Remembrance Day bombing
1987 Provisional IRA terror attack in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Remembrance Day bombing (also known as the Enniskillen bombing or Poppy Day massacre)[1][2] took place on 8 November 1987 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. A Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb exploded near the town's war memorial (cenotaph) during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony, which was being held to commemorate British military war dead. Eleven people (10 civilians and a police officer) were initially killed, many of them elderly. A twelfth man was fatally wounded, entering a coma from which he would later die, and 63 were injured. The IRA said it had made a mistake and that its target had been the British soldiers parading to the memorial.
Remembrance Day bombing | |
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Part of the Troubles | |
Location | Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland |
Coordinates | 54°20′40″N 07°38′05″W |
Date | 8 November 1987; 36 years ago (1987-11-08) 10:43 (GMT) |
Attack type | Time bomb |
Deaths | 12 |
Injured | 63 |
Perpetrator | Provisional IRA |
The bombing was strongly condemned by all sides and undermined support for the IRA and Sinn Féin. It also facilitated the passing of the Extradition Act, which made it easier to extradite IRA suspects from the Republic of Ireland to the United Kingdom. Loyalist paramilitaries responded to the bombing with revenge attacks on Catholic civilians.[3] The bombing is often seen as a turning point in the Troubles,[3] an incident that shook the IRA "to its core",[4][5] and spurred on new efforts by Irish nationalists towards a political solution to the conflict.[6]