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Central Bar bombing

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Central Bar bombing
Part of the Troubles
LocationGilford, County Down, Northern Ireland
Coordinates55°02′28″N 7°00′36″W / 55.041°N 7.010°W / 55.041; -7.010
Date31 December 1975 (GMT)
Attack type
Bombing
WeaponsTime bomb
Deaths3
Injured30
Perpetratorclaimed by "Armagh People's Republican Army" a covername for the Irish National Liberation Army
All Saints Church, Gilford, close to the bomb site

The Central Bar bombing was a bomb attack on a pub in the 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" although contemporary reports also said the "Armagh unit" of the "People's Republican Army" (the name under which the INLA operated throughout 1975) had claimed responsibility.[1] Three Protestant civilians were killed in the bombing.[2]

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Background

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) and a political wing called the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP).[3]

1975 was one of the worst years of "The Troubles" for attacks with civilian casualties with Loyalist paramilitaries carrying out attacks including the Strand Bar Bombing, the Miami Showband killings and the attacks at Donnellys bar and Kays tavern. And Republican paramilitaries carrying out attacks including the Mountainview Tavern attack, the Bayardo Bar and the Tullyvallen Orange Hall massacre. All of these attacks saw high numbers of civilian deaths and injuries.[4]

On 15 December 1975 the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) killed Ronald Trainor a 17-year-old member of the IRSP after a bomb attack on his house in Ballyoran Park in Portadown.[5][6]

The bombing

Henry MacDonald and Jack Holland said that it seemed the attack was in revenge for the killing of IRSP member Ronald Trainor two weeks earlier by the UVF.

On 31 December (New Year's Eve) 1975 an INLA unit planted a time bomb in a duffel bag in the Central Bar pub in the mainly Protestant town of Gilford near Portadown.

The bomb went off at around 21:00. The explosion killed three Protestant civilians, Richard Beattie (44), William Scott (28) and Sylvia McCullough (31) who died of her injuries the day after. Around 30 people were injured in the bombing and were taken to the Craigavon Area Hospital by ambulances.[2]

Conviction

A 29-year-old Portadown INLA member Francis Corry was given 4 life sentences in December 1979 for the three Central Bar killings and for that of 14-year-old Portadown boy, Thomas Rafferty killed by a booby-trap bomb in February 1976.[7][5]

Aftermath

On 5 January 1976, just six days after the bar bombing ten Protestant workmen were shot dead and one badly injured by a group calling itself the South Armagh Republican Action Force near Kingsmill in Armagh. This attack left 10 Protestant civilians dead. The night before that attack on the 4 January 1976, the UVF killed six Catholics in two separate attacks.[8]

See also

Sources

References

  1. ^ Belfast News Letter, 2 January 1976
  2. ^ a b Sutton, Malcolm. "CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths". cain.ulst.ac.uk.
  3. ^ Melaugh, Dr Martin. "CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1974". cain.ulst.ac.uk.
  4. ^ Melaugh, Dr Martin. "CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1975". cain.ulst.ac.uk.
  5. ^ a b Jack Holland & Henry McDonald, INLA – Deadly Divisions, 1994, p.83 - 84
  6. ^ Sutton, Malcolm. "CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths". cain.ulst.ac.uk.
  7. ^ Sutton, Malcolm. "CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths". cain.ulst.ac.uk.
  8. ^ "CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths". cain.ulster.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
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