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Subject: Bombs planted in London by IRA (and similar)
Category: Reference, Education and News > Current Events
Asked by: botogol-ga
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Posted: 03 Aug 2004 08:34 PDT
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Question ID: 382949
I'd like a list of all the bombs that were placed in London during the
troubles (say betwen 1960 and 2000) by the IRA and similar
organisations (INLA, Continuity IRA etc).
I'd like to also know how many people were killed by each one.
Ideally this would include any bombs planted that didn't go off
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Subject: Re: Bombs planted in London by IRA (and similar)
Answered By: answerfinder-ga on 03 Aug 2004 09:51 PDT
 
Dear botogol-ga,

The best source of information I have found is the CAIN Web Service
(Conflict Archive on the Internet). It is a web site "devoted to
providing a wide range of information and source material on the
Northern Ireland conflict and politics in the region from 1968 to the
present."

I cannot supply a list here as it is too extensive and the site
provides background information for each bombing. Also, it requires
quite a bit of work to organise it. The site has a chronology of the
conflict on a year by year basis. The chronology is derived from many
different sources detailed at the bottom of each web page.

The chronology starts at 1970. The first attack in London was 1971 at
the Post Office Tower in London.

To recover the information from each year, start at 1971.  On your
browser toolbar, go to Edit> Find and type> London in the search box.
Click> Find Next and that will take you to each reference to London on
that page. You will come the Post Office Tower incident on Sunday 31
October. You can then move onto the next year, and so on.

Start at 1971
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch71.htm

You can check the information against this site 
http://www.policeorders.co.uk/Terrorists.htm

The BBC has some general background information on the various bombing campaigns.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1201738.stm
Time Line
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/20/newsid_2515000/2515343.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/themes/crime_and_punishment/bombings/default.stm


I hope this answers your question. If it does not, or the answer is
unclear, then please ask for clarification of this research before
rating the answer. I shall respond to the clarification request as
soon as I receive it.
Thank you
answerfinder


Search strategy
1960..2204 "old bailey" bombs ira london
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Subject: Re: Bombs planted in London by IRA (and similar)
From: stripeycat-ga on 07 Nov 2004 11:06 PST
 
It might be useful to read Martin Dillon's rather sensationalist book
"The Enemy Within" which deals with the various IRA campaigns in
England over the years. As far as I remember it has some information
on the 1930's attacks as well as details of campaigns in the 70's and
80's. It's pretty thin stuff, but it might at least give you a clue
where to look on the CAIN website as suggested above.

I think it has been re-issued in the last few years as "25 Years of
Terror"(see what I mean about sensationalist?).

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