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Oct 8, 2024 · The Brighton Bombing was called the “most audacious terrorist attack ever on the British Government”, and “the most ambitious since the Gunpowder plot of 1605”. On October 12, 1984, the ...
4 days ago · The bomb exploded just before 03:00 BST on 12 October. Forty years ago the IRA detonated a bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton in a bid to assassinate Margaret Thatcher. Five people were killed ...
4 days ago · Brighton remembers 40 years on from IRA Grand Hotel bomb. Today marks 40 years since the IRA made an attempt to kill the Prime Minister in our city, tragically killing five people and injuring ...
5 days ago · Friday 11 October 2024, 11:51am. The Grand Hotel in Brighton which was bombed by the IRA 40 years ago Credit: AP. By Paul Davies, Former ITV News Correspondent. It was a day that would forever ...
The IRA claims responsibility for the detonation of 100lb of gelignite in Brighton against the British cabinet and Tory warmongers. Thatcher will now realise that Britain cannot occupy our country, torture our prisoners and shoot our people in their own streets and get away with it.
For three days, Patrick Magee, who had booked into the hotel under the false name of Roy Walsh, delicately assembled and installed a huge 100lb bomb made with commercial gelignite and fitted with ...
Oct 8, 2024 · On October 12, 1984, the Provisional Irish Republican Army attempted to eliminate key figures of the British government, including Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who were staying at the Grand Hotel in Brighton. Hidden in the hotel was a huge bomb which had been planted three weeks before the Conservative Party conference. Assembled and ...
