• 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?