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The battle of bogside
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. -
The formation of 14 intelligence company
SAS is a British operates in Northern Ireland -
Bloody Sunday
Roman Catholic civil rights supporters that turned violent when British paratroopers opened fire, killing 13 and injuring 14 others -
Donegall street bombing
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. -
Bloody Friday bombings
the IRA planted and exploded 22 bombs which, in the space of 75 minutes, killed 9 people and seriously injured approximately 130 others. -
bombing of guildford pubs in southern england
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. -
IRA birmingham bombing
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. -
Official deployment of the SAS in Northern Ireland
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. -
kidnapping of captain robert nairac
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 -
Warren point ambush
IRA's South Armagh Brigade ambushed a British Army convoy with two large roadside bombs at Narrow Water Castle outside Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland. -
lord mountbatten assassination
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