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It sparked widespread violence elsewhere in Northern Ireland, led to the deployment of British troops, and is often seen as the beginning of the thirty-year conflict known as the Troubles. -
SAS is a British operates in Northern Ireland -
Roman Catholic civil rights supporters that turned violent when British paratroopers opened fire, killing 13 and injuring 14 others -
A large time bomb exploded in a central Belfast street crowded with shoppers and office workers, killing six and injuring 146. Many of the victims had gone to the scene, the police said, after misleading telephone calls warned that bombs were set to explode in nearby streets. -
the IRA planted and exploded 22 bombs which, in the space of 75 minutes, killed 9 people and seriously injured approximately 130 others. -
the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated two 6-pound gelignite bombs at two pubs in Guildford, Surrey, England. The pubs were targeted because they were popular with British Army personnel stationed at Pirbright barracks. Four soldiers and one civilian were killed. Sixty-five people were wounded. -
two bombs planted by supporters of the Irish Republican Army exploded without warning in two Birmingham city centre pubs. Twenty-one people died and 220 were injured, with a device in a third pub failing to explode. -
In 1969 D Squadron, 22 SAS deployed to Northern Ireland for just over a month. The SAS returned in 1972 when small numbers of men were involved in intelligence gathering. -
He was taken while he was undercover for the IRA in south Armagh. He was then taken to the flurry bridge were he was beaten and shot to death -
IRA's South Armagh Brigade ambushed a British Army convoy with two large roadside bombs at Narrow Water Castle outside Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland. -
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, a relative of the British royal family, was assassinated on 27 August 1979 by Thomas McMahon, an Irish republican and volunteer for the Provisional Irish Republican Army