRA unit fired on the pursuing officers.[7][90]
- 3 June 1990: a mine failed to injure a British Army patrol in Stewartstown, County Tyrone.[10]
- 6 June 1990: a retired RUC officer and his wife (James and Ellen Sefton) were killed when an IRA booby trap bomb exploded underneath their car on the Ballygomartin Road in Belfast. A civilian was slightly injured when the car struck her.[91]
- 9 June 1990: the IRA bombed the headquarters of the British Army's Honourable Artillery Company in central London, wounding 19 people.[13]
- 10 June 1990: a part-time UDR soldier was seriously injured when a bomb planted under his car exploded as he left a pub in Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh.[92]
- 13 June 1990: an IRA bomb damaged the recently vacated 18th-century home of Conservative Party figure Lord McAlpine in Hartley Whitney, England.[93]
- 14 June 1990: a large IRA bomb badly damaged a building inside a British Army base at Hanover, West Germany.[94]
- 15 June 1990:
- 20 June 1990:
- 21 June 1990:
- 23 June 1990: a 5 lb (2.3 kg) Semtex device intended for British security forces was defused and two men arrested at the junction of Bridge Street and Dublin Road, Newry.[98]
- 25 June 1990: a bomb exploded at the Carlton Club in London, injuring 20 people. Lord Kaberry died of his injuries on 13 March 1991.[79]
- 27 June 1990: a remote control IRA bomb was detonated as two RUC officers arrived at the scene of a hoax call on Cathedral Road, Armagh, but only the detonator exploded.[99]
- 28 June 1990:
- 30 June 1990: the IRA shot dead two RUC officers (John Beckett and Gary Meyer) in an ambush on Castle Street, Belfast.[7][101]
July–August[]
- 1 July 1990: a 400 lb (180 kg) IRA bomb was defused by the RUC in Newtownhamilton, County Armagh.[97]
- 2 July 1990: an IRA RPG-7 rocket injured five RUC officers, three British soldiers, and two civilians at Grosvenor Road RUC base, Belfast.[102][97]
- 8 July 1990: an IRA unit carried out a gun and bomb attack against a stationary RUC patrol car in Dungannon, County Tyrone. One RUC officer was seriously injured and another RUC officer returned fire.[103]
- 11 July 1990:
- a 4 lb (1.8 kg) Semtex bomb was fired from an improvised grenade launcher at an RUC patrol vehicle in Cookstown, County Tyrone. The main charge failed to detonate, sparing a group of children in the blast radius from injury. The IRA claimed they had cleared any children from the area.[104][105]
- an IRA unit ambushed a joint British Army-RUC patrol travelling along Roden Street, West Belfast.[106]
- 18 July 1990: a van bomb containing a quantity of Semtex and 400 lb (180 kg) of home-made explosives was abandoned at Moybridge near Aughnacloy, County Tyrone. The Dublin-Derry road was closed for two days while British security forces dealt with the alert.[107]
- 20 July 1990: an IRA bomb exploded inside the London Stock Exchange after an IRA telephone warning; it blew a hole in the side of the building, but there were no injuries.[108]
- 21 July 1990: twenty-five homes were damaged by a drogue bomb attack on the security forces in the New Lodge area of Belfast.[97]
- 24 July 1990: three RUC officers (Joshua Willis, William Hanson, and David Sterritt) as well as one civilian, were killed when an IRA unit ambushed a joint RUC and British Army patrol on Killylea Road in Armagh town.[7] The patrol car was hit by a landmine, which blew it off the road and into a hedge. The IRA and Martin McGuinness (on behalf of Sinn Féin) apologised for the death of the civilian, a Roman Catholic nun, Sister Catherine Dunne, a native of Dublin.[109] See: 1990 Armagh City roadside bomb
- 26 July 1990: the IRA shot dead bomb-maker Patrick Gerard "Paddy" Flood after discovering he was an RUC informer, following a series of botched bomb attacks and the capture of a number of IRA men in Derry.[110] His body was found near Newtownhamilton, County Armagh.[111]
- 30 July 1990:
- Ian Gow, Conservative MP for Eastbourne, was assassinated by the IRA when a booby trap bomb exploded under his car at his home in East Sussex, England. The IRA claimed he was murdered due to his role in British policy decisions in Northern Ireland.[7][112]
- an IRA member was shot and injured and another had his arm broken during clashes with the Official IRA in the Markets area of Belfast. In response the PIRA moved large numbers of its members into the area.[113][114]
- 31 July 1990: an IRA unit carried out a grenade attack on a UDR base in Cookstown, County Tyrone.[106]
- 1 August 1990: an IRA sniper fired a single shot at a British security forces patrol in the Beechmount area of Belfast.[115]
- 3 August 1990: the British Army defused a 600 lb (270 kg) bomb on a trailer in Rasharkin, County Antrim.[97]
- 4 August 1990: an IRA unit carried out a grenade attack on a British security forces mobile patrol at the junction of Newtownards Road and Short Strand, Belfast.[106]
- 6 August 1990:
- 13 August 1990:
- the IRA planted a bomb at the Berkshire home of British Army General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley. The device was defused. His five-year-old grandson had picked it up but the device failed to detonate.[13][97]
- an IRA unit carried out a gun attack on British soldiers patrolling near Belfast High Court.[106]
- 14 August 1990: an explosive device was found and recovered on the Belfast-Dublin railway line at Meigh, Forkhill, County Armagh.[15]
- 16 August 1990:
- 18 August 1990: a builder (Andrew Bogle) was killed by a booby-trap bomb on a building site in Castlederg, County Tyrone. The IRA said it carried out the attack because the building firm worked for the security forces.[118]
- 23 August 1990:
- 24 August 1990:
- an IRA unit fired twenty shots from a hijacked vehicle at Oldpark RUC station, West Belfast. There were no reported injuries.[120] The IRA claimed to have hit an RUC officer.[119]
- a 1.5 lb (0.68 kg) Semtex device attached to the underside of a UDR soldier's car was defused in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh.[120]
- a 70 lb (32 kg) shrapnel bomb was defused by the British Army in Castlewellan, County Down.[120]
- 28 August 1990: an IRA unit lobbed an "impact grenade" at an armoured vehicle in the Unity Flats area of Belfast but the device failed to detonate.[119]
- 31 August 1990:
- an RUC Reserve officer discovered a booby-trap bomb under his car in Gilford, County Down.[121] This was a cover story, an informer (Martin McGartland) had given the RUC advance warning of the attack and the IRA target and his family had moved out and the RUC had occupied the house.[122]
- the IRA claimed responsibility for an explosion in Eglington, County Londonderry. The IRA said an RUC officer who lived in the area had been their target.[123]
September–October[]
- 1 September 1990:
- the British Army defused 300 lb (140 kg) bomb outside a home occupied by members of the security forces in Omagh, County Tyrone.[123]
- a thrown blast bomb landed inside an RUC station and exploded in Coalisland, County Tyrone.[123]
- the IRA claimed responsibility for a hoax car bomb left outside Pomeroy RUC station, County Tyrone.[124]
- two 100 lb (45 kg) bombs were dismantled by the British Army outside Antrim town UDR base after a pair of IRA members were spotted. The IRA claimed the bombs were left within the perimeter fence, but this was denied by the RUC.[124]
- 4 September 1990: an IRA unit fired on British Army personnel moving to seal off two cross-border roads linking County Tyrone and County Monaghan.[124]
- 5 September 1990:
- several RUC officers were injured when the IRA detonated a van bomb at Loughgall RUC base in County Armagh. A local church and a school were also damaged.[10][125]
- two brothers were shot and injured in an IRA attack on their van in Magherafelt, County Londonderry. They were employees of a building firm which did work for the security forces.[10][123]
- 6 September 1990: the IRA planted two bombs inside the Royal Navy's Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship the RFA Fort Victoria (A387). One of the bombs was defused, but the other bomb went off. The blast caused extensive damage to the engine room, resulting in severe flooding.
- 7 September 1990: an IRA unit fired on Springfield Road RUC station, Belfast, with a heavy machine gun.[126]
- 10 September 1990:
- 13 September 1990:
- 14 September 1990: the British Army defused a 15 lb (6.8 kg) bomb in a bar opposite the Law Courts in Belfast city centre.[123] The bomb was discovered during a follow-up operation after an IRA member tossed a grenade into the car park of the Courts.[127]
- 15 September 1990:
- an RUC detective (Louis Robinson) was kidnapped and later shot dead by the IRA in County Armagh. A minibus in which he and five prison officers were travelling was stopped at an IRA checkpoint in Killeen, County Armagh. Three prison officers managed to escape, but the RUC detective and two prison officers were bundled into the back of waiting cars. The two prison officers were released,[citation needed][why?] but Robinson was shot in the back of the head and his body dumped near Belleeks. His body was found by the side of Concession Road, Cullaville, three days later.[7][128]
- the IRA fired mortars at the RUC base in Carrickmore, County Tyrone. The devices missed and there were no reported injuries.[129]
- a blast bomb was thrown at a British Army patrol vehicle but failed to explode at the junction of the Springfield Road and the New Barnsley Estate, Belfast.[129]
- 16 September 1990: the British Army defused a Semtex device which had fallen off a car at Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.[123]
- 17 September 1990:
- 18 September 1990:
- the IRA attempted to kill Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry at his Staffordshire home. Terry had been a prime target since his days as Governor of Gibraltar, in which capacity he signed the documents allowing the SAS to operate against IRA volunteers in 1988. The revenge attack took place at 9 pm at the Main Road house. The gunman opened fire through a window, hitting him at least nine times and injuring his wife, Lady Betty, near the eye. The couple's daughter, Elizabeth, was found suffering from shock. Peter Terry's face had to be rebuilt as the shots shattered his face, and two high-velocity bullets lodged a fraction of an inch from his brain.[79][130]
- the British Army defused a 150 lb (68 kg) van bomb which had been left outside the courthouse three days earlier in Strabane, County Tyrone.[123]
- 19 September 1990:
- an RUC sergeant was shot and injured in an IRA ambush on the Scraghy Road near Castlederg, County Tyrone but managed to drive to safety.[10][131]
- a British security forces mobile patrol narrowly escaped injury in Derry after a bomb exploded on the Letterkenny road. The incident happened 200 yards (182 meters) away from the Brandywell football stadium an hour before a UEFA Cup match; Dutch team SBV Vitesse ran for cover and smoke drifted over the venue. Hundreds of fans in the area escaped injury and the game went ahead.[131]
- 20 September 1990:
- 22 September 1990: the IRA claimed responsibility for four hoax van-bombs in Belfast.[132]
- 23 September 1990:
- an off-duty UDR soldier (Colin McCullough) was shot dead by the IRA at Oxford Island, Lough Neagh, County Armagh. He was sitting in his car with his girlfriend when he was shot 13 times.[7][133]
- an IRA unit fired several shots at British soldiers changing the guard at the security post at Girdwood Barracks, North Belfast.[106]
- 25 September 1990: an IRA unit carried out an attack on a sangar forming part of a newly-erected security zone around the Belfast Law Courts.[106]
- 26 September 1990:
- 27 September 1990:
- a 4 lb (1.8 kg) IRA Semtex bomb, concealed within a speaker's lectern, was defused during an international anti-terrorism conference at the Royal Over-Seas League building in central London.[134] An IRA statement released afterward claimed the intended target was Foreign Officer minister William Waldegrave.[135]
- the IRA carried out a sustained gun attack on a British Army observation post at Drumavackall, near Crossmaglen, County Armagh.[106]
- the IRA carried out seven separate gun attacks on British security forces bases and patrols in Belfast over three days. There were no reported injuries.[136]
- 28 September 1990: three IRA incendiary devices detonated in stores in Belfast city centre, of six planted. There were also several hoax bomb warnings.[137][138]
- 29 September 1990: an IRA unit opened fire on a man they claimed was a UVF commander at a quarry works nears Cookstown, County Tyrone. He survived the attack.[106]
- 1 October 1990: an RUC Reserve officer walked away with only "slight" injuries when a bomb exploded on his lorry near Maguiresbridge, County Fermanagh.[137]
- 5 October 1990: an RUC patrol escaped injury when a 80 lb (36 kg) landmine was detonated in their vicinity on Washingbay Road near Coalisland, County Tyrone.[106]
- 8 October 1990:
- the IRA carried out simultaneous gun attacks against British security forces bases in Belfast; at New Barnsley, Springfield Road, North Howard Street, and Broadway.[106][139]
- incendiary devices were left in several business premises in Belfast; in Ann Street, North Street, and Lower North Street.A furniture store and a bar were damaged, other devices were defused.[139]
- a UDR soldier escaped injury after a passer-by spotted a bomb attached to his car in Derry.[137]
- 9 October 1990:
- 11 October 1990: a bomb consisting of 10 lb (4.5 kg) home-made explosives packed into a gas cylinder, buried beside a footpath in the Creggan area of Derry, was defused by the British Army.[143]
- 13 October 1990: the IRA attacked an RUC/British Army patrol at a security barrier in Belfast. A lone IRA volunteer armed with a Browning Hi-Power pistol approached an RUC vehicle at the barrier and fired a number of shots through the window. This pistol had been captured from Michael Stone during his attack on a funeral two years earlier. Two RUC officers were wounded. One of these (Samuel Todd) died of his wounds two days later.[7][144]
- 15 October 1990: the IRA claimed responsibility for incendiary devices planted in four commercial premises in the Cornmarket area of Belfast.[106]
- 16 October 1990:
- 17 October 1990: a blast bomb was thrown at Mountpottinger RUC station in the Short Strand area of Belfast.[145]
- 19 October 1990:
- 20 October 1990:
- a former UDR soldier (David Pollock) was shot dead by the IRA in Strabane. An IRA unit rammed his car on the Melmount Road. Three IRA volunteers then left their car and began shooting into the man's car with rifles and handguns.[147]
- an IRA mortar was defused by the British Army in Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh.[145]
- 23 October 1990:
- a UVF member (William Aitken) was shot dead by the IRA on the Falls Road, Belfast. Two men approached his car on either side. As one distracted him from the passenger side another leaned through the window and shot him in the head. The IRA initially claimed he was a UFF member although it later emerged he was a member of the UVF.[7][148]
- an IRA unit carried out a gun attack on Oldpark RUC base. Belfast. The IRA claimed they injured an RUC officer.[106]
- 24 October 1990:
- in a proxy bomb attack, the IRA forced a British Army civilian employee (Patrick Gillespie), by holding his family hostage, to deliver a bomb to a British Army checkpoint at Buncrana Road, Coshquin, County Londonderry (on the County Donegal border). The bomb detonated, killing Gillespie and five British soldiers. As the bomb exploded an IRA unit opened fire from across the border. Over 25 houses in a nearby estate were damaged by the bomb.[7][149][150][151]
- in a proxy bomb attack, the IRA forced a civilian (allegedly targeted because he served RUC officers at his filling station), by holding his family hostage, to deliver a bomb to a British Army checkpoint at Cloghoge, County Armagh. The civilian driver escaped but a soldier was killed and 13 other soldiers were injured.[152]
- an attempted IRA proxy-bomb attack against a British Army base in Omagh, County Tyrone, failed when the bomb did not fully explode.[153]
- 25 October 1990:
- 27 October 1990: the IRA fired on two British Army helicopters with heavy-machine guns near Corragunt on the Fermanagh-Monaghan border.[106]
- 30 October 1990:
- 31 October 1990: a small Semtex bomb packed with nails was defused adjacent to Chichester Street and Victoria Street in Belfast city centre.[156]
November–December[]
- 1 November 1990: the IRA claimed responsibility for several hoax bombs left in Belfast city centre that caused significant disruption.[157]
- 2 November 1990:
- Albert Cooper, a UDR soldier, was killed by the IRA when he triggered a booby trap bomb attached to a car in Cookstown, County Tyrone. An IRA volunteer (Geraldine Ferrity) had left a car rigged with explosives in his Cookstown garage and asked him to work on it. When he put the car in gear it exploded.[7][158]
- a Semtex booby trap bomb was found attached to the underside of a car belonging to a member of the security forces in Carryduff, County Down, and later defused.[159]
- the IRA claimed they fired a rocket at Kinawley RUC station, County Fermanagh. On November 12 the IRA South Fermanagh Brigade issued a statement claiming the unexploded warhead was still lying on the ground.[160]
- 6 November 1990:
- 7 November 1990: a 5 lb (2.3 kg) Semtex bomb was detonated while British soldiers investigated a suspect vehicle at St. George's Market in Belfast city centre.[157]
- 10 November 1990:
- passengers and driver fled a bus after an IRA member left an incendiary device onboard and shouted a warning. The device exploded at Laganbank Road, Belfast.[160]
- an attempted IRA bombing in Belfast city centre was aborted and the car containing the bomb abandoned at the Westlink. The device was defused by the British Army following an IRA warning.[162]
- two RUC officers (David Murphy and Thomas Taylor) and two civilians (Keith Dowey and Norman Kendall) were shot dead by the IRA while they were out shooting wildfowl at Castor Bay, near Morrows Point, Lough Neagh, County Armagh.[7][163] See: 1990 Lough Neagh Ambush
- the IRA carried out a mortar attack on the RUC station in Toome, County Antrim. The projectile missed its target and exploded nearby.[10][164]
- shots were fired at British security forces establishing a roadblock at the Woodend Road near Kilrea, County Londonderry.[10][106]
- 12 November 1990:
- two RUC officers survived an IRA landmine explosion adjacent to their armoured patrol vehicle on the Tassagh Road in County Armagh with minor injuries. A cow was killed when it triggered a second device left nearby.[165][106]
- 50 lb (23 kg) of Semtex and several firearms were found with six IRA suspects by police in London.[10]
- 15 November 1990: the IRA claimed they fired forty shots at a building contractors' convoy under RUC escort at Donaghmore while it travelled along the Cookstown-Omagh to a security forces installation.[106][166]
- 17 November 1990: the IRA released a statement saying they had been forced to defuse a large roadside bomb at Cappagh, County Tyrone, because of a heavy British security forces presence.[166]
- 20 November 1990: an IRA unit fired several shots at members of British security forces manning a fortified sangar adjacent to Belfast High Court.[106]
- 22 November 1990:
- a UDR soldier was injured after a 100 lb (45 kg) bomb exploded in a derelict house near Cappagh, County Tyrone. Security forces had been lured to the area by a decoy bomb alert.[167][168]
- the IRA took over a man's house in Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh. While his parents were held at gunpoint, he was forced to drive a Toyota Hilux pick-up truck to Annaghmartin military checkpoint. The IRA unit badly beat his legs to prevent him from escaping. The man's father was also assaulted, suffering broken ribs. He was told that the truck carried a bomb on a five-minute timer. When he reached the checkpoint, he shouted a warning and a small explosion was heard, but the main bomb failed to detonate. The vehicle was found to contain 3,500 pounds (1,600 kg) of homemade explosives, the biggest IRA bomb until then. The IRA claimed the driver's family had done work for the security forces.[169][170][171]
- 24 November 1990: the Official IRA allegedly attempted to abduct a former Provisional IRA prisoner at gunpoint from a pub in the Twinbrook area of Belfast, following an argument. In the brawl that followed an OIRA revolver was lost and an OIRA member beaten unconscious.[113]
- 25 November 1990:
- 26 November 1990: the IRA issued threats to shops in the south Armagh area not to serve off-duty members of the Garda and Irish Defence Forces, alleging they were engaged in intelligence-gathering operations along the border.[173]
- 30 November 1990: an IRA unit launched an RPG rocket and fired several shots at a security hut at the home of High Court judge Ian Higgins on the Antrim Road, Belfast, injuring two RUC guards. A similar attack had been carried out in February 1987.[10][174]
- 1 December 1990:
- a former UDR soldier (Hubert Gilmore) was shot dead by the IRA in Derry. The IRA's Derry Brigade said he was killed because he worked for a building firm which was contracted to the British Army and not because he was a former British soldier. His wife was injured in the shooting, the IRA described her injury as "regrettable".[175]
- an IRA unit launched a machine gun attack on a British Army patrol at a permanent checkpoint at Killyvilly,[176] along the Fermanagh-Monaghan border.[177] Troops from the Royal Irish Rangers returned fire.[176] The IRA claimed afterwards they fired over three hundred rounds during the engagement.[178]
- 3 December 1990: David Shiels, a Protestant civilian, was shot dead at his mobile home on Crew Road, Maghera, County Londonderry. The IRA admitted responsibility and said it believed the man was member of the security forces. It later "profoundly apologised" and said that its volunteers had been acting on "erroneous information".[175]
- 5 December 1990: an IRA bomb caused serious damage on the Belfast-Dublin railway near Jonesborough, County Armagh.[15]
- 6 December 1990: the IRA claimed responsibility for three unexploded bombs left outside a pub in Templepatrick, County Antrim, claiming an RUC social function was being held there.[106]
- 7 December 1990: an IRA unit fired thirty shots[178] at a British Army mobile patrol on the Monagh bypass road in West Belfast.[106]
- 8 December 1990: two RUC officers were slightly injured when a blast bomb was thrown at an RUC station in the Mountpottinger area of Belfast. The IRA claimed responsibility.[179]
- 10 December 1990:
- 14 December 1990: an IRA unit attempted to kill an RUC detective at his home in Armagh City. They left a bomb, which later exploded, after discovering he was absent.[181][182]
- 16 December 1990:
- 18 December 1990: a no-warning IRA bomb exploded in a waste bin in CastleCourt shopping centre, Belfast, while British Army experts were defusing a car bomb in the multistorey car park. There were no reported injuries as the complex had been evacuated two minutes prior.[184]
- 20 December 1990:
- an RUC Reserve Constable (Wilfred Wethers) was shot dead by an IRA sniper in Waringstown, County Down. The officer was shot eight times by a sniper who was waiting in a nearby field. As the officer approached in his car the gunman opened fire.[7][175]
- IRA gunmen seized a milk float and forced a driver to go to a permanent vehicle checkpoint on the County Fermanagh border between Newtownbutler and Rosslea. Soldiers ran for cover after the hostage shouted a warning, although an examination of the vehicle afterwards suggested it was a hoax bomb.[185]
- eighty families were evacuated as a suspect device was examined after a proxy bomb alert at a border checkpoint in Derry. The alert started when the IRA targeted a British patrol nearby with a 150 lb (68 kg) bomb.[186]
- two British soldiers were slightly injured after a bomb explosion in Stewartstown, County Tyrone.[186]
- 22 December 1990: an IRA unit fired on a UDR soldier's car in an ambush in the Brooke Park area of Suffolk, Belfast. The off-duty soldier wasn't hit and escaped the scene.[184]
- 27 December 1990:
- a company from the Duke of Edimburgh's Royal Regiment manning a border checkpoint exchanged fire with an IRA unit at Annaghmartin, County Fermanagh, ending the IRA Christmas truce. The facilities suffered minor damage.[187] The IRA claimed they fired over four hundreds rounds using heavy machine guns.[188]
- two RUC officers were injured after a Semtex blast bomb was thrown at an RUC station in the Mountpottinger area of Belfast.[189]
- 29 December 1990: six incendiary devices were found in two department stores in Belfast city centre.[190]
- 30 December 1990: three incendiary devices exploded in a department store and a discount store in Belfast city centre.[190]
1991[]
January–February[]
- 1 January 1991: an IRA unit opened fire with a 12.7mm machine gun on a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint at the border at Aughnacloy, County Tyrone, soldiers manning the installation returned fire.[191][106]
- 3 January 1991: two drogue bombs were thrown at a British Army mobile patrol at the junction of Colinbrook Crescent and the Pembroke Loop Road, Belfast.[192]
- 4 January 1991:
- the IRA opened fire on the Belfast Law Courts, targeting civilian workers repairing the building.[192]
- an IRA unit carried out a gun and bomb attack against Henry Taggart Barracks, Belfast. Two more blast bombs were thrown at a security forces patrol engaged in a follow-up operation on the Whiterock Road.[106]
- 5 January 1991:
- a 1 lb (0.45 kg) Semtex device attached to the underside of a car belonging to an RUC officer[192] was defused in Cregagh Street, Belfast.[193]
- a factory and six shops in Belfast were destroyed by incendiary devices planted by the IRA.[194]
- the IRA threatened to shoot civilian workers repairing utilities for the Coshquin British Army border checkpoint on the outskirts of Derry, damaged in an IRA proxy bomb attack the previous October. The IRA also claimed that they had attempted to destroy a water pipe supplying the checkpoint with a 2 lb (0.91 kg) Semtex bomb but it failed to detonate.[195]
- an IRA unit fired several shots at Springfield Road RUC station, Belfast, before throwing two blast bombs. Thirty nearby homes were damaged.[195]
- 7 January 1991:
- 8 January 1991:
- an incendiary device was defused in Castlecourt Shopping Centre, Belfast.[197]
- an IRA culvert bomb injured three soldiers and a civilian and caused extensive damage to nearby houses on Dundalk Road, near Newtownhamilton, County Armagh.[198] An 11-month old baby was showered with glass as she lay in her cot.[196]
- the IRA fired upwards of one hundred rounds at soldiers manning the Coshquin checkpoint on the outskirts of Derry, still under repair.[106]
- 11 January 1991:
- 15 January 1991: two RUC officers suffered minor injures when a drogue bomb was thrown at their car in Newry.[200]
- 16 January 1991: the Belfast-Dublin railway line was closed after an explosion was heard near Lurgan.[197]
- 17 January 1991: a lorry driver (whom the IRA claimed was a part-time RUC officer[201]) escaped injury after he discovered an IRA bomb attached to the underside of his vehicle in Castlederg, County Tyrone. The RUC claimed he had no connection to the security forces.[200]
- 18 January 1991:
- an off-duty UDR soldier escaped injury after a bomb fell off the underside of his car at Victoria Bridge, County Tyrone.[202]
- the IRA launched a mortar attack on the joint British-Army base in Crossmaglen, County Armagh.[203] An elderly woman was injured.[202] The devices exploded prematurely, injuring a civilian.[201]
- a 1 lb (0.45 kg) IRA Semtex bomb left in a hijacked car was defused at Belfast International Airport.[202][204]
- incendiary devices exploded at Central Station in Belfast and Larne Harbour station, County Antrim.[202]
- 19 January 1991:
- 21 January 1991: a former RUC officer (Cullen Stephenson) was shot dead by the IRA in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh.[206] A British Army company conducting clearance of the area defused a booby-trap left by the attackers.[187] The IRA claimed a second RUC Reserve officer in the vehicle escaped uninjured.[201]
- 22 January 1991: an IRA unit preparing to carry out a mortar attack was caught and a lengthy exchange of fired ensued in Strabane.[207][208]
- 23 January 1991: the IRA opened fire on the Belfast Law Courts, targeting civilians workers carrying out repairs on the building.[106]
- 24 January 1991: an IRA unit threw an explosive device at a British Army base in Staffordshire, England. At least one shot was also fired.[134]
- 27 January 1991: the IRA was responsible for two incendiary bomb attacks on commercial premises in Belfast.[209]
- 29 January 1991: after the IRA placed a bomb under the car of a senior executive, a dairy firm in Armagh town agreed not to supply the British Army or the RUC.[210][211][208]
- 30 January 1991:
- 31 January 1991:
- a car firm in Ballymena, County Antrim agreed to cease supplying British security forces following IRA threats.[202]
- an IRA unit fired 89 rounds at a Wessex helicopter taking off from the British Army base at Forkhill, South Armagh, with a heavy machine gun and a GPMG machine gun. The helicopter disengaged successfully after being hit by one of the bullets.[212]
- the British Army defused a hidden 4 lb (1.8 kg) IRA Semtex bomb rigged to a pornographic magazine left open on top of a wall in the vicinity of an Orange Hall, near Coagh, County Tyrone. It was a new type of bomb consisting of Semtex surrounded by bolts and nails; days earlier a similar device exploded prematurely and injured an IRA member in a hijacked car in north Belfast.[213][214]
- a small Semtex nail bomb was thrown at RUC officers diverting traffic from abandoned car in the Short Strand area of Belfast. The device was safely defused and a man was arrested.[215]
- a blast bomb was thrown at a joint British Army-RUC patrol in Stewart Street in the Markets area of Belfast.[106]
- a 350 lb (160 kg) bomb was defused by the British Army on the Killeenan Road, Cookstown, County Tyrone. An IRA statement said they had been forced to abandon the bomb.[216]
- 1 February 1991: a bomb targeting British soldiers exploded at the front of a pub in the centre of Roslea, County Fermanagh in the early hours of the morning. The IRA had attempted to lure the British Army to the site with several hoax calls the preceding night.[217]
- 3 February 1991:
- the IRA launched another "proxy bomb" attack on a British Army Ulster Defense Regiment base in Magherafelt, County Londonderry. The estimated 500 lbs of explosives blew up outside the UDR barracks and caused structural damage to buildings within a quarter of a mile radius. A young woman was held hostage while her husband, employed by a construction firm that did contract work for the security forces, was forced to drive the vehicle with the bomb. The driver escaped and there were no serious injuries in the blast. A partially-disabled man injured in the blast (Albert White, 79) died in hospital on February 26.[218][219]
- two blast bombs exploded at Andersonstown RUC station.[106]
- 5 February 1991: a 1.1 lb (0.50 kg) Semtex device attached to the underside of a car belonging to a member of the security forces was defused in Whitehead, County Antrim.[220]
- 7 February 1991:
- the IRA launched a mortar attack on members of the British Cabinet and the Prime Minister, John Major in a Cabinet session at Number 10 Downing Street at the height of a huge security clampdown amid the Gulf War. The mortar missed any buildings, landing in a garden.[221]
- an IRA unit threw a blast bomb at Henry Taggart security forces base in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast.[222]
- 9 February 1991:
- a civilian was forced to drive a device in his van into a permanent vehicle checkpoint at Aughnacloy, County Tyrone. Fifty nearby homes were evacuated while the British Army carried out a controlled explosion. The bomb turned out to be a hoax. The IRA claimed responsibility.[214][222]
- a taxi driver was stopped in the Whiterock area of Belfast and forced to carry a beer keg bomb to Broadway Towers. The area was evacuated by British security forces and the device later declared a hoax.[214] It was one of several hoax bombs in Belfast perpetrated by the IRA on February 9.[222]
- several bursts of automatic fire were directed at a sangar at North Queen Street RUC station, Belfast. No fire was returned and there were no reported injuries.[214]
- a nail bomb was thrown at York Road RUC station, Belfast.[106]
- the British Army defused an incendiary device found in a chain DIY store in Newtownabbey on the outskirts of Belfast.[214]
- 11 February 1991: a blast bomb was thrown at a British security forces mobile patrol on Mountpottinger Road, Belfast.[106]
- 13 February 1991: a Lynx helicopter was heavily damaged and brought down near Crossmaglen by an IRA unit using one DShK heavy machine gun and two GPMG machine guns. The crew were rescued unscathed by another helicopter.[223]
- 14 February 1991: a UDR soldier was seriously wounded when a Saint Valentine's Day card bomb which he had received exploded in Killen. Another man who had no connection to the security forces received a card bomb in Castlederg, County Tyrone, but escaped injury.[224]
- 15 February 1991: the IRA attempted to shoot down another Lynx helicopter that was extracting men from the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment after a border patrol from St Angelo Barracks, Trory, County Fermanagh. The attack took place south of Clogher, in County Tyrone. More than 360 rounds were fired from across the border. The helicopter was forced to abort the landing and return to base.[225][226]
- 16 February 1991: the IRA claimed responsibility for a single incendiary device left in CastleCourt shopping complex, accompanied by hoax bombs at road junctions in other parts of Belfast.[227]
- 18 February 1991: a bomb exploded at Victoria Station, one man (David Corner), was killed and 38 people injured. A bomb also exploded at Paddington Station delaying upwards of 500,000 commuters, but there were no injuries.[79][228] Police confirmed that the IRA had given a 45-minute advance warning.[229]
- 19 February 1991: an IRA sniper fired ten shots at British soldiers standing in the back of a patrol vehicle outside Grosvenor Road RUC station in West Belfast.[227]
- 22 February 1991: the British Army sealed off a farm leased by an RUC officer near Kesh, County Fermanagh following a claim of a bomb left in a tractor.[230]
- 23 February 1991:
- a dozen-strong IRA unit launched a mortar and machine gun assault from a vantage point on a newly-built British Army outpost at Fosters Mountain at Silverbridge, County Armagh. A 15-minute gun battle erupted right after the first attack.[231][232]
- an IRA unit threw a drogue bomb at a British security forces patrol in the Newtownards Road, Belfast. The device failed to explode.[233][234]
- 25 February 1991:
- the IRA fired several bursts of gunfire at civilian contractors repairing the Belfast Law Courts.[234]
- the IRA carried out a sustained gun attack on Woodbourne RUC station, West Belfast.[234]
- an IRA unit carried out a bomb attack against a British Army foot patrol on the Westlink motorway near the Grosvenor Road junction in the Lower Falls area of Belfast.[234]
- the IRA carried out a gun attack on Fort Jericho on the Springfield Road, Belfast. British soldiers returned fire.[234]
- an IRA unit fired several shots at an observation post at Mountpottinger RUC station in the Short Strand area of Belfast.
- a bomb exploded on a railway line near St Albans in Hertfordshire, England. Minutes after the blast, all mainline stations in London were forced to close because of another bomb warning. The IRA was blamed.[235]
- 26 February 1991: two 3 lb (1.4 kg) Semtex devices exploded at the Shorts Brothers headquarters in Belfast.[106]
- 28 February 1991: two 4 lb (1.8 kg) Semtex[236] bombs exploded at the home of a retired judge on the Somerton Road, North Belfast. Several RUC officers were injured by the second blast while investigating the first. The IRA was blamed.[237]
March–April[]
- 1 March 1991:
- two UDR soldiers were killed in an IRA ambush on Killylea Road in Armagh town. One soldier, an Englishman (Paul Sutcliffe) died instantly; the other soldier (Roger Love) died three days later, on 4 March. This was the first recorded use by the IRA of a Mark-12 horizontal-mortar bomb (see Mullacreevie ambush).[238][239]
- the IRA claimed responsibility for several hoax car bombs left at hotels in Belfast. More hoax bombs were left at British security forces bases in the following week.[236]
- 2 March 1991:
- the IRA carried out a machine gun attack on a helicopter. The shooting was filmed by a Dublin television crew outside Crossmaglen Health Center, County Armagh.[240][241]
- a bomb in a taxi abandoned in Duncairn Gardens, Belfast, was defused by the British Army following a warning from a caller claiming to represent the IRA.[242]
- 3 March 1991:
- a blast bomb thrown at Girdwood Barracks off the Antrim Road, North Belfast exploded at the perimeter fence.[242][236]
- three IRA volunteers (John Quinn, Dwayne O'Donnell, and Malcolm Nugent), along with a Catholic civilian (Thomas Armstrong), were killed by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) during a gun attack on Boyle's Bar in Cappagh, County Tyrone. The volunteers arrived in a car as a UVF gang was about to attack the pub. The UVF fired at the car (killing the volunteers) then fired through the window of the pub (killing the civilian).[243][244]
- the IRA detonated a bomb hidden in a wall as a joint British Army-RUC patrol passed on Cemetery Road, County Tyrone. There were no reported injuries.[236]
- 4 March 1991:
- an IRA unit fired shots at a British Army observation post at Girdwood barracks, off the Antrim Road, Belfast.[245]
- an IRA unit fired shots at a British Army observation post atop of a block of flats in the New Lodge areaof Belfast.[236]
- a blast bomb was thrown at Mountpottinger RUC station, Belfast. It bounced off a wall and hit a house before exploding.[245]
- 5 March 1991: the IRA bombed Short Brothers aircraft factory at Queen's Island, east Belfast.[246]
- 7 March 1991: an IRA unit carried out a gun and blast bomb attack against a security Sangar at the Belfast Law Courts.[247]
- 9 March 1991:
- an IRA revenge attack targeting senior Loyalists in Portadown, County Armagh believed to be responsible for the Cappagh killings was foiled by the RUC. Three men dressed in boiler suits were arrested in a car intercepted in the Lurgan area.[248]
- an IRA unit threw a blast bomb at North Howard Street RUC base, Belfast, followed by a burst of gunfire.[249]
- IRA snipers fired shots at North Queen Street RUC base, Belfast[249]
- a gunman fired several shots at an RUC patrol in the Suffolk area of Belfast.[249]
- drivers of four hijacked vehicles in Belfast were forced to carry suspect devices to RUC bases at Tennant Street, York Road, Springfield Parade, and Lisburn Road. The bombs were later found to be hoaxes.[249]
- 13 March 1991: an IRA sniper fired two shots at a British Army checkpoint at Gortmullan, County Fermanagh. There was another attack on the same spot on 20 April.[250][251]
- 14 March 1991: the IRA claimed responsibility for several shots fired at Woodburn RUC station, Belfast.[252]
- 15 March 1991: incendiary devices damaged commercial premises in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, and Bangor County Down. Two pubs in Belfast city centre were also targeted, seriously damaging one.[218]
- 19 March 1991: a drogue bomb attack on an RUC mobile patrol in Newry, County Down, injured two RUC officers.[253][251]
- 20 March 1991:
- the IRA fired twenty rounds at the British Army barracks in North Howard Street, Belfast.[254]
- an employee of Locksley Engineering was shot in the arm by IRA members in Belfast, as part of its campaign against companies which supplied security forces. After the shooting, Locksley Engineering announced that they would no longer work for the RUC or the British Army in Northern Ireland.[253]
- 21 March 1991: twenty-eight IRA bomb hoaxes, along with real incendiary devices in shops, caused widespread disruption in Belfast and Bangor, County Down.[255] Suspect cars were abandoned at key points causing significant traffic delays.[256]
- 22 March 1991:
- an IRA sniper fired ten shots at British soldiers dismantling a border checkpoint at Derryard, County Fermanagh. The same checkpoint was attacked again two days later.[254][257]
- a female RUC civilian employee, Margaret Grant, a mother of three, was shot and seriously wounded by IRA members outside the RUC headquarters in Derry. Her husband, an RUC officer, had been killed by the IRA in 1987, and the attack stirred widespread condemnation.[253]
- the IRA claimed responsibility for an explosive device that partially exploded at Taggart Barracks in West Belfast.[254]
- 23 March 1991: a UDR soldier was shot and wounded by the IRA in Trillick, County Tyrone.[253]
- 24 March 1991:
- an IRA unit and a British Army patrol exchanged fire near Cullyhanna, County Armagh.[254]
- an IRA unit carried out a gun attack on British soldiers dismantling a border checkpoint at Derryvallin Road, County Fermanagh. The IRA later claimed the ASU responsible, armed with machine-guns and rifles, fired over 200 rounds.[254]
- 25 March 1991:
- 26 March 1991: an IRA unit opened fire on a joint British Army-RUC patrol in Cappagh, County Tyrone. A soldier pulled a civilian motorist caught in the crossfire from her car.[258]
- 28 March 1991:
- 29 March 1991:
- the IRA claimed responsibility for several hoax bombs left in Belfast city centre.[259]
- a 2 lb (0.91 kg) Semtex bomb hidden under a traffic cone was defused in Blackwatertown, County Tyrone.[260] The IRA stated that the unit who planted the device had been forced to disarm and abort the operation.[259]
- 4 April 1991: the IRA exploded a 1,000 lb (450 kg) van bomb out the courthouse[261] in the centre of Banbridge, County Down, causing extensive damage and injuring an RUC officer.[262]
- 5 April 1991:
- a 300 lb (140 kg) IRA bomb left outside an RUC station at Pomeroy, County Tyrone failed to explode.[263] The IRA unit who planted the bomb fired several shots as they withdrew.[261]
- a number of incendiary devices were planted by the IRA in the Arndale Shopping Centre, Manchester, England. They were discovered and defused.[134]
- a British army patrol was left unharmed by an explosion at Cregan near Crossmaglen, County Armagh.[246][261]
- 6 April 1991: an off-duty RUC officer (Spence McGarry) was killed when he triggered a booby-trap bomb attached to his car by the IRA in Ballycastle, County Antrim. The explosion caused the car to burst into flames and roll down a hill where it hit another vehicle which also burst into flames.[239][264]
- 7 April 1991: an IRA unit threw two drogue bombs at a British security forces patrol Oldpark area of Belfast. The following day two boys were injured, one seriously, after one of the devices exploded.[265][266][261]
- 8 April 1991:
- a proxy bomb attack took place at the RUC/British Army base at Belleek, County Fermanagh. A female RUC civilian employee was forced to drive to the gate sangar of the barracks carrying an explosive device in her handbag. The sentry raised the alarm and the area was evacuated. The sangar was heavily damaged by the explosion.[187][261]
- an IRA sniper fired a single shot at a British soldier in the back of a patrol vehicle at the Riverdale Estate in the Andersonstown area of Belfast.[261]
- the IRA fired six shots at a British Army mobile patrol behind the Whiterock Leisure Centre, West Belfast.[261]
- 9 April 1991: a Protestant civilian, Derek Ferguson, a builder, was shot dead by the IRA at his mobile home on Aughaveagh Road, Coagh, County Tyrone. Ferguson was a cousin of a prominent Unionist politician, Rev William McCrea.[267]
- 10 April 1991:
- an IRA bomb alert forced the cancellation of a visit to Carrickmore, County Tyrone by Stormont Industry Minister Richard Needham for the launch of a jobs scheme.[268]
- the IRA carried out an unsuccessful mortar attack on Dungannon RUC station.[263]
- an IRA mortar launcher failed to detonate in Castlederg, County Tyrone.[269]
- an IRA volunteer (Colm Marks) was shot dead by the RUC while he was preparing a mortar bomb in Downpatrick, County Down. Another IRA volunteer escaped.[239]
- 12 April 1991: a Protestant man was seriously injured by a booby-trap bomb in Portadown, County Armagh. The IRA claimed he was a member of the UVF.[270][269] The man's brother, Richard Jameson, was a senior member of the UVF before being killed in a Loyalist feud in January 2000.[271]
- 13 April 1991:
- the IRA shot dead Ian Sproule outside his parents' home, Liskleen Road, Killen, Castlederg, County Tyrone. The dead man had reportedly been listed as a UVF member in Garda Síochána files that the IRA had obtained; the documents reportedly indicated that Sproule was wanted in connection with firebomb attacks on premises in Ballybofey, Letterkenny and Castlefin in 1987. The attacks had been claimed by the UFF. CAIN lists Sproule as a civilian.[272]
- an off-duty RUC officer (Samuel McCrum) was shot dead by the IRA at his wife's shop, Antrim Street, Lisburn, County Antrim. His funeral a few days later was delayed by IRA bomb hoaxes in Rathfriland.[239][272][246]
- an IRA bomb targeting British security forces planted in Claudy, County Tyrone, failed to detonate.[269]
- following IRA threats, a Belfast-based electrical distributor announced it would no longer be carrying out contracts for the British security forces.[269]
- 14 April 1991: an IRA unit ambushed a joint British Army/RUC patrol in Strabane, County Tyrone. No reported injuries.[263]
- 15 April 1991: an IRA bomb targeting British security forces planted in Newry failed to detonate.[269]
- 16 April 1991:
- 19 April 1991: the IRA shot and wounded an alleged member of the Ulster Freedom Fighters on the Springfield Road, Belfast.[270]
- 20 April 1991:
- the British Army checkpoint at Gortmullan, County Fermanagh, was fired on by the IRA for the second time in a month.[250] Members of the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment returned fire with a .50 heavy machine gun, the first time such a weapon was known to have been used by the British Army in the Troubles.[225] The observation post was hit. One soldier was wounded and evacuated by helicopter.[273]
- the IRA claimed to have uncovered and attacked a makeshift observation post manned by two undercover British soldiers near Cappagh, County Tyrone. An IRA statement said two units armed with assault rifles and a GPMG fired two hundred rounds at the position.[274]
- 22 April 1991: the IRA announced if Loyalist paramilitaries ceased their attacks they would responded.[270]
- 24 April 1991: a lone IRA gunman fired several shots at an RUC foot patrol in the Short Strand area of Belfast.[275]
- 25 April 1991:
- 26 April 1991: the IRA fired a Mark-12 horizontal mortar[274] at the RUC base in Carrickmore, County Tyrone.[277]
- 29 April 1991: the IRA shot at three alleged Loyalists at Cullenrammer Road near Dungannon, County Tyrone.[270] The IRA claimed the garage was hosting a UVF meeting.[274]
May–June[]
- 1 May 1991:
- an RUC patrol vehicle was hit by an IRA rocket on Mica Drive, Beechmount, Belfast. Several shots were then fired at the vehicle and others in the convoy.[275] Three officers were badly injured. An RUC Sergeant (Stephen Gillespie) died two days later.[239][278]
- the managing director of a Belfast-based company escaped injury in an IRA booby-trap bomb attack. Three days later the firm announced they would no longer carry out any work for British security forces.[279]
- 2 May 1991: the IRA fired a horizontal mortar at an armoured RUC patrol car near Omagh, County Tyrone. The device failed to detonate on impact.[279]
- 3 May 1991:
- 7 May 1991: a 2 lb (0.91 kg) Semtex bomb was thrown at a British security forces patrol in West Belfast and failed to explode. Later, a passing car drove over and crushed the unexploded device.[280]
- 8 May 1991:
- 10 May 1991: an IRA member fired several shots at a British Army patrol as they left Whiterock security forces base on the Upper Springfield Road. The IRA claimed they hit a British soldier.[281]
- 11 May 1991:
- a booby-trap bomb planted on the farm of a UDR soldier near Cookstown, County Tyrone, was discovered by his ten-year-old son.[282]
- an IRA unit carried out a blast bomb attack against civilian contractors working at Coalisland RUC station, County Tyrone.[281]
- the IRA sprayed the stately home of Lord Caledon with gunfire in Caledon, County Tyrone. The IRA claimed that British soldiers guarding the house were the target[263][283] and the unit involved had fired over seven hundred rounds.[284]
- 13 May 1991:
- 15 May 1991: an IRA unit fired over fifty shots at contractors dismantling an observation tower inside Carrickmore RUC base.[281]
- 16 May 1991:
- a couple, both RUC officers, and their baby son escaped injury after an IRA incendiary device started a fire at their home in Lisburn, County Antrim.[282] A secondary device, containing a 1 lb (0.45 kg) Semtex, wasn't detonated because they fled out the front door rather than the side.[286]
- the IRA detonated a 3 lb (1.4 kg) Semtex bomb in the headquarters of the Crown Prosecution Service in Queen Street, Belfast.[281] Eight people were injured.[263][287]
- 17 May 1991:
- an RUC checkpoint at Belfast Central Station was fired upon by IRA members from a hijacked Housing Executive van. Afterwards the vehicle escaped into the nearby Markets area.[281]
- an RUC officer (Douglas Carruthers) was killed by a booby trap bomb attached to his car while driving near his home, Mullybritt, Lisbellaw, County Fermanagh.[239][288]
- 19 May 1991: a lone IRA member fired on a British Army patrol in Ladbrook Drive in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.[281]
- 20 May 1991: the IRA carried out a gun and rocket attack on an RUC patrol vehicle in the Unity Flats area of Belfast.[263] The IRA claimed afterwards the two rockets were fired from a new improvised launcher.[281]
- 21 May 1991:
- the IRA fired an RPG rocket at a security Sangar at Toomebridge RUC station, County Londonderry. The unit involved then fired sixty shots at the base. There were no reported injuries.[281]
- Wallace McVeigh was shot dead by the IRA at his workplace, Balmoral Market, Boucher Road, Belfast. The victim owned a fruit and vegetable firm and had been supplying the security forces. He had been warned previously to cease supplying them.[288]
- 22 May 1991: a bomb exploded in a litter bin close to Castle Court shopping centre in Belfast, an hour after a visit by economy minister Richard Needham. A woman was injured by the blast.[287]
- 23 May 1991:
- 24 May 1991:
- the IRA lobbed a blast bomb at Castlederg RUC station, County Tyrone.[290]
- the IRA lobbed a blast bomb at Lurgan RUC station, County Armagh.[290]
- a 1 lb (0.45 kg) Semtex under-car booby-trap bomb was defused after falling off a car belonging to a member of the security forces in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.[289]
- a British soldier and a civilian were wounded in an IRA close-range shotgun attack in the New Lodge area of Belfast.[270][291]
- an RUC Chief Inspector was shot and seriously wounded in an IRA gun attack at his home[290] near Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.[263] An RUC bodyguard in the vicinity opened fire.[290]
- 25 May 1991:
- a British soldier (Terence O'Neill) was killed when the IRA tossed[290] a bomb into North Howard Street British Army Base, West Belfast, from an adjoining derelict building. Another soldier lost both of his legs in the attack.[239][292] The IRA claimed that they used a new type of grenade.[293]
- an RUC officer (Edward Spence) was shot in an IRA ambush in Lower Crescent, Belfast. IRA volunteers ambushed the patrol at close range with handguns. The RUC officer was shot 5 times. A nearby UDR patrol returned fire but the IRA unit escaped.[239][292] The constable died of his wounds on 27 May.[293]
- 26 May 1991: two RUC officers were injured when a 300 lb (140 kg) IRA van bomb exploded in a Protestant housing area at Cookstown, County Tyrone; 130 houses were damaged.[294] The IRA stated they had left the bomb outside the home of an RUC officer and the attack was retaliation for "ongoing harassment of Tyrone nationalists by the RUC."[281]
- 28 May 1991:
- the IRA carried out a blast bomb attack on New Barnsley RUC base in West Belfast.[246]
- IRA members opened fire on the car of a Protestant woman in Pomeroy, County Tyrone. The IRA said afterwards she had been delivering milk to a joint RUC/British Army base. This claim was later denied by her son.[246][295]
- 29 May 1991:
- an IRA booby-trap bomb hidden in a wall in West Belfast was defused. An IRA unit had allegedly taken an elderly woman captive in her home to lure British security forces into an ambush.[296] This was denied by the IRA.[290]
- Lord Mayor of Belfast Fred Cobain narrowly survived an assassination attempt during a visit to a community centre in West Belfast. The IRA was blamed.[297]
- 31 May 1991: Glenanne barracks bombing: Three UDR soldiers (Paul Blakely, Robert Crozier, and Sydney Hamilton) were killed, and as many as 40 others injured to varying degrees, after the IRA detonated a lorry-bomb packed with 2,500 lb (1,100 kg) of explosives outside Glenanne British Army Base near Mount Norris, County Armagh. A 60-metre-deep crater was left by the blast, and most of the livestock in surrounding farms were killed.[239][298]
- 2 June 1991:
- a small bomb was defused by the British Army at Washing Bay near Coalisland, County Tyrone, following an IRA warning.[299]
- a female civil servant (Celia Gourley) was injured outside her home in County Antrim by a booby-trap planted under her car. Her legs were blown off and later replaced with prosthetics. The IRA later called the attack "a mistake".[300]
- 3 June 1991:
- a stationery contractor in Belfast announced they would cease supplying the British Army and RUC following IRA threats.[299]
- an IRA time bomb exploded in the tea room at a British security forces contractor's yard at the Ballyrobbin Road, Antrim. There were no reported injuries.[299]
- an IRA mortar attack on St Angelo British Army base outside Enniskillen failed. Five of the six mortar bombs detonated on the back of the hijacked lorry, causing extensive damage to the sawmill it had been left at.[246][287][301]
- three IRA volunteers (Lawrence McNally, Michael "Pete" Ryan, and Tony Doris) were killed in an ambush by an SAS unit at Coagh, County Tyrone. The British Army stated that the IRA volunteers had been intercepted on their way to an attack. More than 200 rounds were fired at the car.[302][303]
- a device containing 2 lb (0.91 kg) of explosives was defused by the British Army in the Melmore Road area of Strabane, County Tyrone, following an IRA warning.[299]
- 4 June 1991: the IRA detonated a 500 lb (230 kg) bomb as a British Army foot patrol passed in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. The explosion caused extensive damage to nearby houses but there were no reported injuries.[304]
- 6 June 1991:
- 7 June 1991: an IRA unit fired several shots at Oldpark RUC station in North Belfast.[305]
- 9 June 1991: the IRA exploded a 600 lb (270 kg) car bomb in the centre of a Protestant housing estate in Donaghcloney, County Down. Several homes were destroyed.[306] The IRA claimed the estate was "densely populated by RUC personnel" and the attack was retaliation for "destructive" raids and security forces' harassment in Nationalist areas.[305]
- 10 June 1991: the IRA released a statement saying it was forced to abort a bomb attack on British security forces in Caledon, County Tyrone, and gave the location of the abandoned device.[305]
- 11 June 1991:
- the IRA sent hoax bombs to the homes of seven alleged RUC officers in towns surrounding Belfast following hoax warnings naming the officers sent to their respective RUC station the previous night.[305]
- the IRA claimed responsibility for several hoax bombs at road junctions and security forces' bases in Belfast over a 48-hour period.[305]
- 17 June 1991: a UDR soldier (Brian Lawrence) was shot dead by the IRA at his workplace, a tyre depot, Duncrue Street, Belfast. An IRA unit ambushed his car using an AKM rifle and a .357 Magnum handgun. He was shot 7 times in the neck and body.[239][307] His funeral two days later was disrupted by three IRA hoax bombs.[308]
- 18 June 1991: a 300 lb (140 kg) bomb exploded outside Pomeroy RUC station, County Tyrone. The IRA later warned a second bomb had failed to explode.[309]
- 19 June 1991:
- an IRA unit lobbed a blast bomb into Donegall Pass RUC station from a hijacked vehicle. One RUC officer suffered minor injuries.[310]
- a British soldier (Anthony Harrison) was shot dead by the IRA while off-duty at his girlfriend's home, Nevis Avenue, Strandtown, Belfast. Martin McGartland (an informant later shot and badly wounded by the IRA) alleged that he drove the getaway car.[239][311]
- two civilians were slightly injured after the IRA fired a rocket from an improvised launcher at RUC officers in the Shipquay Street area of Derry city centre.[246][310]
- 21 June 1991:
- 23 June 1991: the IRA fired a rocket at British Army personnel closing the border at Greagh Crossing on the Tyrone/Monaghan border.[310]
- 25 June 1991: the IRA claimed to have fire hundreds of rounds in a heavy machine gun attack on a UDR checkpoint near Ballygawley, County Tyrone.[310]
- 26 June 1991:
- 27 June 1991:
- an IRA unit carried out a gun and grenade attack on a British Army mobile patrol at the junction of Lanark Way and Springfield Road, Belfast. The IRA claimed they again used a new type of improvised disposable grenade launcher.[315]
- an IRA bomb planted at rear of the Beck Theatre in London failed to explode during a performance by the British Army's Blues and Royals band and was defused by bomb disposal experts the next morning.[315]
- 29 June 1991:
- Ulster Democratic Party member and UDA/UFF commander Cecil McKnight was shot dead by the IRA in the Waterside area of Derry City. The IRA claimed he had been involved in the assassination of Sinn Féin Councillor Eddie Fullerton. The IRA unit were pursued by the RUC after the shooting but escaped after they opened fire on an RUC patrol car.[239][311]
- a joint British Army/RUC patrol escaped injury in an IRA rocket attack at Altadavin, outside Clogher, County Tyrone.[314]
- 30 June 1991: the IRA fired a horizontal mortar at an RUC patrol car in Omagh, County Tyrone. One RUC officer was injured and four civilians were treated for shock.[316]
July–August[]
- 1 July 1991:
- an IRA bomb left behind an RAF careers office in Preston, England was defused.[246]
- a 200 lb (90 kg) IRA car bomb was defused after partly exploding at a garage in Dungannon, County Tyrone. The device was in a car hijacked earlier at gunpoint near the village of Cappagh, County Tyrone.[317] The same garage had seen several previous IRA attacks.
- the IRA carried out a coffee jar bomb attack on a British Army foot patrol at Donore Court in the New Lodge area of Belfast. The IRA claimed they injured a British soldier.[315]
- 4 July 1991:
- an IRA unit fired several bursts of automatic gunfire at British security forces manning the security perimeter surrounding the Belfast Law Courts.[318]
- an IRA unit fired an improvised grenade at an observation post at Mountpottinger RUC base in the Short Strand area of Belfast.[318]
- the IRA launched a mortar attack on Cloghogue permanent vehicle checkpoint outside Newry on the main Dublin-Belfast road but fell short.[318]
- 6 July 1991: an IRA volunteer was shot and injured after throwing a coffee jar bomb at an RUC mobile patrol in Belfast.[319]
- 7 July 1991:
- an IRA coffee jar bomb attack on an RUC mobile patrol injured three RUC officers and three civilians on the Oldpark Road, North Belfast.[320]
- IRA prisoners Nessan Quinlivan and Pearse McAuley escaped from HM Prison Brixton, where they were being held on remand. They escaped using a gun that had been smuggled into the prison, wounding a motorist as they fled.[246][321]
- 8 July 1991:
- an IRA coffee jar bomb attack on an RUC mobile patrol injured four RUC officers in the Antrim Road area of Belfast.[320][318]
- an IRA time bomb attack injured two RUC officers and demolished a civilian's home in Dunmurray, Belfast.[246][318]
- an IRA unit lobbed a coffee jar bomb over the perimeter wall of Mountpottinger RUC base in the Strand Road area of Belfast.[318]
- an IRA attack was foiled after Gardaí in Donegal found a 1,000 lb (450 kg) bomb. Three suspects were arrested.[246] The bomb was loaded onto the trailer of an articulated lorry with a driver's cab cladded in improvised armour. The hydraulics had been modified to allow the driver to quickly disengage the trailer and activate a short timer for the bomb. The IRA stated their plan was to drive the vehicle into the heart of a border checkpoint and abandon the payload before quickly withdrawing.[318]
- an IRA unit fired several shots at an observation post at Oldpark RUC station in Belfast.[318]
- an IRA unit fired several shots at a British Army observation on top of a high-rise apartment block in the New Lodge area of Belfast.[318]
- 11 July 1991:
- the IRA launched several gun attacks on RUC officers in the New Lodge area of Belfast during unrest surrounding the annual Orange Order 12 July parades.[318]
- an IRA unit and a British Army mobile patrol exchanged fire at Divis Drive in the Falls Road area of Belfast. The IRA claimed afterwards they fired an RPG rocket.[318]
- an IRA unit opened fire on a large RUC patrol leaving North Queen Street RUC station.[318]
- 12 July 1991:
- 18 July 1991:
- an IRA unit lobbed two blast bombs at the Strand Road RUC station in Derry. The IRA claimed they injured three RUC officers.[322]
- the British Army defused a small IRA bomb left in a bank on Royal Avenue in Belfast city centre. An IRA member had entered the premises with the device and told staff they had ten minutes to evacuate.[322]
- 19 July 1991: the IRA fired an SA-7 surface-to-air missile at a RAF Wessex helicopter at Kinawley in County Fermanagh. The missile failed to lock onto the helicopter and exploded on the ground.[323][324] The IRA claimed they had instead fired an RPG-7 and a 12.7mm machine gun.[322]
- 21 July 1991: the IRA shot dead a County Louth farmer (Thomas Oliver) who they claimed was an informer for the Garda Síochána in Dundalk.[325][326]
- 26 July 1991:
- 27 July 1991: an IRA bomb was found attached to the bottom of a UDR soldier's car in County Tyrone. The device was intended to explode after the part-time soldier drove into Dungannon UDR base.[328]
- 28 July 1991: a 5 lb (2.3 kg) Semtex blast bomb was dropped on an RUC convoy from the M1 motorway bridge as it drove along Black's Road. There were no reported injuries.[327]
- 31 July 1991: the IRA claimed responsibility for hoax car bombs at British security bases in West Belfast and the city centre.[329]
- 1 August 1991: the IRA tried to kill a UDR soldier at his home in the Tigers Bay area of North Belfast. After failing to gain entry the unit involved fired several shots through a downstairs window.[329]
- 2 August 1991:
- an IRA unit launched an improvised grenade at a British security forces patrol on the Antrim Road, Belfast.[329]
- the IRA carried out a blast bomb attack against a joint British Army/RUC patrol on the Springfield Road, Belfast. There were no reported injuries.[330]
- the IRA targeted an RAF Puma landing British soldiers at Newtownhamilton barracks, South Armagh, with what author Chris Ryder describes as three "radio controlled warheads", whose explosions around the landing area forced the pilot to lift off. The next day, ordnance disposal teams found that the missiles were Mark-12 horizontal mortars, fired from a garage in the town center.[331]
- 3 August 1991:
- 5 August 1991:
- a former UDR soldier, Eric Boyd, was shot dead by the IRA shortly after leaving his workplace, while driving along Altmore Road, Cappagh, County Tyrone.[239] The IRA claimed he was a member of the UVF.[333]
- the IRA tried to kill an alleged UVF member at his home in the Oldpark area of Belfast but he wasn't present.[329]
- 8 August 1991: an informant (Martin McGartland) was kidnapped by the IRA in Belfast after the RUC intercepted two couriers delivering guns for an attack planned on a pub in Bangor, County Down, patronised by British soldiers.[334] He was being interrogated in a flat when he managed to escape by jumping out of a third floor window.[335]
- 9 August 1991:
- Ulster Democratic Party member and UDA/UFF member Gary Lynch was shot dead by the IRA in Lisahally, County Londonderry. Lynch had been a pall bearer at the funeral of senior UDP and UDA/UFF member Cecil McKnight who was shot dead by the IRA two months earlier.[239][336]
- an IRA unit fired several shots at a joint British Army-RUC patrol in Alliance Avenue, Ardoyne, Belfast.[337]
- three RUC officers were injured when their patrol vehicle was struck by a bomb in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.[338][337]
- 10 August 1991:
- an RUC patrol was attacked with a blast bomb in the Short Strand area of Belfast. No one was injured in the attack but an 86-year-old woman had to be treated for shock.[339][337]
- an IRA unit fired six shots at an RUC patrol in the Tiger's Bay area of Belfast from the New Lodge Road, but in a later statement claimed they had aborted a grenade attack because of the presence of civilians.[337]
- 12 August 1991:
- 13 August 1991:
- an IRA unit fired several shots at Girdwood Barracks, North Belfast.[337]
- an IRA unit fired several shots at a British Army observation post at the top of a high-rise apartment block in the New Lodge area of Belfast.[337]
- the IRA stated they had accidentally discharged a grenade while providing cover for aborted punishment attacks in Fathom Park, Newry.[337]
- 14 August 1991: an IRA unit lobbed a blast bomb at an RUC mobile patrol in the Shantallow area of Derry.[340]
- 15 August 1991:
- the IRA carried out a blast bomb attack against Strand Road RUC station, Derry.
- the IRA was responsible for forty bomb hoaxes in Belfast.[246][341]
- the IRA carried out several gun attacks in Belfast.[341]
- a Catholic civilian (James Woods) was killed and a number of British soldiers wounded when the IRA launched a grenade attack at a British Army foot patrol, off Gortfin Street, Falls, Belfast.[239]
- a former UDR soldier (Ronald Finlay) was shot dead by the IRA at his workplace, a farm at Brocklass Road, Sion Mills, County Tyrone.[239]
- 16 August 1991:
- 17 August 1991:
- the IRA carried out several gun and grenade attacks against British soldiers and RUC officers at security forces bases across Belfast as they responded to fifty hoax bomb alerts.[340]
- a British soldier (Simon Ware) was killed when the IRA detonated a 300 lb (140 kg) landmine as a British Army Patrol passed near Carrickrovaddy, Cullyhanna, County Armagh.[239][342]
- 18 August 1991: the IRA claimed they launched a mortar at the British Army position on Bishop Street, Derry.[340]
- 20 August 1991:
- 22 August 1991:
- a coffee jar bomb attack on Ballynafeigh RUC station, Belfast caused no reported injuries.[343]
- the IRA attempted to kill an alleged loyalist at Ballysillan, north Belfast.[270]
- the IRA carried out a bombing against the RUC base at Kilrea, County Londonderry using a 200 lb device. More than a hundred homes and businesses were damaged in the blast.[344][345]
- 23 August 1991:
- the IRA was responsible for thirty bomb alerts in Belfast.[246]
- two blast bombs were thrown at Dunmurray RUC station in South Belfast. Twenty homes were evacuated while British troops searched the area.[346]
- a bomb containing 1 lb (0.45 kg) of Semtex was thrown at a British security forces patrol in the centre of Derry. There was no reported damage or injuries.[346]
- 28 August 1991:
- the IRA carried out a blast bomb attack against a British Army patrol in Flax Street in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.[347]
- the IRA carried out a blast bomb attack against a joint British Army-RUC patrol in Copperfield Street in the New Lodge area of Belfast. The IRA claimed they had intercepted radio traffic confirming injuries.[347]
- a 1,000 lb explosive device planted by the IRA in Markethill, County Armagh, destroyed an RUC base and damaged in different degree all the buildings of the village, some of them beyond repair. A great deal of livestock was killed.[348]
- 29 August 1991: three IRA incendiary devices were defused in a London underground depot near Hammersmith.[134]
- 30 August 1991: an IRA unit threw a coffee jar bomb at an RUC mobile patrol in the Suffolk Road near Woodbourne RUC station, Belfast.[347]
- 31 August 1991: an IRA incendiary device was found and defused in a bookshop on Charing Cross Road, London.[349]
September–October[]
- 2 September 1991: the IRA carried out a gun and blast bomb attack against UDR soldiers and RUC officers at the gates of the security perimeter surrounding the Belfast Law Courts.[347][350]
- 3 September 1991:
- two houses were damaged when a blast bomb thrown at an RUC station on the York Road, Belfast, fell short.[351][347]
- the IRA tested a new type of bomb in County Fermanagh. An 8,000 lb (3,600 kg) bomb was loaded onto an unmanned tractor and trailer near Rosslea and driven by proxy towards a hill overlooking a British Army outpost. The hostage then would let the vehicle to roll down toward the compound, but the attack failed when the massive bomb caused the tractor to overturn. A more sophisticated remotely delivered bomb would later be used in other bombings on British Army installations in County Armagh, such as the attack on Cloghoge checkpoint.[352][353]
- 4 September 1991: seven business premises in the Belfast area were damaged by incendiary devices; a department store in Castle Court centre in the city centre, three textile and furnishing shops in Newtownabbey and two more on the Shore Road, and a supermarket in Lisburn.[351] The IRA claimed they planted a total of 14 incendiary devices.[347]
- 5 September 1991:
- the IRA lobbed a Semtex bomb at the observation post at Donegall Pass RUC station. Afterwards RUC officers were lured to a 8 lb (3.6 kg) car bomb timed to go off 30 minutes later by an abandoned improvised rocket launcher. The IRA claimed they injured RUC officers in both stages of the attack.[354]
- an IRA unit carried out a blast bomb attack in Dominic Street, Newry, but the device failed to detonate.[354]
- 6 September 1991:
- the IRA drove a 300 lb (140 kg) bomb in a pick-up truck against the perimeter fence of the joint RUC-British Army base in Belcoo, County Fermanagh. The British Army later defused the device.[354][246]
- the IRA detonated a 27 lb (12 kg) bomb at the outer wall of North Howard Street base, Belfast. The device had been accompanied by several hoax bombs in the area.[354]
- 8 September 1991:
- six people were injured when an IRA mortar bomb missed an RUC station and struck a pizzeria in Warrenpoint, County Down.[355]
- an RUC base came under sustained mortar and machine gun fire at Carrickmore, County Tyrone from a dozen-strong IRA unit. RUC officers returned fire and the gun battle lasted ten minutes. It was the fourth IRA attack on Carrickmore RUC base in 1991.[326][356]
- the IRA claimed they placed a 1.5 lb (0.68 kg) Semtex bomb under the car of an alleged UDA/UFF commander at Roslyn Street in the Ravenhill area of Belfast. The device was discovered and defused.[354]
- 9 September 1991:
- 10 September 1991: a UVF member (John Hanna) was shot dead by the IRA in Donegall Road in South Belfast. A two-man IRA unit entered the house and the victim jumped from his bedroom window to escape but the IRA shot him from the window. One of the members then ran downstairs and shot Hanna again as he lay wounded; in total he was shot eight times. The suggestion that he was a UVF member was denied by his family although the man had a tattoo with the letters "UVF" on his arm and a number of UVF emblems in his bedroom.[239][357] The IRA also forced their way into a house in North Belfast but their intended victim wasn't present.[358]
- 12 September 1991: the IRA launched a horizontal mortar at a joint British Army-RUC mobile patrol in the Norglen Parade area of Turf Lodge, Belfast. The device failed to explode on impact.[359]
- 13 September 1991:
- 25 lb (11 kg) left outside a bank in Dungannon, County Tyrone, was defused by the British Army after telephone warnings.[360]
- a 400 lb (180 kg) bomb was found and defused by British security forces near Cullyhanna, County Armagh.[246][361]
- the IRA claimed responsibility for incendiary devices which exploded in an insurance company's offices and a bar in Belfast city centre.[359]
- 14 September 1991:
- a teenager uncovered an IRA coffee jar bomb in place for an attack on British security forces in Banbridge, County Down. Thirty families were evacuated as the device was defused.[362] The IRA claimed the device and another blast bomb had been thrown on 8 September.[359]
- a UDR soldier was "critically injured" in an IRA booby-trap bomb explosion in Newtownstewart, County Tyrone.[363]
- 16 September 1991:
- in separate attacks targeting Loyalists, the IRA broke into homes in Upper Charleville Street and Tildarg Avenue in Belfast. None of the intended targets were home, and in both cases shots were fired but no one was seriously injured.[364][358]
- a small drogue bomb thrown at an RUC patrol car failed to explode in Newry.[365][359]
- 17 September 1991:
- a 1,200 lb (540 kg) bomb was defused by the British Army in Newtownhamilton, County Armagh, after a patrol spotted a command wire leading from a manhole cover.[366]
- an RUC officer (Erik Clarke) was killed and several British soldiers wounded when the IRA carried out a horizontal mortar attack against a joint patrol in Swatragh, County Londonderry.[239][367]
- 18 September 1991:
- the IRA was responsible for several incendiary bomb attacks on business premises in the Belfast area; a chain DIY store in South Belfast was gutted by six devices, and furniture shops on North Street and at Dunmurray were also damaged.[368]
- a Semtex bomb left in a bank on University Road, Belfast, caused substantial, but not structural, damage.[368][359]
- the IRA launched a gun and rocket[369] attack on a permanent British Army checkpoint near Kinawley, County Fermanagh. Soldiers returned fire but there were reportedly no casualties.[368]
- an improvised grenade was launched at Willowfield RUC station, Belfast. A man was arrested after being shot and injured by RUC officers.[370][368][369]
- 19 September 1991: a British Army contractor (John Haldane) was shot dead at his workplace in Duncrue, Belfast. A two-man IRA team, who were not wearing any masks, walked into his office and shot him twice in the chest and once in the head.[239][371] Following the shooting the firm which Haldane was managing director of announced they would cease supplying British security forces.[369]
- 20 September 1991:
- an IRA unit fired on Mountpottinger RUC station in the Short Strand area of Belfast.
- an IRA unit fired on UDR soldiers guarding the security perimeter around the Belfast Law Courts.[369]
- 21 September 1991: the IRA claimed to have left incendiary devices in a department store in CastleCourt shopping centre, a furniture store in Dunmurray and a furniture warehouse in Talbot Street, Belfast.[369]
- 22 September 1991:
- the IRA claimed responsibility for ten hoax car bombs left at British security forces bases across Belfast.[359]
- the IRA carried out a blast bomb attack against a British security forces patrol on the Whiterock Road, Belfast.[359]
- an IRA unit opened fire from a hijacked car on Girdwood UDR base.[359]
- 23 September 1991:
- a civilian tourist was injured in an IRA bomb attack at Lisnaskea bridge, Fermanagh. A car crossing the bridge was caught in the blast but the driver escaped unscathed.[372] A boat club nearby was destroyed in a bomb attack.[246]
- two hotels in the Lisnaskea area were evacuated due to bomb hoaxes.[246]
- a booby-trap bomb planted under the car of a UDR soldier in Banbridge, County Down, was defused by the British Army.[369]
- the IRA attempted to assassinate an alleged senior Loyalist paramilitary figure in Farset Enterprise Park in the Springfield Road area of Belfast. The IRA also claimed they left a 5 lb (2.3 kg) Semtex device nearby.[369]
- the IRA lobbed a blast bomb at North Queen Street RUC station, Belfast. The device failed to detonate.[369]
- 26 September 1991:
- two RUC officers and a civilian were injured after a drogue bomb struck an RUC patrol vehicle at Platters Mill, Coalisland, County Tyrone.[373]
- a British Army patrol came under fire outside Cappagh, County Tyrone. The IRA claimed they fired sixty shots.[374]
- an IRA unit fired on a British Army base at Whiterock Road, Belfast.[373]
- an IRA unit carried out a bomb attack on North Queen Street RUC station, Belfast.[373]
- an IRA unit carried out a bomb attack on an RUC patrol vehicle at Old Park Road, Belfast.[373]
- 27 September 1991: the IRA launched a rocket and fired several shots at the RUC station in Bellaghy, County Londonderry.[374]
- 28 September 1991: RUC officers escaped injury in a "coffee jar" bomb attack on the Antrim Road, Belfast.[246]
- 1 October 1991: the IRA apologised to two people, Roger Earlwood (25) and his girlfriend Amanda Stewart (18) whom one of its Active Service Units knocked down and seriously injured during a get-away from a bomb attack on the Army at Upper Dunmurray Lane. Roger Earlwood later died of his injuries.[246]
- 5 October 1991:
- 7 October 1991:
- an IRA bomb alert disrupted the official opening of new tax offices by Secretary of State Peter Brooke in Belfast.[376] The device, consisting of 2 lb (0.91 kg) of Semtex, was found and defused after a 15-hour search of the complex.[377]
- an IRA unit threw a blast bomb at an RUC mobile patrol in the St. James' area of West Belfast.[375]
- 8 October 1991: an IRA unit threw a blast bomb at an RUC vehicle in the Brandywell area of Derry.[375]
- 9 October 1991:
- 10 October 1991: a 350 lb (160 kg) car bomb was intercepted and defused and two people arrested on the Donegall Road, Belfast.[380]
- 11 October 1991:
- two RUC officers were injured after a bomb was dropped onto their patrol car from a bridge in Carnlough, County Antrim.[381]
- a British soldier suffered shock and hearing damage after a coffee jar bomb was thrown at troops investigating a hoax bomb in the Short Strand area[379] of east Belfast.[381]
- the IRA detonated firebombs in six shops in Belfast, Bangor and Mallusk causing £1,000,000 worth of damage.[246]
- 12 October 1991: the British Army defused a booby-trap bomb under an RUC Reserve officer's car in Rathfriland, County Down.[246][379]
- 13 October 1991:
- a 30-strong IRA unit took over the village of Mullaghbawn in south Armagh, handing out leaflets warning of action against those involved in "anti-social activity".[382]
- a ten-minute gun battle erupted between British soldiers and IRA volunteers at Derryvollen, County Fermanagh.[383] The IRA claimed their unit was armed with two GPMGs and fired hundreds of rounds.[379]
- 15 October 1991: the IRA launched a horizontal mortar at a British security forces mobile patrol in Castlederg, County Tyrone. The device missed.[379]
- 19 October 1991:
- 20 October 1991:
- 21 October 1991:
- Protestant taxi driver Alex Bunting was left with "terrible" injuries after surviving an IRA bomb placed under his car in the Loyalist Sandy Row district of Belfast.[388]
- the IRA carried out a gun attack on the home of a UDR soldier in Cookstown, County Tyrone.[389]
- an IRA assassination attempt targeting an alleged UDA/UFF commander was aborted after the unit involved failed to find their target. They had to fire shots into the air to escape a hostile crowd afterwards.[385]
- 22 October 1991: a 0.5 lb (0.23 kg) IRA bomb exploded at Castle Court Shopping Centre in Belfast as the Secretary of State Peter Brooke was giving a press conference a quarter of a mile away. A second 2 lb (0.91 kg) Semtex device intended to injure bomb disposal officers exploded later. There were also eight further bomb alerts, all hoaxes.[246][385][389]
- 23 October 1991:
- the IRA carried out a mortar attack against a British Army observation post at Silverbridge, County Armagh.[390]
- an IRA unit opened fire on Oldpark RUC station, Belfast.[390]
- an IRA unit opened fire on a security sangar at the Belfast Law Courts.[390]
- an IRA unit fired several shots at a British Army observation post on top of a high-rise apartment block in the New Lodge area of Belfast.[390]
- an IRA unit opened fire on Grosvenor Road RUC station.[390]
- according to an IRA statement a horizontal mortar aimed at an RUC patrol vehicle on the Tullywiggan Road in Cookstown, County Tyrone, was abandoned after failing to detonate.[390]
- 24 October 1991: the IRA claimed responsibility for several incendiary devices planted in commercial premises in the greater Belfast area.[390]
- 25 October 1991: an IRA unit threw a blast bomb at an RUC patrol in Roslea, County Fermanagh. The IRA claimed a second attack was abandoned because of the presence of civilians.[390]
- 29 October 1991: IRA hoax bomb alerts caused widespread disruption during rush-hour traffic in Belfast.[389]
- 30 October 1991: an IRA unit opened fire on Oldpark RUC station, Belfast.[391]
November–December[]
- 2 November 1991:
- several IRA incendiary devices were found in Coleraine, County Londonderry.[246]
- an IRA incendiary device left in a bed shop on the Lisburn Road, Belfast caused extensive damage. A similar device was found in another Belfast shop premises before it could detonate.[392][393]
- the IRA planted five incendiary devices in commercial premises in Lisburn. All were discovered before they exploded.[392]
- British security forces escaped injury following a bomb attack in the vicinity of Spamount Road and Halliday's Road, north Belfast.[392]
- two British soldiers (Philip Cross and Craig Pantry) were killed when the IRA detonated a bomb at Musgrave Park British Army base in Belfast. A two-storey building in the base was destroyed by the blast.[239][394] (See:Musgrave Park Hospital bombing)
- 6 November 1991:
- a small Semtex bomb was defused at the headquarters of HM Customs and Excise department at Belfast docks.[395]
- the IRA fired a horizontal mortar at a four-vehicle UDR patrol in Bellaghy, County Londonderry. The mortar hit the last vehicle in the patrol, killing a UDR soldier, Michael Boxall, and wounding another.[239][396]
- 7 November 1991: several incendiary devices were defused in commercial premises in Belfast.[397]
- 9 November 1991: two incendiary bombs were defused in a B&Q store in the Waterside area of Derry.[330]
- 10 November 1991: RUC officers escaped injury after a coffee jar bomb thrown at their patrol vehicle missed and exploded nearby in Dungannon, County Tyrone.[398]
- 13 November 1991:
- the IRA shot dead a UDA member (William Kingsberry) and a Red Hand Commando (Samuel Mehaffey) at their home on Lecale Street, Belfast. Two IRA volunteers armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and a 9mm pistol opened fire, hitting the UDA man at least nine times and the other man six times. A five-week old baby was also seriously injured after being hit twice.[246][270][239]
- two Protestant civilians, Kenneth Lynn and Stephen Lynn, were killed while renovating a house on Upper Crumlin Road, Belfast, when the IRA attacked their home. The building was previously owned by a UVF member and it is suspected he was the intended target.[270][239][246]
- a UDA man was left with serious injuries after a bomb detonated under his car in the Shankill area of Belfast.[399]
- the IRA tried to kill senior UDA man Joe Bratty at his Annadale Flats home but he wasn't home.[400]
- 15 November 1991:
- 17 November 1991: the IRA fired a Mark-12 mortar at an RUC mobile patrol outside Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh.[246][389]
- 19 November 1991: a 220 lb (100 kg) IRA car bomb left in Bedford Street in Belfast city centre overnight was defused by the British Army.[402]
- 21 November 1991: the IRA carried out a gun and blast bomb attack targeting British soldiers at the Belfast Law Courts.[403]
- 22 November 1991: an IRA unit lobbed a coffee jar bomb at a British security forces patrol on Brandywell Avenue, Derry.[403]
- 23 November 1991: IRA incendiary bombs badly damaged two clothes shops in Belfast city centre.[404]
- 24 November 1991: a UVF member (Colin Caldwell), and a UDA member (Robert Skey), were killed and eight others injured when the IRA managed to plant a bomb in a dining hall used by loyalist prisoners in Crumlin Road Prison, Belfast.[239][405]
- 25 November 1991:
- 26 November 1991:
- 27 November 1991: a UDR soldier (Kenneth Newell) was kidnapped and shot dead by the IRA while off-duty near Crossmaglen, County Armagh.[239][408] He had been making a delivery to a petrol station on the Dundalk-Castleblayney road, another man with him (unbeknownst to his captors, also a serving member of the UDR) was kidnapped and released after fourteen hours of interrogation.[409]
- 28 November 1991:
- an IRA bomb exploded in a dust cart in Corporation Street, Belfast, near the city's high court.[410]
- the IRA detonated a 100 lb (45 kg) car bomb at the rear of the Plaza Hotel in Belfast city centre during the morning, causing widespread damage to office and shop windows but only slightly injuring seven people.[411] The bombs were accompanied by several hoax warnings.[246][410]
- the IRA detonated a bomb at a hotel in Campsie, near Derry. A second bomb, a booby-trap device, exploded minutes later.[246][407]
- 29 November 1991:
- 30 November 1991: IRA incendiary devices gutted a shoe shop and caused minor damage to a bar in Belfast city centre.[407]
- 1 December 1991:
- IRA incendiary devices exploded in retail premises in Newtownabbey and Belfast, destroying £500,000 worth of stock.[246]
- four IRA devices exploded in separate retail premises on the Tottenham Court Road, London; there were no injuries.[134]
- an IRA unit lobbed a blast bomb into the RUC compound in Moneymore, County Londonderry.[412]
- 2 December 1991:
- 3 December 1991: three incendiary devices destroyed part of a hotel near Templepatrick, County Antrim.[407]
- 4 December 1991: a 1,200 lb (540 kg) IRA van bomb detonated on Glengall Street, Belfast severely damaging the Grand Opera House as well as the Europa Hotel and left 16 people injured.[413][407]
- 5 December 1991:
- an IRA unit lobbed a coffee jar bomb at a British Army patrol at the junction of the Falls Road and Waterford Street, Belfast.[414]
- an IRA carried out a blast bomb attack against a British security forces mobile patrol in Coalisland, County Tyrone.[414]
- over two days, the IRA claimed responsibility for several incendiary devices and hoax bombs in Belfast's Cornmarket area. The devices failed to detonate and were defused.[414]
- 7 December 1991: at least eight incendiary devices exploded in shops, businesses, and the town hall in Blackpool, England. Another five devices were discovered unexploded. Two days later an incendiary device exploded in a menswear shop and another was discovered intact.[134][407]
- 8 December 1991: seven incendiary devices exploded in the Manchester Arndale shopping centre in England, causing severe damage There were no injuries. Several more devices were discovered nearby the following day.[415]
- 9 December 1991: the IRA attacked a British Army patrol in a close-range shotgun attack in the New Lodge area of Belfast. The IRA claimed they injured a British soldier.[414]
- 10 December 1991:
- 12 December 1991:
- a 2,000 lb (910 kg) IRA truck-bomb wrecked the RUC station in Craigavon, County Armagh, injuring more than 60 people. The explosion caused extensive damage to nearby homes, a chapel, and a primary school.[417][418]
- a large IRA bomb exploded on the grounds of a vacated Territorial Army base near Derry.[419][418]
- a prison officer survived an IRA assassination attempt at Belfast prison.[418]
- 13 December 1991: the IRA injured a British soldier in an ambush by a unit armed with rifles and machineguns near Cullyhanna, County Armagh.[420][421]
- 14 December 1991:
- 15 December 1991:
- an IRA incendiary device partially exploded in the National Gallery in London.[415]
- an IRA unit carried out blast bomb attack against a British Security forces patrol in the Markets area of Belfast.[422]
- an IRA unit carried out blast bomb attack against a British Security forces patrol in the Short Strand area of Belfast.[422]
- 16 December 1991:
- an IRA unit carried out blast bomb attack against a British Security forces mobile patrol in the Andersonstown area of Belfast.[422]
- an IRA unit carried out blast bomb attack against a British Security forces patrol in the Markets area of Belfast. The IRA claimed to have injured a British soldier.[422]
- the IRA detonated a bomb on a railway line near Clapham Junction in England.[415]
- a small IRA bomb exploded at the RUC station in Saintfield, County Down. A passing motorist narrowly escaped injury.[246][423]
- a family from the Shankill Road discovered an incendiary device in a toy they had purchased in the Victoria centre, Belfast.[418]
- 17 December 1991: a house in the Lower Falls area of Belfast was destroyed, apparently by an incendiary device inadvertently brought home from the Victoria centre.[418]
- 18 December 1991:
- the IRA detonated a 500 lb (230 kg) car bomb in Belfast near the Law Courts. The blast badly damaged the court house and surrounding buildings as well as dozens of cars parked in a nearby RUC station.[246][424][418]
- IRA incendiary bombs exploded in several Belfast-area commercial premises, destroying a carpet store. An incendiary bomb was also left in Shorts aircraft factory[418]
- an incendiary bomb exploded in a Dunnes Stores supermarket in Coleraine, County Londonderry.[418]
- between twelve and fifteen armed IRA members established checkpoints on three roads leading to Cullyhanna, County Armagh.[425]
- 19 December 1991:
- 21 December 1991:
- the IRA was accused of complicity in an Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) gun attack that left a Protestant civilian (Robin Farmer) dead at his family's shop, Killyman Street, Moy. His father, a former RUC officer, was the intended target and the IRA had tried to kill him the previous month with an under-car bomb.[426]
- an incendiary bomb exploded in a supermarket in Belfast city centre. A second device exploded the next day. A device in another store was defused.[418]
- 23 December 1991:
- 27 December 1991:
- three minutes after midnight, an IRA bomb damaged the Belfast-Dublin rail line close to Newry.[418]
- twenty-five minutes after midnight, an IRA unit opened fire on British security forces guarding the Belfast Law Courts.[428]
- a shopper found an incendiary device in the Primark store in Belfast city centre.[418]
- 28 December 1991: the IRA bombed a section of railway track at Newry station, and also claimed to have left devices on a section of the line between Poyntzpass and Newry, causing severe disruption to train services.[429]
- 29 December 1991: a 500 lb (230 kg) car bomb exploded at the British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint at Aughnacloy, County Tyrone.[418]
- 31 December 1991:
- two British soldiers were injured in separate thrown bomb attacks on patrols in the Oldpark and Falls Road areas of Belfast.[418]
- hoax bomb alerts delayed traffic for hours in Belfast and Lisburn.[418]
- incendiary devices were discovered in a gift shop in Belfast.[418]
- incendiary devices were discovered in a furniture store in Bangor, County Down.[418]
1992[]
A Sniper at work sign, near Crossmaglen, warns British troops of the presence of the South Armagh Sniper.
January–February[]
- 1 January 1992:
- a gun battle occurred between British troops and an IRA unit at the RUC station in Pomeroy, County Tyrone.[430][418]
- two British soldiers and four civilians were injured when coffee jar bombs were thrown at patrols in separate attacks on the Falls Road and Oldpark Road, Belfast.[431][432]
- IRA units fired on British security forces, who returned fire, in several areas of Belfast.[432]
- incendiary devices severely damaged a clothes shop in Belfast city centre.[418]
- an incendiary device caused minor damage to a hardware store in Belfast.[433]
- incendiary devices destroyed a store in Newtownards, County Down. The fire spread to an adjoining garage and damaged several cars.[418][433]
- 2 January 1992:
- 3 January 1992: the wife of a UDR soldier and her 18-month-old daughter escaped injury when a 2 lb (0.91 kg) Semtex bomb partially exploded under their car on Holywood Road, Belfast.[418]
- 4 January 1992:
- a 4 lb (1.8 kg) Semtex bomb was discovered near Weeton army barracks, Lancashire.[418]
- an incendiary device planted in a Belfast cinema resulted in minor damage.[434]
- an 800 lb (360 kg) IRA bomb exploded on Bedford Street in the centre of Belfast. The bomb caused extensive damage to property in the area.[435]
- a coffee jar bomb was thrown at an RUC mobile patrol on Ardilea Street in the Oldpark area of Belfast.[436]
- an IRA unit dropped a 5 lb (2.3 kg) Semtex bomb onto an armoured RUC patrol vehicle in the New Lodge area of Belfast.[437]
- 5 January 1992:
- 6 January 1992: an IRA unit attacked a British Army foot patrol with a coffee jar bomb in the New Lodge area of Belfast; but the device failed to detonate.[437]
- 8 January 1992:
- 10 January 1992:
- a small 5 lb (2.3 kg) bomb left in a briefcase by the IRA exploded 300 metres away from Downing Street. No injuries were reported.[435]
- a 100 lb (45 kg) car bomb badly damaged the area around Derry's RUC headquarters. One British soldier was injured.[438][418]
- five businesses were damaged by firebombs planted by the IRA in Ballymena.[438]
- 11 January 1992:
- 13 January 1992: an IRA booby-trap bomb killed a Catholic civilian, Michael Logue, in Coalisland, County Tyrone. The bomb had been attached to his car by a magnet. It was a case of mistaken identity; the IRA had received information that he was working as a labourer on a British Army barracks (he was a joiner by trade), but this turned out to be untrue. The IRA apologised to his family.[439]
- 14 January 1992:
- 16 January 1992: the IRA planted two Semtex bombs in Derry city centre.[434] One exploded in an insurance company's premises, the second in a tax office.[441]
- 17 January 1992: an IRA landmine blew up a minibus at Teebane near Cookstown, County Tyrone. It killed eight men who were working as building contractors for the British Army in Omagh; six other contractors were badly injured. One of the dead was also a soldier in the Royal Irish Rangers.[435][442][443]
- 18 January 1992: five IRA firebombs destroyed or badly damaged several businesses in Portadown, County Armagh.[440]
- 19 January 1992: a coffee jar bomb was thrown at a joint British Army-RUC foot patrol in Flax Street in North Belfast. No reported injuries.[444][441]
- 20 January 1992:
- the IRA claimed responsibility for a "blast incendiary" that exploded in a car outside a nightclub on the Dublin Road, Belfast.[441]
- the IRA exploded an incendiary bomb inside a bar and restaurant on the Lisburn Road, Belfast, claiming the premises was frequented by off-duty members of British security forces and was a meeting place for informers.[441]
- the IRA claimed responsibility for a 5 lb (2.3 kg) bomb which failed to explode in the Victoria shopping centre, Belfast.[441]
- 22 January 1992:
- a former UDR soldier was shot and injured on his way to work at Fyfinn Road near Castlederg, County Tyrone.[440][441]
- the IRA planted several bombs inside Derry's city walls in Butcher Street.[434] Two were placed in a bank premises and a building society. A third device in a car targeting British security forces exploded later.[441]
- 23 January 1992:
- an RUC officer was injured after a coffee jar bomb was thrown at a patrol in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast.[445]
- the IRA left a 5 lb (2.3 kg) "blast incendiary" bomb on the roof of Belfast Central railway station. The device failed to explode and was later defused by the British Army.[441]
- an IRA bomb detonated on the Derry railway line. Another bomb wrecked the Ulsterbus depot in Derry.[434][446]
- 24 January 1992:
- the IRA left a bomb in the Ulster Bank branch on May Street in Belfast city centre. The device exploded after IRA members entered the premises with a holdall bag and shouted a warning. An incendiary bomb had failed to explode in the same bank just a week earlier.[434][446]
- the IRA claimed to have seriously injured a British soldier in a bomb attack on the Falls Road, Belfast.[447]
- 25 January 1992: an IRA unit carried out a coffee jar bomb attack against a joint British Army-RUC checkpoint at Kennedy Way, Belfast, but both devices failed to explode.[446]
- 26 January 1992:
- 27 January 1992:
- 28 January 1992: a bomb exploded on the Dublin-Belfast rail line just outside Belfast.[440][446]
- 29 January 1992:
- 30 January 1992: an IRA firebomb was defused at Elephant and Castle, London.[415]
- 31 January 1992:
- 1 February 1992:
- 2 February 1992: the IRA detonated a car bomb on Botanic Avenue, South Belfast. The explosion, along with another bomb, seriously damaged a hotel and caused widespread damage.[450][440]
- 3 February 1992:
- an IRA bomb left outside a bank in May Street, Belfast, was defused by the British Army.[447]
- a civilian (Gordon Hamill) was shot dead by the IRA in Dungannon, County Tyrone. Two men followed him to a supermarket and opened fire with AK-47 assault rifles, hitting him 32 times. The IRA claimed the man was a member of the UVF. Hamill remains listed as a civilian at the CAIN database.[451]
- the IRA claimed to have abandoned a 10 lb (4.5 kg) bomb in the area of County Armagh following an abortive attack on the Belfast-Dublin railway.[447]
- 4 February 1992:
- 5 February 1992:
- Joseph MacManus, an IRA volunteer from Sligo Town, County Sligo, was killed near the border at Mulleek, near Belleek, County Fermanagh, during a gun battle following the attempted ambush of a UDR soldier, Corporal Eric Glass, who was wounded in the attack. Glass was later awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal as well as the Distinguished Conduct Medal.[435][452]
- the IRA carried out a blast bomb attack on the Ormeau Road, Belfast, premises of a firm it accused of "collaborating" with British security forces.[453]
- an IRA unit opened fire on an RUC checkpoint at Corporation Street, Belfast.[453]
- 6 February 1992: the IRA carried out a blast bomb attack against a joint British Army-RUC patrol on Ardoyne Road, Belfast. The IRA claimed that three RUC officers were reported injured.[453]
- 7 February 1992: a firebomb exploded on the London Underground at Barking.[454]
- 8 February 1992: the IRA carried out a mortar attack on an RUC station at Portglenone, County Antrim.[454]
- 9 February 1992:
- 10 February 1992: a 5 lb (2.3 kg) IRA bomb exploded on the roof of Belfast Central Railway station, causing some damage.[453]
- 11 February 1992:
- 15 February 1992:
- the IRA detonated a 250 lb (110 kg) car bomb on Adelaide Street, Belfast. The bomb injured five RUC officers and caused millions of pounds worth of damage.[450][454] The officers allegedly had been lured to the scene by a smaller 2 lb (0.91 kg) device.[455]
- the IRA claimed responsibility for two incendiary devices that detonated in a premium department store in Donegall Place, Belfast.[455]
- 16 February 1992:
- a blast incendiary bomb destroyed the Shaftesbury Inn in North Belfast. Similar devices damaged Fortwilliam golf club and Greenan Lodge Hotel. A bomb was also defused at the York Hotel.[454][456]
- IRA volunteers Kevin Barry O'Donnell, Sean O'Farrell, Peter Clancy, and Daniel Patrick Vincent were ambushed and killed by the SAS in Clonoe, County Tyrone. The IRA unit had just attacked Coalisland RUC base using a DShK heavy machine gun mounted on the back of a stolen lorry. The men were ambushed in a graveyard following the attack by undercover British soldiers. Two other IRA volunteers were wounded during the ambush but managed to escape.[435][152] A British soldier was also injured during the incident.[457]
- the IRA claimed to have detonated a 20 lb (9.1 kg) bomb on the railway line between Dunmurray and Belfast Central Station.[455]
- 17 February 1992:
- 18 February 1992: the IRA left a bomb in a Belfast city centre shop, along with several other bomb alerts which caused "chaos".[434]
- 19 February 1992: a 1,200 lb (540 kg) IRA van bomb was defused by the British Army outside the courthouse in Banbridge, County Down.[458]
- 20 February 1992:
- 22 February 1992: a man and a woman (brother and sister) were injured when a drogue bomb, an IRA homemade grenade, struck their car in Dungannon, County Tyrone.[460] The IRA's intended target had been a British security forces patrol.[458]
- 23 February 1992: the IRA left a hoax car bomb outside the RUC base in Downpatrick, County Down.[458]
- 24 February 1992:
- an IRA unit lobbed a blast bomb at RUC foot patrol in Drumgullion outside Newry.[458]
- a British soldier was wounded in a coffee-jar bomb attack in Ardoyne, Belfast.[461][462]
- an IRA unit lobbed a coffee jar bomb at a joint British Army-RUC foot patrol in the Markets area of Belfast.[458]
- an IRA unit fired upon an RUC patrol at Millfield, Belfast.[462]
- 25 February 1992: two coffee-jar bombs were thrown at a combined RUC/British army checkpoint at Kennedy Way, Belfast. Both devices failed to explode.[462]
- 26 February 1992:
- 27 February 1992:
- 28 February 1992:
- the IRA carried out a coffee jar bomb attack against a joint British Army-RUC checkpoint in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.[459]
- the IRA detonated a bomb at London Bridge railway station injuring 29 people.[79]
- there was an exchange of fire between an IRA unit and members of the security forces manning a sangar near the RUC barracks at Strabane, County Tyrone.[462]
- 29 February 1992: an IRA bomb exploded at the Crown Prosecution Service building in London injuring two people.[415]
March–April[]
- 1 March 1992: a small IRA bomb was defused at White Hart Lane BR station in London.[415]
- 2 March 1992:
- an IRA unit fired several shots at British soldiers manning an observation post atop a block of flats in the New Lodge area of Belfast. The IRA claimed the soldiers were carrying out work to fortify the position.[459]
- the IRA claimed responsibility for an explosive device attached to an RUC officer's car which failed to detonate in Glengormley, County Antrim.[459]
- 5 March 1992:
- a 1,000 lb (450 kg) IRA bomb exploded in the center of Lurgan, County Armagh, causing extensive damage to commercial properties.[463]
- the IRA exploded a large car bomb in Adelaide Street in the centre of Belfast causing extensive damage.[463][454] The IRA claimed the bomb was timed to detonate five minutes after a bomb in Lurgan the same day.[464]
- the IRA carried out a coffee jar bomb attack against a British security forces patrol at Belfast Law Courts.[464]
- the IRA carried out a coffee jar bomb attack against a British security forces patrol in the Markets area of Belfast.[464]
- a British soldier was injured by an IRA tripwire bomb near Augher, County Tyrone.[465][434]
- 6 March 1992: the IRA claimed responsibility for a bomb attached to the underside of a UDR soldier's car in Cavavaleck near Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. The device was neutralised by the British Army in a controlled explosion.[464]
- 8 March 1992:
- 9 March 1992: the IRA bombed and destroyed a service station on the Ballygawley/Dungannon road, County Tyrone, on the basis that they were supplying British forces.[466][467] The 150 lb (68 kg) device had been planted on the premises on March 7.[459]
- 10 March 1992:
- 12 March 1992: a 110 lb (50 kg) IRA car bomb was neutralised in a controlled explosion outside a hotel in Crescent Street, Belfast, by the British Army, causing some damage.[469]
- 13 March 1992: the IRA carried out a coffee jar bomb attack against a British security forces patrol in the Beechmount area of Belfast.[469]
- 14 March 1992: the IRA carried out a coffee jar bomb attack against a British Army patrol in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.[469]
- 15 March 1992: an IRA unit armed with GPMGs and assault rifles[469] fired more than 1,000 rounds at two helicopters from across the border near Rosslea, County Fermanagh.[470]
- 20 March 1992: an IRA unit lobbed two coffee jar bombs at New Barnsley British Army base, Belfast.[471]
- 24 March 1992: the IRA detonated a massive car-bomb containing over 1,100 lb (500 kg) of explosive in Pakenham Street, Belfast. The bomb caused severe damage to the RUC base and nearby business premises.[472]
- 26 March 1992: an IRA unit opened fire on a British Army patrol in the vicinity of Musgrave Park base, Belfast. The IRA later claimed they fired sixty rounds.[473]
- 27 March 1992:
- a British Army observation post on top of a block of flats in the New Lodge area of Belfast was fired upon.[474] The IRA later claimed they fired fifty rounds.[473]
- several shots were fired at New Barnsley RUC-British Army base in West Belfast.[474][473]
- two coffee jar bombs were thrown at an RUC foot patrol in the Poleglass area[473] of West Belfast but there were no reported injuries.[475]
- a female RUC officer, Colleen McMurray, was killed when an IRA unit hit her patrol vehicle with a horizontal mortar in Newry, County Down. A fellow constable lost both his legs in the attack.[435][476]
- 28 March 1992: an IRA unit lobbed a blast bomb over the perimeter wall of Rosemount RUC station, Derry.[473]
- 29 March 1992:
- 30 March 1992: a bomb exploded as a joint British Army/RUC mobile patrol passed in the Beechmount area of Belfast. The IRA claimed that a vehicle had been disabled and four RUC officers injured in an improvised grenade attack.[473]
- 3 April 1992: a small IRA bomb detonated at the perimeter fence of an RUC base in the Fivemiletown area, County Tyrone.[477]
- 4 April 1992: a 14 lb (6.4 kg) IRA bomb connected to a command wire concealed in a partially-built shop was defused by the British Army in Strabane, County Tyrone.[478]
- 5 April 1992: British soldiers discovered a 4 lb (1.8 kg) booby-trap bomb at Drumfurrer on the Tyrone-Monaghan border.[479]
- 6 April 1992:
- an IRA sniper fired a single shot at a British Army patrol, followed by bursts of automatic fire from a supporting unit, in Mullaghfad, County Fermanagh. The IRA claimed they killed or seriously injured two individuals, including a plainclothes soldier.[477]
- a small IRA bomb exploded near Piccadilly Circus in London. There were no injuries.[415]
- 8 April 1992: an IRA unit fired several shots at a joint British Army-RUC checkpoint adjacent to Grosvenor Road RUC station, Belfast.[477]
- 9 April 1992: a primed Mark 12 horizontal mortar was defused by the British Army beside a road at Clogher, County Tyrone.[480]
- 10 April 1992: the IRA detonated a huge truck-bomb at 30 St Mary Axe in the City of London. Despite a warning to evacuate the area, three civilians (Paul Butt, Danielle Carter, and Thomas Casey) were killed and 91 injured. Many buildings were heavily damaged, including the Baltic Exchange.[79][481]
- 11 April 1992: a large IRA car-bomb exploded at Staples Corner in London causing serious damage to buildings and nearby roads.[482]
- 12 April 1992: a 3 lb (1.4 kg) IRA bomb in a trailer partially exploded in Maghera, County Londonderry. The IRA had attempted to lure RUC officers to the site with a single shot fired at the nearby RUC station.[483]
- 13 April 1992:
- 14 April 1992: a 6.6 lb (3.0 kg) Semtex bomb targeting members of the security forces was defused in a builder's yard at Maghera, County Londonderry.[486]
- 15 April 1992:
- the IRA claimed to have forced the cancellation of a concert for RUC officers in Cookstown, County Tyrone, with two hoax bombs, one a proxy type.[483]
- an IRA bomb partially exploded near a shop in Pomeroy, County Tyrone. The device targeted members of British security forces investigating a bomb in the shop; the IRA alleged the owner served the security forces and had recently passed on information to the RUC.[487][483]
- the IRA claimed responsibility for a bomb planted under a car owned by a member of the security forces in Florence Court near Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. The device was defused by the British Army.[484]
- 16 April 1992: RUC officers opened fire after a hijacked taxi driven by an IRA member (and carrying a bomb) crashed through a checkpoint in the Poleglass area of Belfast. The driver was later arrested.[485][488]
- 18 April 1992:
- Brendan McWilliams, an employee of the British Army, was shot dead by the IRA at his home, Nialls Crescent, off Killylea Road, Armagh. At least 18 shots were fired at him through the front door from a high velocity weapon.[489]
- an attack on a member of the security forces was foiled when a booby-trap bomb was discovered during a stop at an RUC vehicle checkpoint in Larne, County Antrim. The occupants of the car were arrested.[490][491]
- 19 April 1992:
- 22 April 1992: the IRA left a bomb at the Ulster Bank branch at May Street, Belfast.[434][492]
- 23 April 1992:
- an IRA unit lobbed a blast bomb at an RUC patrol vehicle in the Markets area of Belfast. The IRA claimed the device struck the windshield, injuring the crew.[492]
- an IRA unit opened fire on an RUC foot patrol in the Springfield Road area of Belfast. A civilian sitting in a car nearby was injured, and her baby narrowly avoided injury.[485]
- 24 April 1992: the IRA fired several shots at a joint British Army-RUC checkpoint on Craigavon Bridge, Derry.[492]
- 25 April 1992: the IRA report that two East Tyrone Brigade units opened fire on a British Army foot patrol at Loughmacrory near Carrickmore, County Tyrone.[492]
- 27 April 1992:
- IRA firebombs damaged the Bellevue Arms bar and Belfast Castle in North Belfast.[467] In a statement the IRA claimed the upstairs room of Belfast Castle was targeted because it was used by senior members of the Northern Ireland Office and RUC, and Bellevue Arms was a meeting place for RUC officers and informers.[493]
- the IRA claimed responsibility for twenty hoax bomb alerts which caused major disruption to transport links in the Belfast area.[493]
- the IRA exploded a bomb at Belfast Central station and a bomb at York Road station failed to detonate.[492]
- a British soldier and a nine-year boy were wounded by a coffee-jar bomb thrown by an IRA unit at a military patrol in the Oldpark area of Belfast.[467]
- an IRA bomb exploded at a bank premises in Belfast city centre.[492]
- 28 April 1992:
- RUC officers fired several warning shots and arrested two men after uncovering a remotely-detonated 5 lb (2.3 kg) Semtex bomb at a builder's yard in Patrick Street, Newry, County Down.[494]
- the IRA claimed responsibility for a 2 lb (0.91 kg) bomb in a car which failed to detonate outside Lisburn courthouse.[492]
May–June[]
- 1 May 1992:
- a British soldier (Andrew Grundy) was killed and 23 others were wounded when the IRA used an improvised unmanned locomotive made of a Renault Master van to deliver a bomb to a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint at Cloghoge, County Armagh. The outpost was completely destroyed (see Attack on Cloghoge checkpoint).[435]
- an IRA bomb attack was foiled and the device defused after a British Army patrol spotted a command wire near Washingbay Road, Coalisland, County Tyrone.[495]
- a British security forces patrol escaped injury when a coffee jar bomb failed to detonate in the Hill Street area of Newry.[496]
- a large IRA bomb was defused by the British Army in shopping centre in Carrickfergus, County Antrim.[496]
- 3 May 1992: an incendiary bomb exploded in a business premises in Belfast city centre.[496]
- 4 May 1992: an IRA unit lobbed a coffee jar bomb at a joint British Army-RUC patrol on the Springfield Road, Belfast.[496]
- 5 May 1992:
- the IRA carried out a bomb attack against a British Army mobile patrol in the Markets area of Belfast.[496]
- a Mark-12 horizontal mortar, fired by an IRA unit, overshot Rosemount RUC station in Derry city, damaging the base and several houses on Creggan Road. Two soldiers and one civilian were wounded.[497][498]
- 6 May 1992: an IRA unit lobbed a coffee jar bomb at a British security forces patrol in the Markets area of Belfast.[499]
- 7 May 1992:
- a 1,000 lb (450 kg) IRA bomb transported by a tractor[499][500] exploded besides the RUC security base in Fivemiletown, County Tyrone, injuring 10 civilians and causing substantial damage to civilian properties nearby, and structural damage to the barracks itself. The explosion was heard 30 miles away. The IRA South Fermanagh Brigade claimed responsibility. On 9 May a British soldier shot and killed his company's sergeant major (Dean Oliver) in a blue-on-blue incident at the same spot, while taking part of a security detail around the devastated barracks.[501][497][502][503][504]
- a British Army patrol in West Belfast escaped injury after a coffee jar bomb thrown at them failed to detonate.[505]
- 25 lb (11 kg) explosives found at the side of a road was made safe in Cappagh, County Tyrone.[505]
- 8 May 1992: an IRA unit opened fire on a joint British Army-RUC patrol at Beechmount Avenue off the Falls Road, Belfast. A civilian in a van was seriously wounded, however the IRA denied they were responsible and claimed witnesses described the man being hit by British Army return fire.[506][467][499]
- 9 May 1992:
- a number of incendiary devices exploded at the Metro Centre in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, causing some damage. More incendiary devices were discovered in stores in the complex in the weeks that followed.[482][507]
- an IRA bomb exploded accidentally in Mullaghbawn, County Armagh, injuring the IRA volunteer who was assembling it.[508]
- an IRA unit lobbed a blast bomb at an unmarked armoured RUC car in Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh, but only the detonator exploded.[499]
- 11 May 1992: an IRA unit carried out a coffee jar bomb attack on a British Army patrol vehicle in North Belfast. The IRA claimed to have disabled the vehicle and injured the soldiers inside.[499]
- 12 May 1992: a British Army paratrooper lost both legs after an IRA bomb attack on a military foot patrol near the neighboring village of Cappagh, a few miles south of Pomeroy, County Tyrone. The incident triggered a series of clashes between British soldiers and local people in the town of Coalisland, also in County Tyrone, which lasted until 17 May, when an army machine gun was stolen. Unionist officials accused Sinn Féin of instigating the riots.[509] At least three civilians and two soldiers were injured.[510][511]
- 14 May 1992: the IRA carried out several incendiary bomb attacks in Belfast; two at an auction house on May Street, two at a showroom on Shore Road, one at a bank on May Street. Another was defused at a stationers in Gloucester Street.[512]
- 15 May 1992:
- incendiary devices exploded in a clothing store and a furniture store in Yorkgate Shopping Complex, Belfast.[512]
- two incendiary devices detonated in Bow Street Mall, Lisburn.[512]
- several residences were damaged in the area of Short Strand in Belfast after a suspected IRA bomb attack on a combined RUC/British army patrol.[467]
- 16 May 1992:
- an IRA unit launched a horizontal mortar from a parked car at an RUC patrol vehicle in the Beechmount Avenue area of Belfast. Reportedly several shots were also fired. The projectile missed its target and landed, unexploded, in a crowded park. There were no reported injuries and two men were arrested afterwards.[513][514]
- three RUC officers suffered minor injuries after a coffee jar bomb struck their armoured patrol car in Dungannon, County Tyrone.[515]
- 19 May 1992: incendiary devices exploded in a catalogue retailer store in the Cornmarket area of Belfast, causing extensive damage.[512]
- 21 May 1992: the IRA bombed the home of an RUC officer in Belfast, less than a quarter of a mile from the RUC's headquarters. The house was empty as the RUC officer targeted had moved out a month previously because he feared such an attack.[516] An hour later, the British Army defused a 4 lb (1.8 kg) bomb at the home of a former RUC Assistant Chief Constable on North Circular Road.[517]
- 24 May 1992:
- the IRA carried out a coffee jar bomb attack on a permanent joint British Army-RUC checkpoint at Elize Street, Belfast.[517]
- a furniture shop in Dungannon, County Tyrone, was extensively damaged in an incendiary bomb attack. A general goods store was also targeted. Four undetonated incendiary devices were found in both premises. A furniture shop in Cookstown, County Tyrone, was also damaged.[518]
- the IRA carried out several incendiary bomb attacks on commercial premises in Belfast.[517]
- 27 May 1992: the IRA fired several shots at a man they claimed was a leading member of the UDA as he walked along the Springfield Road but he escaped.[519]
- 28 May 1992: an IRA unit fired a sustained burst of automatic fire at North Howard Street barracks, Belfast.[519]
- 29 May 1992:
- the IRA carried out several incendiary bomb attacks on commercial premises in Belfast; one device detonated in CastleCourt Shopping Centre.[519]
- an IRA attack on a Wessex helicopter near Cappagh, County Tyrone, using a GPMG stolen during unrest in Coalisland eleven days earlier was foiled by the British Army. One member of the three-man ASU was arrested by the RUC after fleeing a car pursued by the Wessex; the GPMG and other arms were recovered from a farmhouse. Two other members of the IRA unit abandoned the car after setting it on fire.[520] Nationalist politician Bernardette Devlin McAliskey suggested that the recovery of the machine gun was actually staged by the security forces as a publicity stunt.[521]
- 30 May 1992: an IRA unit lobbed a blast bomb containing 1 lb (0.45 kg) of Semtex at an RUC patrol in Monaghan Street, Newry. There were no reported injuries.[519]
- 31 May 1992: an IRA mortar attack in Crossmaglen involved the first use of the Mk-14 mortar bomb.[522]
- 1 June 1992: the IRA claimed responsibility for a 200 lb (91 kg) car bomb abandoned at Orritor Street in Cookstown, County Tyrone.[519]
- 2 June 1992:
- 7 June 1992: a British Police officer, Glenn Goodman, was shot dead after he stopped the car of an IRA volunteer on the A64 at Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England. Another officer was shot and badly wounded.[435][524] IRA volunteers Paul Magee and Michael O'Brien were caught four days later. Magee was charged and convicted of murder,[525] while O'Brien was found guilty of attempted murder.[526][527] On the same day an IRA bomb exploded at the Royal Festival Hall in London, causing blast damage. There were no casualties.[482]
- 8 June 1992:
- a 1 lb (0.45 kg) Semtex bomb attached to the underside of a vehicle was defused in Tennent Street, Belfast.[528] The IRA claimed the owner was a senior member of the UVF, and this was the third attempt on his life.[529]
- a 2 lb (0.91 kg) bomb exploded on the third floor of a hotel on Brunswick Street, Belfast. A second device failed to explode in the hotel's restaurant.[529]
- a bomb hoax at the Europe Hotel, Belfast, forced the evacuation of a "Miss Northern Ireland" event.[529]
- an IRA unit lobbed two blast bombs at a British Army mobile patrol in the New Barnsley area of Belfast.[529]
- a small IRA bomb exploded at the rear of the Royal Festival Hall, London.[529]
- 9 June 1992:
- the IRA detonated a bomb targeting RUC officers lured to a hoax bomb alert at the home of a UDR soldier in the Antrim Road area of Belfast.
- incendiary devices detonated in two department stores in Belfast city centre causing minor damage. A hardware store in North Street and a glass merchants in Newtownabbey were also damaged in an incendiary bomb attack.[529]
- the IRA claimed responsibility for twenty hoax bomb alerts in the greater Belfast area.[529]
- a "blast incendiary" exploded at a garage at Bridge End in East Belfast. The IRA accused the owner's of serving the RUC.[529]
- 10 June 1992:
- two incendiary devices detonated in a restaurant in South Belfast.[529]
- a small IRA bomb exploded in Wilcox Place, London.[482]
- an IRA van bomb went off outside Braeside Bar near Cookstown, County Tyrone. IRA sources said that the bar's owner "continued collaboration" with British forces motivated the attack.[530][531]
- a blast bomb dropped from a block of flats onto a British Army foot patrol in the New Lodge area of Belfast failed to explode.[532]
- 12 June 1992: an IRA unit fired on a British Army patrol as they left their base in the New Barnsley area of Belfast.[532]
- 13 June 1992: the IRA carried out a blast bomb attack against Springfield Road RUC station, Belfast.[532]
- 14 June 1992:
- a coffee jar bomb thrown at British security forces partially exploded in Cupar Street in the Falls Road area of Belfast and was later defused.[533]
- the IRA claimed responsibility for a 2 lb (0.91 kg) bomb that exploded on the Dublin-Belfast railway between Central and Botanic stations. The line was closed again the following day after several hoax bomb alerts.[532]
- 15 June 1992: an IRA bomb exploded in a hijacked minicab in St. Albans.[482]
- 16 June 1992: an incendiary devices detonated inside a business in North Street in Belfast city centre.[532]
- 17 June 1992: an IRA "anti-personnel" bomb near Belfast City Hall[532] wounded five UDR soldiers and two RUC constables.[530]
- 18 June 1992: the IRA claimed they fired over a hundred rounds at a British Army foot patrol at Lackey, County Fermanagh.[534]
- 20 June 1992: the home of a former RUC officer was riddled with gunfire in Pomeroy, County Tyrone. Security forces defused a large IRA booby-trap bomb found under a getaway car used by the IRA unit responsible.[535]
- 21 June 1992:
- 22 June 1992: a British army patrol returned fire after coming under attack by an IRA sniper in Cookstown, County Tyrone.[537][538]
- 23 June 1992: the IRA detonated a 10 lb (4.5 kg) Semtex and shrapnel bomb while soldiers and RUC officers were responding to a smaller bomb in a bank in Arthur Street, Belfast. The IRA claimed the action was a repeat of an attack in the same location a week previously and several soldiers and RUC officers were injured.[534]
- 24 June 1992: an IRA unit fired fifty rounds at British soldiers manning an observation post atop a block of flats in the New Lodge area of Belfast.[539]
- 25 June 1992: an IRA briefcase-bomb exploded under a car in Coleman Street, London; a police officer had to be treated for shock.[482]
- 26 June 1992:
- a 10 lb (4.5 kg) IRA bomb failed to explode at a bank premises in Gloucester Street in Belfast city centre.[539]
- a pair of horizontal mortars in a van targeting an armoured RUC patrol vehicle failed to detonate in Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh.[539] Both devices were later defused by the British Army.[540]
- 27 June 1992: two RUC officers narrowly escaped serious injury after an IRA magnetic bomb attached to the roof of their patrol car exploded in the centre of Belfast. The officers dived from their car seconds before the bomb detonated, after a man had placed it and ran away. 21 people were injured.[434][326][541][540]
- 28 June 1992:
- a 1.5 lb (0.68 kg) booby-trap Semtex bomb attached to the underside of a car belonging to a member of the security forces was neutralised in a controlled explosion at Barranderry Heights, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.[540]
- a primed horizontal mortar was found concealed inside a parked car with a hole cut in the side on the Antrim Road by RUC officers. Two men were arrested.[542]
- a primed horizontal mortar was found by a British Army patrol positioned in the garden of a house near the Ballymurphy Road, West Belfast.[542]
- 29 June 1992: an IRA unit opened fire on a British Army foot patrol in the Twinbrook area of Belfast.[539]
July–August[]
- 1 July 1992:
- a 1.5 lb (0.68 kg) bomb concealed in a flag pole failed to detonate in Stewartstown, County Tyrone. The IRA's intended target was RUC officers removing the Irish tricolour from the planned route of an Orange Order parade.[543]
- an IRA bomb exploded at the junction box at Belfast Central station, disrupting service on the Belfast-Portadown railway.[434][544]
- 2 July 1992: the IRA admitted responsibility for the killing of three men, whose bodies were found at different roadsides in County Armagh. The IRA claimed the men, all members of the IRA, were undercover agents for MI5 and the RUC Special Branch.[434] See also: Murder of Margaret Perry.
- 7 July 1992: an IRA unit threw two coffee jar bombs at an RUC mobile patrol near New Barnsley RUC-British Army base in West Belfast. RUC officers had been lured outside by an abandoned van, but there were no reported injuries.[545][543]
- 9 July 1992: an IRA unit threw a coffee jar bomb at a joint British Army-RUC patrol in Newry. The device failed to detonate.[546]
- 11 July 1992:
- 12 July 1992:
- an IRA unit opened fire on a British security forces cordon in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.[544]
- an IRA unit opened fire on a British security forces cordon in the Iveagh area of Belfast.[544]
- the IRA claimed responsibility for a 1 lb (0.45 kg) bomb attached to the underside of a Ford Sierra they alleged was used by a senior member of the UVF in North Belfast. The device was defused by the British Army.[544]
- 13 July 1992:
- a small IRA bomb targeting British security forces was discovered defused and abandoned on Grosvenor Road, Belfast; the IRA claimed they had been forced to abandon the attack because of the presence of civilians.[544]
- a 3 lb (1.4 kg) IRA bomb exploded at Finaghy Road North station, Belfast.[544]
- a British Army sniffer dog was killed and its handler slightly injured in a bomb explosion on the Belfast-Dublin railway line, near Central Station in Belfast.[547]
- 15 July 1992: the IRA bombed the Balmoral Golf Club in south Belfast with two incendiary bombs,[544] causing extensive damage.[548]
- 16 July 1992: the IRA detonated a bomb outside a hotel on the Ormeau Road, Belfast, as British security forces investigated a hoax bomb nearby.[549]
- 21 July 1992:
- 23 July 1992: an IRA unit threw a coffee jar bomb at a passing British Army patrol in Strabane, County Tyrone. The device failed to detonate properly and fifty families were evacuated while the device was defused.[550]
- 24 July 1992: an IRA bomb exploded on the railway line between Belfast Central and Botanic railway stations.[549]
- 26 July 1992: a horizontal mortar attack against British security forces was foiled in the Thomas Street area of Warrenpoint, County Down. One man was arrested and later charged.[551][552]
- 27 July 1992: an IRA unit opened fire on British Army Royal Irish Regiment soldiers manning a vehicle checkpoint in May Street in Belfast city centre.[549]
- 28 July 1992: an IRA unit dropped two blast bombs onto the roof of an observation post at Whiterock security forces base, Belfast.[549]
- 30 July 1992:
- the IRA planted several incendiary devices, two of which exploded, in the Metrocentre, Gateshead, Newcastle.[553]
- two incendiary devices exploded in Milton Keynes, England, causing minimal damage.[482]
- an IRA rocket hit a lorry in a convoy allegedly carrying materials to build a new British army checkpoint at Cloghoge, County Armagh.[530]
- an improvised grenade was thrown at a British security forces mobile patrol at the rear of Castle Court shopping centre in Belfast.[530]
- 1 August 1992: an explosion in the centre of Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh, injured one person and damaged several homes.[554] The IRA claimed responsibility.[555]
- 2 August 1992:
- 3 August 1992: a British soldier (Damian Shackleton) was shot dead by an IRA sniper team at Duncairn Avenue, New Lodge, Belfast. Shackleton was in the back roof hatch of an army Land Rover when two IRA members armed with assault rifles fired twenty-eight shots from a block of flats, hitting him in the chest and causing a fatal wound.[435][558][559]
- 4 August 1992: an IRA unit fired sixty shots at a British security forces mobile patrol on the Springfield Road.[549]
- 6 August 1992: six mortar bombs were fired at the new army checkpoint under construction near Cloghoge, County Armagh.[560] The IRA in a statement said five mortar tubes were used, two of which failed to detonate.[561]
- 8 August 1992: an IRA unit fired several shots at a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint at Killyvilly, County Fermanagh. There were no reported injuries.[562]
- 10 August 1992: the IRA detonated a bomb on the Belfast-Dublin railway line as a freight train passed on the outskirts of Belfast.[561]
- 11 August 1992:
- an IRA unit carried out a blast bomb attack on a security forces patrol but the device failed to explode in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.[561]
- an IRA unit lobbed an "armour-piercing grenade" at an RUC vehicle in the vicinity of a checkpoint on the Letterkenny Road, Derry. The device failed to explode.[563]
- 12 August 1992:
- an IRA bomb attack against the West End of London involving a 3,000 lb (1,400 kg) bomb was foiled after armed police raided an apartment in Hanwell, west London.[564]
- the IRA shot dead a former IRA member they accused of being an informer in Belfast.[434]
- a member of a three-man IRA unit was shot and injured at a vehicle checkpoint after carrying out a sniper attack in Strabane, County Tyrone. The unit's getaway car was damaged and they fled on foot pursued by an RAF helicopter, at least one of the IRA volunteers fired at the helicopter but no hits were registered.[565] The injured IRA volunteer was eventually arrested nearby.[566]
- an IRA unit fired several shots at a British Army mobile patrol as they entered Henry Taggart base on the Upper Springfield Road, Belfast.[567]
- 15 August 1992: four British soldiers were injured, two seriously, by coffee-jar bombs thrown at a British Army-RUC patrol in the Falls Road area of Belfast. RUC officers fired at the attackers and later arrested an IRA suspect.[568][530]
- 20 August 1992:
- passengers escaped injury after an IRA incendiary bomb wrecked a train in the Finaghy area of Belfast.[434]
- two British soldiers were wounded in an IRA attack at Grosvenor road, Belfast.[434]
- British soldiers were injured in an IRA remotely-detonated bomb attack at Harrield Street, Belfast.[434][569]
- an unsuccessful attack was launched by a sniper on a British Army patrol at Carran Road, Crossmaglen, County Armagh.[45][570]
- an IRA bomb left outside a bank in Cookstown, County Tyrone, failed to detonate and was later defused by the British Army.[569]
- 21 August 1992:
- an IRA unit opened fire on British soldiers and civilian contractors at a British Army position in Derry city centre.[563]
- a civilian (Isobel Leyland), a Belfast native visiting from England, was shot dead in a crossfire by the IRA during a gun battle in Ardoyne with the RUC. The IRA issued a statement after the attack apologising for the killing.[571][572]
- 24 August 1992: a British soldier was wounded by a coffee-jar bomb in the Twinbrook area of Belfast.[573]
- 25 August 1992:
- an IRA firebomb exploded in the Shropshire Regimental museum in Shrewsbury Castle, Shropshire, England and two incendiary devices exploded in two furniture shops in Shrewsbury Town Centre.[482]
- an IRA unit opened fire twice on Gardaí during a chase following an attempted bank raid in Newcastlewest, County Limerick. The officers were unarmed. The raiders' hijacked Mazda van was later found abandoned eight miles from the town.[574]
- 27 August 1992: in a repeat of an attack a week earlier, an IRA unit opened fire on British soldiers and civilian contractors at a British Army position in Derry city centre.[563]
- 28 August 1992: a British soldier (Paul Turner) was shot dead by a sniper in the main square of Crossmaglen, County Armagh. He was taking up position in the main square of the town when he was hit in the chest by a single bullet fired by an IRA sniper some 250 yards away.[435][575]
September–October[]
- 5 September 1992: the IRA stated it had sent bullets to five Protestant businessmen living in Moy, County Tyrone to warn them against servicing members of the British security forces. A fish-and-chip shop in the village closed a few days later.[576]
- 6 September 1992:
- a 20 lb (9.1 kg) bomb exploded in a Chinese restaurant in Dungannon, County Tyrone. A second, larger, bomb in the vicinity targeting RUC officers on the scene resulted in no reported injuries. The IRA claimed the business served members of the security forces.[577]
- a small IRA bomb exploded at a Hilton Hotel in the Hyde Park area[578] of London.[482]
- 8 September 1992:
- the IRA shot and critically wounded a Protestant civilian at his home near Markethill, County Armagh. Afterwards the IRA claimed he was a member of the British Army's Royal Irish Regiment.[434][579]
- a bomb exploded inside the perimeter fence of New Barnsley RUC base, Belfast. It was unclear whether it had been thrown by hand or fired from a launcher.[579]
- 11 September 1992:
- a major IRA operation was foiled by Irish security forces after they arrested a six-man IRA active service unit at St. Johnston, Donegal, along the Derry-Strabane border. A Toyota van hijacked in County Kerry some time previously contained three GPMGs (including an MG3), two AKM rifles, six combat uniforms, 1,000 rounds of ammunition including double-magazines for the rifles, six incendiary devices, two pairs of binoculars, and a radio scanner.[580] It was later alleged in court the IRA men were probably intending to attack a British Army helicopter.[581]
- a British soldier was wounded in an IRA remote-detonation bomb attack in Whiterock, Belfast.[434][582]
- 17 September 1992: one bomb and four firebombs exploded at various locations around London.[482]
- 18 September 1992: a coffee jar bomb thrown by an IRA unit at an RUC patrol failed to explode in the Grosvenor Road area of Belfast.[577]
- 19 September 1992: an RUC officer was injured in a blast bomb attack on a foot patrol on the Whiterock Road, Belfast.[583][584]
- 23 September 1992: A massive 3,500 lb (1,600 kg) IRA truck-bomb exploded outside the Forensic Science Laboratory at Newtownbreda, South Belfast. The device almost completely demolished the Laboratory and damaged more than 1,000 homes in the surrounding area. The tremors from the blast were felt over 12 miles (19 km) away and the bomb was later assessed as probably the largest device ever detonated in Northern Ireland. There were no injuries in the attack as the IRA had given a 40-minute warning to evacuate the area,[585] although hundreds of residents had to be treated for shock. It was described as being as powerful as a "mini-nuke". The army bomb disposal team attempting to defuse it all lost their hearing, and several military vehicles were damaged.[586]
- 25 September 1992: a van bomb exploded outside the courthouse in Newry, County Down.[587] The IRA claimed the bomb was a "directional device" targeting civilians contractors carrying out repairs.[588]
- 27 September 1992: a 1,000 lb (450 kg) IRA bomb was defused outside the court house in Armagh, County Armagh.[587]
- 28 September 1992:
- 30 September 1992: a UDA member (Harry Black) was shot dead by the IRA at a friend's home, Annadale Flats, Ballynafeigh, Belfast.[435]
- October 1992: the IRA claimed a unit lobbed a grenade at a British Army patrol in Blackwatertown, County Armagh, but the device failed to explode.[589]
- 1 October 1992:
- a 15-men strong IRA unit, armed with rifles and machine guns, set up several checkpoints around the village of Meigh, County Armagh.[590]
- the RUC defused a 150 lb (68 kg) bomb in a field at Galbally, near Dungannon, County Tyrone, four days after the IRA warned it had been planted. Six families were evacuated from nearby houses.[591]
- 4 October 1992:
- 3 October 1992:
- an IRA unit lobbed an "impact grenade" at a British Army armoured vehicle near Henry Taggart base on the Springfield Road, Belfast, but the device failed to detonate properly.[589]
- an IRA unit carried out a gun, grenade, and rocket attack against an RUC armoured vehicle in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.[589]
- 7 October 1992: five people were injured when an IRA bomb exploded in Piccadilly, London. Another bomb exploded on Flitcroft Street, London.[482]
- 8 October 1992:
- one person was injured when an IRA bomb exploded underneath a car in Tooley Street, London. Another bomb exploded on Malcombe Street.[592]
- an IRA bomb exploded beside a joint British Army/RUC checkpoint in the Short Strand area of Belfast. The IRA claimed to have injured a soldier and two RUC officers.[593]
- the IRA detonated a 10 lb (4.5 kg) bomb outside a bank adjacent to the Markets area of Belfast.[593]
- 9 October 1992:
- an IRA bomb exploded in the carpark of the Royal British Legion building in Southgate, London.[592]
- two explosive devices blew up outside two shops at Dungannon, County Tyrone, destroying both buildings.[530]
- an IRA unit lobbed two blast bombs at a British Army checkpoint in Belfast; however only the detonators exploded.[593]
- the IRA carried out a bomb attack against British security forces in Derry.[594][595]
- 10 October 1992:
- three British soldiers were injured after two coffee jar bombs were thrown at their patrol in Stewartstown Road, West Belfast.[596]
- an RUC officer (James Douglas) was shot dead by the IRA in the Monico Bar, Lombard Street, Belfast.[435][597]
- an IRA bomb exploded in a kiosk near Paddington Green police station, London, injuring one person. Another IRA exploded at the British Legion Club in Southgate.[592][587]
- 12 October 1992:
- an alleged IRA assassination plot targeting Unionist MP Ken Maginnis was foiled after two gunmen were spotted outside Dungannon District Council, County Tyrone. He had survived six previous attempts on his life.[598]
- an explosive device exploded in a toilet of the Sussex Arms public house in Covent Garden, killing one person (David Heffer) and injuring four others.[79]
- 13 October 1992: an RUC officer was injured when a blast bomb was thrown at a patrol in North Belfast.[599][600]
- 14 October 1992: the IRA detonated a bomb within a newly-opened commercial centre on York Street, Belfast.[593]
- 16 October 1992: an IRA unit fired on a British Army mobile patrol on the Oldpark Road, North Belfast.[601]
- 18 October 1992: a bomb hidden in a coach explodes outside a hotel in Hammersmith, west London. There were no casualties.[602]
- 19 October 1992:
- 20 October 1992:
- 21 October 1992:
- three people were injured when an IRA bomb was detonated at the Princess Louise Territorial Army Centre, Hammersmith Road, London. Two more people were wounded when the IRA bombed a railway line in Edmonton, England.[592]
- the IRA detonated a 200 lb (91 kg) car bomb on the Main Street of Bangor, County Down.[435]
- an IRA unit fired several shots at civilian contractors and soldiers at the security forces base on Grosvenor Road, Belfast.[604][605]
- 22 October 1992: a sewage pipe was damaged by an IRA explosive device at Wick Lane, London.[606]
- 23 October 1992:
- 25 October 1992: a small IRA bomb exploded outside the London home of former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Lord Prior damaging one building and a number of vehicles.[592][608]
- 28 October 1992:
- 30 October 1992:
- the IRA detonated a 500 lb (230 kg) van bomb outside Glengormley RUC base, Belfast. Several houses were damaged and a number of civilians and RUC officers injured.[434][608]
- a small IRA bomb exploded outside 10 Downing Street, the residence of the British Prime Minister.[592]
- the IRA claimed responsibility for a 100 lb (45 kg) car bomb left in the centre of Lisburn. The bomb failed to explode.[610]
- 31 October 1992: the IRA wiped out the IPLO in Belfast after a vicious internal IPLO feud and allegations that it was dealing drugs. The leader of the IPLO's breakaway Belfast Brigade, Sammy Ward, was shot dead in the Short Strand and several other high-ranking members were kneecapped. Their lives were spared on condition that the IPLO surrender and disband immediately. Within a few days both IPLO factions surrendered and disbanded. IPLO units in Newry and Armagh were not attacked and absolved of any involvement in criminality or drug dealing by the IRA.[435][611]
November–December[]
- 5 November 1992: the IRA bombed the newly opened Bank of Ireland branch in Downpatrick, County Down causing extensive damage.[590]
- 7 November 1992: a 4 lb (1.8 kg) device attached to a dead sheep belonging to a member of the security forces was defused in Newtownstewart, County Tyrone.[612]
- 9 November 1992: an IRA unit fired a Mark 16 improvised shoulder-fired launcher at an RUC patrol vehicle in Divismore Crescent, Belfast, injuring three RUC officers and four British soldiers.[613]
- 12 November 1992: more than thirty families were evacuated from their homes in the Markets area of Belfast while the British Army defused an unexploded coffee jar bomb.[614]
- 13 November 1992: the IRA detonated a van-bomb in the centre of Coleraine, County Londonderry, causing extensive damage to the town centre.[435][615]
- 14 November 1992:
- an IRA sniper fired a single shot at a British Army foot patrol at Finnegan's Road, Forkhill, County Armagh. No reported injuries.[613]
- a police officer was shot and injured by the IRA in London after confronting two men he had spotted acting suspiciously. The two men fled the scene and in a follow up search a truck-bomb was discovered and defused.[592]
- 15 November 1992: an RUC officer (Alan Corbett) was shot dead by an IRA sniper while manning a vehicle checkpoint in Belcoo, County Fermanagh. It emerged that the sniper used an AK-47 assault rifle equipped with a night-sight and fired a single shot from high ground on the County Cavan side of the border.[435][616]
- 19 November 1992: an off-duty British soldier (Ian Warnock) was shot dead in Portadown, County Armagh. He was shot at least 12 times by an IRA volunteer who fired at close range. The soldier managed to return fire but is not believed to have hit any of his assailants.[435][616]
- 21 November 1992:
- 24 November 1992:
- a 700 lb (320 kg) IRA bomb was defused in Chichester Street in Belfast city centre.[612]
- an IRA unit exchanged fire with a combined British Army/RUC patrol at Castlederg, County Tyrone. The unit had been surprised outside the house of a Royal Irish Regiment soldier. More than 70 shots were fired.[619]
- four RUC officers were injured in Belfast by an IRA jar-bomb.[620]
- two coffee jar bombs were thrown at Grosvenor Road RUC station, causing no injuries and minimal damage. Two RUC officers were injured in a follow-up operation when they crashed their vehicle.[621]
- 25 November 1992: an IRA volunteer (Pearse Jordan) was shot dead by the RUC after his car was rammed by an undercover RUC vehicle in Belfast. After stumbling out of the car unarmed, Jordan was shot three times in the back by an RUC sergeant.[435][622]
- 26 November 1992: the IRA carried out incendiary bomb attacks on two large chain hardware stores in the Waterside area of Derry.[434][623]
- 29 November 1992: an IRA landmine intended for an army patrol exploded in Armagh city, wounding six people and damaging several houses.[590]
- 30 November 1992: an IRA Semtex bomb surrounded by shrapnel, intended for British security forces, was found planted beside a primary school in Pomeroy, County Tyrone.[624]
- 1 December 1992:
- the IRA detonated a bomb in Ann Street, Belfast, damaging several businesses and injuring 27 people.[434][435]
- the IRA detonated a bomb at a car parts business in Ormeau Avenue, Belfast.[434][435]
- an IRA van-bomb was made safe by the British Army in London after a telephoned warning.[625]
- an IRA unit fired a rocket at a British Army outpost atop a Belfast high-rise.[626]
- 2 December 1992:
- 3 December 1992:
- 4 December 1992:
- the Provisional IRA was blamed for shooting dead a man (Colm Duffy) at his farm near Collon, County Louth. He had been subject to an IRA punishment shooting several years earlier in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan.[629]
- four incendiary devices exploded in a crowded supermarket in Lisburn. The IRA was blamed.[630]
- 7 December 1992:
- the first barrack-buster mortar was launched against an RUC barracks in Ballygawley, County Tyrone.[631] The attack failed when the projectile fell short of the perimeter fence and hit a tree.[632]
- an IRA unit fired several shots at observations posts of the British Army base in Omagh, County Tyrone.[633]
- 8 December 1992: according to the IRA, a 200 lb (91 kg) landmine detonated prematurely when a farm animal walked on it near Cappagh, County Tyrone.[634]
- 9 December 1992:
- the IRA detonated two car-bombs in a multi-storey car park on Chichester Street, Belfast City centre.[635][636]
- a bomb planted in an electrical store on the Ormeau Road, Belfast, was taken outside where it exploded causing minor damage.[636]
- in London, an IRA truck-bomb partially exploded in Woodside Park.[637]
- 10 December 1992:
- 12 December 1992:
- an IRA unit attacked a British Army watchtower—the Crossmaglen RUC Station and Army Barracks, also known as the Borucki Sanger Golf Five Zero—with an improvised flamethrower towed by a tractor in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. It was named for James Borucki, a British soldier who died in an IRA bombing in Crossmaglen on 8 August 1976. The device consisted of a manure spreader which doused the facility with fuel, ignited few seconds later by a small explosion. The outpost was manned by soldiers of the Royal Scots at the time. No wounded were reported.[638][639]
- an IRA unit fired several shots at a British Army watchtower on the Oldpark Road, North Belfast.[634]
- 13 December 1992:
- an IRA unit fired at British soldiers manning a permanent vehicle checkpoint at Annaghmartin, County Fermanagh.[640][641]
- the IRA launched two mortar bombs at Roslea RUC base, County Fermanagh, with one penetrating a perimeter fence. No injuries were reported.[641]
- the IRA attacked Oldpark RUC station in Belfast.[434]
- a Catholic civilian (John Collett) died five days after a severe IRA punishment shooting at his home in Drumleck Gardens, Derry.[434][636]
- 15 December 1992: an IRA unit carried out a gun and grenade attack against British security forces mobile patrol in the Ballymurphy area of West Belfast.[634]
- 16 December 1992: an IRA bomb exploded inside the John Lewis department store on Oxford Street, London. A second bomb exploded at a nearby cab rank on Cavendish Square as emergency services were evacuating people from the scene of the first device. At least two people were injured.[642]
- 18 December 1992: the IRA launched three mortar projectiles at the RUC base at Markethill, County Armagh but only one detonated. There were no reported injuries and damage was minimal.[612][643]
- 19 December 1992: an incendiary device was discovered in a chemist's shop in CastleCourt shopping centre, Belfast. It was taken outside and defused.[628]
- 21 December 1992: an IRA bomb failed to explode in an electronics shop on the Ormeau Road, Belfast.[434]
- 22 December 1992:
- a small IRA bomb exploded at Hampstead underground station in England. There were no injuries.[637][644]
- a soldier was given a box of chocolates by a female motorist at a checkpoint in Cookstown, County Tyrone. Later, British Army experts found and defused a 1 kg Semtex device inside. The IRA is suspected.[644][645][646]
- 24 December 1992:
- 27 December 1992: two coffee-jar bombs were thrown at a police station in Rosemount, Derry, thereby ending the IRA's 3 day ceasefire.[648]
- 29 December 1992: an IRA car bomb extensively damaged the Drumkeen Hotel in south Belfast.[434][649]
- 30 December 1992:
- a British soldier was shot dead at his home in Cavehill Road, Belfast by two IRA volunteers who burst into the house armed with AK-47 assault rifles and shot the soldier at least 13 times at close range. The soldier's wife claimed that IRA volunteer Thomas Begley was one of the gunmen.[435][650]
- an IRA incendiary bomb exploded at a hotel in County Fermanagh,[434]
- an IRA unit threw a blast bomb at a British Army foot patrol on the Andersontown Road, Belfast.[651]
- the IRA bombed the Ormeau Road, Belfast, premises of a building firm they accused of working for British security forces.[652]
- 31 December 1992: IRA members threw a coffee jar bomb at Strand Road RUC station, Derry.[653]
1993[]
January–February[]
- 1 January 1993:
- 2 January 1993:
- 5 January 1993:
- 6 January 1993:
- 7 January 1993:
- an IRA unit opened fire on New Barnsley RUC station, Belfast. There were no reported injuries.[655]
- the IRA planted two bombs at an oil and gas storage depot in East Belfast. One bomb partially exploded but didn't cause any damage and the other was defused by the British Army.[659][637][657]
- an IRA bomb was defused in a bookshop in London.[637][657]
- 8 January 1993: a British Army post was hit by two IRA mortar bombs and a Lynx helicopter attacked with machine-gun fire at the border near Kinawley, County Fermanagh. The IRA unit was engaged by a Lynx door-gunner using a GPMG.[661][520]
- 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.[654]
- 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.[662]
- the victim of an IRA punishment attack in Dungannon, County Tyrone, had to have one of his legs amputated.[657]
- an IRA unit launched a rocket at an RUC base in Donegall Pass[654] in south Belfast.[657]
- a former sergeant of the B-Specials (Matthew Boyd)[663] 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.[664]
- 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.[657]
- 14 January 1993:
- 15 January 1993: the IRA exploded two bombs in Belfast, one of which ignited a fire that destroyed a car showroom.[655][666]
- 16 January 1993: an RUC Reserve officer was injured by an under-car booby trap bomb in Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh.[667]
- 18 January 1993:
- British security forces escaped injury in a coffee jar bomb attack in Carrickmore,[668] County Tyrone.[669] Author Brendan O'Brien reported 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".[655]
- the IRA carried out a coffee jar bomb attack against a British Army Saxon APC on the Stewartstown Road in West Belfast.[669][668]
- 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.[670]
- 19 January 1993: an IRA unit fired several shots at the British Army watchtower overlooking the main square in Crossmaglen, County Armagh.[668]
- 20 January 1993: the IRA launched a barrack buster mortar attack on Clogher RUC base in County Tyrone, causing considerable damage to the building.[657][671] Several RUC members received minor wounds.[672]
- 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.[673][674]
- an off-duty British soldier and a gunman were injured in a shoot-out at Newtownstewart, County Tyrone.[669]
- the IRA claimed that a 600 lb (270 kg) bomb failed to explode at Cappagh, County Tyrone.[669]
- Sean Berryman, a men from County Donegal, was abducted at Buncrana,[657] interrogated and released unharmed on 26 January.[669]
- 24 January 1993: an IRA unit fired 200 machine gun rounds on a British army outpost at Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh. A similar attack was carried out the next day on another observation post in Killyvilly, County Fermanagh.[675][676]
- 25 January 1993:
- 27 January 1993: an IRA bomb exploded outside Harrods, London, injuring four people.[657]
- 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.[677]
- 1 February 1993:
- 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.[680]
- an IRA unit fired several shots at a joint British Army-RUC patrol in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.[681]
- an IRA unit fired half a dozen rounds at a British security forces checkpoint on Corporation Street, near Belfast's Docks area.[681]
- 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.[682][683]
- 5 February 1993: an IRA unit tried to assassinate a leading loyalist paramilitary figure in Tavanagh Street, Belfast.[670] The IRA members failed to find their target and opened fire after being confronted by a hostile crowd.[684]
- 6 February 1993: the IRA fired a Mark-16 grenade at a British Army patrol on Ross Street, Belfast.[685]
- 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.[686][687]
- 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.[657][674][688][689]
- 10 February 1993:
- 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.[691]
- 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.[674]
- 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.[691] The IRA finally succeeded in killing Bratty, along with another UDA man, in July 1994.[692]
- an incendiary bomb was found and defused in a clothes shop in Wellington Place in Belfast city centre.[693]
- 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.[674][694]
- 20 February 1993:
- a rocket injured four British soldiers when it hit their patrol vehicle in the Woodburn area of Belfast.[685]
- 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).[657]
- 21 February 1993: Dunnes Stores in the Park Centre, Belfast, was firebombed by the IRA.[695]
- 22 February 1993: two RUC officers were injured in an IRA bomb attack on a base in Bishop Street, Derry.[657][696]
- 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.[674][694]
- 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.[694]
- 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.[680]
- a Protestant civilian was wounded during an IRA shooting in a shopping center at Newry, County Down.[657]
- 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 a police detective.[697]
- the IRA claimed a mortar attack on the RUC base in Tempo, County Fermanagh, was unsuccessful after a firing mechanism failed to detonate.[698][699]
- 27 February 1993:
- 28 February 1993: an IRA unit fired on a British Army checkpoint in Belfast city centre.[699]
March–April[]
- 1 March 1993: an IRA unit launched two mortar bombs at a security base in Bessbrook, County Armagh; at least three people were injured and 30 houses suffered damage.[700]
- 4 March 1993: an IRA unit opened fire on an alleged "collaborator" as he drove along Cherry Road in Twinbrook, West Belfast.[701]
- 6 March 1993: a former UDR 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.[702][691]
- 7 March 1993:
- four RUC officers were badly injured when the IRA detonated a car-bomb on the Main Street of Bangor, County Down.[703]
- 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.[703][691]
- an RUC officer was shot and injured at a checkpoint outside an RUC station on Grosvenor Road, Belfast.[704][705] IRA members had driven up to the checkpoint and fired several shots before lobbing a grenade.[701]
- 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.[706][701]
- the IRA launched a mortar attack on Keady British Army base, County Armagh. A civilian (Nigel McCollum) who was working as a contractor for the British Army was killed when three barrack buster mortars were fired into the base. 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.[674][707]
- 9 March 1993:
- 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).[657][674][709]
- 11 March 1993:
- the IRA claimed responsibility for several hoax car bombs left in Lisburn and Belfast.[710]
- an IRA unit fired 40 rounds at an observation post at Woodbourne RUC base, Belfast.[710]
- an IRA unit fired several shots at a British Army RIR checkpoint in Oxford Street beside the High Court in Belfast city centre.[710]
- 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.[711][710]
- 13 March 1993:
- the IRA mortared a British Army observation post at Glasdrumman, County Armagh.[657]
- 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.[711]
- 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.[710][712]
- 14 March 1993:
- 17 March 1993:
- a former UDR soldier escaped injury when a bomb exploded under his work van after he had gotten out near Aghadowey, County Londonderry. The intended target, Alan Smith, was shot dead by the IRA in April 1994.[714][715]
- 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.[674][716]
- 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.[717]
- a British Army patrol escaped injury after a bomb hidden in a bus shelter detonated as they passed in Derry.[718]
- 24 March 1993: an IRA bomb damaged an auction house at the junction of May Street and Montgomery Street in Belfast city centre.[719]
- 25 March 1993: there was a multiple weapons attack by the IRA on a British Army watchtower, the Borucki sangar, in Crossmaglen, County Armagh.[250]
- 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.[719]
- 31 March 1993:
- 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.[721]
- 2 April 1993: an IRA unit fired over a hundred rounds at a permanent British Army vehicle checkpoint at Kilturk near Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh.[721]
- 3 April 1993: a British soldier was shot and injured by the IRA near Crossmaglen, South Armagh.[250]
- 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.[721]
- 6 April 1993: a bomb exploded at Belfast Central Station. The area had been evacuated following a warning and there were no injuries.[722]
- 7 April 1993:
- 10 April 1993: a 300 lb (140 kg) IRA car bomb was defused outside government offices on Victoria Street in Belfast city centre.[723]
- 14 April 1993:
- 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.[723]
- 17 April 1993: rail services between Belfast and Dublin were disrupted after an IRA bomb exploded along the track near Belfast Central Station.[723]
- 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.[725]
- 20 April 1993: an IRA bomb exploded beside the security gate at Bishop's Gate in Derry city centre.[723]
- 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).[726][727]
- 23 April 1993:
- 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.[729] 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.[730][731]
- two bombs exploded in hijacked minicabs in London, but there were no injuries.[79][732]
- 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.[729]
- 26 April 1993: the IRA attacked a British Army position no far from Clogher, near the Fury river, County Tyrone, with a lighter variant of the 'Barrack Buster' mortar.[728]
- 27 April 1993: an IRA booby-trap bomb consisting of Semtex and shrapnel hidden in a road sign at a junction was defused in Armagh city.[733]
- 30 April 1993: the IRA launched a horizontal mortar at an RUC patrol vehicle at Ballygawley roundabout, County Tyrone.[734][735]
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.[73]
- 6 May 1993:
- 9 May 1993:
- 11 May 1993:
- 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.[737]
- 19 May 1993: a lone IRA member lobbed a coffee jar bomb at a British Army foot patrol on Finaghy Road North, West Belfast.[738]
- 20 May 1993: a 1,000 lb (450 kg) IRA bomb exploded in Glengall Street, Belfast, causing over 5 million pounds worth of damage.[657]
- 22 May 1993:
- a 1,000 lb (450 kg) IRA bomb devastated Portadown's town centre.[657]
- the IRA reported a sniper attack on the British Army base of Killymeal, Dungannon, County Tyrone, and claimed a subsequent exchange of fire between IRA volunteers and British soldiers manning an observation post.[738]
- an IRA unit fired several shots at New Barnsley RUC base, West Belfast.[738]
- 23 May 1993:
- 27 May 1993:
- 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.[741]
- IRA members opened fire from a hijacked vehicle at an RUC checkpoint on the Ormeau Road, Belfast.[741]
- 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.[742]
- 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.[674][743]
- 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.[741]
- 3 June 1993: an IRA unit fired 30 rounds at soldiers manning an observation post at Woodbourne RUC station, Belfast.[744]
- 4 June 1993: a 400 lb (180 kg) bomb left at the 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.[744]
- 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.[744][657]
- the IRA launched a mortar attack on the RUC base in Carrickmore, County Tyrone. The single round exploded within the barracks perimeter,[657] resulting in some damage but no casualties. The Mark 15 mortar was fired from a Renault Trafic van.[745]
- 7 June 1993: the IRA detonated a bomb at a gasworks in Tyneside, England.[657]
- 9 June 1993: two small IRA bombs exploded at an Esso oil refinery in North Shields.[657][680]
- 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.[746]
- 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.[747]
- an IRA unit reported firing over 40 rounds at an RUC armoured vehicle near the Oldpark Road, Belfast.[747]
- 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.[250][748]
- 12 June 1993: an IRA sniper fired a single shot at a British soldier in the Beechmount area of Belfast. The round struck his rifle and ricocheted striking his face, there was speculation the sniper had used a .50 BMG calibre rifle.[746][747]
- 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.[749]
- 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.[750] The IRA claimed he was a member of the Royal Irish Regiment.[749]
- 22 June 1993: the IRA detonated a 300 lb (140 kg)[749] bomb at the Mourne Country Hotel in Newry, damaging at least 70 nearby homes.[657][751]
- 23 June 1993:
- an IRA volunteer (Joseph Mulhern) was found shot by side of road, Ballymongan, near Castlederg, County Tyrone, as an alleged informer.[674]
- 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.[752]
- the IRA reported that a unit had fired 60 rounds at two armoured vehicles leaving Woodbourne RUC station, West Belfast.[752]
- 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.[674][753] The shooting was claimed by the North Armagh Brigade.[754]
- 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.[674][755]
- 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.[749]
- 28 June 1993:
July–August[]
- 3 July 1993: a 100 lb (45 kg) IRA van bomb exploded outside Strabane courthouse, causing extensive damage.[657][756]
- 5 July 1993:
- a 1,500 lb (680 kg) bomb caused extensive damaged in the centre of Newtownards, County Down.[757] Nineteen people were injured.[669]
- 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.[758]
- 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.[759]
- the IRA launched a 'barrack buster' mortar at the RUC base in Roslea, County Fermanagh.
- 9 July 1993: a housing estate in Dungannon, County Tyrone, was evacuated after a device, that according to the IRA was a Mark 15 mortar bomb,[760] was fired at the town's RUC compound.[761]
- 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.[760]
- a 300 lb (140 kg) IRA bomb in a hijacked taxi was defused by the British Army in Adelaide Street near Belfast City Hall.[762]
- 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.[763]
- 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.[760]
- 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.[764]
- 15 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.[765]
- 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.[657][764]
- 16 July 1993: an IRA bomb exploded at the front entrance of a bank in Strabane, County Tyrone.[764]
- 17 July 1993: a British soldier (Kevin Pullin) was shot dead by a sniper while on foot patrol, Carran Road, Crossmaglen, County Armagh.[674]
- 18 July 1993:
- a 300 lb (140 kg)[764] 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.[766]
- a shrapnel bomb containing 2.2 lb (1.00 kg) of Semtex was defused in the Markets area of Belfast.[767]
- 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.[768]
- 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.[769]
- 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.[770]
- 25 July 1993: riots erupted in Dungannon, County Tyrone, after a combined Army/RUC patrol came under attack by the IRA.[771]
- 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.[772]
- 30 July 1993: an IRA sniper fired on RUC officers in the Ardoyne area of Belfast, but there were no reported injuries.[773]
- 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.[774]
- 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.[775] The IRA reported it was a horizontal mortar attack.[772]
- 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 in South Armagh. A straw-stuffed dummy had been placed in the driver's seat so as not to alert the soldiers manning the checkpoint.[776][777]
- 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.[778]
- 6 August 1993: a 50 lb (23 kg) car bomb left in Alfred Street in Belfast city centre only partially exploded.[779]
- 7 August 1993: a horizontal mortar launched at a joint British Army/RUC mobile patrol in the Lenadoon area of Belfast missed.[779]
- 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.[780]
- 13 August 1993:
- the IRA firebombed six premises in Bournemouth, England, and also detonated a bomb on the pier.[657]
- an IRA bomb exploded at the front entrance of a bank in Castle Street, Strabane, County Tyrone.[781]
- five RUC officers and four civilians were wounded when a 250 lb (110 kg) IRA car bomb exploded outside a restaurant in South Belfast.[657][781]
- a 6 lb (2.7 kg) bomb partially exploded at government offices in Alfred Street in Belfast city centre.[781]
- 14 August 1993:
- 16 August 1993:
- 18 August 1993: the IRA detonated a 150 lb (68 kg) car-bomb in Dublin Road, in the centre of Belfast city.[781] The blast caused over 750,000 pounds worth of damage.[657]
- 20 August 1993:
- 22 August 1993: the IRA detonated a bomb on Gloucester Street, Belfast, causing considerable damage.[657]
- 23 August 1993: the IRA detonated a car-bomb outside a bank on the Ormeau Road causing extensive damage.[657]
- 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.[786][787]
- 27 August 1993:
- 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.[657]
- 29 August 1993: gunshots were exchanged between the Provisional and the Official IRA in the Markets area of Belfast.[657]
- 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. A second bomb detonated minutes later at a nearby cricket club.[657][788]
- two British soldiers were wounded when the IRA detonated a 4.5 lb (2.0 kg) Semtex bomb[789] in a car near their patrol in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.[657][787]
- a Semtex booby-trap bomb attached to an RUC Reserve Officer's car in Armagh was defused.[790]
- a 600 lb (270 kg) car-bomb failed to fully detonate outside a hotel in Newtownabbey on the outskirts of Belfast.[787]
September–October[]
- 1 September 1993: two 700 lb (320 kg) IRA bombs were defused by the British Army in Cullyhanna, County Armagh.[657]
- 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.[657][778]
- 10 September 1993:
- 13 September 1993:
- 14 September 1993: the IRA detonated a bomb at the Fir Trees hotel in Strabane, County Tyrone, causing serious damage.[657]
- 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.[657][792]
- 16 September 1993: three IRA incendiary devices were made safe in two separate cinemas in London.[793]
- 21 September 1993: a British soldier was wounded when an IRA unit threw a blast-bomb at his patrol in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.[657]
- 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. 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).[250][657]
- 24 September 1993: a soldier was wounded in a bomb attack on an RUC/BA mobile patrol in West Belfast.[657] IRA sources claim that two British Army armoured vehicles were knocked down.[794]
- 27 September 1993: a 300 lb (140 kg) IRA car-bomb caused extensive damage to the centre of Belfast; another, larger IRA car-bomb wrecked commercial premises in South Belfast.[657]
- 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.[657][795]
- 1 October 1993:
- 2 October 1993:
- 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.[657]
- 4 October 1993: five IRA bombs detonated in North London, injuring four people and destroying a number of businesses.[657]
- 5 October 1993: An IRA horizontal mortar bomb bounced off an RUC vehicle on Fanad Drive, Derry.[653][796]
- 8 October 1993:
- 9 October 1993: the IRA attacked a British Army base in Kilkeel, County Down, with a 12-tube Mk-15 multiple mortar.[657][799]
- 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.[800]
- 11 October 1993: the IRA firebombed three commercial premises in Belfast and one in Lisburn.[657]
- 15 October 1993: two bombs inflicted damage on the fortified[801] courthouse at Cookstown, County Tyrone.[802][803]
- 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.[804][805]
- 18 October 1993:
- 19 October 1993:
- 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.[657]
- 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.[809]
- 24 October 1993: an IRA bomb exploded on a railway line in Berkshire, England. Other devices were defused at Reading and Basingstoke stations.[657]
- 25 October 1993: the IRA detonated a bomb on a bridge above a railway line in Buckinghamshire, England.[657]
- 27 October 1993: an IRA unit carried out a gun attack on a British checkpoint in Derriaghy, near Belfast.[657]
- 29 October 1993: a small IRA bomb exploded in Edwards Square, London.[793]
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.[810]
- 2 November 1993:
- 7 November 1993:
- a British soldier was shot and wounded by an IRA sniper while on a foot patrol in Spamount street, New Lodge Road, Belfast.[657][812]
- 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.[657][812]
- 9 November 1993: a 500 lb (230 kg) bomb found in a van was defused in Belfast.[813]
- 10 November 1993: a 2 lb (0.91 kg) Semtex jar bomb thrown at a British security forces patrol in Belfast failed to explode and was later defused.[814][815]
- 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 and a nine meters-high fireball engulfed the tower. Four Grenadier Guards inside were rescued by a Saxon armored vehicle.[639][816][817]
- 16 November 1993: a soldier was wounded by a bomb in West Belfast. The IRA is suspected.[657]
- 21 November 1993: an IRA unit attacked with gunfire the house of a former UDR soldier in Cookstown, County Tyrone; no one was injured.[818]
- 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.[819]
- 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.[820]
- 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.[821]
- 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.[657][822]
- 1 December 1993: 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.[823][824]
- 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.[674][825]
- 3 December 1993: a massive IRA bomb was defused in the Poleglass area of Belfast. Nearly eight hundred pupils from a nearby primary school were evacuated.[657][826]
- 7 December 1993: an IRA unit mortared Newtownbutler RUC barracks in Fermanagh.[657]
- 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.[674] 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.[827][828] (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.[829][830]
- 14 December 1993:
- an IRA bomb exploded on a railway track in Woking, Surrey, England, disrupting commuter services.[657]
- two soldiers were wounded by a trip wire bomb blast at a railway near Ebrington Barracks in Derry.[796][831][832]
- 16 December 1993: two further IRA bombs on the Surrey railway were defused.[657]
- 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.[657][833]
- an IRA bomb went off near a derelict farm in Pomeroy, County Tyrone.[834]
- 20 December 1993:
- 23 December 1993: the IRA announced a three-day Christmas ceasefire.[657]
- 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.[657][836]
- the IRA carried out a car-bomb attack on Springfield Road RUC base in Belfast.[657] Five people were hospitalised and several nearby homes were damaged. Other sources describe it as a coffee-jar bomb attack.[837]
- the IRA launched a gun and bomb attack on a British Army base in Portadown, County Armagh.[657]
- 28 December 1993: a British soldier was injured when the IRA fired a horizontal mortar at a foot-patrol in Belfast.[838]
- 29 December 1993:
- 30 December 1993:
- a British soldier (Daniel Blinco) was shot dead by an IRA sniper while on foot-patrol in Crossmaglen, County Armagh.[674][838]
- the IRA carried out a bomb attack in the Poleglass area of Belfast. No reported injuries.[837]
- an IRA unit carried out a bomb and gun attack on a British Army patrol in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.[837]
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.[840][841]
- 6 January 1994: an IRA unit fired a grenade at a British patrol on the Springfield Road Belfast.[840]
- 7 January 1994: an IRA unit launched a bomb attack against an RUC-British Army patrol in the Andersonstown area of Belfast.[842][843]
- 11 January 1994:
- two British soldiers were seriously injured by an IRA booby-trap inside their base in Crossmaglen, County Armagh,[840] following a mortar attack on the barracks.[841] The bomb was hidden in the launcher vehicle, which had been recovered by explosives technicians.[844][845]
- three RUC officers were injured when their patrol vehicle was hit by an IRA rocket in the Short Strand area of Belfast.[840] Other sources claim a coffee jar bomb was thrown, not a rocket.[845]
- a 200 lb (91 kg) IRA bomb was defused by the British Army in Derry.[841]
- 12 January 1994: a female British soldier was shot twice and wounded by an IRA sniper in the New Lodge area of Belfast.[841][846] 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.[847]
- 15 January 1994: the IRA exploded a total of eleven incendiary devices in commercial premises in Belfast, Newtownards, Finaghy, and Newry.[840][848]
- 16 January 1994: seven men were arrested after an IRA barrack buster mortar was discovered near Clogher, County Tyrone.[840]
- 19 January 1994: three stores in Coleraine and Limavady were damaged by IRA firebombs. Devices were also found in four other premises.[840]
- 22 January 1994: a British Army Land Rover was hit by an IRA rocket while on patrol in Poleglass, West Belfast.[840]
- 23 January 1994:
- 24 January 1994:
- 27 January 1994:
- 28 January 1994:
- 29 January 1994: two IRA firebombs were found in stores in Oxford Street, London.[840]
- 30 January 1994: an IRA rocket was fired at a British Army post in the New Lodge area of Belfast.[840]
- 1 February 1994: the IRA launched a mortar attack on a British Army border post in Cloghoge, County Armagh.[840]
- 3 February 1994:
- an IRA unit planted a bomb outside the home of an RUC assistant Chief Constable in Derry.[840]
- an IRA gun and bomb attack on the home of an RUC Detective Chief Superintendent in Belfast failed. The unit involved was intercepted and arrested based on an intelligence tip-off. The same officer had been seriously injured in a previous IRA assassination attempt in November 1983.[850]
- 5 February 1994: 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.[840][849]
- 6 February 1994: three British soldiers were injured when an IRA horizontal mortar hit their patrol vehicle in Poleglass, West Belfast.[840]
- 11 February 1994: 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.[851]
- 12 February 1994: a bomb was thrown at British troops by an IRA unit near Cookstown, County Tyrone, but the device failed to explode.[852]
- 13 February 1994: an incendiary device exploded in a restaurant in High Street Belfast. Further devices exploded a furniture and carpet store on North Street.[849]
- 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.[853]
- 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.[840]
- 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.[835]
- 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.[79]
- 20 February 1994:
- 21 February 1994: an IRA mortar attack destroyed an RUC base and caused widespread damage in Beragh, County Tyrone.[840]
- 22 February 1994: an IRA car bomb exploded besides a British Army foot patrol in Crossmaglen. No injuries were reported. Only individual equipment was damaged by shrapnel.[854]
- 25 February 1994:
- a motorcycle dealership on the Boucher Road, Belfast was destroyed in an IRA incendiary bomb attack.[849]
- 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.[849]
- 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.[855]
March–April[]
- 2 March 1994: the IRA carried out a horizontal mortar attack on a British patrol in west Belfast.[840]
- 5 March: 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.[849]
- 8 March 1994: four Mark-6 mortar shells[856] were fired from a car towards Heathrow Airport near London. The shells landed on or near the northern runway, but failed to explode.[79]
- 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.[79]
- 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.[840][857]
- the IRA fired a horizontal mortar at a British Army vehicle on Culmore Road, Derry.[653]
- 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.[858]
- 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.[79] Later that night both Heathrow and Gatwick airports were closed for two hours after coded telephoned bomb threats were received.[859]
- 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.[840]
- 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.[858]
- 19 March 1994: a shell from a Mark-15 mortar hit 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.[840][843]
- 21 March 1994: the IRA launched a horizontal mortar attack on a joint British Army-RUC patrol in North Belfast. The projectile exploded but missed its target.[860]
- 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.[861]
- 25 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.[862][863]
- 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.[840][864]
- 1 April 1994:
- 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.[865]
- the IRA claimed to have planted a 150 kg (330 lb) bomb in County Armagh.[866]
- an IRA mortar attack on Roslea RUC station, County Fermanagh, failed.[866]
- 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.[867]
- 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.[840]
- 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.[840] One of the attacks on an outpost manned by the British Army lasted five minutes.[868][840][869]
- an IRA unit fired an improvised rocket at a British patrol in Stewartstown, Belfast.[840][867]
- a coffee jar bomb was thrown over the perimeter fence of Oldpark RUC station, North Belfast. One RUC officer was treated for shock.[867]
- a permanent border checkpoint at Aughnacloy, County Tyrone, became the target of an improvised mortar fired by an IRA unit at midday.[840][870] 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.[871] The barrack-buster projectile, described as a "very large" device, overshot the installation and landed in an adjacent housing estate, forcing its evacuation.[867][870]
- 13 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.[872]
- 14 April 1994: the IRA carried out a mortar attack on Newry RUC station.[873]
- 15 April 1994: an RUC patrol came under IRA rocket attack in Armagh town.[840]
- 18 April 1994: IRA booby trap bombs failed to harm members of the security forces in the Glengormley and Stewartstown areas of Belfast.[841]
- 20 April 1994:
- an RUC officer 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.[842][874]
- the IRA shot and injured Bobby Dougan, a leading member of the UDA, outside his home in the Suffolk area of Belfast.[875] He had previously escaped an INLA assassination attempt in October 1993 and the IRA finally succeeded in killing him in February 1998.[876][877][878]
- 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.[841]
- 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.[879]
- 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 member of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) 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.[880][841]
- 25 April 1994:
- 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.[840][882]
- 28 April 1994: a former UDR soldier (Eric Smyth) was shot dead by the IRA outside his home, Salters Grange Road, near Armagh town.[842]
- 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.[842]
May–June[]
- 1 May 1994: two alleged drug dealers were kneecapped by the IRA.[842]
- 6 May 1994: an IRA unit fired a rocket at a British Army patrol in the Lenadoon area of Belfast. A woman who was standing nearby was wounded by shrapnel.[842]
- 11 May 1994: an IRA unit launched a small arms attack on a British observation post in Belfast city centre.[842]
- 12 May 1994:
- 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.[842][884]
- 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.[842][885]
- 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.[842][886]
- 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.[842]
- an IRA rocket missed an RUC Land Rover on a mobile patrol in Guildhall, Derry. Several windows were shattered in the surrounding area.[842]
- 23 May 1994:
- the IRA shot dead a security guard in central Belfast. The man had been training with the British Army but had been discharged on medical grounds.[887]
- 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.[796][841]
- the IRA left a 30 lb (14 kg) bomb at a boat club near Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh.[888]
- the IRA left a small bomb outside the RUC station at Tennent Street, Belfast.[888] The IRA report[889] and other sources describe the incident as a rocket attack.[890]
- 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.[891]
- 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 fired back.[892]
- 30 May 1994: an IRA unit launched a mortar attack on a British Army base in Tempo, County Fermanagh.[842] The projectile overshot the base and landed exploded beside several homes and a school.[893]
- 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.[894]
- 2 June 1994: an IRA coffee-jar bomb attack on the High Court of Belfast left one worker injured.[842] The IRA report claims that a single volunteer cycling on a mountain bike threw the improvised grenade over the security fence.[895]
- 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.[842] 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.[896]
- 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.[897]
- three British soldiers were wounded when an IRA unit mortared a military checkpoint in Crossmaglen, South Armagh.[842]
- two incendiary devices were discovered and neutralised in a business on Oxford Street, London.[79]
- 11 June 1994: an IRA sniper fired a single shot at British Army checkpoint on the Dundalk Road, Crossmaglen, County Armagh. Soldiers returned fire but there no reported injuries.[898]
- 12 June 1994:
- 13 June 1994:
- 17 June 1994: the IRA launched a horizontal mortar at an RUC patrol in West Belfast, but missed their target.[841]
- 20 June 1999: the IRA carried out a gun and rocket attack on an RUC patrol in West Belfast.[841][900]
- 26 June 1994:
- the IRA launched a mortar attack on Pomeroy RUC base, County Tyrone.[840][901] 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.[902]
- an IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at a British Army Land Rover on Suffolk Road, West Belfast. There were no reported injuries.[840][902]
- 28 June 1994: an IRA unit fired a rocket from a hijacked vehicle at Grosvenor Road RUC station, Belfast.[902]
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.[903] A number of people attending a wedding in a nearby church were treated from shock.[904] A total of seven people was injured.[842] The IRA said it was their first use of the Mk-15 type mortar in Belfast.[905]
- 8 July 1994: two British soldiers were injured when their patrol vehicle was hit by an IRA rocket in the Suffolk area of Belfast.[842]
- 10 July 1994: the IRA launched a gun attack on the home of DUP politician Willie McCrea, in Magherafelt, County Londonderry; there was some damage but no injuries.[906]
- 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.[842][907]
- 12 July 1994:
- 13 July 1994: a "barrack buster" mortar was defused by the British Army in Derry.[841]
- 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.[909]
- 15 July 1994: two 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 Killeshil, near Dungannon, County Tyrone.[840][910]
- 17 July 1994: a female Catholic civilian from Belfast (Caroline Moreland) was shot dead by the IRA as an alleged informer. Her body was dumped at Clogh, near Rosslea, County Fermanagh.[911]
- 20 July 1994:
- the IRA launched a mortar attack on the British Army base at Crossmaglen.[840]
- an RUC officer was injured in Cookstown, County Tyrone, when an IRA bomb struck an RUC mobile patrol.[840] The IRA claim that the device contained 1 pound (0.45 kg) of semtex and shrapnel, and was set off by wire from a derelict building.[912]
- 21 July 1994: an IRA suitcase-bomb was discovered at Reading Railway Station.[913]
- 22 July 1994: IRA incendiary bombs damaged several businesses in Belfast city centre.[841]
- 24 July 1994: the IRA launched a landmine attack on an RUC patrol in Castlewellan, County Down.[842]
- 25 July 1994: a British soldier was shot and wounded by the IRA in Crossmaglen, County Armagh.[840]
- 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.[842][914]
- 31 July 1994: two senior UDA members, Raymond Elder and Joe Bratty, were shot dead by the IRA on the Ormeau Road in Belfast.[842] 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.[915]
- 3 August 1994: three British soldiers were injured when the IRA mortared Newtownhamilton British Army base.[842]
- 6 August 1994: an RUC officer and a civilian were hurt in an IRA grenade attack at a Belfast court house.[841]
- 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.[842] 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.[916]
- 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. A similar device found on Brighton Pier was made safe using a controlled explosion.[79]
- 17 August 1994: the IRA bombed two loyalist pubs in Belfast: the Grove Tavern and the Berlin Arms. There were no injuries.[841]
- 18 August 1994:
- an IRA firebomb exploded in a Protestant bar on the Ormeau Road, Belfast.[840]
- Martin Cahill, a Dublin criminal, was shot dead by the IRA outside his home in Rathmines.[842] He was shot four times at close range with a .357 Magnum 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.[917]
- 21 August 1994:
- 22 August 1994: a high explosive device was defused outside a Laura Ashley shop in Regent Street, London.[79]
- 26 August 1994: an IRA mortar bomb missed the RUC base at Donemana, County Tyrone.[840]
- 27 August 1994:
- an IRA mortar bomb fired from a farm trailer exploded 200 yards short of Cloghoge checkpoint, County Armagh.[919]
- the IRA launched a mortar attack on the RUC station in Belleek, County Fermanagh;[841] 60 families were evacuated in the aftermath.[840]
- a primed mortar found in a car behind Tennent Street RUC station, Belfast, was defused by British security forces.[919]
- 28 August 1994: an IRA mortar bomb exploded prematurely in its launch tube at a car-park in Downpatrick, County Down, injuring 10 people.[841][920]
- 29 August 1994: the IRA fired a rocket at the RUC base in Toome, County Antrim.[841]
- 30 August 1994:
- incendiary devices damaged two stores in Belfast, on Boucher Road and on Newtownards Road.[919]
- the IRA carried out a bomb attack on an RUC base at Springfield Road, Belfast.[919]
- the IRA launched a mortar bomb at Fort Whiterock British Army base at Springfield Road, Belfast.[919]
- a huge booby-trap bomb, disguised to look like a primed IRA Mark-15 improvised mortar ready to be fired, was found inside a van near Pomeroy RUC base, County Tyrone. The 550-lb device was defused by British army technicians.[921]
- 31 August 1994:
- shots were fired at British security forces in the vicinity of New Barnsley RUC station in Belfast.[922][923]
- shots were fired at an RUC station in Belleek, County Fermanagh, less than an hour before the IRA ceasefire.[922][923]
- shots were fired in the Markets area of Belfast, just ten minutes before the IRA ceasefire came into effect. There were no reported injuries.[922]
- explosions were reportedly heard in the vicinity of Cappagh, County Tyrone, half an hour before the IRA ceasefire.[923] Unionist MP William McCrea later claimed that IRA members fired small arms in the outskirts of nearby Pomeroy the following day, five hours into the IRA ceasefire.[924]
- 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.[925][926]
September–December[]
- 6 September 1994: six IRA volunteers attempted to escape from Whitemoor Jail in Cambridgeshire, England.[840]
- 22 September 1994: a Derry man sustained a broken leg in an IRA punishment beating.[840]
- 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.[927]
- 10 November 1994: a Post Office worker (Frank Kerr) was shot dead when IRA members raided a Royal Mail sorting office in Newry.[842] The IRA admitted they had carried out the attack but claimed it was not sanctioned by the Army Council and that the ceasefire still stood.[928]
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.[929]
- 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.[930]
- 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.[931][932]
- 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.[932]
- 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.[932]
1996[]
February–April[]
- 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.[933]
- 15 February 1996: a bomb placed in a phone booth on the Charing Cross Road in London made safe using a controlled explosion.[79]
- 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.[934]
- 9 March 1996: the IRA claimed responsibility for a small bomb which exploded on the Old Brompton Road in London.[935]
- 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.[936]
- 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.[937] The bridge was closed for three years to endure a major restoration following the bombing.[938]
- 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.[939][940]
June–December[]
- 7 June 1996: Detective Garda Jerry McCabe was shot dead by the IRA during a botched post-office robbery in Adare, County Limerick.[941]
- 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.[942][943]
- 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.[944]
- 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.[945]
- 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.[941][946]
- 23 September 1996:
- a man escaped an attack by DAAD gunmen by jumping out a window in the Roden Street area of Belfast.[946]
- an English-born IRA volunteer, Diarmuid O'Neill, was shot dead by British police during a raid on his home in Hammersmith, London.[941]
- 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).[947][948]
- 5 December 1996: the security forces found IRA shoulder-fired MK16 launchers in the Whiterock area of Belfast.[946]
- 11 December 1996:
- 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.[935][950]
1997[]
January–February[]
- 1 January 1997: two bombs containing approximately 500 lb (230 kg) of explosive were defused at Belfast Castle. It is believed that the IRA were responsible.[951][952]
- 5 January 1997: a 250 lb (110 kg) bomb was defused near Cullyhanna, County Armagh. The IRA is believed to have been responsible.[951]
- 6 January 1997: an RUC officer was injured when an IRA rocket hit a security hut at the Royal Courts of Justice in Belfast.[951][953]
- 10 January 1997: an IRA statement was issued in the Andersontown News saying that "action" would be taken against informers.[951]
- 11 January 1997:
- 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.[951][952]
- 18 January 1997: an IRA unit fired two horizontal mortars at an armoured RUC patrol in Downpatrick, County Down. There were no injuries.[951][952]
- 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.[952]
- 25 January 1997: a soldier was lightly injured after the IRA detonated a bomb attached to his car in Ballynahinch, County Down.[955]
- 27 January 1997: an IRA unit fired a rocket at an RUC Landrover in Toome, County Antrim.[951]
- 28 January 1997: an IRA unit fired two horizontal mortars at an armoured RUC patrol on the Springfield Road, Belfast. Two civilians were injured.[956][951]
- 29 January 1997: an IRA unit fired a rocket at a British Army patrol in West Belfast. The soldiers survived the attack. Some damage was inflicted on a nearby college.[956]
- 5 February 1997: a grenade was thrown at an RUC Landrover at Kilwilkie estate, Lurgan. An IRA unit was spotted priming a mortar. About 100 families were evacuated from the nearby area.[957][958]
- 6 February 1997:
- 10 February 1997:
- a massive landmine 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.[959]
- a horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base outside Pomeroy, County Tyrone. One RUC officer was injured.[959][960]
- 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.[961]
- 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.[951] IRA sources claimed that a five-mile (8 km) chase followed before the IRA volunteers managed to escape on foot.[962]
March–April[]
- 2 March 1997: a primed IRA mortar was discovered near Warrenpoint, County Down.[963]
- 6 March 1997: the IRA detonated a large bomb on Glenalina Road, Belfast as a joint British Army/RUC patrol passed.[964]
- 7 March 1997: an IRA bomb left near Dungannon, County Tyrone, was defused by the British Army.[951]
- 13 March 1997:
- an armoured Land Rover from the 2nd Battalion, the Royal Tank Regiment was hit and damaged by an IRA grenade in Ardoyne, Belfast. A soldier in the observation post at the vehicle's roof hatch was injured.[965] Several people were arrested in the aftermath.[956]
- two British soldiers and an RUC officer were injured in an IRA bomb attack in the Short Strand area of Belfast.[965][951][966]
- 18 March 1997:
- 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.[968]
- 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).[969]
- 29 March 1997:
- 3 April 1997: the discovery of two bombs on main motorways in England following coded warnings by the IRA resulted in widespread disruption.[971]
- 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.[971]
- 9 April 1997: 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.[972]
- 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.[973]
- a female RUC officer was shot and badly wounded by an IRA sniper in Derry City.[974]
- 14 April 1997: a civilian went into hiding after he was badly beaten in an IRA punishment attack in Derry.[974]
- 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.[citation needed]
- 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.[975]
- 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.[976]
- 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.[977]
- 10 June 1997: the IRA carried out a gun attack on an undercover British Army unit in Derry.[978] There were no reported injuries.[951]
- 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.[979][980]
- 26 June 1997: an IRA unit fired a rocket propelled grenade at an RUC armoured patrol in north Belfast. The rocket missed off the vehicle and exploded in an empty building.[981]
- 5 July 1997: an IRA volunteer shot at a stationary RUC armoured vehicle besides the local RUC base in Coalisland, County Tyrone, seriously wounding a female RUC officer.[982][983]
- 6 July 1997:
- the IRA carried out a number of blast-bomb and gun attacks on the RUC across Belfast City in the course of fierce riots which erupted in nationalist areas after the Orange Order was allowed to march on Drumcree (see 1997 nationalist riots in Northern Ireland).[964]
- 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.[983][984]
- a military base in West Belfast came under gun and grenade attack from an IRA unit. A Protestant teenager was shot in the shoulder.[982] Another Army base at the end of Lenadoon Avenue suffered a similar attack, according to republican sources.[983]
- the IRA claimed that one of their units fired a rocket at an RUC patrol on Hallidays Road area, New Lodge, Belfast.[983][985]
- 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.[983][985]
- an IRA active service unit exchanged fire with RUC/British Army forces setting up a checkpoint at Falls Road, according to republican sources.[983]
- 7 July 1997:
- 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.[956] The IRA claimed to have engaged an RUC patrol and a security checkpoint in the city with gunfire followed by a petrol bomb attack.[983]
- 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.[986]
- 8 July 1997:
- 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon, County Tyrone.[988]
- 11 July 1997:
- 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.[990]
- 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.[991]
- 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.[992]
- 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".[993][994]
September–December[]
- 12 September 1997: four IRA volunteers stopped a member of the Continuity IRA (CIRA) in Ardoyne and confiscated his gun.[951]
- October 1997:
- 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.[951]
1998[]
- 9 February 1998: a convicted drug-dealer (Brendan Campbell) was shot dead by the IRA on Lisburn Road, Belfast.[996][997]
- 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.[876][877][878]
- 19 February 1998: suspect smuggler Kevin Conway was abducted from his home at Lurgan and shot dead, allegedly by IRA members.[998]
- 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.[999]
- 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.[999]
- 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.[1000][878]
- 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.[878]
- 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.[999]
- 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.[999]
- 10 April 1998: The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Belfast. The Provisional IRA eventually gave their open approval to the treaty in the subsequent referendum.[876]
- 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.[996][997]
- 8 October 1998: the USA removed the Provisional IRA from its list of foreign terrorist organizations.[1001]
- 21 November 1998: Gerard Moran, an alleged drug dealer was shot dead by the IRA in Dublin.[1002]
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.[1003][1004]
- 9 May 1999: Brendan Fegan, a convicted drug dealer,[1005] was shot dead by the IRA in Newry.[997][1006]
- 13 June 1999: Paul Downey, a drug dealer,[1007] was kidnapped from a hotel in Newry by an IRA unit. He was shot in the head and his lifeless body dumped near Beleek.[997][1006]
- 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.[1008][1009]
- 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.[997][1006] It is believed he was suspected of stealing IRA weapons.[1007]
See also[]
- List of attacks on British aircraft during The Troubles
- List of weapons used by the Provisional Irish Republican Army
- Improvised tactical vehicles of the Provisional IRA
- Timeline of Continuity Irish Republican Army actions
- Timeline of Real Irish Republican Army actions
- Timeline of Irish National Liberation Army actions
- Timeline of Ulster Volunteer Force actions
- Timeline of Ulster Defence Association actions
- Timeline of the Northern Ireland Troubles
Notes[]
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- ^ Jump up to: a b McKittrick, David (1999). Lost lives. Mainstream, p. 1190; ISBN 1-84018-227-X
- ^ "War News". The Irish People. 13 January 1990. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ^ "CIA document on events of 2 January 1990" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 5, 2012. Retrieved Apr 17, 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g O'Brien, p. 201
- ^ Jump up to: a b "War News". The Irish People. 20 January 1990. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v "A Chronology of the Conflict - 1990". CAIN.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "War News". The Irish People. 27 January 1990. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ^ "Contractors Intimidated In Northern Ireland". RTÉ Archives.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "CAIN - Listing of Programmes for the Year: 1990-BBC news, 5 September 1990". Retrieved 22 November 2014.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "IRA Bomb Belfast Car Park". RTÉ Archives.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Aberdeen Press and Journal, 17 January 1990.
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