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IRA

Great Britain · Government / Labour Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

7Records
1974–2005Date range
3Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1974

Harold Wilson25 November 1974

Government / Labour Party Government

The Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21, IRA bombs in British pubs killed 28 and wounded over 200 in the last 2 months

1978

Roy Mason18 January 1978

Belfast · Government / Labour Party Government

The IRA bomber suspects are rounded up

1997

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair20 July 1997

Government / Labour Party Government

The IRA restores its ceasefire

1998

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair8 September 1998

Government / Labour Party Government

The real IRA announce a ceasefire

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair1998

Government / Labour Party Government

Catholics are to suspend the goal of a united Ireland-a territorial claim that was the raison detre of the IRA and was written into the Irish Republics constitution, unless the largely Protestant North voted in favor o

2005

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair9 February 2005

Government / Labour Party Government

Apologizes to the Conlon and McGuire families wrongly convicted of 1974 IRA bombing

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair29 September 2005

Government / Labour Party Government

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) officially disarms in front of independent weapons inspectors

Names involved

Anthony Charles Lynton BlairHarold WilsonRoy Mason

Provenance

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