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1969 establishments
the
Bishopsgate bombing
, mounted at a cost of £3,000 by the
Provisional Irish Republican Army
in 1993, caused over £350M in damages and almost led to the financial collapse of
Lloyd's of London
?
millionaire's daughter
Rose Dugdale
joined an
IRA
active service unit and took part in the first helicopter bombing raid on the
British Isles
in 1974?
the
Bristol Guild of Applied Art
has survived both
Second World War
bomb damage and a 1974
Provisional IRA
attack?
the crime television series
Heist
detailed the 1974
Irish Republican Army
's seizure of nineteen well-known paintings estimated to be worth £8 million at
Russborough House
?
the so-called
Loughall Martyrs
were a group of eight men from the
Provisional IRA
's East
Tyrone
Brigade who were ambushed and killed on
May 8
,
1987
by the British special forces, the
SAS
?
the mother of
PIRA
prisoner
Jackie McMullan
chained herself to railings outside
10 Downing Street
in
London
?
in 1991 the
IRA
attempted to assassinate
John Major
and his
War Cabinet
with a
mortar attack on Downing Street
?
four of the thirty-eight
IRA
members that
escaped from Maze Prison
in 1983 were caught hiding in a river near the prison using reeds to breathe?
a street corner in
New York City
is named after
IRA
member
Joe Doherty
, who was convicted
in absentia
for the murder of the highest ranking
SAS
officer killed during
The Troubles
?
Werner Heubeck
, the managing director of
Ulsterbus
during
The Troubles
, was known for personally removing
IRA
bombs from buses to keep them running on time?
after his release from prison,
Laurence McKeown
, a former
volunteer
in the
Provisional IRA
who took part in the
1981 Irish hunger strike
, earned a
Ph.D.
from
Queen's University Belfast
and co-founded the
Belfast Film Festival
?
author
Ola Bauer
wrote
a novel
about his involvement with the
Provisional IRA
, to correct what he felt was a slanted view of
The Troubles
in the
Norwegian
press?
former
Belfast City Councillor
Pat McGeown
was a
Provisional IRA
volunteer
referred to as the "11th hunger striker" in the
1981 Irish hunger strike
?
U.S. Judge
John Sprizzo
refused to
extradite
Provisional IRA
member
Joe Doherty
in the 1981 killing of a British soldier, citing the ambush as a "political act"?
Facts on topics related to Provisional Irish Republican Army
Maze Prison escape
four of the thirty-eight
IRA
members that
escaped from Maze Prison
in 1983 were caught hiding in a river near the prison using reeds to breathe?
Provisional IRA
Martin Meehan
was the first person to be convicted of membership of the
Provisional IRA
and the last prisoner released following the abolition of
internment
in
Northern Ireland
?
Irish Republican Army
Constable
Stephen Tibble
had been in the
Metropolitan Police Force
of
Greater London
for six months before he was killed by an
IRA
gunman?
Northern Irish
singer
Clodagh Rodgers
received
death threats
from the
IRA
after performing "
Jack in the Box
" at the
1971 Eurovision Song Contest
?
the
2008 film
Fifty Dead Men Walking
is based on an autobiography by
British
secret agent
Marty McGartland
, who was later shot six times in an assassination attempt by the
IRA
?
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