A Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb exploded near the town's war memorial 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.

Nov 8, 2024 · The Enniskillen bombing, one of the darkest days in Northern Ireland's Troubles, occurred on November 8, 1987, when the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a bomb during a...

Nov 8, 2020 · 12 people who lost their lives in IRA bombing in 1987 commemorated in Enniskillen, Fermanagh, town center in a crime that shocked the Republic.

Nov 8, 1997 · Sometime on the evening of Saturday, November 7th 1987, the IRA left a 40pound fertiliser bomb in the St Michael's Reading Rooms, a dilapidated building near the war memorial in Enniskillen.

Nov 7, 2017 · A look at the events of 8 November 1987, when 11 people died and more than 60 were injured in an IRA bomb attack at a war memorial in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. Wednesday marks the 30th...

On 8 November 1987 a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA exploded during Enniskillen's Remembrance Day parade, injuring Wilson and fatally injuring his daughter Marie, a nurse.

A bomb has exploded during a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, killing 11 people. It is the highest death toll in a terrorist attack in Northern Ireland for five...

Nov 22, 1987 · Yet that bombing, which killed 11 civilians in the little Northern Irish town of Enniskillen, has been the single worst public relations disaster for the IRA since the modern “Troubles” began...

Nov 8, 2017 · The IRA poppy day bombing 30 years ago blew a large, gaping hole in this community.

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...