Strand Bar bombing

Strand Bar bombing
Strand Bar bombing
Part of the Troubles
Location	Anderson Street, Short Strand, Belfast
Date	12 April 1975 ; 8:12 pm
Target	Catholics
Attack type	Improvised bomb
Deaths	6
Injured	~50
Perpetrator	Red Hand Commando

The Strand Bar Bombing was a bomb attack on a pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 12 April 1975, during the Troubles. The Red Hand Commando (RHC), a loyalist paramilitary group, threw an improvised bomb into a pub frequented by Catholics in the Short Strand neighbourhood, killing six civilians and injuring about fifty others. It took place during a spate of tit-for-tat attacks by loyalists and Irish republican paramilitaries.^[1]^[2]^[3]

^ Cusack, Jim; McDonald, Henry (2008). UVF: The Endgame (Fully Revised & Upadated). Poolbeg Press Ltd. p. 107. ISBN 978-1842233269.
^ Wharton, Ken (15 July 2015). Wasted Years, Wasted Lives Volume 1: The British Army in Northern Ireland (Paperback ed.). Helion and Company. pp. 81–82. ISBN 9781910777411. Archived from the original on 23 September 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
^ gallagher, david. "UVF/ Red Hand Command sectarian bomb & gun attack on Strand Bar in Belfast kills six, 12 April 1975". Youtube. Retrieved 26 March 2022.

[1] Cusack, Jim; McDonald, Henry (2008). UVF: The Endgame (Fully Revised & Upadated). Poolbeg Press Ltd. p. 107. ISBN 978-1842233269.

[2] Wharton, Ken (15 July 2015). Wasted Years, Wasted Lives Volume 1: The British Army in Northern Ireland (Paperback ed.). Helion and Company. pp. 81–82. ISBN 9781910777411. Archived from the original on 23 September 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2022.

[3] r, david. "UVF/ Red Hand Command sectarian bomb & gun attack on Strand Bar in Belfast kills six, 12 April 1975". Youtube. Retrieved 26 March 2022.

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