Red Lion Pub bombing

The Red Lion Pub bombing was a bomb attack that happened on 2 November 1971, when a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA's Belfast Brigade exploded in the Red Lion pub in Belfast, killing three people and injuring about 30 others.

Red Lion Pub bombing
Part of the Troubles
LocationOrmeau Road,
Belfast,
Northern Ireland
Coordinates54°35′07.8″N 5°55′22.7″W
Date2 November 1971
21:00 (GMT)
Attack type
Time bombing
Deaths3 Protestant civilians
Injured26
PerpetratorProvisional IRA
Belfast Brigade

Background

Since the introduction of internment without trial of people began in August 1971[1] the violent conflict in Ireland known as The Troubles intensified to heights not seen in Ireland since the Irish Civil War. Along with IRA attacks against the British Army and the Royal Ulster Constabulary a pattern of tit-for-tit attacks between Republicans and Loyalists began around September 1971. The first of these pub bombings happened in the Protestant Sandy Row area of Belfast on 20 September 1971 when the IRA placed a bomb outside the Bluebell Bar injuring 27 people, it was reported that none of the injuries were serious.[2] Just over a week later on the 29 another IRA bomb exploded in the Four Step Inn bar in the Protestant Shankill Road area of Belfast, this time the bomb killed two people, Alexander Andrews (60) and Ernest Bates (38). The UVF carried out a retaliation attack a week later bombing a pub along the Catholic Falls Road in Belfast. The UVF wanted to kill Catholics but instead they killed Winifred Maxwell (45) who was a Protestant woman.[3]

Bombing

The IRA chose to bomb a Protestant pub along the Ormeau Road in Belfast. Armed IRA Volunteers entered the pub and placed a time bomb inside the pub, one of the IRA men shouted "you have ten seconds to get out", the bomb went off a few seconds later.[4] The power of the blast brought the roof crashing down on the people inside the pub.[5] The blast killed three people, two male/one female adults and all Protestant. Around 30 people were wounded in the blast, some of them with serious injuries. The pub was right beside Ballynafeigh RUC station, a second bomb was planted on in a drapery shop on the other side of the RUC station, in which a huge amount structural damage was done and injured more people. The people killed in the bombing were John Cochrane (67), Mary Gemmell (55) and William Jordan (31).[6]

Aftermath

The pub bombings kept going on The climax to the tit-for-tat pub bombings climaxed with two major bombings in the space of a week. First on 4 December 1971 the UVF carried out McGurk's Bar bombing in which 15 people were killed, it remained the highest death toll from a single action in Belfast during the Troubles.[7] A week later the IRA carried out a revenge attack for th McGurks bomb during the 1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing in which four people were killed including two baby girls.[8]

Sources
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gollark: I want a *different* set of "OPERATIONS ON RELEVANT NODE THING" and no HTML generation at the end, and it would be bees to just copy-paste the function here.
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References
  1. Melaugh, Dr Martin. "CAIN: Events: Internment: main menu". cain.ulst.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  2. "The Troubles 7". Issuu. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  3. Aaron Edwards - UVF: Behind The Mask pp.44
  4. "The Troubles 8". Issuu. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  5. "Provisional IRA bombing of Red Lion Belfast N Ireland pub 1971 | Victor Patterson". victorpatterson.photoshelter.com. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  6. "CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1971". cain.ulst.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  7. Melaugh, Dr Martin. "CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1971". cain.ulst.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  8. Malcolm Sutton. "CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths". cain.ulst.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
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