"mark its 175th anniversary in 2007. Carlton Club The Carlton Club is a London private members' club which describes itself as ""the original home of the Conservative Party before the days of Conservative Central Office"". Membership of the club is by nomination and election only. The club was founded in 1832, by Tory peers, MPs and gentlemen, as a place to coordinate party activity after the party's defeat over the First Reform Act. It later played a major role in the transformation of the Tory party into its modern form as the Conservative Party. The club lost its role as"
"Conservative Party Central Office in London, injuring several people but none seriously. A few weeks later IRA bombs went off at King's Cross & Euston stations causing 13 injuries and wide spread damage, and panic in central London. From then on IRA bombs became a regular occurrence in London and other major English cities. By 1974, mainland Britain saw an average of one attack - successful or otherwise - every three days. These attacks included five explosions in Birmingham on 14 July which were possibly the first main attacks on the Midlands. It is believed Republican Brian Keenan was in"
"inside a British Army base at Hanover, West Germany. 25 June 1990 a IRA bomb exploded at the Carlton Club in London, injuring 20 people. One of the wounded, Conservative politician Lord Kaberry, died of his injuries on 13 March 1991. As of 2018, no-one had been arrested for the murder. Lichfield gun attack The Lichfield gun attack was an ambush carried out by the Provisional IRA (PIRA) on 3 June 1990 against three off-duty British soldiers who were waiting at Lichfield City railway station in Staffordshire. The attack resulted in one soldier being killed and two others badly wounded."
"Brighton hotel bombing The Brighton hotel bombing was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) assassination attempt against the top tier of the British government that occurred on 12 October 1984 at the Grand Brighton Hotel in Brighton, England. A long-delay time bomb was planted in the hotel by IRA member Patrick Magee, with the purpose of killing Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet, who were staying at the hotel for the Conservative Party conference. Although Margaret Thatcher narrowly escaped the blast, five people connected with the Conservative Party were killed, including a sitting Conservative MP, and 31 were injured."
"While such occupation continues, and the Nationalist people face daily oppression, the policy makers and their military arm will not be safe."" The attack was part of the IRA's escalating campaign that started in early 1990 and which had claimed two lives and 27 injuries since May that year. Tory MP for Fulham Matthew Carrington called the attack very ""worrying"" as it was a non-military target, suggesting a dangerous tactic from the IRA against members of the public. The bomb contained 15 lb of Semtex explosives. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher arrived at the club shortly after the bombing and spoke"
"am on 15 June 2006, a candle was lit at a memorial held at Manchester Cathedral to mark the tenth anniversary of the bombing. 1996 Manchester bombing The 1996 Manchester bombing was an attack carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on Saturday 15 June 1996. The IRA detonated a Lorry bomb on Corporation Street in the centre of Manchester, England. The biggest bomb detonated in Great Britain since World War II, it targeted the city's infrastructure and economy and caused devastating damage, estimated by insurers at £700 million (equivalent to £ in ) – only surpassed by"
"Deal barracks bombing The Deal barracks bombing was an attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on the Royal Marine Depot, Deal, England. It took place at 8:22 am on 22 September 1989, when the IRA exploded a time bomb at the Royal Marines School of Music building. The building collapsed, killing 11 marines from the Royal Marines Band Service and wounding another 21. The Royal Marines School of Music is a professional training centre for musicians of the Royal Marines Band Service, the musical arm of the Royal Navy. Originally created at Portsmouth in 1930, it moved to"
"front of the club as a publicity stunt in 1951. He also died in the club during a debate held there on 12 December 1952, with his last word being ""Freedom."" It was at a debate at the club in 1971 that Yale professor James Tobin first publicly voiced his proposal for a ""Tobin tax"" on financial transactions. In addition to the Blitz bombing in 1941, the club also sustained an attack from an IRA bomb at 12 past midnight on 22 December 1973 (as part of a concerted Christmas bombing campaign) which blew open the front door and gashed"
"Brook's Club bombing The Brook's Club bomb attack occurred on 22 October 1974 on St James's Street in London. The Provisional Irish Republican Army's Active Service Unit nicknamed the ""Balcombe Street Gang"" threw a 5 lb (2.27 kg) bomb into an empty dining room causing extensive damage and injuring three members of staff of the Brook's gentlemans club. The attacks occurred just two weeks after the ASU began its bombing campaign with the Guildford pub bombings which killed 5, 1 civilian and 4 soldiers and injured over 60 others. The Northern Ireland Troubles had been raging since August 1969. The"
"IRA bomb factories were found in Greater Manchester and five men were imprisoned for planning attacks in North West England. On 4 December 1992, the IRA detonated two small bombs in Manchester city centre, forcing police to evacuate thousands of shoppers. More than 60 were hurt by shattered glass and the blasts cost an estimated £10 million in damage and business losses. The Downing Street Declaration of 1993 allowed Sinn Féin, a political party associated with the IRA, to participate in all-party peace negotiations on condition that the IRA called a ceasefire. The IRA called a ceasefire on 31 August"
"1975 Piccadilly bombing On Thursday 9 October 1975, a bomb attack just outside Green Park Underground station in the City of Westminster, London, left one man dead and injured 20 others. The attack was carried out by terrorists from the Provisional IRA's Balcombe Street Gang. The attack occurred during a period of heightened activity by the IRA in England and in particular London. The Irish Troubles, the religious and political conflict in Northern Ireland, had been ongoing since the late 1960s. The conflict greatly intensified after January 1972 when British paratroopers shot dead 14 Irish nationalists and injured 14 others"
"2001 Ealing bombing On 3 August 2001, the Real IRA, a dissident Irish republican organisation and splinter of the Provisional IRA, detonated a car bomb containing 100 lb (45 kg) of homemade plastic explosives in Ealing Broadway, West London, England. The bomb was in a grey Saab 9000 near the train station, restaurants and pubs, which exploded shortly after midnight, injuring seven people. Debris caused by the bomb spread more than . The bomb was timed to target leaving karaoke pub-goers - but whilst most escaped injury, the explosion still caused significant damage to property, estimated to be around £200,000."
"conviction in our cause and methods. The IRA continued bombing targets in England. A week after the Chelsea bombing the IRA seriously injured Lieutenant-General Sir Steuart Pringle when they exploded a booby-trap bomb under his car. Pringle lost his right leg, but he eventually survived his injuries. On 26 October 1981 Kenneth Howorth a police explosives officer was killed trying to defuse an IRA bomb placed in a Wimpy Bar in Oxford Street, London. A month later on 23 November 1981 a bomb exploded at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich injuring two people. A year later, on 20 July"
"soldiers and wounding some 50 soldiers and civilians (see Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings). In 1984, in the Brighton hotel bombing, the IRA tried to assassinate British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. She survived, but five people including Sir Anthony Berry, a Conservative Party Member of Parliament, Eric Taylor, the northwest party chairman, and three wives (Muriel Maclean, Jeanne Shattock, and Roberta Wakeham) of party officials were killed. Margaret Tebbit, wife of Norman Tebbit, was left permanently disabled. On several more occasions, the Provisional IRA attacked British troops stationed in Great Britain, the most lethal of which"
"talks with the British government. The IRA responded to Loyalist attacks with sectarian attacks on Protestant owned pubs & business, usually using a covername like the South Armagh Republican Action Force or simply just Republican Action Force. The other Irish Republican paramilitary group the Irish National Liberation Army also responded to the Loyalist sectarian campaign with attacks on Protestant pubs as well, using the covername Armagh People's Republican Army. Red Lion Pub bombing The Red Lion Pub bombing was a bomb attack that happened on 2 November 1971, when a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA's Belfast Brigade exploded in"
"1996 Manchester bombing The 1996 Manchester bombing was an attack carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on Saturday 15 June 1996. The IRA detonated a Lorry bomb on Corporation Street in the centre of Manchester, England. The biggest bomb detonated in Great Britain since World War II, it targeted the city's infrastructure and economy and caused devastating damage, estimated by insurers at £700 million (equivalent to £ in ) – only surpassed by the 2001 September 11 attacks and the 1993 Bishopsgate bombing in terms of financial cost. The IRA had sent telephoned warnings about 90 minutes"
"Republican Army (IRA). He was on Thatcher's team when the IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton in 1984, but was not injured. In 1990 the IRA bombed West Green House, a mansion in Hartley Wintney, where he had lived just weeks before, and where in the past Thatcher had been a guest. In the mid 1980s, for reasons of safety and tax, McAlpine decided to move to Monaco and Venice. Before his departure he had sold many of his possessions at Sotheby's. McAlpine was deputy chairman of the party from 1979 to 1983. After Thatcher left in 1990, he"
"affair with a senior UDA man, who was married to one of the unit's members. She had also made defamatory remarks about her lover's wife. On 30 January 1976, the Provisional IRA exploded a car bomb outside the Klondyke Bar on the corner of McAdam Street. John Smiley, a middle-aged Protestant civilian was killed outright in the blast. Many people inside the pub suffered serious injuries including a barmaid who lost an eye, Vina Galaway. Less than two years before the attack, the Klondyke Bar was the subject of a photographic essay by Bill Kirk in a series of photographs"
"1982, two bombs killed 11 British soldiers and injured 50 soldiers and civilians during the Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings. This was the deadliest IRA attack against the British Army in England during The Troubles. In December 1983 six people were killed and 90 injured in London when an IRA car bomb exploded outside Harrods. The IRA's most notable attack in Britain on that period occurred in Brighton in October 1984 when they killed five people and injured dozens during the Brighton hotel bombing which was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. In 1986, Paul Kavanagh"
"Viscount Castlereagh MP, W. S. Blackstone MP, the Hon. Captain Duncombe MP, Thomas Hawkes MP, W. A. Mackinnon MP, John Neeld MP, P. D. Pauncefort Duncombe, Charles Hopkinson, and Thomas Walford. At first, the club met in the Lansdowne Hotel in Dover Street, before taking up rooms in the Royal Hotel at 88 St. James's Street, until the clubhouse's 1845 completion. The clubhouse was designed by George Basevi and Sydney Smirke. In 1941, the non-political Bath Club was hit by a bomb, and after several moves to temporary accommodation, they were granted the hospitality of the Conservative Club. As the"
"Conservative Monday Club The Conservative Monday Club (usually known as the Monday Club) is a British political pressure group, aligned with the Conservative Party, though no longer endorsed by it. It also has links to the Democratic Unionist Party and Ulster Unionist Party. Founded in 1961, in the belief that the Macmillan ministry had taken the party too far to the left, the club became embroiled in the decolonisation and immigration debate, inevitably highlighting the controversial issue of race, which has dominated its image ever since. By 1971, the club had 35 MPs, six of them ministers, and 35 peers,"
"26th anniversary of the bombing, following a restoration of the stone by the school's Year 6 pupils, the school held a rededication service to mark the role played by the Royal Marines in the town. No one has ever been arrested or convicted in connection with the Deal bombing. Deal barracks bombing The Deal barracks bombing was an attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on the Royal Marine Depot, Deal, England. It took place at 8:22 am on 22 September 1989, when the IRA exploded a time bomb at the Royal Marines School of Music building. The building"
"1975 Central Bar bombing The Central Bar bombing was a bomb attack on a pub in the mainly Protestant town of Gilford near Portadown in County Down in Northern Ireland on 31 December 1975. The attack was carried out by members of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) using the covername "" People's Republican Army"". Three Protestant civilians were killed in the bombing. A lot of members of the Official IRA (OIRA) were not happy with a ceasefire the group called in 1972 and in December 1974 the dissenters in the OIRA set up the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA)"
"attacks. And the fourth took place at Brooks club, in St James's Square in London on 22 October an attack which injured three people. Two weeks later, on 7 November 1974, the same IRA ASU bombed the Kings Arm pub in Woolwich, killing a soldier and a barman in the explosion and injuring over 30 people, many of them seriously. Harrow School bombing The Harrow School bombing happened on 24 October 1974, when the Provisional IRA's Balcombe Street Gang bombed Peterborough Cottage, a three-storey former caretaker's house in the grounds of Harrow School. A warning was given and there were"
"soldiers) and injured 54, as well as the bombing of a pub in Woolwich, which killed another two people and injured 28. On 21 November 1974, two pubs were bombed in the Birmingham pub bombings (an act widely attributed to the IRA, but not claimed by them), which killed 21 civilians and injured 162. An inadequate warning was given for one bomb and no warning for the other. There were no military targets associated with either of the pubs. The Guildford Four and Maguire Seven, and the Birmingham Six, were imprisoned for the Guildford and Birmingham bombings, respectively, but each"
"had been emptied to make way for a wedding reception earlier that day. The IRA's bombing campaign in London would continue their campaign killing several more people and injuring dozens more in bomb and gun attacks. The worst of these was the bombing at Walton's restaurant in November which killed 2 people and injured over 20 others. The active service unit was caught at the siege of Balcombe Street in December 1975 ending its campaign in London. 1975 Piccadilly bombing On Thursday 9 October 1975, a bomb attack just outside Green Park Underground station in the City of Westminster, London,"
"Irish Republican Army (IRA) carried out the 1996 Manchester bombing, the detonation of a large bomb next to a department store in the city centre. The largest to be detonated on British soil, the bomb injured over 200 people, heavily damaged nearby buildings, and broke windows away. The cost of the immediate damage was initially estimated at £50 million, but this was quickly revised upwards. The final insurance payout was over £400 million; many affected businesses never recovered from the loss of trade. Spurred by the investment after the 1996 bomb, and aided by the XVII Commonwealth Games, Manchester's city"
"the British government and its forces in England"". Five days prior, the IRA bombed the Royal Army Educational Corps headquarters in Eltham which injured five civilians. The attacks were part of the start of a new bombing campaign in London. Chapman is buried at Darlington Crematorium. 1990 Wembley bombing The Provisional IRA (PIRA) planted a bomb underneath a minibus at an army recruiting centre in Wembley, northwest London on 16 May 1990, killing a soldier and injuring four others. The dead victim was the van's driver, 34-year-old Sergeant Charles Chapman from the Queen's Regiment, a father of two. The injured"
"in the men's restroom behind the gallery. The gallery and public viewing area was forced to close in 1992. The bombing came on the eighth anniversary of the 1983 Harrods bombing which killed three people. The IRA launched a renewed campaign in London in 1990. During May, a soldier at an army recruiting centre was killed by a bomb in Wembley, whilst five were injured in a similar explosion in Eltham. In June 1990 bombs at the Honourable Artillery Company and the Carlton Club injured 19 and 20 people respectively. Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist chief George Churchill-Coleman said eight phone calls"
"The Conservative Monday Club, a far-right group within the Conservative Party, was formed in 1961. Its stated aim was ""to safeguard the liberty of the subject and integrity of the family in accordance with the customs, traditions, and character of the British people"". They expressed general opposition to post-colonial states and immigration, as well as support for hard-line loyalism in Northern Ireland. The NF quickly grew to be the biggest British far right party in the UK. It polled 44% in a local election in Deptford, London, and finished third in three by-elections, although these results were atypical of the"
"who recoiled from the carnage the bombing had wrought. The IRA followed the Donegall Street attack two days later with a carbomb at a carpark adjacent to Great Victoria Street railway station and close to the Europa Hotel. Although seventy people were treated in hospital for injuries received mainly by flying glass, there were no deaths. The blast caused considerable damage to two trains, parked vehicles, the hotel, and other buildings in the area. On 24 March, to the profound shock and anger of loyalists and Unionists, British Prime Minister Edward Heath announced the suspension of the 50-year-old Stormont parliament"
"Gone"", features his RUC detective hero Sean Duffy trying to prevent the Brighton bombing. Brighton hotel bombing The Brighton hotel bombing was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) assassination attempt against the top tier of the British government that occurred on 12 October 1984 at the Grand Brighton Hotel in Brighton, England. A long-delay time bomb was planted in the hotel by IRA member Patrick Magee, with the purpose of killing Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet, who were staying at the hotel for the Conservative Party conference. Although Margaret Thatcher narrowly escaped the blast, five people connected with"
"Abercorn Restaurant bombing The Abercorn Restaurant bombing was a PIRA bombing that took place in a crowded city centre restaurant and bar in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 4 March 1972. The bomb explosion claimed the lives of two young women and injured over 130 people. Many of the injuries were severe and included the loss of limbs and eyes. The Provisional IRA was blamed, although no organisation ever claimed responsibility and nobody was ever charged in connection with the bombing. According to Ed Moloney, an Irish journalist who has written extensively about the IRA, republican sources have unofficially confirmed the"