Brighton hotel bombing

Brighton hotel bombing
Brighton hotel bombing
Part of the Troubles
	The Grand Hotel on the morning after the bombing
Location	Grand Hotel, Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
Coordinates	50°49′17″N 0°08′50″W / 50.82139°N 0.14722°W
Date	12 October 1984 ; 2:54 am (BST)
Target	Margaret Thatcher
Attack type	Bombing
Weapons	Time bomb
Deaths	5
Injured	31
Perpetrator	Provisional IRA

The Grand Hotel at night, 2006, the bomb damage occurred to the right of the area lacking balconies.

On 12 October 1984, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) attempted to assassinate members of the British government at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England. A long-delay time bomb was planted in the hotel by Patrick Magee before Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet arrived for the Conservative Party conference.^[2] Five people were killed, including the Conservative MP and Deputy Chief Whip Sir Anthony Berry, and a further 31 were injured. Thatcher narrowly escaped the explosion.^[3]^[4]

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^ Gareth Parry (10 June 1986). "Patrick Magee convicted of IRA terrorist attack". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 30 April 2007.
^ Charles Moore, Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith (2016) 2: 309–16
^ Kieran Hughes, Terror Attack Brighton – Blowing up the Iron Lady (2014).

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[GUARDIAN-3] Gareth Parry (10 June 1986). "Patrick Magee convicted of IRA terrorist attack". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 30 April 2007.

[4] Charles Moore, Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith (2016) 2: 309–16

[5] Kieran Hughes, Terror Attack Brighton – Blowing up the Iron Lady (2014).

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