1993 Bishopsgate bombing
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On 24 April 1993, the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a powerful truck bomb on Bishopsgate, a major thoroughfare in London's financial district, the City of London. Telephoned warnings wer
Wormwood Street pictured in the aftermath of the bombing which occurred on nearby Bishopsgate
An Iveco tipper truck, the type used to carry the bomb
The damaged 99 Bishopsgate in the City of London, which lost most of its glass in the bombing
The City church of St Ethelburga's Bishopsgate, badly damaged in the bombing
The Provisional Irish Republican Army, officially known as the Irish Republican Army and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in N
1993 Bishopsgate bombing
…On 24 April 1993, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a powerful truck bomb on Bishopsgate, a major thoroughfare in London's financial district, the City of London. Telephoned warnings were…
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Memorial to the victims of the Birmingham pub bombings, which killed twenty-one people in November 1974
An IRA political poster from the 1980s, featuring a quote from Bobby Sands written on the first day of the 1981 hunger strike