The Grand Hotel's ruined facade hours after Patrick Magee's bomb detonated on the sixth floor in October 1984. (Dave Caulkin / Associated Press) Patrick Magee used bombs to kill people. That much is ...
Clearly, the publication of There Will Be Fire has been timed to coincide with the 25th anniversary this month of the Good Friday Agreement, which brought peace, however uneasy, to Northern Ireland.
Marking Margaret Thatcher’s 100th birthday, this tribute traces the grocer’s daughter from Grantham to Britain’s first female prime minister. It samples defining moments: her 1979 acceptance, promises ...
“Vey few tears” would have been shed in parts of the UK if the 1984 IRA Brighton bombing killed Margaret Thatcher, former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has claimed. The 1984 IRA bombing of the Grand ...
Patrick Magee used bombs to kill people. That much is simple. The more complicated question is whether he was just a murderer or whether the loyal member of the Irish Republican Army was a soldier ...
What if, Carroll asks, Thatcher's movements had been different during two crucial minutes in the small hours of Oct. 12, 1984? What if she had lingered in the bathroom of her suite, which was several ...
The IRA planted the bomb at the Grand Hotel, in the seaside resort of Brighton, targeting the British prime minister. There Will Be Fire, by... In 1984, Margaret Thatcher was nearly assassinated — a ...