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Date |
15 August 1998 |
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Location |
Omagh, Northern Ireland |
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Events |
A car bomb planted in the center of Omagh exploded on a busy Saturday shopping day, destroying a number of buildings and killing the largest number of people in any single incident during 30 years of the "Troubles". The Real IRA took responsibility for the attack, in protest at the peace process begun with the Good Friday Agreement. |
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Casualties |
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Injuries
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350 |
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Fatalities
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29 plus 2 unborn children |
Selected Materials From the TerrorismCentral Library
Governments of Ireland and the United Kingdom. The Good Friday Agreement. 1998.
Related Topics:
Real
IRA
Ireland
United Kingdom
Bibliography:
Geraghty, Tony. The Irish War: The Hidden Conflict Between the IRA and British Intelligence. Johns Hopkins, 1998, 2000
Holland, Jack. Hope Against History: The Course of Conflict in Northern Ireland. Henry Holt, 1999
McGarry, John. Northern Ireland and the Divided World: The Northern Ireland Conflict and the Good Friday Agreement in Comparative Perspective. Oxford University Press, 2001
Mulholland, Marc. The Longest War: Northern Ireland's Troubled History. Oxford University Press, 2002
O'Connor, Ulick. The Troubles: The Struggle for Irish Freedom 1912 - 1922. Mandarin, 1996
Ruane, Joseph, editor. After the Good Friday Agreement. Dufour Editions, 2000
Taylor, Peter. Beating the terrorists?: Interrogation at Omagh, Gough, and Castlereagh. Penguin,
Walsh, Dermot. Bloody Sunday and the Rule of Law in Northern Ireland. 2000
Links:
BBC News
In
Depth: The Omagh Bomb
Guardian Unlimited
Special
Report on Northern Ireland
The Irish Examiner
Mark Sage
There
Were Bodies Everywhere
The Irish Times
The Path to Peace
PBS Frontline
The IRA and Sinn Fein
A
Chronology of the IRA Campaign in the 20th Century
Telegraph
The
RUC Vindicated
University of Ulster
CAIN
Web Service