Chronology of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions (1992–1999)

January–February • 1 January 1992: • incendiary devices severely damaged a clothes shop in Belfast city centre. An unexploded incendiary device was discovered in the same premises. • incendiary devices destroyed a store in Newtownards, County Down. The fire spread to an adjoining garage and damaged several cars. • 2 January 1992: • an incendiary device ignited in a textile shop in Belfast causing around £1,000,000 worth of damage. • a IRA car bomb exploded on Bedford Street in the centre of Belfast. The bomb caused extensive damage to property in the area. • a coffee jar bomb was thrown at an RUC mobile patrol on Ardilea Street in the Oldpark area of Belfast. • an IRA unit dropped a Semtex bomb onto an armoured RUC patrol vehicle in the New Lodge area of Belfast. • a Semtex booby-trap bomb in a derelict house was defused by the British Army near Coagh, County Tyrone. • 5 January 1992: • a IRA bomb exploded on High Street in the centre of Belfast. The bomb caused extensive damage to property in the area. • 6 January 1992: • an IRA unit attacked a British Army foot patrol with a coffee jar bomb in the New Lodge area of Belfast; but the device failed to detonate. • 13 January 1992: • an IRA booby-trap bomb killed a Catholic civilian, Michael Logue, in Coalisland, County Tyrone. The bomb had been attached to his car by a magnet. It was a case of mistaken identity; the IRA had received information that he was working as a labourer on a British Army barracks (he was a joiner by trade), but this turned out to be untrue. The IRA apologised to his family. • an IRA unit opened fire on a British Army patrol near Clogher, County Tyrone. Soldiers also reported hearing an explosion. Fire was returned but there were no reported casualties. • 15 January 1992: a coffee jar bomb lobbed at British security forces only partially detonated in Strabane, County Tyrone. • a small IRA bomb left outside a bank in May Street, Belfast, was defused by the British Army. • 20 January 1992: • the IRA claimed responsibility for a "blast incendiary" that exploded in a car outside a nightclub on the Dublin Road, Belfast. • the IRA left a "blast incendiary" bomb on the roof of Belfast Central railway station. The device failed to explode and was later defused by the British Army. • the IRA injured a British soldier in a bomb attack on the Falls Road, Belfast. • 28 January 1992: a bomb exploded on the Dublin-Belfast rail line just outside Belfast. • an IRA unit fired several shots, including tracer rounds, at a British security forces checkpoint on Grosvenor Road, Belfast. • 31 January 1992: • the IRA firebombed two Belfast shops causing £1,000,000 worth of damage. both to the town center and the security base. • 3 February 1992: • an IRA bomb left outside a bank in May Street, Belfast, was defused by the British Army. Press reports later described Hamill as the "finance officer" for the mid-Ulster UVF. • the IRA claimed to have abandoned a bomb in the Altnaveigh area of County Armagh following an abortive attack on the Belfast-Dublin railway. • the IRA carried out a blast bomb attack on the Ormeau Road, Belfast, premises of a firm it accused of "collaborating" with British security forces. • 7 February 1992: a firebomb exploded on the London Underground at Barking. • 8 February 1992: • the IRA carried out a mortar attack on an RUC station at Portglenone, County Antrim. • IRA volunteers Kevin Barry O'Donnell, Sean O'Farrell, Peter Clancy, and Daniel Patrick Vincent were ambushed and killed by the SAS in Clonoe, County Tyrone. The IRA unit had just attacked Coalisland RUC base using a DShK heavy machine gun mounted on the back of a stolen lorry. The men were ambushed in a graveyard following the attack by undercover British soldiers. Two other IRA volunteers were wounded during the ambush but managed to escape. A British soldier was also injured during the incident. • the IRA claimed to have detonated a bomb on the railway line between Dunmurray and Belfast Central Station. • 20 February 1992: • a device was defused by the Irish Army near the border in County Louth. The IRA's intended target had been a British security forces patrol. • 23 February 1992: the IRA left a hoax car bomb outside the RUC base in Downpatrick, County Down. • an IRA unit lobbed a coffee jar bomb at a joint British Army-RUC foot patrol in the Markets area of Belfast. • an IRA unit opened fire on a British Army checkpoint in the Short Strand area of Belfast. • 28 February 1992: • the IRA carried out a coffee jar bomb attack against a joint British Army-RUC checkpoint in the Ardoyne area of Belfast. • there was an exchange of fire between an IRA unit and members of the security forces manning a sangar near the RUC barracks at Strabane, County Tyrone. Several RUC officers and British soldiers were injured. • the IRA exploded a large car bomb in Adelaide Street in the centre of Belfast causing extensive damage. • the IRA carried out a coffee jar bomb attack against a British security forces patrol at Belfast Law Courts. and had to be airlifted to hospital with arm wounds. • 6 March 1992: the IRA claimed responsibility for a bomb attached to the underside of a UDR soldier's car in Cavanaleck near Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. The device was neutralised by the British Army in a controlled explosion. The device had been planted on the premises on 7 March. • the British Army defused an anti-personnel device containing shrapnel and of explosives fixed to a fence surrounding a GAA pitch, with a firing point nearby, on Friary Road, Armagh. • 12 March 1992: a IRA car bomb was neutralised in a controlled explosion outside a hotel in Crescent Street, Belfast, by the British Army, causing some damage. • 15 March 1992: an IRA unit armed with GPMGs and assault rifles fired more than 1,000 rounds at two British helicopters from across the border near Rosslea, County Fermanagh. • 16 March 1992: a primed IRA bomb was defused at a block of flats at Broom Park Heights in the Twinbrook area of Belfast. Security forces believed the bomb, one of the largest ever found, was intended for an attack in the city centre. • 17 March 1992: an unexploded coffee jar bomb was neutralised by the British Army in Francis Street, Newry. • a coffee jar bomb was lobbed at an RUC mobile patrol in the Mountpottinger area of Belfast. One man was arrested. • 24 March 1992: • the IRA detonated a massive car-bomb containing over of explosive in Pakenham Street, Belfast. The bomb caused severe damage to the RUC base and nearby business premises. • a coffee jar bomb attack on a British security forces patrol failed and the device was later defused by the British Army at Armagh Road, Newry, near Drumgullion. Several families were evacuated from the surrounding area. • 26 March 1992: an IRA unit opened fire on a British Army patrol in the vicinity of Musgrave Park base, Belfast. The IRA later claimed they fired sixty rounds. • 27 March 1992: • a British Army observation post on top of a block of flats in the New Lodge area of Belfast was fired upon. The IRA later claimed they fired fifty rounds. • a female RUC officer, Colleen McMurray, was killed when an IRA unit hit her patrol vehicle with a horizontal mortar in Newry, County Down. A fellow constable lost both his legs in the attack. • 28 March 1992: • an IRA unit lobbed a blast bomb over the perimeter wall of Rosemount RUC station, Derry. • 29 March 1992: • a booby-trap bomb disguised as a football was defused after being discovered within the perimeter of the RUC base in Sion Mills, County Tyrone. • 5 April 1992: • British soldiers discovered a booby-trap bomb at Drumfurrer on the Tyrone-Monaghan border. • British Army bomb disposal experts defused a coffee jar bomb found lying in the street in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. • 6 April 1992: • an IRA sniper fired a single shot at a British Army patrol, followed by bursts of automatic fire from a supporting unit, in Mullaghfad, County Fermanagh. The IRA claimed they killed or seriously injured two individuals, including a plainclothes soldier. The British Army denied there were any casualties. • a small IRA bomb exploded near Piccadilly Circus in London. There were no injuries. • 10 April 1992: the IRA detonated a huge truck-bomb at 30 St Mary Axe in the City of London. Despite a warning to evacuate the area, three civilians (Paul Butt, Danielle Carter, and Thomas Casey) were killed and 91 injured. Many buildings were heavily damaged, including the Baltic Exchange. • 11 April 1992: a large IRA car-bomb exploded at Staples Corner in London causing serious damage to buildings and nearby roads. • 12 April 1992: a IRA bomb in a trailer partially exploded in Maghera, County Londonderry. The IRA had attempted to lure RUC officers to the site with a single shot fired at the nearby RUC station. • 13 April 1992: • the IRA claimed responsibility for hoax car bombs left at intersections and outside RUC stations across Belfast. • a IRA proxy car-bomb was defused outside Castlereagh RUC base. • 14 April 1992: a Semtex bomb targeting members of the security forces was defused in a builder's yard at Maghera, County Londonderry. • 15 April 1992: • the IRA claimed to have forced the cancellation of a concert for RUC officers in Cookstown, County Tyrone, with two hoax bombs, one a proxy type. • an IRA bomb partially exploded near a shop in Pomeroy, County Tyrone. The device targeted members of British security forces investigating a bomb in the shop; the IRA alleged the owner served the security forces and had recently passed on information to the RUC. • a coffee jar bomb was thrown at a joint British Army/RUC patrol in Sheridan Street in the New Lodge area of Belfast. The device failed to explode. • 18 April 1992: • Brendan McWilliams, an employee of the British Army, was shot dead by the IRA at his home, Nialls Crescent, off Killylea Road, Armagh. At least 18 shots were fired at him through the front door from a high velocity weapon. • an attack on a member of the security forces was foiled when a booby-trap bomb was discovered during a stop at an RUC vehicle checkpoint in Larne, County Antrim. The occupants of the car were arrested. • 19 April 1992: • incendiary devices destroyed a clothing store and a supermarket in Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh. The IRA claimed responsibility. • IRA incendiary devices were discovered in three shops in Belfast city centre; only one premises was damaged. • 23 April 1992: • an IRA unit lobbed a blast bomb at an RUC patrol vehicle in the Markets area of Belfast. The IRA claimed the device struck the windshield, injuring the crew. • the IRA claimed responsibility for twenty hoax bomb alerts which caused major disruption to transport links in the Belfast area. • 28 April 1992: • RUC officers fired several warning shots and arrested two men after uncovering a remotely-detonated Semtex bomb at a builder's yard in Patrick Street, Newry, County Down. • the IRA claimed responsibility for a bomb in a car which failed to detonate outside Lisburn courthouse. May–June • 1 May 1992: • a British soldier (Andrew Grundy) was killed and 23 others were wounded when the IRA used an improvised unmanned locomotive made of a Renault Master van to deliver a bomb to a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint at Cloghoge, County Armagh. The outpost was completely destroyed (see Attack on Cloghoge checkpoint). • a British security forces patrol escaped injury when a coffee jar bomb failed to detonate in the Hill Street area of Newry. • 3 May 1992: an incendiary bomb exploded in a business premises in Belfast city centre. • 6 May 1992: • an IRA unit lobbed a coffee jar bomb at a British security forces patrol in the Markets area of Belfast. • 7 May 1992: • a IRA bomb transported by a tractor exploded beside the RUC security base in Fivemiletown, County Tyrone, injuring 10 civilians and causing substantial damage to civilian properties nearby, and structural damage to the barracks itself. The explosion was heard 30 miles away. The IRA South Fermanagh Brigade claimed responsibility. On 9 May a British soldier shot and killed his company's sergeant major (Dean Oliver) in a blue-on-blue incident at the same spot, while taking part of a security detail around the devastated barracks. • a British Army patrol in West Belfast escaped injury after a coffee jar bomb thrown at them failed to detonate. • 8 May 1992: an IRA unit opened fire on a joint British Army-RUC patrol at Beechmount Avenue off the Falls Road, Belfast. A civilian in a van was seriously wounded, however the IRA denied they were responsible and claimed witnesses described the man being hit by British Army return fire. • an IRA bomb exploded accidentally in Mullaghbawn, County Armagh, injuring the IRA volunteer who was assembling it. • an IRA unit lobbed a blast bomb at an unmarked armoured RUC car in Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh, but only the detonator exploded. At least three civilians and two soldiers were injured. • an IRA unit fired several shots at British security forces at the "Camel's Hump" checkpoint in Strabane, County Tyrone. • 14 May 1992: the IRA carried out several incendiary bomb attacks in Belfast; two at an auction house on May Street, two at a showroom on Shore Road, one at a bank on May Street. Another was defused at a stationers in Gloucester Street. • 15 May 1992: • incendiary devices exploded in a clothing store and a furniture store in Yorkgate Shopping Complex, Belfast. • three RUC officers suffered minor injuries after a coffee jar bomb struck their armoured patrol car in Dungannon, County Tyrone. Some sources claim the vehicle was the target of a horizontally-launched mortar in Thomas Street. • 19 May 1992: • incendiary devices exploded in a catalogue retailer store in the Cornmarket area of Belfast, causing extensive damage. • an IRA attack was foiled after a primed coffee jar-type blast bomb was found by a British Army patrol at Glenmurray Court off the Monagh Bypass in West Belfast. • 21 May 1992: the IRA bombed the home of an RUC officer in Belfast, less than a quarter of a mile from the RUC's headquarters. The house was empty as the RUC officer targeted had moved out a month previously because he feared such an attack. An hour later, the British Army defused a bomb at the home of a former RUC Assistant Chief Constable on North Circular Road. • 24 May 1992: • the IRA carried out a coffee jar bomb attack on a permanent joint British Army-RUC checkpoint at Elize Street, Belfast. • the IRA carried out several incendiary bomb attacks on commercial premises in Belfast. Nationalist politician Bernardette Devlin McAliskey suggested that the recovery of the machine gun was actually staged by the security forces as a publicity stunt. • 30 May 1992: an IRA unit lobbed a blast bomb containing of Semtex at an RUC patrol in Monaghan Street, Newry. There were no reported injuries. • 31 May 1992: an IRA mortar attack in Crossmaglen involved the first use of the Mk-14 mortar bomb. • 1 June 1992: the IRA claimed responsibility for a anti-personnel bomb abandoned at Orritor Street in Cookstown, County Tyrone. British security forces discovered a command wire leading to a derelict building nearby. • 2 June 1992: • an IRA unit carried out a mortar attack on a British Army checkpoint at Mullan Bridge, Kinawley, County Fermanagh. • the IRA detonated a car bomb at a golf club in Cookstown, County Tyrone. The IRA accused the club of hosting an event for RUC officers two weeks previously. • a booby-trap bomb attached to an RUC officer's car outside a pub in Derriaghy on the outskirts of Belfast was defused by the British Army. • 5 June 1992: the IRA lobbed a coffee jar bomb at the home of an off-duty UDR soldier in Castlederg, County Tyrone. The Semtex device failed to explode and was neutralised by the British Army. • 7 June 1992: • a police officer, Glenn Goodman, was shot dead after he stopped the car of an IRA volunteer on the A64 at Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England. Another officer was shot and badly wounded. IRA volunteers Paul Magee and Michael O'Brien were caught four days later. Magee was charged and convicted of murder, while O'Brien was found guilty of attempted murder. • an IRA bomb exploded at the Royal Festival Hall in London, causing blast damage. There were no casualties. • 8 June 1992: • a Semtex bomb attached to the underside of a vehicle was defused in Tennent Street, Belfast. The IRA claimed the owner was a senior member of the UVF, and this was the third attempt on his life. There were no casualties, but the building was engulfed by fire and several houses were wrecked by the blast. • a blast bomb dropped from a block of flats onto a British Army foot patrol in the New Lodge area of Belfast failed to explode. • 12 June 1992: an IRA unit fired on a British Army patrol as they left their base in the New Barnsley area of Belfast. • the IRA claimed responsibility for a bomb that exploded on the Dublin-Belfast railway between Central and Botanic stations. The line was closed again the following day after several hoax bomb alerts. • an incendiary device detonated inside a business in North Street in Belfast city centre. • Irish security forces discovered an IRA command wire leading across the border from outside Ballyshannon, County Donegal. British security forces were alerted and found an explosive device in County Fermanagh, which was defused. • 21 June 1992: • an IRA coffee jar bomb was thrown at two RUC officers on foot patrol, but failed to explode during a festival in Benburb, County Tyrone. • An IRA active service unit fired several shots at Dungannon barracks, County Tyrone. The shooting took place at 4:00 am and there was no return fire. No casualties were reported. • 22 June 1992: a British army patrol returned fire after coming under attack by IRA snipers along Ballynagilly Road, near Cookstown, County Tyrone. Security forces sealed off the area. No casualties were reported. • 25 June 1992: an IRA briefcase-bomb exploded under a car in Coleman Street, London; a police officer had to be treated for shock. • an IRA hoax bomb caused disruption for several hours in Cookstown, County Tyrone. • 28 June 1992: • a booby-trap Semtex bomb attached to the underside of a car belonging to a member of the security forces was neutralised in a controlled explosion at Barranderry Heights, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. • a primed horizontal mortar was found by a British Army patrol positioned in the garden of a house near the Ballymurphy Road, West Belfast. • a round fired by an IRA sniper at a British Army foot patrol in Glasvney Close in the Dunmurry area of Belfast missed and entered a house, injuring a civilian with flying glass. July–August • 1 July 1992: • a bomb concealed in a flag pole failed to detonate in Stewartstown, County Tyrone. The IRA's intended target was RUC officers removing the Irish tricolour from the planned route of an Orange Order parade. • an IRA bomb exploded at the junction box at Belfast Central station, disrupting service on the Belfast-Portadown railway. • 2 July 1992: • the IRA admitted responsibility for the killing of three men, whose bodies were found at different roadsides in County Armagh. The IRA claimed the men, all members of the IRA, were undercover agents for MI5 and the RUC Special Branch. • 3 July 1992: an IRA unit threw a coffee jar bomb at a joint British Army-RUC patrol on the Camlough Road, Newry. The device failed to detonate. • 5 July 1992: an IRA unit fired several shots at the RUC station in Strabane, County Tyrone. • 7 July 1992: • an IRA unit threw two coffee jar bombs at an RUC mobile patrol near New Barnsley RUC-British Army base in West Belfast. RUC officers had been lured outside by an abandoned van, but there were no reported injuries. • 11 July 1992: • a horizontal mortar targeting an armoured RUC patrol car failed to detonate in Omagh, County Tyrone. • 15 July 1992: the IRA bombed the Balmoral Golf Club in south Belfast with two incendiary bombs, • 16 July 1992: the IRA detonated an anti-personnel bomb outside a hotel on the Ormeau Road, Belfast, as British security forces investigated a hoax bomb nearby. • 24 July 1992: an IRA bomb exploded on the railway line between Belfast Central and Botanic railway stations. • 27 July 1992: an IRA unit opened fire on British Army Royal Irish Regiment soldiers manning a vehicle checkpoint in May Street in Belfast city centre. • 28 July 1992: an IRA unit dropped two blast bombs onto the roof of an observation post at Whiterock security forces base, Belfast. • two incendiary devices exploded in Milton Keynes, England, causing minimal damage. • 1 August 1992: an explosion in the centre of Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh, injured one person and damaged several homes. The IRA claimed responsibility. • 3 August 1992: • a car bomb exploded on Bedford Street in the centre of Belfast following a warning, injuring several civilians. A second car bomb nearby was detonated remotely by the IRA when RUC officers and British soldiers were in the vicinity. The explosions caused widespread damage. • a British soldier from the Coldstream Guards was seriously wounded in a gun battle with the IRA in Pomeroy, County Tyrone. A second soldier was hit but escaped injury when the round lodged in his gear. • 4 August 1992: an IRA unit fired sixty shots at a British security forces mobile patrol on the Springfield Road, Belfast. The IRA in a statement said five mortar tubes were used, two of which failed to detonate. • two incendiary devices were discovered and defused by the British Army in a supermarket in Irvinestown, County Fermanagh. The IRA's South Fermanagh Brigade reported they used "heavy machine guns, a general-purpose machine gun, and automatic weapons" and over 1,000 rounds were fired in both attacks. • 10 August 1992: the IRA detonated a bomb on the Belfast-Dublin railway line as a freight train passed on the outskirts of Belfast. • 12 August 1992: • an IRA bomb attack against the West End of London involving a bomb was foiled after armed police raided an apartment in Hanwell, west London. • the IRA shot dead a former IRA member they accused of being an informer in Belfast. The injured IRA volunteer was eventually arrested nearby. • an IRA unit fired several shots at a British Army mobile patrol as they entered Henry Taggart base on the Upper Springfield Road, Belfast. • 13 August 1992: an unsuccessful attack was launched by a sniper on a British Army patrol at Carran Road, Crossmaglen, County Armagh. • an IRA bomb left outside a bank in Cookstown, County Tyrone, failed to detonate and was later defused by the British Army. A second bomb was also defused. • 22 August 1992: • a blast bomb was thrown at an RUC mobile patrol in Kilrea, County Londonderry. The officers were treated for shock afterwards. • 25 August 1992: • an IRA firebomb exploded in the Shropshire Regimental museum in Shrewsbury Castle, Shropshire, England and two incendiary devices exploded in two furniture shops in Shrewsbury Town Centre. • 27 August 1992: in a repeat of an attack a week earlier, an IRA unit opened fire on British soldiers and civilian contractors at a British Army position in Derry city centre. September–October • 2 September 1992: an IRA attack was foiled and one person arrested after a primed booby-trap bomb along with Semtex explosives and detonator was found at Corrody Road in the Waterside area of Derry. Ten houses were evacuated while the British Army neutralised the explosives. • 5 September 1992: the IRA stated it had sent bullets to five Protestant businessmen living in Moy, County Tyrone to warn them against servicing members of the British security forces. A fish-and-chip shop in the village closed a few days later. • 6 September 1992: • a bomb exploded in a Chinese restaurant in Dungannon, County Tyrone. A second, larger, bomb in the vicinity targeting RUC officers on the scene of the first explosion resulted in no reported injuries. The IRA claimed the business served members of the security forces. • a small IRA bomb exploded at a Hilton Hotel in the Hyde Park area of London. • a bomb exploded inside the perimeter fence of New Barnsley RUC base, Belfast. It was unclear whether it had been thrown by hand or fired from a launcher. It was later alleged in court the IRA men were probably intending to attack a British Army helicopter. • 12 September 1992: a British soldier was wounded in an IRA remote-detonation bomb attack in Whiterock, Belfast. • 17 September 1992: one bomb and four firebombs exploded at various locations around London. • 19 September 1992: an RUC officer was injured in a blast bomb attack on a foot patrol on the Whiterock Road, Belfast. • 23 September 1992: A massive IRA truck-bomb exploded outside the Forensic Science Laboratory at Newtownbreda, South Belfast. The device almost completely demolished the Laboratory and damaged more than 1,000 homes in the surrounding area. The tremors from the blast were felt over away and the bomb was later assessed as probably the largest device ever detonated in Northern Ireland. There were no injuries in the attack as the IRA had given a 40-minute warning to evacuate the area, although hundreds of residents had to be treated for shock. It was described as being as powerful as a "mini-nuke". The army bomb disposal team attempting to defuse it all lost their hearing, and several military vehicles were damaged. • 25 September 1992: a van bomb exploded outside the courthouse in Newry, County Down. The IRA claimed the bomb was a "directional device" targeting civilians contractors carrying out repairs. • 27 September 1992: a IRA bomb was defused outside the court house in Armagh, County Armagh. They stopped motorists and handed out leaflets accusing two men of criminal activity. • the RUC defused a bomb in a field at Galbally, near Dungannon, County Tyrone, four days after the IRA warned it had been planted. Six families were evacuated from nearby houses. • an IRA unit lobbed a grenade at a British Army patrol in Blackwatertown, County Armagh, but the device failed to explode. • 3 October 1992: • an IRA unit lobbed an "impact grenade" at a British Army armoured vehicle near Henry Taggart base on the Springfield Road, Belfast, but the device failed to detonate properly. • 7 October 1992: five people were injured when an IRA bomb exploded in Piccadilly, London. Another bomb exploded on Flitcroft Street, London. • an IRA bomb exploded beside a joint British Army/RUC checkpoint in the Short Strand area of Belfast. A soldier and two RUC officers were injured. • the IRA detonated a bomb outside a bank adjacent to the Markets area of Belfast. • an RUC officer (James Douglas) was shot dead by the IRA in the Monico Bar, Lombard Street, Belfast. • an IRA bomb exploded in a kiosk near Paddington Green police station, London, injuring one person. Another IRA exploded at the British Legion Club in Southgate. • an explosive device exploded in a toilet of the Sussex Arms public house in Covent Garden, London, killing one person (David Heffer) and injuring four others. • 14 October 1992: the IRA detonated a bomb within a newly-opened commercial centre on York Street, Belfast. • 18 October 1992: a bomb hidden in a coach explodes outside a hotel in Hammersmith, west London. There were no casualties. • 19 October 1992: • the British Army carried out a controlled explosion of a car bomb at Dukes Hotel, Belfast. • an unexploded coffee jar bomb was defused by the British Army on the Ballygawley Road, Dungannon, following a statement from the IRA. • 22 October 1992: a sewage pipe was damaged by an IRA explosive device at Wick Lane, London. • 23 October 1992: • a Semtex device attached to the underside of a car belonging to Billy Wright a leading UVF loyalist paramilitary (and later leader of the breakaway LVF), was defused in Portadown, County Armagh. • a IRA car bomb was defused outside Central Station, Belfast. • 25 October 1992: a small IRA bomb exploded outside the London home of former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Lord Prior damaging one building and a number of vehicles. • 30 October 1992: • the IRA detonated a van bomb outside Glengormley RUC base, Belfast. Several houses were damaged and a number of civilians and RUC officers injured. • 31 October 1992: the IRA wiped out the IPLO in Belfast after a vicious internal IPLO feud and allegations that it was dealing drugs. The leader of the IPLO's breakaway Belfast Brigade, Sammy Ward, was shot dead in the Short Strand and several other high-ranking members were kneecapped. Their lives were spared on condition that the IPLO surrender and disband immediately. Within a few days both IPLO factions surrendered and disbanded. IPLO units in Newry and Armagh were not attacked and absolved of any involvement in criminality or drug dealing by the IRA. November–December • 5 November 1992: the IRA bombed the newly opened Bank of Ireland branch in Downpatrick, County Down causing extensive damage. • 9 November 1992: an IRA unit fired a Mark 16 improvised shoulder-fired launcher at an RUC patrol vehicle in Divismore Crescent, Belfast, injuring three RUC officers and four British soldiers. • 12 November 1992: more than thirty families were evacuated from their homes in the Markets area of Belfast while the British Army defused an unexploded coffee jar bomb. • 13 November 1992: the IRA detonated a van-bomb in the centre of Coleraine, County Londonderry, causing extensive damage to the town centre. Other sources claim a Barret .50 calibre rifle fitted with a night-sight was used. • IRA members parked a van containing a large bomb at the base of One Canada Square tower in Canary Wharf, London. They drew a handgun when confronted by security guards and escaped in a second van, which was later found "about two miles away" with a quantity of explosives inside. • 18 November 1992: a sweet jar filled with Semtex was thrown at a British Army patrol on the Springfield Road, Belfast, but failed to explode. • 19 November 1992: an off-duty British soldier (Ian Warnock) was shot dead in Portadown, County Armagh. He was shot at least 12 times by an IRA volunteer who fired at close range. The soldier managed to return fire but is not believed to have hit any of his assailants. • two British soldiers were injured when an IRA bomb exploded in a disused fast food shop on the Falls Road, opposite Dunville Park, Belfast. • 23 November 1992: • the IRA bombed a bank premises in Gloucester Street in Belfast city centre. • four RUC officers were injured in Belfast by an IRA jar-bomb. • two coffee jar bombs were thrown at Grosvenor Road RUC station, causing no injuries and minimal damage. Two RUC officers were injured in a follow-up operation when they crashed their vehicle. • 25 November 1992: an IRA volunteer (Pearse Jordan) was shot dead by the RUC after his car was rammed by an undercover RUC vehicle in Belfast. After stumbling out of the car unarmed, Jordan was shot three times in the back by an RUC sergeant. • 26 November 1992: the IRA carried out incendiary bomb attacks on two large chain hardware stores in the Waterside area of Derry. • 29 November 1992: an IRA landmine intended for a British Army patrol exploded outside Armagh city, wounding six people and damaging several houses. An IRA statement claimed that the attack was abandoned when British undercover forces attempted to ambush the unit involved in the operation. • 1 December 1992: • the IRA detonated a bomb in Ann Street, Belfast, damaging several businesses and injuring 27 people. • an IRA unit fired a rocket at a British Army outpost atop a high-rise apartment block in the New Lodge area of Belfast. • 2 December 1992: • Police disarmed a van bomb left in the West End of London, following an IRA warning. • upwards of fifty hoax bomb alerts caused major disruption in Belfast. • 3 December 1992: • the IRA detonated an incendiary device in a shoe shop on the Crumlin Road, Belfast. • 4 December 1992: • the Provisional IRA was blamed for shooting dead a man (Colm Duffy) at his farm near Collon, County Louth. He had been subject to an IRA punishment shooting several years earlier in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan. • four incendiary devices exploded in a crowded supermarket in Lisburn. The IRA was blamed. • two incendiary devices were discovered in a bar in Omagh, County Tyrone. • 7 December 1992: • the first barrack-buster mortar was launched against an RUC barracks in Ballygawley, County Tyrone. The attack failed when the projectile fell short of the perimeter fence and hit a tree without exploding. • an IRA unit fired several shots at observations posts of the British Army Lisanelly barracks in Omagh, County Tyrone. • 8 December 1992: according to the IRA, a landmine detonated prematurely when a farm animal walked on it near Cappagh, County Tyrone. • 9 December 1992: • the IRA detonated two car-bombs in a multi-storey car park on Chichester Street, Belfast City centre. • a bomb planted in an electrical store on the Ormeau Road, Belfast, was taken outside where it exploded causing minor damage. • 10 December 1992: • two IRA bombs explode at Wood Green shopping centre in London injuring 11 people. • an IRA booby-trap bomb in a lorry left in a coal yard overnight was defused by the British Army in Moy, County Tyrone. • 12 December 1992: • an IRA unit attacked a British Army watchtower—the Crossmaglen RUC Station and Army Barracks, also known as the Borucki Sanger Golf Five Zero—with an improvised flamethrower towed by a tractor in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. It was named for James Borucki, a British soldier who died in an IRA bombing in Crossmaglen on 8 August 1976. The device consisted of a manure spreader which doused the facility with fuel, ignited few seconds later by a small explosion. The outpost was manned by soldiers of the Royal Scots at the time. No wounded were reported. • British security forces found and defused a Semtex bomb hidden behind a wall with command wire on the Glenalena Road in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast. • 18 December 1992: • the IRA launched five mortar projectiles at the RUC base at Markethill, County Armagh but only one detonated. There were no reported injuries and damage was minimal. • the IRA fired a rocket at a security post outside the courthouse in London Street, Derry. • 19 December 1992: an incendiary device was discovered in a chemist's shop in CastleCourt shopping centre, Belfast. It was taken outside and defused. • 21 December 1992: • the IRA fired several shots at a British Army sangar in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. There were no reported injuries. • a coffee jar bomb thrown at a British security forces patrol failed to detonate in the Creggan area of Derry. • the IRA called a three-day ceasefire. • 29 December 1992: an IRA car bomb extensively damaged the Drumkeen Hotel in south Belfast. • 30 December 1992: • a British soldier was shot dead at his home in Cavehill Road, Belfast by two IRA volunteers who burst into the house armed with AK-47 assault rifles and shot the soldier at least 13 times at close range. The soldier's wife claimed that IRA volunteer Thomas Begley was one of the gunmen. • an IRA incendiary bomb exploded at a hotel in County Fermanagh, • the IRA bombed the Ormeau Road, Belfast, premises of a building firm they accused of working for British security forces. • 31 December 1992: IRA members threw a coffee jar bomb at Strand Road RUC station, Derry. ==1993==

January–February • 1 January 1993: • a anti-personnel semtex bomb left by the IRA in a hairdressing salon on Royal Avenue, Belfast was defused by the British Army. • 2 January 1993: • a joint British Army/RUC vehicle patrol was the target of a coffee-jar bomb thrown by an IRA unit in North Belfast. • an IRA sniper fired a single shot at a British Army patrol near Crossmaglen. • 6 January 1993: • parts of London were cordoned off after IRA firebombs exploded in a number of stores. • a explosive device detonated in Dungannon, County Tyrone, causing minor damage and no victims. Only the detonator had exploded, the main charge had failed to ignite. • 7 January 1993: • an IRA unit opened fire on New Barnsley RUC station, Belfast. There were no reported injuries. • the victim of an IRA punishment attack in Dungannon, County Tyrone, had to have one of his legs amputated. was shot dead while driving his car along Donaghmore Road, Dungannon, County Tyrone. The IRA claimed the man was a UVF commander, responsible for the killings of Catholic civilians. This was denied by the dead man's family. CAIN lists Boyd as a Protestant civilian. • 13 January 1993: a bomb intended for security forces investigating the assassination of Matthew Boyd was defused at Dungannon, County Tyrone. • the IRA fired a mortar at an RUC base in Andersonstown, Belfast. • 15 January 1993: the IRA exploded two bombs in Belfast, one of which ignited a fire that destroyed a car showroom. • 16 January 1993: an RUC Reserve officer was injured by an under-car booby trap bomb in Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh. • 18 January 1993: • British security forces escaped injury in a coffee jar bomb attack in Carrickmore, Author Brendan O'Brien states that an IRA bomb blast targeted an Army and RUC patrol in Main Street, Carrickmore, approximately by this date, but he reports "a few injuries". • 19 January 1993: • the IRA's East Tyrone Brigade claimed that their volunteers uncovered and destroyed a British army observation post concealed in a derelict house in Drumcairne Forest, near Stewartstown, County Tyrone. The same source claimed a British helicopter, a military ambulance and ground troops arrived to the scene shortly after, and that local residents believed that two soldiers had been wounded. Press reports say that in fact a derelict house on Castlefarm Road was destroyed by an explosion and subsequent fire, but that there were no security forces in the area at that time. • an IRA unit fired several shots at the British Army watchtower overlooking the main square in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. Several RUC members received minor wounds. • an IRA bomb attack was foiled by the RUC after they intercepted a vehicle driven by a pair of armed IRA members (one of them the brother of republican Danny Morrison) carrying two Semtex bombs intended for Belfast City Airport, at a checkpoint on the Newtownards Road, Belfast. • 22 January 1993: an off-duty British soldier and a gunman were injured in a shoot-out at Newtownstewart, County Tyrone. • the IRA claimed that a culvert bomb targeting a British vehicle patrol failed to explode at Cappagh, County Tyrone. • 25 January 1993: • a bomb placed beneath an RUC officer's car was defused in Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh. • 30 January 1993: an IRA incendiary bomb exploded inside a department store in the Richmond Centre, Derry. There were also two hoax bomb alerts in The Diamond and Ferry Quay Street. The IRA were apparently trying to interfere with RUC officers investigating the shooting of officer Michael Ferguson. • 1 February 1993: • a rocket was fired at a British Army mobile patrol on the Andersonstown Road, Belfast. • a coffee jar bomb was thrown at RUC officers on the Crumlin Road, Belfast. • 3 February 1993: • two small IRA bombs exploded in England. One at South Kensington underground station in London and the other at Kent House railway station. • an IRA unit fired several shots at a joint British Army-RUC patrol in the Ardoyne area of Belfast. • 4 February 1993: • a civilian worker was seriously injured after the IRA launched a mortar attack on the joint RUC/British Army barracks in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. The base was heavily damaged. • an IRA unit fired half a dozen rounds at a British security forces checkpoint on Corporation Street, near Belfast's Docks area. • 6 February 1993: the IRA fired a Mark-16 grenade at a British Army patrol on Ross Street, Belfast. • 8 February 1993: A British soldier was ambushed and wounded while on foot patrol on Dunville Street, Belfast. Two IRA members fired a shotgun at the patrol from a house whose inhabitants they held captive. The full impact of the blast was taken by the soldier's helmet, which saved his life. The two volunteers were taken in custody some time later. • 9 February 1993: • a British soldier (Michael Beswick) was killed and four others badly wounded when three IRA remote-controlled bombs, affixed to a nearby wall and two pillars on both sides of the street, detonated as a foot patrol passed on Cathedral Road, Armagh town. • an armed IRA assassination unit was spotted in Union Street, Portadown, attempting to kill leading UVF member Billy Wright; however he escaped and no shots were fired. • 10 February 1993: • a small IRA bomb exploded in a residential area of London. • 11 February 1993: an IRA assassination attempt in the Shankill area of Belfast was aborted after their target failed to appear. A group of gunmen claiming to be members of the UVF had forcibly occupied a house opposite the home of a senior loyalist on Upper Glenfarne Street. • 12 February 1993: an IRA member (Christopher Harte) was found shot dead in a ditch by the side of Carn Road, near Castlederg, County Tyrone. The IRA alleged he was an informer. • an incendiary bomb was found and defused in a clothes shop in Wellington Place in Belfast city centre. • 15 February 1993: Mervyn Johnson, a Royal Irish Regiment (RIR) soldier, was shot dead by the IRA outside his home, Highfern Gardens, Highfield, Belfast. He was walking down the street when a car drew alongside and fired a burst of shots from an AK-47 assault rifle, hitting the soldier four times. As he lay wounded a second gunman stepped out of the car and shot the victim three times in the head with a handgun. • 20 February 1993: • a rocket injured four British soldiers when it hit their patrol vehicle in the Woodburn area of Belfast. • 22 February 1993: two RUC officers were injured in an IRA bomb attack on a base in Bishop Street, Derry. • 24 February 1993: an RUC officer (Reginald Williamson) was killed by an IRA booby-trap bomb attached to his car, which exploded while he travelled along Lislasley Road, near Loughgall, County Armagh. • the IRA claimed a mortar attack on the RUC base in Tempo, County Fermanagh, was unsuccessful after a firing mechanism failed to detonate. • 28 February 1993: • an IRA unit fired on a British Army checkpoint in Belfast city centre. March–April • 1 March 1993: an IRA unit launched two mortar bombs at an RUC base in Bessbrook, County Armagh; at least 11 people were injured and more than 90 houses suffered damage. • 2 March 1993: shots were fired at anti-terrorist detectives and a police tactical firearms unit raiding a home in north London in connection with the recent IRA bombing of Harrods. Two men were arrested and a large cache of weapons and explosives captured. • 4 March 1993: an IRA unit opened fire on an alleged "collaborator" as he drove along Cherry Road in Twinbrook, West Belfast. The IRA claimed he was a member of the UVF. • an IRA unit attempted to kill two leading loyalists on Berlin Street in the Shankill area of Belfast. One was moderately wounded after their car was riddled with gunfire. The uninjured man had already survived a previous IRA assassination attempt in February and the injured man had been targeted by the INLA in January but they killed a civilian in a case of mistaken identity. IRA members had driven up to the checkpoint and fired several shots before lobbing a grenade. • the IRA launched a mortar attack on Keady British Army barracks, County Armagh. A civilian contractor for the British Army (Nigel McCollum) who was working at the base was killed when three barrack buster mortars were fired into the compound. He had been operating a crane when it was struck by one of the mortars. McCollum's brother (Reginald McCollum), an off-duty RIR soldier, would be killed a year later, in 1994, by the IRA; their grandmother (Lilly McCollum) had been killed in 1983 in a republican attack on her brother, a member of the UDR. • 9 March 1993: • the IRA took over two houses in the Woodburn area of Belfast and fired a rocket from a window at a British foot patrol. • an off-duty British army RIR soldier was shot and wounded by the IRA as he drove out of a bus depot in east Belfast. • 11 March 1993: • the IRA claimed responsibility for several hoax car bombs left in Lisburn and Belfast, causing widespread disruption. • 12 March 1993: a blast bomb thrown at a British Army patrol in Shambles Lane, Dungannon, County Tyrone, failed to explode and was later defused. • 14 March 1993: • a bomb detonated outside a bank in Gloucester Street in Belfast city centre. A second device was defused nearby in Adelaide Street. • 17 March 1993: • two contractors linked to the British Army and RUC escaped injury when a bomb exploded under their van near Aghadowey, County Londonderry. One of the men, Alan Smith, was a former UDR member and active UDA gunman and was eventually shot dead by the IRA in April 1994. • 20 March 1993: • two IRA bombs exploded in Warrington, England, killing two children (Johnathan Ball and Tim Parry) and injuring more than 50 people. A coded but inaccurate warning was issued to the Samaritans, which, police said, placed the bomb outside a Boots chemist shop in Liverpool, away from Boots in Warrington, where the detonation occurred. • a British Army patrol escaped injury after a bomb hidden in a bus shelter detonated as they passed in Derry. • 21 March 1993: the IRA launched a grenade or rocket at an RUC patrol vehicle on Ardglass Road, Downpatrick, County Down. Two men were later arrested and a firearm recovered. • 24 March 1993: • an IRA bomb damaged an auction house at the junction of May Street and Montgomery Street in Belfast city centre. on Mulnafye road. The RUC reported that an explosion occurred while a joint RUC-British Army patrol were in the vicinity, and also in a follow-up operation a buried roadside bomb and a command wire were discovered. • an IRA sniper fired a single shot at a British Army foot patrol on the Oldpark Road, Belfast. • 4 April 1993: a British Army patrol was attacked with what the IRA described as an "improvised flamethrower" in Carrickmore, County Tyrone. The device consisted of of Semtex and five gallons of petrol; the bomb exploded, but the fuel failed to ignite. A soldier was thrown several meters across the road by the blast. • 6 April 1993: a bomb exploded at Belfast Central Station. The area had been evacuated following a warning and there were no injuries. • 7 April 1993: • three British soldiers were wounded when the IRA mortared their base in Crossmaglen. • 8 April 1993: a rocket was fired at a joint British Army/RUC patrol near Woodbourne RUC station, Belfast. • 20 April 1993: an IRA bomb exploded beside the security gate at Bishop's Gate in Derry city centre. • 21 April 1993: the IRA planted a booby-trap bomb under an RUC officer's car in the centre of Banbridge, County Down, but it fell off and was defused. • 23 April 1993: • a small IRA bomb detonated at an Esso oil refinery in North Shields, England, causing moderate damage. • 24 April 1993: • the IRA detonated a huge truck bomb at Bishopsgate in the City of London, which killed one person and injured 44 more. The explosion caused damage estimated at £350 million. The police confirmed the IRA had phoned in 18 accurate warnings before the explosion. The man who was killed (Eddie Henty) was a press photographer who appears to have slipped through the security cordon to obtain footage of the explosion. The device delivered the equivalent to 1,200 kg. of TNT, and was compared with the power of a tactical nuclear device by some sources. • two bombs exploded in hijacked minicabs in London, but there were no injuries. • 25 April 1993: • a former UDR soldier (David Martin) was killed when an IRA booby trap exploded underneath his car while travelling along Flo Road, Kildress, near Cookstown, County Tyrone. • the IRA attacked a British security forces mobile patrol with a coffee jar bomb on Racecourse Road, Derry. • 27 April 1993: • a bomb in a gas cylinder was discovered and defused by the British Army at Corrigan Park in the Whiterock area of Belfast. The device was connected to a firing-pack by a command wire. May–June • 3 May 1993: an IRA unit fired several shots at a British Army patrol at the junction of the New Lodge Road and North Queen Street. • 5 May 1993: the IRA lobbed a coffee jar bomb at a British security forces patrol in the Ardoyne area of Belfast. • 6 May 1993: • a British RIR soldier was badly injured by an IRA bomb attached to his car that exploded in Lurgan, County Armagh. • an IRA unit detonated a landmine as several British Army vehicles passed in Blackwatertown, County Armagh. The device was defused by the British Army a week later. • 11 May 1993: • an IRA "Barrack Buster" mortar attack forced the evacuation of the RUC barracks at Caledon, County Tyrone, • a horizontal mortar launched at a British security forces vehicle missed in Portadown, County Armagh. • 20 May 1993: a IRA bomb exploded in Glengall Street, Belfast, causing over 5 million pounds worth of damage. • 27 May 1993: • a British soldier was shot and wounded in an IRA attack while manning a checkpoint beside Belfast Central station. • an IRA unit tried to kill an alleged RIR soldier at his home in Ligoniel on the outskirts of Belfast, but their target escaped after a single shot missed. • IRA members opened fire from a hijacked vehicle at an RUC checkpoint on the Ormeau Road, Belfast. • an IRA unit fired on the home of an RUC officer in the Springvale Gardens area of Belfast. After failing to gain entry, the IRA members were fired upon by the officer. • 6 June 1993: • two RUC officers were injured after IRA members detonated a bomb by command wire as a patrol vehicle passed on the Stewartstown Road, Belfast. • 7 June 1993: the IRA detonated a bomb at a gasworks in Tyneside, England. • an IRA unit lobbed a coffee jar bomb at a British Army foot patrol in the Ballymurphy. The IRA claimed to have injured a soldier. • the IRA fired around twenty rounds at the British Army observation tower at Rosemount RUC base, Derry. • 12 June 1993: an IRA sniper armed with a .50 BMG calibre "Tejas rifle" fired a single shot at a British soldier on a foot patrol in the Beechmount area of Belfast. The round struck his rifle and ricocheted striking his face. • 15 June 1993: an IRA unit fired up to fifty rounds at an RUC mobile patrol at Torrens Crescent in the Oldpark Road area of Belfast, striking an armoured vehicle. The IRA claimed he was a member of the Royal Irish Regiment. bomb at the Mourne Country Hotel in Newry, damaging at least 70 nearby homes. The IRA claimed they attacked the hotel because Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Patrick Mayhew visited a few days previously. The shooting was claimed by the North Armagh Brigade. • 26 June 1993: • a British soldier (John Randall) was shot dead by an IRA sniper near Newtownhamilton, County Armagh. He had been patrolling a field when the sniper fired a single high-velocity shot from the back of a stationary vehicle which hit Randall in the stomach. • an IRA unit fired 60 rounds at two armoured vehicles leaving Woodbourne RUC station, West Belfast. • the British Army defused a ready bomb parked in Fintona, County Tyrone. Other sources claim that the shooting took place at 8:00 pm on Moor road, beside Coalisland. July–August • 3 July 1993: a IRA van bomb exploded outside Strabane courthouse, causing extensive damage. • 5 July 1993: • a bomb caused extensive damage in the centre of Newtownards, County Down. Nineteen people were injured. • the IRA attempted to lure British security forces to a van bomb in Queen Street, Belfast, with a hoax car bomb. The real device was detected and later defused by the British Army. • 7 July 1993: a coffee jar bomb was lobbed at a joint British Army-RUC patrol in the New Lodge area of Belfast, but failed to explode. • 8 July 1993: • a IRA bomb in a hijacked car was defused by the British Army outside the Stormont hotel in East Belfast. • the IRA launched a 'barrack buster' mortar at the RUC base in Roslea, County Fermanagh. The IRA claims that the barracks were evacuated. • the British Army defused a suspect device in a hijacked taxi abandoned at Mountpottinger Road, East Belfast. The mortar bomb didn't explode on impact and was defused after three hours of work. The IRA statement also claims that the barracks had to be evacuated. • 11 July 1993: an IRA unit lobbed two coffee jar bombs at a joint British Army-RUC mobile patrol on the Oldpark Road, North Belfast. There were no reported injuries. • 13 July 1993: • the IRA claimed they fired shots to disperse a mob of Loyalists attacking Catholic homes in the Twinbrook area of West Belfast. • 14 July 1993: seventeen shots were fired just across the border from Aughrim, County Cavan, at a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint at Gortmullan in County Fermanagh. • 16 July 1993: an IRA bomb exploded at the front entrance of a bank in Strabane, County Tyrone. • a shrapnel bomb containing of Semtex was defused in the Markets area of Belfast. • 19 July 1993: the IRA left several hoax car bombs across Belfast, causing significant disruption. • 22 July 1993: a Semtex booby-trap bomb attached to a car belonging to a member of British security forces was defused by the British Army in Rathcoole, County Antrim. The explosion blew out a section of the protective fence. • 24 July 1993: a British soldier was injured after a coffee jar bomb was thrown at a combined British Army/RUC patrol in the New Lodge area of Belfast. • 29 July 1993: the IRA tried to kill a man they claimed was a senior UDA member in Walmer Street, off the Ormeau Road, Belfast, but he wasn't home. • 30 July 1993: • an IRA sniper fired on RUC officers in the Ardoyne area of Belfast, but there were no reported injuries. • a bomb attack was foiled when a British Army RIR patrol spotted a primed device connected to a command wire in Pomeroy, County Tyrone. One man was arrested. • 31 July 1993: • a British Army mobile checkpoint is fired at by an IRA sniper at Newtownhamilton, County Armagh. The British patrol manning the checkpoint returned fire. • a coffee jar bomb was thrown at a combined British Army/RUC patrol in the Shaw's Road area of West Belfast. There were no reported injuries. The IRA reported it was a horizontal mortar attack. • 4 August 1993: • a remotely operated tractor carrying a bomb careered off course driving towards a British Army checkpoint and was defused outside Belleeks, County Armagh. • a former member of the security forces escaped injury after a Semtex bomb fell off his car on the Strabane Road, Castlederg, County Tyrone. The device was later defused by the British Army. • Gardaí foiled an IRA operation after intercepting three large primed bombs each were found in a barn near Ballybofey Co. Donegal. Four people were arrested and a firearms recovered. The bombs were neutralised by the Irish Army. • 6 August 1993: a car bomb left in Alfred Street in Belfast city centre only partially exploded. • 7 August 1993: a horizontal mortar launched at a joint British Army/RUC mobile patrol in the Lenadoon area of Belfast missed its target. • a Semtex bomb in a holdall in an alleyway off the Ormeau Road, Belfast, was defused by the British Army. • five RUC officers and four civilians were wounded when a IRA car bomb exploded outside a restaurant in South Belfast. • a rocket propelled grenade fired by an IRA unit narrowly missed an RUC vehicle at Peter's Hill, Belfast. • 26 August 1993: the IRA carried out a rocket attack against a joint RUC-British Army convoy as it travelled along Lower Stanfield Street in the Markets area of Belfast. • 27 August 1993: • the IRA mortared Lisnaskea RUC barracks in Fermanagh. Over 60 nearby homes were damaged in the attack. A second bomb detonated minutes later at a nearby cricket club. • two British soldiers and an RUC officer were treated for shock after only the detonator of a Semtex bomb in a car exploded near their patrol in the Ardoyne area of Belfast. • a Semtex booby-trap bomb attached to an RUC Reserve officer's car in Armagh was defused. at Stormont hotel in East Belfast, injuring an RUC officer and two civilians. The IRA's South Fermanagh Brigade later denied responsibility, claiming the incident had been orchestrated by the British Army to coincide with a wake nearby to discredit the IRA. • 14 September 1993: • the IRA detonated a bomb at the Fir Trees hotel in Strabane, County Tyrone, causing serious damage. • 15 September 1993: • the IRA shot dead a Catholic man (Adrian McGovern) outside his home, Stoneyford Road, Lisburn, County Antrim. He was a contractor to the BA/RUC. The IRA claimed he had been supplying the RUC with information on republicans. • the IRA attempted to kill an alleged senior UDA member at his home in Hazelfield Street in the Shankill area of Belfast. The IRA claimed a struggle ensued in which shots were fired after an armed Loyalist appeared at the door before a hostile crowd forced the unit to leave. • 16 September 1993: three IRA incendiary devices were made safe in two separate cinemas in London. • 18 September 1993: • the IRA claimed responsibility for hoax bomb alerts at the Stormont Hotel in East Belfast and at the Chimney Corner Hotel in County Antrim. • the IRA claimed to have orchestrated a bomb alert at the Culloden Hotel in Cultra, County Down, where British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Patrick Mayhew was attending a function. • 23 September 1993: a fierce exchange of gunfire occurred between a number IRA armed trucks and British Army helicopters in south County Armagh, east of Crossmaglen. The IRA units used a large number of assault rifles and at least one heavy-machine gun. A Puma helicopter, ferrying the 3rd Infantry Brigade Commander, was hit. All the IRA volunteers managed to slip away in their vehicles, but a number of weapons were confiscated in the aftermath (see Battle of Newry Road). • 27 September 1993: • a IRA car-bomb caused extensive damage in Gloucester Street in Belfast city centre. • 1 October 1993: • six IRA firebombs detonated in commercial premises in Belfast, Lisburn and Newtownabbey. • 2 October 1993: • three IRA bombs exploded in Hampstead, North London, injuring six people. • an IRA unit fired 25 rounds at Oldpark RUC station in North Belfast, the IRA claimed they targeted a British Army technician working on a surveillance mast. • 3 October 1993: a IRA car bomb exploded outside a hotel in Newtownabbey, County Antrim. A nearby school was also damaged. • 8 October 1993: • an IRA unit fired over 200 rounds at the RUC barracks at Middletown, County Armagh; RUC members returned fire. A Presbyterian church, a primary school, and a convent were also hit, narrowly missing a civilian. • two IRA bombs exploded in North London. courthouse at Cookstown, County Tyrone, in an attack also aimed at the adjoining British Army checkpoint. Fifty families were evacuated to a nearby church hall. IRA sources claimed that there were RUC and British Army casualties, but the RUC denied this. • a British soldier sustained an ear blast injury when a firework bomb was thrown at a British Army foot patrol in Dungannon, County Tyrone. • 18 October 1993: • British security forces disarmed a large bomb buried in a quarry near Cappagh, County Tyrone. A command wire led to an ignition pack nearby. Security forces believed the IRA's target was an RUC or British Army patrol present to supervise blasting at the site. • the IRA carried out a bomb attack against the RUC barracks in Castlederg, County Tyrone. A restaurant was damaged and a civilian (Annie Bogle, 73) died from a heart attack. • an incendiary device was discovered in a furniture shop in Newtownabbey and later neutralised by the British Army. • a booby-trap bomb attached to the underside of an RIR soldier's car was spotted and later defused in Maghera, County Londonderry. • an IRA unit lobbed a coffee jar bomb attack at British security forces mobile patrol in Horn Drive in the Lenadoon area of Belfast. • 24 October 1993: an IRA bomb exploded on a railway line in Berkshire, England. Other devices were defused at Reading and Basingstoke stations. November–December • 1 November 1993: British Army experts defused a roadside bomb intended for a security forces patrol at Tullyara Road in Pomeroy, County Tyrone. • 3 November 1993: a coffee-jar bomb was thrown at an RUC patrol in Bryson Street in the Short Strand area of Belfast. • a British soldier was shot and wounded by an IRA sniper while on a foot patrol in Spamount street, New Lodge Road, Belfast. • an IRA unit attacked with machine-gun fire and a barrack-buster mortar an RUC base in Caledon, County Tyrone. A nearby church and several houses were also damaged, and more than 50 people were evacuated. • 10 November 1993: a Semtex jar bomb thrown at a British security forces patrol in the Stewartstown Road area of West Belfast failed to explode and was later defused. • 11 November 1993: a Semtex under-car booby-trap bomb attached to a van was neutralised by the British Army in Bleach Green Avenue, Newtownabbey, County Antrim. • 16 November 1993: a soldier was wounded by an IRA bomb in the Turf Lodge area of Belfast. The IRA claimed the former soldier was a member of the UVF. • 23 November 1993: a Semtex undercar booby-trap bomb failed to explode after falling off a car in Portadown, County Armagh; a magnet on the device had fixed itself to a manhole in the middle of a busy road. • 24 November 1993: a British soldier was injured after a coffee jar bomb was thrown at a joint British Army-RUC patrol in the New Lodge area of Belfast. • 27 November 1993: • a bomb containing of home-made explosives planted at Poleglass Roundabout in West Belfast was defused by the British Army following an IRA warning that they had aborted an operation. • a blast bomb was thrown at a British Army patrol in the New Lodge area of Belfast. • 29 November 1993: • the IRA fired several shots at the home of an RUC officer in the Portadown Road area of Armagh town. The attack was intended to lure security forces into range of a bomb hidden in a trailer, but the IRA claimed they aborted the operation because of the presence of civilians as the mobile patrol passed. • a car with a mounted Mark-16 horizontal mortar was found by security forces parked close to a school in Cookstown, County Tyrone. The RUC suspected it was an IRA attempt to ambush an RUC/British Army patrol. The primed mortar was defused by British Army technicians, who had to carry out six controlled explosions on the vehicle before declaring the device safe. • an IRA unit fired several shots at a joint British Army/RUC foot patrol on the Springfield Road, Belfast. • an IRA unit opened fire on Oldpark RUC base in North Belfast. • an IRA unit opened fire on a security forces base in the Whiterock area of West Belfast. • 2 December 1993: • a British soldier (Paul Garrett) was shot dead by a sniper while on foot-patrol, Victoria Street, Keady, County Armagh. He was hit in the stomach by a single bullet fired from a nearby hill. • a bomb, targeting an RUC mobile patrol, was defused by the IRA after the remote detonator failed in the Poleglass area of Belfast. Nearly eight hundred pupils from a nearby primary school were evacuated. • an IRA unit lobbed a coffee jar bomb at British security forces foot patrol emerging from Henry Taggart base on the Springfield Road. • 3 December 1993: the IRA detonated a bomb after luring three RUC officers to a vacant house in the Loyalist Glenbryn Park area of North Belfast. (See 1993 Fivemiletown ambush) • an IRA unit opened fire on a retired RUC officer and his wife as they drove home from Fortwilliam Golf Club in North Belfast. They were only slightly injured. • 13 December 1993: a anti-personnel device was found by British security forces on Glen Road in the Andersonstown area of West Belfast. • an IRA attack was foiled after British security forces uncovered a bomb in the Markets area of Belfast. The IRA said the bomb was intended for a "specific target" nearby. Damages were estimated at £450,000. • a small IRA bomb went off at a derelict farm near Cookstown, County Tyrone. The explosion was designed to appear accidental to lure British security forces into the vicinity of a larger bomb, which failed to detonate. • 20 December 1993: • a British soldier and a civilian were wounded in an IRA remote-detonation bomb attack on a mobile patrol in the Suffolk area of Belfast. • a number of IRA firebombs exploded in stores and a post-office in London causing minor damage. Seven incendiary devices were made safe. Damage was estimated at £125,000. • 29 December 1993: • a mortar was defused by the British Army on the Falls Road near Whiterock Road junction. • 30 December 1993: • a British soldier (Daniel Blinco) was shot dead by an IRA sniper while on foot-patrol in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. • Members of a joint British Army/RUC patrol escaped injury when an IRA landmine exploded in the environs of West Belfast. ==1994==

January–February • 1 January 1994: • almost a dozen premises in and around Belfast were firebombed by the IRA including the Linen Hall Library, causing £1,000,000 worth of damage. • the IRA forced a man to carry a bomb in his car to the British Army RIR base in Cookstown, County Tyrone. The device was declared a hoax after being neutralised by the British Army in controlled explosions. Also, a taxi driver was forced to carry a hoax bomb to the RIR base in Dungannon, County Tyrone, but was stopped by a British patrol. Up to 100 families were evacuated from their homes. • 3 January 1994: an IRA unit fired several shots at a civilian as they drove out of Rockwood British Army base in Castlederg, County Tyrone. The driver narrowly escaped injury but was treated for shock. • 6 January 1994: • an IRA unit fired two rockets at a British Army armoured mobile patrol on the Springfield Road Belfast. • 7 January 1994: • an IRA unit lobbed a coffee jar bomb at a joint RUC-British Army patrol in the New Lodge Road area of North Belfast. The IRA claimed they scored a direct hit, wrecking an RUC vehicle. Troops returned fire. An RUC officer and a number of civilians suffered minor injuries when a bomb aimed at a British Army patrol demolished a nearby building 50 minutes later. A loaded rifle was recovered and two men arrested in the aftermath. • a coffee jar bomb was thrown at an RUC vehicle at a security barrier in Lurgan but failed to explode. • 16 January 1994: seven men were arrested after an IRA barrack buster mortar was positioned in firing range of a permanent vehicle checkpoint near Clogher, County Tyrone. • 23 January 1994: • two civilians were injured when an IRA bomb intended for security forces exploded in a farmhouse at Cabragh, near Dungannon, County Tyrone. • an IRA incendiary device triggered water sprinklers in a furniture shop in Strabane, County Tyrone, causing extensive damage. • 24 January 1994: • incendiary bombs were found in a hardware store in Derry. • a horizontal mortar was defused in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. • 1 February 1994: • the IRA launched a mortar attack on a British Army border post in Cloghoge, County Armagh. • an IRA unit planted a bomb outside the home of the RUC assistant Chief Constable in Derry. • 10 February 1994: • undercover RUC officers intercepted an IRA unit armed with assault rifles and a coffee jar bomb in the Belmont area of Belfast; the RUC, based on an intelligence tip-off, believed their intended target was a RUC detective Chief Superintendent who lived nearby. The same officer had been seriously injured in a previous IRA assassination attempt in November 1983. • the British Army defused an improvised IRA grenade in Market Square, Lurgan, County Armagh, primed and ready for an attack. • a Mark-16 mortar attack on Antrim Road RUC station, Belfast, was foiled after British soldiers and RUC officers raided a house on the Cavehill Road overlooking the base. Three men and one woman were arrested. • 12 February 1994: a coffee jar bomb was thrown at British troops by an IRA unit in Cookstown, County Tyrone, but the device failed to explode. • 13 February 1994: • the IRA fired several shots at the British Army observation tower at Rosemount RUC base, Derry. • an incendiary device exploded in a restaurant in High Street Belfast. Further devices exploded in a furniture and carpet store on North Street. • 17 February 1994: • an RUC officer (William Beacom) was killed and two others seriously injured when the IRA fired a homemade rocket at an RUC patrol vehicle on Friendly Street in the Market Quarter, South Belfast. March–April • • 1 March 1994: a car with of explosives inside was intercepted by British security forces at a checkpoint near Pomeroy, County Tyrone. A further of explosives were also found in a derelict house nearby. • 5 March 1994: Irish security forces foiled a barrack buster mortar attack on a British Army checkpoint at Clady, County Tyrone. The mortar, mounted to a 4x4 vehicle, was found near Castlefin, County Donegal and destroyed in a controlled explosion. were fired from a car towards Heathrow Airport near London. The shells landed on or near the northern runway, but failed to explode. • the IRA fired a horizontal mortar at a British Army vehicle on Culmore Road, Derry. The projectile scored a hit, but there were no reported injuries. • 13 March 1994: • the IRA defied tightened security to launch a third attack on Heathrow Airport, firing five mortar shells over the perimeter fence which landed near Terminal Four but failed to explode. • an IRA arms cache was discovered at a college in Belfast. A grenade, a rifle, a pistol, a homemade bomb, a number of detonators, 2 lb of explosive and over 1,500 rounds of ammunition were captured. • a Mark-15 barrack buster mortar vehicle was discovered at Ballyrath Road outside Armagh city and defused by the British Army. • Orpington railway station on the outskirts of London was closed after a worker found part of an IRA incendiary device timer on a track. Police believed the device was planted three months earlier. • 23 March 1994: • a primed horizontal mortar launcher was defused in the front garden of a home in the Shaw's Road area of West Belfast. Armed IRA members had taken the occupants hostage. • the IRA claimed responsibility for an incendiary bomb attack which destroyed a furniture warehouse in East Belfast. • 31 March 1994: • Portadown RUC base came under attack from an IRA unit using rockets and automatic weapons. An RUC officer manning the front guard post was injured. • an RPG-7 rocket and several shots were fired at an RUC base in Garvagh, County Londonderry. One RUC officer was treated for shock and minor injuries. • 1 April 1994: • the IRA planted a bomb anti-personnel bomb on Nursery Road in Armagh city. The explosives were neutralised by the British Army. • 3 April 1994: Two IRA masked militants made a public statement at a hall in Carrickmore, County Tyrone, where an Easter Sunday concert was being performed. The declaration said that "the Republican movement had never been stronger, more united and confident". • 5 April 1994: the IRA began a three-day ceasefire in an attempt to show it was serious about bringing about an end to the conflict. • an IRA unit fired an improvised rocket at a British patrol in Stewartstown road, Belfast. An IRA East Tyrone Brigade statement reports that the militants took over and blocked the road between the checkpoint and the border, then issued a 30-minute warning before the attack. The mortar was transported and fired by a tractor. The barrack-buster projectile, described as a "very large" device, overshot the installation and landed in an adjacent housing estate, forcing its evacuation. According to some sources, the device exploded but caused little damage. • 10 April 1994: an IRA incendiary bomb badly damaged a furniture store in Strabane, County Tyrone. • 12 April 1994: an IRA bomb detonated in the garden of a house as a joint British Army-RUC patrol passed in the Ardoyne area of Belfast. Eight people had to be treated for shock. • 13 April 1994: the IRA carried out a 'Barrack Buster' mortar attack on Newry RUC station. The projectile failed to detonate on impact. • an IRA booby trap bomb failed to detonate at the home of a British soldier in Carmoney on the northern outskirts of Belfast. A British Army response team had been lured to the site by a hoax car bomb parked outside. He had previously escaped an INLA assassination attempt in October 1993 and the IRA finally succeeded in killing him in February 1998. • the IRA attempted to kill an alleged British Army RIR soldier at his home in the Woodvale area of Belfast. • 24 April 1994: the IRA shot dead two men (John McCloy and Alan Smith) as they sat in a stationary car, at Main Street, Garvagh, County Londonderry. The IRA alleged that Smith was a senior member of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) involved in several attacks • 25 April 1994: • a British soldier was injured when a mortar hit Crossmaglen British Army base, County Armagh. • Sixteen alleged drug-dealers were kneecapped by the IRA across Belfast. • 28 April 1994: a former UDR soldier (Eric Smyth) was shot dead by the IRA outside his home, Salters Grange Road, near Armagh town. • 6 May 1994: an IRA unit fired an RPG-7 rocket • 11 May 1994: an IRA unit fired several shots at a British observation post at Townhall Street in Belfast city centre. The second bomb was defused. • an IRA unit launched a mortar at an RUC base in Newry. • 14 May 1994: a British soldier (David Wilson) was killed when the IRA detonated a bomb next to a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint at Castleblaney Road, Keady, County Armagh. Another soldier was injured. • 18 May 1994: an IRA caller warned that a booby-trap bomb placed under a car had failed to explode; no details were given but it was believed by security forces to belong to an RUC officer in the Castlederg, County Tyrone, area. • 20 May 1994: an IRA unit fired on a British Army observation post atop Broadway Tower in the Iveagh area of West Belfast. • 21 May 1994: • a Royal Irish Regiment (RIR) soldier from Cookstown, County Tyrone, was kidnapped by the IRA and later found shot dead in a field near Mullaghcreevie housing estate in Armagh town. His brother Nigel (a British Army employee) had been killed the previous year during an IRA mortar attack on a military base in Keady, County Armagh, and their grandmother (Lilly McCollum) died in 1983 in an attack on her brother, a member of the UDR. • an IRA volunteer (Martin Doherty) manning the doors of The Widow Scallan's pub in Dublin was shot dead while the UVF attempted a bomb and gun attack on IRA and Sinn Féin republicans gathered inside at an event. • the IRA fired a rocket at Tennent Street RUC station, Belfast. • an IRA unit abandoned a primed Mark 15 barrack buster mortar launcher between Moy and Benburb, County Tyrone, because of intense security forces activity. • 27 May 1994: an IRA unit raked a British Army checkpoint with gunfire from a Ford Transit van at Aughnacloy, County Tyrone, then crossed the border into the Republic. British soldiers returned fire. • 30 May 1994: an IRA unit launched a mortar attack on a British Army base in Tempo, County Fermanagh. • 31 May 1994: an IRA anti-personnel shrapnel bomb hidden in a car failed to detonate and was defused in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. • 1 June 1994: • an IRA sniper fired a single shot at British Army checkpoint in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. A soldier narrowly escaped injury when he turned to speak to a colleague. • the IRA claimed responsibility for an under-car booby-trap bomb which fell from a vehicle entering North Queen Street RUC station, Belfast. About 20 houses were damaged. • 6 June 1994: • an IRA unit launched an armour-piercing projectile at an RUC armoured vehicle in the Poleglass area of Belfast. British soldiers in the convoy returned fire. • a British Army bomb disposal team carried out the controlled explosion of a suspect device on a railway line in Kent, England, following IRA warnings. • the British Army made safe a command-wire detonated Semtex bomb discovered in a garden in the Monagh Road area of West Belfast. • three British soldiers were wounded when an IRA unit mortared a military checkpoint in Crossmaglen, South Armagh. • an incendiary device detonated in a shop in Oxford Street, London. A second device failed to detonate. • 17 June 1994: the IRA launched a horizontal mortar at an RUC patrol in West Belfast, but missed their target. • the British Army neutralised the remnants of a Semtex coffee jar bomb found on waste ground in Clady, County Tyrone. The East Tyrone Brigade claimed they used a barrack-buster mortar bomb that landed within the walls of the base. The British Army claimed that the mortar exploded in a bog just outside the barracks' perimeter fence. July–August • 2 July 1994: three IRA Mk-15 mortar rounds hit the Royal Irish Regiment barracks and its surroundings at Malone Road, Belfast, damaging buildings inside the compound. A number of people attending a wedding in a nearby church were treated from shock. A total of seven people was injured. • 5 July 1994: an unexploded coffee jar-type anti-personnel bomb was found and defused by the British Army in Patrick Street, Newry. • 8 July 1994: two British soldiers were seriously injured when their patrol vehicle was hit by a horizontal mortar in the Suffolk area of Belfast. • 10 July 1994: IRA members launched a gun attack on the home of DUP politician Willie McCrea, in Magherafelt, County Londonderry; there was some damage but no injuries. It was later reported that the IRA leadership reprimanded and stood down the East Tyrone Brigade unit responsible for the shooting. • 11 July 1994: • a member of the Ulster Democratic Party, Ray Smallwoods, was shot dead by the IRA in Lisburn. A five-member IRA unit consisting of four men and one woman took over a nearby house the night before. As he left his home the next morning one IRA volunteer ran down the street and blasted him several times with a shotgun. Smallwoods was a leading member of the UDA and was one of those involved in the unsuccessful assassination attempts on the lives of Bernadette and Michael McAliskey. • a mercury tilt-switch bomb was defused by the British Army on Halliday's Road in a loyalist area of North Belfast. The IRA was blamed. • 13 July 1994: • a bomb exploded at the home of a former DUP councillor on Rogully Road near Moneymore, County Londonderry. IRA members were believed to be responsible. • a barrack buster mortar was defused by the British Army at a workshop in the Shantallow area of Derry shortly before an attack. • 15 July 1994: three constables, an arrested Sinn Féin councillor and an elderly woman motorist were wounded when an IRA unit on an armed heavy truck ambushed an armoured RUC vehicle in Killeeshil, near Dungannon, County Tyrone (see Killeeshil ambush). • 17 July 1994: a female Catholic civilian from Belfast (Caroline Moreland) was shot dead by the IRA, who alleged she was an informer. Her body was found at Clogh, near Rosslea, County Fermanagh. • 18 July 1994: • an IRA unit dropped a Semtex bomb onto a British Army patrol from a high-rise building in the New Lodge area of Belfast but the bomb failed to explode. • 22 July 1994: IRA incendiary bombs damaged several businesses in Belfast city centre and the city suburbs. • 26 July 1994: an IRA improvised grenade launcher was found concealed in a bin by an RUC patrol in Hillman Street in the New Lodge area of Belfast, with a command wire leading from the bin to the rear of houses. Several people were arrested in a follow-up operation. • 28 July 1994: the IRA attached a booby-trap bomb to the underside of an RUC officer's car at a hotel in Newcastle, County Down. The device was spotted and later defused by the British Army. One of the injured soldiers was described as "very serious" and another "critical". • 31 July 1994: two senior UDA members, Raymond Elder and Joe Bratty, were shot dead by the IRA on the Ormeau Road in Belfast. • 3 August 1994: three British soldiers were injured when the IRA mortared the joint RUC/British Army base in Newtownhamilton, County Armagh. • 8 August 1994: an off-duty British soldier from the Royal Irish Regiment (Trelford Withers, aged 46) was shot dead by the IRA in Crossgar, County Down. • 12 August 1994: • the IRA reported they fired three mortars at a British Army observation tower at Glassdrummond, County Armagh. • the IRA claimed responsibility for a horizontal mortar found deployed in the Whittaker Street area of Derry, but stated the device had not been primed. • the IRA exploded two blast incendiaries at the Kimberley Inn off the Ormeau Road. The IRA claimed that like other attacks that week, the premises was targeted because it was used by loyalist paramilitaries to plan attacks. • 21 August 1994: • the IRA mortared a joint RUC/British Army base in Rosslea, County Fermanagh. • an IRA bomb destroyed the empty car of a British soldier in Maghera, County Londonderry. • 22 August 1994: a high explosive device was defused outside a Laura Ashley shop in Regent Street, London. • 25 August 1994: British security forces uncovered a command wire leading to a roadside device (absent explosives) in the area of Annaghmore Road, Coalisland, County Tyrone. • an IRA mortar bomb exploded prematurely in its launch tube at a car-park in Downpatrick, County Down, injuring 10 people. • the IRA carried out a coffee jar bomb attack on an RUC base at Springfield Road, Belfast. • a huge booby-trap bomb, disguised to look like a primed IRA Mark-15 improvised mortar in firing position, was found inside a van near Pomeroy RUC base, County Tyrone. The device was defused by British army technicians. • a blast incendiary bomb exploded outside Hanover House, a restaurant in Coagh, County Tyrone, following an IRA telephone warning. The restaurant received minor damage, while five cars parked nearby were struck by shrapnel. • 31 August 1994: • shots were fired at British security forces in the vicinity of New Barnsley RUC station in Belfast. • shots were fired at an RUC station in Belleek, County Fermanagh, less than an hour before the IRA ceasefire. • the IRA declared the first of two ceasefires in the 1990s: "Recognising the potential of the current situation and in order to enhance the democratic process and underlying our definitive commitment to its success, the leadership of the IRA have decided that as of midnight, August 31, there will be a complete cessation of military operations. All our units have been instructed accordingly." September–December • 6 September 1994: six IRA volunteers attempted to escape from Whitemoor Jail in Cambridgeshire, England. • 10 November 1994: a Post Office worker (Frank Kerr) was shot dead when IRA members raided a Royal Mail sorting office in Newry. ==1995==

• 29 April 1995: a drug dealer suspected of importing ecstasy tablets into Northern Ireland was shot dead by two gunmen in a bar in central Belfast. The IRA did not claim responsibility but security forces stated that they were responsible. This killing was the first planned assassination by the IRA since the 1994 ceasefire. • 5 September 1995: Tony Kane (aged 29) was shot dead by the IRA as he sat in his car in Andersonstown, Belfast. Kane had been named as a drug dealer on posters placed around West Belfast. • 8 December 1995: Paul Devine (35), an alleged drug-dealer was killed by an IRA unit. He shot seven times in the back and head in south Belfast. The victim had previously served time in prison for handling stolen goods. • 18 December 1995: Francis Collins (40), who had been a former member of the IRA, was shot dead at his shop in Lepper Street, New Lodge, Belfast. Responsibility for the killing was claimed by Direct Action Against Drugs (DAAD), a cover name (pseudonym) used by the IRA. • 19 December 1995: Chris Johnston (38), a Catholic civilian, was shot dead outside his home in Cooke Street, off Ormeau Road, Belfast. Responsibility for the killing was claimed by Direct Action Against Drugs (DAAD), a cover name (pseudonym) used by the IRA. • 27 December 1995: Martin McCrory (30), a Catholic civilian was shot dead at his home, Norglen Parade, Turf Lodge, Belfast. Responsibility for the killing was claimed by Direct Action Against Drugs (DAAD), a cover name (pseudonym) used by the IRA. ==1996==

February–April • 2 February 1996: fifty-seven shots were fired at the home of an RUC officer near Moy, County Tyrone. British security forces believed the IRA were involved. • 9 February 1996: the IRA ended its 1994 ceasefire with a massive lorry-bombing in East London adjacent to the South Quay DLR station in London Docklands. Two civilians (Inan Ul-Haq Bashir and John Jefferies) were killed in the bombing. The initial estimate of the damage caused was £85m. • 15 February 1996: a bomb placed in a phone booth on the Charing Cross Road in London was made safe using a controlled explosion. • 9 March 1996: the IRA claimed responsibility for a small bomb which exploded on the Old Brompton Road in London. • 31 March 1996: the IRA handed over £20,000 pounds of captured cannabis to a priest in Newry who then handed it over to the RUC. The IRA said they had captured it from a drug-dealer. • 6 April 1996: the IRA attempted to destroy Hammersmith Bridge after installing two devices containing nearly of Semtex on the south bank of the River Thames, London. Though the detonators exploded, the bomb failed to ignite. The bridge was closed for three years to endure a major restoration following the bombing. • 17 April: the IRA exploded a bomb outside The Boltons on Earl's Court Road in west London at 10pm. A warning was given and there were no injuries but extensive damage was caused to the surrounding area. June–December • 7 June 1996: Detective Garda Jerry McCabe was shot dead by the IRA during a botched post-office robbery in Adare, County Limerick. • 15 June 1996: the IRA detonated a bomb in Manchester, injuring 212 people and causing damage valued at £411m but no fatalities. This was the largest IRA bomb ever detonated in Great Britain, and the largest bomb to explode in Great Britain since the Second World War. • 28 June 1996: an IRA unit mortared a British Army base at Osnabrück in Germany. The attack caused widespread damage when a shell landed near the base's fuel depot. • 13 July 1996: an IRA unit in Ardoyne, north Belfast were responsible for three separate gun attacks during the widespread unrest that followed the RUC's decision to force the Orange Order march at Drumcree. IRA Brigade staff ordered an inquiry and carried out disciplinary measures in response; the IRA had yet to re-commence operations in Northern Ireland at this time. • 16 September 1996: a Catholic civilian (John Devlin) was shot dead at his friend's home in the Markets area of Belfast. Responsibility for the killing was claimed by Direct Action Against Drugs (DAAD). He had recently been ordered to leave Northern Ireland by the IRA. • 23 September 1996: • a man escaped an attack by DAAD gunmen by jumping out a window in the Roden Street area of Belfast. • 5 December 1996: the security forces found IRA shoulder-fired MK16 launchers in the Whiterock area of Belfast. • 11 December 1996: • an IRA mortar attack on a British Army base at Girdwood, Belfast, was foiled by the security forces. • a Semtex bomb was found in a wheelie bin in Duncairn Gardens, Belfast following a call made to the Samaritans using an IRA code word. ==1997==

January–February • 1 January 1997: two bombs containing approximately of explosive were defused at Belfast Castle. The IRA claimed responsibility, stating they had been forced to abandon the bomb because of security forces activity. • in the call claiming responsibility for the Courts rocket attack, the IRA also claimed to have left bombs at several sites in Belfast. • 7 January 1997: the IRA claimed responsibility for a mortar bomb attack on an RUC vehicle patrol at Templemore Road in the Shantallow area of Derry. There were no reported injuries. • 10 January 1997: • an IRA statement was issued in the Andersontown News saying that "action" would be taken against informers. • 11 January 1997: • the RUC base in Tempo, County Fermanagh was mortared by the IRA. • several shots were fired at a British Army observation post on the roof of high-rise block of flats in the New Lodge area of Belfast. The IRA is suspected. • 20 January 1997: an IRA unit hurled two explosive devices at a British armoured vehicle as it left Mountpottinger RUC barracks, County Antrim. There were no injuries. • 27 January 1997: an IRA unit fired an RPG rocket • 9 February 1997: the IRA reported a Volunteer threw an explosive device at an RUC patrol in Pomeroy, County Tyrone, injuring an RUC officer. News reports described the incident as a horizontal attack and stated three RUC officers were injured. • 10 February 1997: • a landmine • 12 February 1997: a British soldier was shot dead by a sniper near the British Army base in Bessbrook, County Armagh. Lance Bombardier Stephen Restorick was the last British soldier to be killed in Northern Ireland during Operation Banner. • 13 February 1997: an IRA anti-personnel shrapnel and Semtex bomb was defused in the Kilwikie area of Lurgan, County Armagh. • 20 February 1997: an IRA ambush was foiled after the RUC uncovered two AK-47 rifles and an improvised grenade in Conway Lane on the outskirts of West Belfast. Two men were arrested. • 22 February 1997: an IRA mortar unit was intercepted by the RUC in Caledon, County Tyrone, on its way to carry out an attack on a British security facility. • 27 February 1997: an IRA mortar attack on a joint RUC/British Army patrol in the Falls Road area of Belfast was aborted and the device later defused by British security forces. March–April • 2 March 1997: a primed IRA mortar was discovered near Warrenpoint, County Down and disarmed by the British Army following warnings from the IRA. in Ardoyne, Belfast. A soldier in the observation post at the vehicle's roof hatch was injured. • the IRA issued a statement claiming two coffee jar bombs had been thrown at British soldiers in the Poleglass area of West Belfast but failed to explode. • a 1 kg home-made bomb was thrown by IRA volunteers to the Army/RUC base at Coalisland, County Tyrone. The device blew a hole in the perimeter fence. Undercover British soldiers shot and seriously injured 19 year-old republican Gareth Doris seconds later. The soldiers left the scene under the protection of the RUC after being cornered by a crowd and after firing shots in the air. Two women were wounded by plastic bullets fired by RUC officers (see 1997 Coalisland attack). • 28 March 1997: an IRA unit lobbed two blast bombs at a joint RUC/British Army patrol in Roslea, County Fermanagh. • 29 March 1997: • a IRA bomb was discovered by a road and defused at Ballykinler British Army base, County Down. • 3 April 1997: the discovery of two bombs on main motorways in England following coded warnings by the IRA resulted in widespread disruption. • 6 April 1997: The British Grand National horse race at Aintree Racecourse was abandoned after the IRA warned that bombs had been planted in the area. No explosive devices were found. • a female RUC officer was shot and badly wounded by an IRA sniper firing from a vehicle in Derry City. • the IRA attacked two British border checkpoints near Rosslea, County Fermanagh, one at Killyvilly and the other at Clonatty Bridge. Both facilities were raked with sniper and automatic gunfire. • 14 April 1997: a civilian went into hiding after he was badly beaten in an IRA punishment attack in Derry. • 21 April 1997: IRA bomb hoaxes almost entirely closed down London's transport links. King's Cross, St. Pancras, Charing Cross, Paddington, Baker Street and all three railway stations at Watford junction were evacuated due to bomb alerts. Soon after alerts closed Gatwick, Stansted and parts of Heathrow airports. By 9:00 am, at the height of the rush hour, London was 'gridlocked' with a ten-mile (16 km) jam on the M25. • 25 April 1997: two bombs planted by the IRA blew up next to M6 motorway in central England. A 132,000 volt electricity pylon was damaged. • 29 April 1997: Britain's transport industry claimed minimum losses of £30 million after a series of IRA bomb alerts in southern England brought traffic to a standstill. May–July • 31 May 1997: a massive IRA landmine was discovered in Poleglass, West Belfast. The IRA said the device was intended for a British patrol but claimed the attack was abandoned due to the proximity of civilians to the ambush site. The firing mechanism was disabled and a warning phoned in. • 1 June 1997: several rifle rounds were fired at New Barnsley joint British Army-RUC base in West Belfast. There was speculation that the IRA were responsible, although the INLA were suspected also. • 2 June 1997: the IRA claimed they abandoned an anti-personnel bomb near Girdwood Barracks in the Antrim Road area of Belfast, following an attack aborted because of the presence civilians. • 5 June 1997: the IRA carried out a punishment attack with a sawn-off shotgun in the Markets area of Belfast. The victim later had his leg amputated. • 10 June 1997: the IRA carried out a gun attack on an undercover British Army unit in Derry. There were no reported injuries. • 25 June 1997: an IRA gun attack on an RUC patrol in the Dunmurry area of south Belfast was foiled by British security forces. One man was arrested and two AK-47 rifles recovered. The RUC initially raided the wrong house, firing CS gas canisters inside and putting a gun to the owners head. The RUC later apologised. • 26 June 1997: an IRA unit fired a rocket propelled grenade at an RUC armoured patrol in north Belfast. The rocket glanced off the vehicle and exploded in an empty building. • 6 July 1997: • the IRA carried out a number of blast-bomb and gun attacks on the RUC across Belfast City in the course of fierce riots which erupted in nationalist areas after the Orange Order was allowed to march on Drumcree (see 1997 nationalist riots in Northern Ireland). • an RUC patrol manning a mobile checkpoint on a bridge over the river Lagan in Lower Ormeau was engaged with an AK-47 rifle by a lone IRA volunteer, according to republican reports. • an IRA volunteer shot at a stationary RUC armoured vehicle beside the local RUC base in Coalisland, County Tyrone, seriously wounding a female RUC officer. • another Army base at the end of Lenadoon Avenue suffered a similar attack, according to republican sources. • an IRA active service unit exchanged fire with RUC/British Army forces setting up a checkpoint at Falls Road, according to republican sources. • a train near Lurgan, County Armagh, was boarded by seven IRA masked men and set on fire, destroying five carriages. In a crossing just 50 yards from the spot, eight men wearing combat jackets and balaclavas directed traffic for several hours. • 8 July 1997: • an RUC officer was shot in the arm and leg during unrest in the Garvaghy Road area of Portadown. • IRA militants firing automatic weapons beat off an attempt by British soldiers and RUC officers to regain control of the streets around a Catholic housing in North Belfast where rioters had erected barricades. • 9 July 1997: • a landmine was planted by the IRA near Dungannon, County Tyrone, where there was also a bomb alert. • 11 July 1997: • three British soldiers and two RUC officers were injured when the IRA launched a gun and bomb attack on their Saxon armoured vehicle at a checkpoint in Oldpark, North Belfast. • an IRA unit threw a blast bomb at an RUC patrol in the Suffolk area of Belfast. on waste land beside the base helipad. • 13 July 1997: the IRA claimed responsibility for shooting two men in the knees in Newry. They claimed the men were criminals who had been responsible for assaulting two members of Sinn Féin as well as stealing from local businesses. • 17 July 1997: Former IRA member and Sinn Féin councillor Paul Butler and "other republicans" claimed to have uncovered an abandoned British Army observation post concealed in a flat in the Summerhill area of Twinbrook, Belfast, The apartment was allegedly used during the riots to track the neighbours' movements. A number of British Army items was found. • 19 July 1997: the IRA declared a second ceasefire. They state that: "We have ordered the unequivocal restoration of the ceasefire of August 1994. All IRA units have been instructed accordingly". September–December • 12 September 1997: four IRA volunteers stopped a member of the Continuity IRA (CIRA) in Ardoyne and confiscated his gun. • an IRA volunteer assaulted and injured a Continuity IRA volunteer as he attempted to place a bomb in a bank in Derry City. • 10 December 1997: Liam Averill, an IRA volunteer, escaped from the Maze Prison by dressing up as a woman and boarding a coach which was transporting prisoners' families. ==1998==

• 9 February 1998: a convicted drug-dealer (Brendan Campbell) was shot dead by the IRA on Lisburn Road, Belfast. • 10 February 1998: The IRA was believed to be responsible for killing UDA member Bobby Dougan. Sinn Féin was temporarily excluded from peace talks as a result on 20 February. He had previously escaped an INLA assassination attempt in October 1993, and was shot and wounded by the IRA in April 1994. • 20 February 1998: A CIRA a 500 lb car bomb exploded outside the RUC base in Moira, County Down. Seven RUC officers and four civilians were hurt. Journalist Toby Harnden reported that the Provisional IRA South Armagh Brigade took part in the CIRA operation. • 10 March 1998: • the IRA were allegedly responsible for a fire bomb attack which destroyed the Derby House bar on Stewartstown Road, west Belfast. The RUC said masked men were seen at the bar at just before the explosion; the owner said a member of staff had been threatened by four men who said they were from the IRA and demanded to be let into the premises. • The Provisional IRA is suspected of firing six mortar bombs at an RUC base in Armagh city. Unionist politician David Trimble said the RUC believed there was some IRA involvement. • 19 July 1998: a civilian from New Lodge, Belfast (Andrew Kearney) was shot in the legs and died of his injuries. His family claimed he was killed by the IRA after he got the better of an IRA volunteer in a physical confrontation in North Belfast. • 21 November 1998: Gerard Moran, an alleged drug dealer was shot dead by the IRA in Dublin. ==1999==

• 27 January 1999: a former IRA volunteer and RUC informant (Eamon Collins) was found dead near Newry, shortly after testifying against Thomas "Slab" Murphy, leader of the South Armagh Brigade in a libel case with the Sunday Times. Collins was badly beaten and had a spike pushed through his face. • 9 May 1999: Brendan Fegan, a convicted drug dealer, was shot dead by the IRA in Newry. • 13 June 1999: Paul Downey, a drug dealer, was kidnapped from a hotel in Newry by an IRA unit. He was shot in the head and his lifeless body dumped near Beleek. • 30 July 1999: Charles Bennett was shot in a punishment attack outside a GAA club in West Belfast. He died of his injuries a short time later. The IRA is believed to have been responsible. It is believed he was suspected of stealing IRA weapons. ==See also==