Chronology of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions (1980–1989) explained

This is a chronology of activities by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) from 1980 to 1989. For actions before and after this period see Chronology of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions.

1980

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

1981

January–February

March–April

May–June

July–December

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

damage caused by the bomb.[226]

1988

1989

See also

Notes and References

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  13. Harnden p. 170
  14. The Reading Eagle, 9 May 1981.
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  23. De Baroid p. 246
  24. Harnden p. 171
  25. Glasgow Herald, 3 August 1981.
  26. Lawrence Journal-World, 3 August 1981.
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  34. News: AP. I.R.A. Guerrillas Destroy A British Cargo Ship. New York Times. 24 February 1982.
  35. Oppenheimer p. 112
  36. The Belfast Telegraph, 17 January 1982.
  37. News: 1982: IRA bombs cause carnage in London. BBC. 20 July 1982.
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  39. Lakeland Ledger, 27 July 1982.
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  41. The Leader-Post, 1 November 1982.
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  53. News: 1983: Harrods bomb blast kills six. BBC. 17 December 1983.
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  65. Web site: ULSTER LAND MINE. www.itnsource.com. 2 February 2017.
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  68. Web site: Rocket attack on Police . Ulster Herald .
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  80. McKittrick, p. 1010
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  83. McKittrick, pp. 1011–13
  84. McKittrick, p. 1013
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  87. McKittrick, pp. 1014–15
  88. McKittrick, p. 1015
  89. McKittrick, p. 1017
  90. Web site: Belfast Suspect Bomb. RTÉ Archives.
  91. McKittrick, pp. 1017–18
  92. McKittrick, p. 1018
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  95. McKittrick, p. 1020
  96. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TslkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uM8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=4155%2C7502911 IRA guerrillas shell army base
  97. De Baroid, p. 278
  98. Fortnight Magazine, No. 224, p. 15-16. Fortnight Publications, 1985.
  99. Web site: IRA Bomb Injures Seven. RTÉ Archives.
  100. Web site: IRA Claim Ballynahinch Bomb. RTÉ Archives.
  101. Jim Cusack, "The IRA never really had need of its huge arsenal of weapons", Irish Independent, 2 October 2005.
  102. McKittrick, p. 1021
  103. The News and Courier, 21 August 1985.
  104. McKittrick, pp. 1021–22
  105. McKittrick, p. 1022
  106. Book: Bishop, Patrick & Mallie, Eamonn. The Provisional IRA. Corgi Books. 1987. 420–421. 0-552-13337-X.
  107. Web site: Mortar Attack On RUC Training Centre. RTÉ Archives.
  108. McKittrick, pp. 1022–23
  109. Web site: Tyrone Car Bomb Explosion. RTÉ Archives.
  110. McKittrick, p. 1023
  111. De Baroid p. 289
  112. McKittrick, p. 1025
  113. McKittrick, pp. 1025–26
  114. McKittrick, p. 1026
  115. McKittrick, pp. 1026–27
  116. Book: Moloney, Ed. Ed Moloney. A Secret History of the IRA. Penguin Books. 2002. 0-14-101041-X. 314.
  117. "Castledawson RUC base is bomb target", Belfast Telegraph, 10 December 1985.
  118. "Provos in new RUC death bid", Belfast News Letter, 10 December 1985.
  119. The Youngstown Vindicator, 12 December 1985.
  120. News: Mortar barrage rocks Northern Irish town. UPI. 8 November 2018. en.
  121. Web site: Neely . Bill . Report on last night's mortar attack on Carrickmore Police Station . BBC Rewind . BBC . 2 September 2022.
  122. Web site: CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths . Cain.ulst.ac.uk.
  123. Web site: Price . Lance . Further mortar attack on Carrickmore Police and Army base last night, but only slight damage. One soldier slightly injured inside base. . BBC Rewind . BBC . 21 January 2023.
  124. Web site: Tyrone Car Bomb Belfast Shooting BROADCAST: 1986.JAN.16 . RTÉ Archives.
  125. Web site: CAIN: Peter Heathwood Collection of Television Programmes – Search Page . cain.ulster.ac.uk.
  126. Web site: RUC Station Bombed . RTÉ Archives.
  127. McKittrick, p. 1032
  128. The Glasgow Herald, 18 February 1989
  129. Web site: Soldier Injured In Crossmaglen. RTÉ Archives.
  130. McKittrick, p. 1033
  131. McKittrick, p. 1034
  132. McKittrick, pp. 1034–35
  133. McKittrick, pp. 1035–36
  134. Book: Urban, Mark. Big Boys' Rules: SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA. Faber and Faber. 1993. 141–142. 0-571-16809-4.
  135. Web site: CIE Train Bombed. RTÉ Archives.
  136. Web site: Car Bomb Attack In Clady. RTÉ Archives.
  137. Web site: IRA Attack Coalisland Station. RTÉ Archives.
  138. De Baroid p. 290
  139. McKittrick, p. 1986
  140. McKittrick, pp. 1037–38
  141. McKittrick, p. 1038
  142. McKittrick, pp. 1038–39
  143. McKittrick, p. 1039
  144. McKittrick, p. 1040
  145. Web site: Bomb Blast Cloughmills. RTÉ Archives.
  146. McKittrick, p. 1041
  147. Bowyer Bell, p. 570.
  148. Web site: Fight 'will continue if the Ulster talks fail' . Toby Harnden . . 9 August 1997 . 18 October 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20050313024758/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=%2Farchive%2F1997%2F08%2F09%2Fnuls09.html . 13 March 2005 .
  149. Web site: Two Injured In IRA Attack. RTÉ Archives.
  150. McKittrick, p. 1044
  151. McKittrick, p. 1045
  152. Web site: IRA Warn Builders. RTÉ Archives.
  153. Web site: IRA Extends Threat. RTÉ Archives.
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  156. McKittrick, p. 1047
  157. Web site: Mortars Found Near Border. RTÉ Archives.
  158. Web site: IRA Attack Derry RUC HQ. RTÉ Archives.
  159. Web site: Bombing In Derry. RTÉ Archives.
  160. McKittrick, pp. 1048–49
  161. McKittrick, p. 1049
  162. McKittrick, pp. 1049–50
  163. McKittrick, p. 1051
  164. McKittrick, pp. 1051–52
  165. McKittrick, p. 1053
  166. Oppenheimer p. 237
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  168. Harnden, pp. 257–58
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  171. Irish Independent, 1 December 1986
  172. McKittrick, p. 1055
  173. Web site: Ira Bomb Damage – Hansard. hansard.parliament.uk.
  174. Web site: Hotels Bombed In Tyrone. RTÉ Archives.
  175. Web site: Bombing And Funeral. RTÉ Archives.
  176. Ottawa Citizen, 3 January 1987
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  179. Web site: Bombs In Enniskillen And Newry. RTÉ Archives.
  180. Web site: UDR Major Killed By IRA. RTÉ Archives.
  181. McKittrick, p. 1060
  182. http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/heathwood/static/1987.html Peter Heathwood Collection of Television Programmes: 1987
  183. Web site: Belfast Bomb Damage. RTÉ Archives.
  184. Web site: Car Bomb Defused. RTÉ Archives.
  185. Web site: Mortar Device Found In Derry. RTÉ Archives.
  186. Web site: Home Of Judge Attacked. RTÉ Archives.
  187. Web site: Mortar Attack On RUC Station. RTÉ Archives.
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  190. McKittrick, p. 1064
  191. Web site: Bomb Attacks Belfast. RTÉ Archives.
  192. Web site: Bomb Explosions. RTÉ Archives.
  193. Web site: IRA Attack Security Forces. RTÉ Archives.
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  195. News: 1987: 30 hurt as car bomb hits Army base. BBC. 23 March 1987.
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  199. McKittrick, p. 1070
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  206. McKittrick, p. 1076
  207. McKittrick, pp. 1076–77
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  210. Web site: UDR Man Shot. RTÉ Archives.
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  213. McKittrick, pp. 1083–84
  214. Web site: Three Shootings In Belfast. RTÉ Archives.
  215. McKittrick, p. 1084
  216. McKittrick, p. 1085
  217. Web site: Derry Bomb Injures Six. RTÉ Archives.
  218. McKittrick, p. 1086
  219. McKittrick, p. 1087
  220. Oppenheimer p. 239
  221. Web site: New RUC Station. RTÉ Archives.
  222. McKittrick, pp. 1087–1088
  223. Web site: Two Bombs In Belfast. RTÉ Archives.
  224. De Baroid p. 299
  225. Web site: IRA Bombs Factories. RTÉ Archives.
  226. Web site: Bomb At Killeen BROADCAST: 1987.AUG.20 . RTE Archives Collections . RTE . 10 May 2022.
  227. McKittrick, p. 1089
  228. McKittrick, p. 1091
  229. Web site: Man Shot Dead In Newry. BROADCAST: 1987.SEP.24 . RTÉ Archives.
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  233. Web site: Victims Of North's Violence – Two. RTÉ Archives.
  234. Web site: Explosives Find Near Omagh. RTÉ Archives.
  235. O'Brien, p. 142
  236. News: 1987: Bomb kills 11 at Enniskillen. BBC. 8 November 1987.
  237. https://apnews.com/61973ff2d09ef7925a981f7ee2ea991f "Police: IRA Planted Bomb in Town Near Enniskillen That Didn't Explode"
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  247. McKittrick, p. 1110
  248. McKittrick, p. 1111
  249. News: 1988: IRA gang shot dead in Gibraltar. BBC. 7 March 1988.
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  251. News: 1988: Three shot dead at Milltown Cemetery. BBC. 16 March 1988.
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  254. Web site: A Chronology of the Conflict – 1988. CAIN. 6 November 2015.
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  260. News: 3 British Servicemen Are Killed In I.R.A. Attacks in Netherlands. New York Times. 2 May 1988. Howell. Raines.
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  269. Harnden, p. 361
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  272. Web site: IRA Bomb Attack in West Germany. 14 July 1988. Encyclopedia.com. 6 November 2015.
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  284. Web site: IRA TAKES BLAME FOR BOMBING OF BRITISH BARRACKS. . 7 August 1988. Deseret News.
  285. News: British Barracks Bombed in West Germany. The New York Times. 6 August 1988.
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  289. Web site: IRA Claims Responsibility For Bomb That Killed 7 British Soldiers. AP NEWS.
  290. News: I.R.A. Claims Killing of 8 Soldiers As It Steps Up Attacks on British. Steve Lohr. New York Times. 21 August 1988.
  291. Web site: Belfast Bomb Damage. RTÉ Archives.
  292. De Baroid p. 313
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  294. Web site: August 31, 1988: Shock at '˜Good Samaritan' bomb . 31 August 2018. 4 April 2020.
  295. The Times Daily, 4 September 1988
  296. Web site: Bomb In Belfast City Centre. RTÉ Archives.
  297. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iIZUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_o4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=2741,8661401&dq=bloomfield+1988+ira&hl=en 'Ulster hit by more bombs'
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  299. Web site: Explosion In West Belfast. RTÉ Archives.
  300. Web site: Attempted Mortar Attack On RUC Station. RTÉ Archives.
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  302. Web site: Prison Officer Killed By IRA. RTÉ Archives.
  303. McKittrick, p. 1148
  304. McKittrick, p. 1151
  305. Web site: Flame-Thrower Found By RUC. RTÉ Archives.
  306. Aberdeen Press and Journal, 31 October 1988
  307. Web site: IRA Bomb Army Living Quarters. RTÉ Archives.
  308. Web site: British Soldier Shot In Derry. RTÉ Archives.
  309. http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/heathwood/static/1988.html Peter Heathwood Collection of Television Programmes: 1988
  310. Aberdeen Press and Journal, 2 December 1988
  311. Web site: Mortar Attack On UDR Base. RTÉ Archives.
  312. Web site: Mortar Bomb Attack On Builders Yard. RTÉ Archives.
  313. Spokane Chronicle, 14 December 1988.
  314. Reading Evening Post, 20 December 1988
  315. http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/calculating-professional-enemy-that-faces-kosb-1.598672 "Calculating, professional enemy that faces KOSB"
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  317. Sunday World, 15 January
  318. McKittrick, p. 1157
  319. Liverpool Echo, 23 January
  320. Fortnight Magazine, No. 271, p. 18. Fortnight Publications, 1989.
  321. Irish Independent, 25 January
  322. Irish Independent, 26 January
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  325. Web site: RUC Member Killed In Sion Mills. RTÉ Archives.
  326. McKittrick, pp. 1158–59
  327. Web site: Premature Bomb Explosion. RTÉ Archives.
  328. Web site: Bomb Under Car In Belfast. RTÉ Archives.
  329. http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/heathwood/static/1989.html Peter Heathwood Collection of Television Programmes: 1989
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  331. McKittrick, p. 1164
  332. Web site: Railway Line Bombed Again. RTÉ Archives.
  333. Web site: Dublin-Belfast Railway Line Bombing . 19 April 1989 . Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Debates . 24 August 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071127120921/http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/0388/D.0388.198904190076.html . 27 November 2007 . dead .
  334. Web site: Girdwood Barracks Bombed. RTÉ Archives.
  335. McKittrick, pp. 1164–1165
  336. McKittrick, pp. 1165–1166
  337. Sandwell Evening Mail, 13 March 1989
  338. Irish Independent, 14 March 1989
  339. McKittrick, p. 1166
  340. Web site: Part Time UDR Man Shot Dead. RTÉ Archives.
  341. McKittrick, pp. 1167–68
  342. Web site: Grants For Poor Areas In Belfast. RTÉ Archives.
  343. Irish Independent, 30 March 1989
  344. Web site: DUP On British Security Policy. RTÉ Archives.
  345. McKittrick, pp. 1168–1169
  346. Web site: Bomb In Armagh. RTÉ Archives.
  347. McKittrick, p. 1169
  348. Web site: IRA Bomb Railway Line Again. RTÉ Archives.
  349. McKittrick, pp. 1169–1170
  350. Web site: IRA Mortar Attack On RUC Station. RTÉ Archives.
  351. De Baroid, p. 337
  352. McKittrick, p. 1170
  353. Web site: British Soldiers Injured By Bomb. RTÉ Archives.
  354. Web site: UDR Soldiers Injured By Bomb. RTÉ Archives.
  355. News: Harrison. David. Christmas Appeal: 'I didn't want to see my see myself as disabled'. Telegraph. 13 December 2009. London.
  356. Geraghty, p. 192
  357. Sandwell Evening Mail, 16 May 1989
  358. Irish Independent, 17 May 1989
  359. Web site: Shooting In West Belfast. RTÉ Archives.
  360. Fortnight Magazine, Issue 276, p. 20-21. Fortnight Publications, 1989.
  361. Aberdeen Evening Express, 28 June 1989
  362. Irish Independent, 15 June 1989
  363. Sandwell Evening Mail, 28 June 1989
  364. Web site: Belfast Bomb BROADCAST: 1989.JUN.16 . RTE Archives . RTE . 25 June 2023.
  365. Web site: Suspected IRA volunteer charged over German bomb. RTÉ. 22 February 2006.
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  398. Book: Taylor, Peter. Brits: The War Against the IRA. 2001. Bloomsbury Publishing. 303. On 26 October 1989, two IRA gunmen with automatic weapons opened fire on a car at Wildenrath, Germany, as it stopped at a petrol station snack bar. The driver, Corporal Maheshkumar Islania, was not a soldier but a member of the Royal Air Force who was a supervisor at the RAF communications centre at Wildenrath. Corporal Islania tried to drive away but was pursued by the gunmen, firing repeatedly. He was not alone in the car. With him was his wife and six-month-old baby daughter, Nivruti Mahesh. She was shot once through the head and became one of the youngest victims to die in the conflict. Her father was hit many times. Her mother, Mrs Smita Islania, survived although in deep shock..
  399. News: IRA kills British airman, daughter. Los Angeles Times. 28 October 1989. 1 March 2013. The outlawed Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the killing of a British airman and his 6-month-old daughter in West Germany. In a statement issued in Dublin, the guerrilla group expressed regret for the infant's death and said its members were unaware of her presence when they opened fire. West German police are hunting two IRA gunmen after Royal Air Force Cpl. Maheshkumar Islania, 34, and his daughter were shot in a car parked outside a gas station near the RAF base at Wildenrath..
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