How many people were killed in the Enniskillen bomb?

12
Remembrance Day bombing/Number of deaths
The Enniskillen bomb killed 12 people — including student nurse Marie (20) — and injured 68 others. The words of forgiveness from Marie’s father Gordon Wilson in a BBC interview hours after the bombing made worldwide headlines. No one has been convicted of the atrocity.

Was there a bomb in Enniskillen?

The Remembrance Day bombing (also known as the Enniskillen bombing or Poppy Day massacre) took place on 8 November 1987 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The bombing was strongly condemned by all sides and undermined support for the IRA and Sinn Féin.

Where was the Enniskillen bombing?

Enniskillen
Remembrance Day bombing/Location

What year was the Enniskillen bomb?

November 8, 1987
Remembrance Day bombing/Start dates

What happened at Enniskillen?

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. Former school principal Ronnie Hill, who was injured in the bomb, slipped into a coma two days after the explosion.

How did Gordon Wilson forgive?

Pivotal to the change in attitude towards this sort of attack was Wilson’s reaction to the death of his daughter. The 60-year-old draper publicly forgave those who had planted the bomb and said he would pray for them.

What happened to the Irish Republican Army?

After the end of the Irish Civil War (1922–23), the IRA was around in one form or another for forty years, when it split into the Official IRA and the Provisional IRA in 1969. It is now inactive in a military sense, while its political wing, Official Sinn Féin, became the Workers’ Party of Ireland.

Who won the IRA war?

The Civil War was won by the pro-treaty Free State forces, who benefited from substantial quantities of weapons provided by the British Government. The conflict may have claimed more lives than the War of Independence that preceded it, and left Irish society divided and embittered for generations.

What happened to Gordon Wilson?

Death. Wilson died of a heart attack in 1995, aged 67, just a few months after the death of his son, Peter, in a road accident. He was survived by his wife, Joan, and their daughter Julie-Anne.

Is Ireland still under British rule?

Ireland became a republic in 1949 and Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom.

What were the Free Staters fighting for?

Free-Staters was the name given to settlers in Kansas Territory during the “Bleeding Kansas” period in the 1850s who opposed the expansion of slavery. Many of the “free-staters” joined the Jayhawkers in their fight against slavery and to make Kansas a free state.

How many died in the Irish Civil War?