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Patrick Joseph Magee (born 1951) [1] is a former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer who is best known for planting a bomb in the Brighton Grand Hotel targeting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Cabinet, which killed five people. He is often referred to as 'the Brighton bomber'.
Oct 11, 2024 · What happened to Patrick Magee? Patrick Magee was released, on licence, in June 1999 as a consequence of the Good Friday Agreement. The following year he met Jo Berry, the daughter of Sir Anthony Berry, who said she wanted to understand the conflict in Northern Ireland from Magee's perspective.
Dec 18, 2022 · Their target was 34-year-old Patrick Magee, then the prime suspect for the Grand Hotel bombing in Brighton which had almost claimed the life of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher the previous year. For several weeks he had been secretly living in a safehouse above a pub in Langside Road, in the heart of Govanhill - supported by IRA sympathisers in the city.
- Norman Silvester
Oct 12, 2024 · Patrick Magee received eight life sentences for his role in planting the bomb but was released in 1999 as part of the Good Friday agreement. ... "My brother happened to be living in Brighton so he ...
Feb 17, 2021 · Jo Berry and Patrick Magee struck up an unusual friendship over 20 years of dialogue after the bomb attack on the Grand Hotel in Brighton. ... but said an “epiphany moment” happened.
Mar 21, 2021 · Patrick Magee’s name will always be associated with the bombing of the Conservative Party conference in Brighton in 1984. For many people in Britain today, he is still a hate figure. Yet Magee’s passage toward the IRA was an experience he shared with thousands of young men and women of his generation in the North of Ireland.
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What happened to Patrick Magee? Patrick Magee was released, on licence, in June 1999 as a consequence of the Good Friday Agreement. The following year he met Jo Berry, the daughter of Sir Anthony Berry, who said she wanted to understand the conflict in Northern Ireland from Magee's perspective.
