20 August 1992: two British soldiers were wounded in an IRA attack at Grosvenor road, Belfast. RUC officers returned fire and the gun battle lasted ten minutes. 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. Collins had accepted a British offer of artillery for use by the new army of the Free State (though General Macready gave just 200 shells of the 10,000 he had in store at Kilmainham barracks). These anti-treaty Republicans wanted to spark a new armed confrontation with the British, which they hoped would unite the two factions of the IRA against their common enemy. 13 August 1993: the IRA firebombed six premises in. The Irish Civil War (28 June 1922 – 24 May 1923) was a conflict that accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State as an entity independent from the United Kingdom within the British Empire. As the conflict petered out into a de facto victory for the pro-treaty side, de Valera asked the IRA leadership to call a ceasefire, but they refused. Pitched battles continued in Dublin until 5 July, as Anti-Treaty IRA units from the Dublin Brigade, led by Oscar Traynor, occupied O’Connell Street – provoking a week’s more street fighting. In May 2001, Jordan's case was heard by the, Fortnight, Issues 319-323, Fortnight Publications, 1993, p. 32. 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. 26 June 1991: two bombs exploded outside the Queen Street RUC station in Belfast, injuring 20 people. 12 August 1993: five RUC officers and four civilians were wounded in an IRA attack in South Belfast. 12 September 1992: a British soldier was wounded in an IRA bomb attack in Whiterock, Belfast. 13 January 1990: a small bomb caused some damage to the perimeter fence at Lisanelly Barracks, Omagh, County Tyrone. 28 October 1990: an IRA unit exploded a bomb at the house of deputy governor of Maghaberry prison. 28 January 1990: a civilian (Charles Love) was killed when he was hit by debris when an IRA bomb exploded on. 20 October 1992: a British soldier (Robert Irvine) was shot dead by the IRA at his home in, 21 October 1992: three people were injured when an IRA bomb was detonated at the Princess Louise Territorial Army Centre, Hammersmith Road, London. 3 February 1994: an IRA unit planted a bomb outside the home of an RUC assistant Chief Constable in Derry. 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. The IRA said an RUC officer who lived in the area had been their target. The courthouse had been closed since 1985, following a previous IRA attack. 29 December 1993: an IRA unit fired a missile at a British patrol on Upper Library Street in Belfast. 16 September 1990: the British Army defused a Semtex device which had fallen off a car at Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. The patrol was airlifted to safety (see. When the Civil War broke out, the Anti-Treaty IRA (concentrated in the south and west) outnumbered the pro-Free State forces by roughly 15,000 men to 7,000 or over 2-1. Two women were wounded by plastic bullets fired by RUC officers (see. 17 November 1991: the IRA fired a Mark-12 mortar at an RUC mobile patrol outside Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh. The IRA is suspected. Several homes were also damaged including one belonging to the MP for Newry and Armagh. Three prison officers managed to escape, but the RUC detective and two prison officers were bundled into the back of waiting cars. The treaty provided for a self-governing Irish state in 26 of Ireland’s 32 counties, having its own army and police. 6 September 1994: six IRA volunteers attempted to escape from Whitemoor Jail in. Also, several strategic ports were to remain occupied by the Royal Navy. 28 February 1992: the IRA detonated a bomb at. Clip from RTE from around 1998, detailing The Civil War.Introduced by Brian Farrell Michael Collins, Richard Mulcahy and Eoin O’Duffy planned a nationwide Free State offensive, dispatching columns overland to take Limerick in the west and Waterford in the south-east and seaborne forces to take counties Cork and Kerry in the south and Mayo in the west. and Mulvihill,R.F. 20 October 1990: a former UDR soldier (David Pollock) was shot dead by the IRA in Strabane. 25 July 1993: riots erupted in Dungannon, County Tyrone, after a combined Army/RUC patrol came under attack by the IRA. On 3 May, the Dáil was informed 18 men had been killed in the fighting in Kilkenny. The IRA said it carried out the attack because the building firm worked for the security forces. 12 November 1990: 50 lb (23 kg) of Semtex and several firearms were found with six IRA suspects by police in London. 26 November 1990: the IRA issued threats to shops in the south Armagh area not to serve off-duty members of the. 13 March 1997: two British soldiers and an RUC officer were injured in an IRA bomb attack in the Short Strand area of Belfast. 11 February 1992: an IRA bomb was defused on Parliament Street. 1 July 1991: a 200 lb (90 kg) IRA car bomb was defused at a garage in County Tyrone. The treaty also stipulated that members of the new Irish Oireachtas (parliament) would have to take the following “Oath of Allegiance”. 26 May 1991: two RUC officers were injured when an IRA bomb exploded in a Protestant housing area at Cookstown, County Tyrone; 130 houses were damaged. An RUC officer and four civilians were injured. 25 February 1994: a motorcycle dealership on the Boucher Road, Belfast was destroyed in an IRA incendiary bomb attack. 25 March 1991: an IRA unit fired on a joint UDR/RUC vehicle checkpoint near Galbally, County Tyrone. 15 September 1993: the IRA shot dead a Catholic man (Adrian McGovern) outside his home, Stoneyford Road, Lisburn, County Antrim. 17 September 1990: a British Army sergeant was shot and injured by the IRA outside an army recruiting office in, 18 September 1990: the IRA attempted to kill. 24 May 1991: an RUC Chief Inspector was shot and seriously wounded in an IRA gun attack near Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. Later, British Army experts found and defused a 1 kg. 5 March 1992: a British soldier was injured by an IRA bomb near. When the fighting in Dublin died down, the Free State government was left firmly in control of the Irish capital and the anti-treaty forces dispersed around the country, mainly to the south and west. 7 March 1993: four RUC officers were badly injured when the IRA detonated a car-bomb on the Main Street of Bangor, County Down. The only real conventional battle during the Free State offensive, the Battle of Killmallock, was fought when Free State troops advanced south from Limerick. Her legs were blown off and later replaced with prosthetics. A second bomb detonated minutes later at a nearby cricket club. 27 December 1995: Martin McCrory (30), a Catholic civilian was shot dead at his home, Norglen Parade, Turf Lodge, Belfast. A boat club nearby was destroyed in a bomb attack. 15 December 1991: an IRA incendiary device partially exploded in, 16 December 1991: the IRA detonated a bomb on a railway line near. 22 July 1994: IRA incendiary bombs damaged several businesses in Belfast city centre. Historians dispute whether the PRO was intentionally destroyed by mines laid by the Republicans on their evacuation or if the explosions occurred when their ammunition store was accidentally ignited by the bombardment. 21 April 1997: IRA bomb hoaxes almost entirely closed down London's transport links. 10 September 1991: a UVF member (John Hanna) was shot dead by the IRA in South Belfast. 5 September 1995: Tony Kane (aged 29) was shot dead by the IRA as he sat in his car in Andersonstown, Belfast. 26 April 1990: several homes in Portadown were damaged after mortar shells destined for an RUC station exploded prematurely in their launchers. 8 January 1991: an incendiary device was defused in Castlecourt Shopping Centre, Belfast. 8 August 1994: an off-duty British soldier from the Royal Irish Regiment (Trelford Withers, aged 46) was shot dead by the IRA in, 13 August 1994: an explosive device left in a bicycle detonated in a shopping centre in the beach town of. The Irish War of Independence (Irish: Cogadh na Saoirse) or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-military Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and its paramilitary forces the Auxiliaries and Ulster Special Constabulary (USC). Soon after alerts closed Gatwick, Stansted and parts of Heathrow airports. The treaty effectively confirmed the partition of Ireland, setting up the Irish Free State in the south while Ulster remained part of the United Kingdom. 7 April 1993: three British soldiers were wounded when the IRA mortared their base in Crossmaglen. 31 January 1991: 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. There were no reported injuries. 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. The National Army had extracted information from Republican prisoners in Dublin that the IRA Executive was in the area and as well as killing Lynch, they also captured senior Anti-Treaty IRA officers Dan Breen, Todd Andrews, Seán Gaynor and Frank Barrett in the operation. However, even Barry’s force was not capable of holding any of the places it had taken and by January 1923 it had dispersed due to lack of food and supplies. 6 August 1990: an IRA bomb attack targeted at former British Cabinet Secretary and head of the Civil Service Lord Armstrong failed after the bomb fell from underneath a car at his former home. 29 October 1993: a small IRA bomb exploded in Edwards Square, London. Shackleton was in the back roof hatch of an army Land Rover when an IRA sniper fired from a block of flats, hitting him in the chest and causing a fatal wound. 27 October 1991: an 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. 28 June 1991: an IRA bomb was defused at a theatre in, 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. 18 January 1991: the IRA launched a mortar attack on the joint British-Army base in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. 17 September 1992: one bomb and four firebombs exploded at various locations around London. The IRA said it was intended for a British patrol but the presence of civilians in the area forced them to disarm the device. 27 December 1991: a shopper found an incendiary device in the Primark store in Belfast city centre. The situation was temporarily resolved in April when, after arbitration, the two sides agreed to occupy two barracks each. 24 July 1994: the IRA launched a landmine attack on an RUC patrol in. 24 December 1992: the IRA called a three-day ceasefire. 21 April 1994: an IRA member was shot and wounded by the RUC in a car chase in South Armagh. 1 December 1992: the IRA detonated a bomb at a car parts business in Ormeau Avenue, Belfast. 17 August 1994: the IRA bombed two loyalist pubs in Belfast: the Grove Tavern and the Berlin Arms. Fighting would ultimately break out when the Provisional Government tried to assert its authority over well-armed and intransigent Anti-Treaty IRA units around the country – particularly a hardline group in Dublin. 2 November 1991: an IRA incendiary device left in a bed shop on the Lisburn Road, Belfast caused extensive damage. 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. 12 August 1992: 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. 06/04/1921. There were no casualties. 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. 27 January 1994: IRA bombs exploded in three stores in Oxford Street, London. 12 May 1994: the homes of two RUC officers were bombed by the IRA in the Waterside area of Derry. 2 December 1991: an IRA incendiary device ignited in a. A number of the senior Free State commanders such as Emmet Dalton John T. Prout and W.R.E. 13 August 1990: the IRA planted a bomb at the Berkshire home of British Army General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley. 1 December 1992: an IRA van-bomb was made safe by the British Army in London after a telephoned warning. Another bomb wrecked the. 19 January 1991: the IRA carried out an abortive rocket attack on the joint British-Army base in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. 21 August 1992: 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. 29 August 1993: gunshots were exchanged between the Provisional and the. Liam Lynch, the intransigent Republican leader, was killed in a skirmish in the Knockmealdown mountains in County Tipperary on 10 April. There is also a bomb scare at Castlecourt Shopping Centre. 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. 7 October 1992: five people were injured when an IRA bomb exploded in. 11 February 1992: a 5 lb (2.3 kg) IRA bomb exploded in a phone box in Whitehall, London. 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. He had no connections to the security forces. 13 November 1992: the IRA detonated a van-bomb in the centre of. 10 April 1991: an IRA volunteer (Colm Marks) was shot dead by the RUC while he was preparing a mortar bomb in Downpatrick, County Down. However, many of the new army’s other recruits were unemployed veterans of the First World War, where they had served in the Irish Division of the British Army. 26 June 1997: an IRA unit fired a rocket propelled grenade at an RUC armoured patrol in north Belfast. 28 September 1992: the IRA shot an alleged informer and left him for dead in Belfast, but he survived eventually survived his wounds. The State’s executions of Anti-Treaty prisoners, 34 of whom were shot in January 1923, also took its toll on the Republicans’ morale. 19 January 1991: an IRA landmine injured British soldiers near Newtownhamilton, County Armagh. Sniper Kills British Soldier, Raising Doubts on Peace Initiative", Peter Heathwood Collection of television programs: 1994, "House of Commons Hansard Debates for 21 Jan 1994", "I.R.A. 21 November 1998: Gerard Moran, an alleged drug dealer was shot dead by the IRA in Dublin. 17 June 1991: a UDR soldier (Brian Lawrence) was shot dead by the IRA at his workplace, a tyre depot, Duncrue Street, Belfast. 3 February 1991: the IRA launched another "proxy bomb" attack on a British Army. 19 June 1999: the IRA carried out a gun and rocket attack on an RUC patrol in West Belfast. 5 January 1993: three soldiers were injured by a bomb in Belfast while evacuating Belfast's City Hall area after a warning was issued by an IRA telephone call. Military victory must be allowed to rest for the moment with those who have destroyed the Republic.”. 27 July 1991: an IRA bomb was found attached to the bottom of a UDR soldier's car in County Tyrone. Votes: 29,463 | Gross: $11.09M Three men had penetrated had penetrated perimeter fence carrying two Semtex devices. 15 November 1992: an RUC officer (Alan Corbett) was shot dead by an IRA sniper while manning a vehicle checkpoint in, 19 November 1992: an off-duty British soldier (Ian Warnock) was shot dead in. 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. 28 April 1990: a bomb was detonated inside a litter bin as British soldiers investigated a car containing another suspect device in Lisburn. Both devices failed to explode. 29 April 1990: a bomb exploded at a border post at Newry. 5 January 1992: a 500 lb (230 kg) IRA bomb exploded on High Street in the centre of Belfast. 1 December 1991: A 100 lb (45 kg) IRA bomb was defused in Sion Mills, County Londonderry. Government victories in the major towns inaugurated a period of guerrilla warfare. The Republicans made much use of this fact in their propaganda — claiming that the Free State was only a proxy force for Britain itself. Original Irish Militaria and World Militaria, © Copyright 2018 - The Irish War - All rights reserved -, Irish Volunteers Commemorative Organization, Clare & Galway in the War Of Independence, Auxiliary Division Royal Irish Constabulary Uniform and Equipment (ADRIC), MP McMahon Meelick IRA ,Information required. A nearby school was also damaged. He had Henry Hughes Wilson, a retired British Army field marshal, assassinated in London on 22 June because of his role in Northern Ireland. 20 May 1993: a 1,000 lb (450 kg) IRA bomb exploded in Glengall Street, Belfast, causing over 5 million pounds worth of damage. 9 April 1990: 4 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. 17 October 1993: a man was shot and seriously injured at his home in South Belfast. 2 January 1992: an incendiary device was discovered in a carpet shop in Newtownards, County Down. 26 June 1993: a British soldier (John Randall) was shot dead by an IRA sniper near Newtownhamilton, County Armagh. 23 May 1993: an IRA bomb containing over 1,500 lb (680 kg) of explosives was detonated in the centre of. 15 May 1992: Several residences are damaged in the area of Short Strand in Belfast after a suspected IRA bomb attack on a combined RUC/British army patrol. 20 August 1993: a rocket propelled grenade fired by an IRA unit missed an RUC vehicle in Belfast. 22 April 1991: the IRA announced if loyalist paramilitaries ceased their attacks they would responded. The village was sealed off for a time. The two volunteers were taken in custody some time later. 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. Similar devices damaged Fortwilliam golf club and Greenan Lodge Hotel. In addition, the Free State took over 500 Republican prisoners. 7 January 1993: the IRA planted two bombs at an oil and gas storage depot in East Belfast. A straw-stuffed dummy had been placed in the driver's seat so as not to alert the soldiers manning the checkpoint. Collins was also coming under continuing pressure from London to assert his government’s authority in his capital. 18 September 1990: 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. English, Richard and Oppenheimer, A.R. 18 March 1997: The IRA launched a twin-tube mortar attack on an RUC mobile patrol at Downpatrick, County Down. 27 September 1992: a 1,000 lb (450 kg) IRA bomb was defused outside the court house in Armagh, County Armagh. 22 January 1992: a former UDR soldier was injured on his way to work in Castlederg, County Tyrone. 23 September 1991: two hotels in the Lisnaskea area were evacuated due to bomb hoaxes. 2 July 1992: an IRA bomb on the Belfast-Portadown railway line disrupted service. The Anglo-Irish Treaty arose from the Irish War of Independence, fought between Irish separatists (organised as the Irish Republic) and the British government, from 1919-1921. 27 January 1997: an IRA unit fired a rocket at an RUC Landrover in Toome, County Antrim. 23 August 1990: the IRA attacked an RUC station in Pomeroy, County Tyrone, while several employees of an outside contractor were working at the station. 13 June 1993: an IRA sniper fired a single shot at a British soldier in the Beechmount area of Belfast. 19 June 1991: a British soldier (Anthony Harrison) was shot dead by the IRA while off-duty at his girlfriend's home, Nevis Avenue. 8 September 1991: an RUC base came under sustained mortar and heavy machine gun fire at Carrickmore, County Tyrone. De Valera, for his part, was furious that Collins and Arthur Griffith had signed the treaty without consulting him or the Irish cabinet as instructed. 30 January 1994: an IRA rocket was fired at a British Army post in the New Lodge area of Belfast. 1 December 1990: an IRA unit launched a machine gun attack on a British Army patrol at a permanent checkpoint at Killyvilly. 23 May 1994: the IRA shot dead a security guard in central Belfast. 21 May 1991: Wallace McVeigh was shot dead by the IRA at his workplace, Balmoral Market, Boucher Road, Belfast. 8 March 1993: two RUC officers and three civilians were wounded by an IRA bomb blast in Belfast. 29 January 1994: two IRA firebombs were found in stores in Oxford Street, London. 24 January 1994: an RUC officer escaped injury after an IRA unit opened fire at him in County Fermanagh. 25 February 1990: the IRA bombed a British Army recruitment office in. 5 January 1991: a factory and six shops in Belfast were destroyed by incendiary devices planted by the IRA. 24 January 1991: an IRA unit threw an explosive device at a British Army base in. 13 December 1991: six IRA incendiary bombs are discovered in the Belfast area. 5 February 1994: IRA firebombs severely damaged a wholesaler on the Boucher Road, Belfast. 16 December 1991: a small IRA bomb exploded at the RUC station in Saintfield, County Down. In July de Valera had recognised the Republican political interests lay with the prisoners and went so far as to say: “The whole future of our cause and of the nation depends in my opinion upon the spirit of the prisoners in the camps and in the jails. 16 January 1991: the Belfast-Dublin railway line was closed after an explosion was heard near Lurgan. October 1997: the Continuity IRA accused the IRA of destroying one of their bombs south of the border before it could be transported north. 7 February 1992: a firebomb exploded on the London Underground at Barking. In the brawl that followed an OIRA revolver was lost and an OIRA member beaten unconscious. 24 October 1990: 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. 23 January 1993: an off-duty British soldier and a gunman were injured in a shoot-out at. 11 January 1997: a British Army post in Belfast was attacked by gunfire. 5 January 1993: an IRA sniper fired a single shot at a British Army patrol near Crossmaglen. 9 April 1994: a border checkpoint received mortar fire from an IRA unit at. 1 February 1992: the IRA detonated a car bomb on Botanic Avenue, north Belfast. 2 November 1991: two British soldiers (Philip Cross and Craig Pantry) were killed when the IRA detonated a bomb at Musgrave Park British Army base in Belfast. Irish Civil War Monks Memorial: Dublin 22, Red Cow: Irish Civil War Elphin I.R.A. This name had the advantage that it did not attach blame to any of the participants and thus could be used neutrally. About 100 families were evacuated from the nearby area. 18 March 1997: the IRA warned a bomb had been left in Derrylin, County Fermanagh. 20 August 1993: an IRA mortar attack on Newry's courthouse wounded ten people, among them a 10-year boy and two RUC officers. The conflict was rooted in disagreement over the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which was narrowly endorsed by Dáil Éireann by 64 – 57 votes on the 7th January 1922. 12 June 1994: the IRA launched a horizontal mortar attack at a British Army patrol in West Belfast. In July 1921, a truce was arranged between British and Irish republican forces, negotiations were opened and ended in the signing of the Treaty on December 6 1921. 6 August 1992: six mortar bombs were fired at the new army checkpoint under construction near Cloghoge, County Armagh. 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. Another British soldier returned fire at the vehicle but scored no hits. There were no injuries. 6 July 1997: an IRA active service unit exchanged fire with RUC/British Army forces setting up a checkpoint at Falls Road, according to republican sources. After the shooting, Locksley Engineering announced that they would no longer work for the RUC or the British Army in Northern Ireland. 10 August 1991: an RUC patrol was attacked with a blast bomb in the Short Strand area of Belfast. In a separate attack, 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. 1 January 1992: an incendiary device caused minor damage to a hardware store in Belfast. 11 July 1997: an IRA unit threw a blast bomb at an RUC patrol in the Suffolk area of Belfast. 16 August 1990: an IRA mortar attack on an RUC station in Strabane, County Tyrone, failed. 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. 9 April 1994: an IRA unit attacked two checkpoints near Newtownbutler, Fermanagh with automatic weapons. Among the dead was Republican leader Cathal Brugha, who made his last stand after exiting the Granville Hotel. The partition of Ireland had already been decided by the Westminster parliament in the Government of Ireland Act 1920 and was confirmed in the Anglo-Irish treaty. 27 December 1993: the IRA launched a mortar attack on an RUC base in, 27 December 1993: the IRA carried out a car-bomb attack on. 10 August 1991: three RUC officers were injured when their patrol vehicle was struck by a bomb in the Ardoyne area of Belfast. 31 August 1990: an RUC Reserve officer discovered a booby-trap bomb under his car in Gilford, County Down. 9 June 1990: the IRA bombed the headquarters of the British Army's. 30 November 1993: a massive IRA bomb was defused two-miles (3 km) outside Armagh town. 11 January 1992: an incendiary device exploded in a clothes shop in Belfast causing extensive damage. 22 March 1991: 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. 15 April 1993: an 81 lb (37 kg) bomb left in a holdall bag in a Belfast shopping centre was defused. 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