Lord Mountbatten, a retired British statesman and cousin to Queen Elizabeth II, was assassinated on 27 August 1979 off the coast of Mullaghmore, Ireland. Thomas McMahon, an Irish republican and a volu
Mountbatten in 1976
Mountbatten in the uniform of colonel-in-chief of the Household Cavalry, 1972
Classiebawn Castle, County Sligo
Shadow V; Mountbatten, wearing white, sits on the left, at the stern of the boat.
Warrenpoint ambush
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On 27 August 1979, the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army ambushed a British Army convoy with two large roadside bombs at Narrow Water Castle outside Warrenpoint, Northern I
Assassination of Lord Mountbatten
…Three other passengers were severely injured. When news of the bombing broke, McMahon and McGirl were charged. Five hours after the bomb went off, the IRA ambushed a British Army patrol with two roadside bombs, killing eighteen British soldiers. The attacks were condemned by world leaders and by the media in both…
A British Army vehicle destroyed in the ambush. The hills of the Cooley Peninsula in County Louth can be seen in the background, behind Narrow Water Castle.
Narrow Water Castle c. 2007