The Remembrance Day bombing (also known as the Enniskillen bombing or Poppy Day massacre) took place on 8 November 1987 in
Enniskillen
Enniskillen ( , from ga, Inis Ceithleann , 'Cethlenn, Ceithlenn's island') is the largest town in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is in the middle of the county, between the Upper and Lower sections of Lough Erne. It had a population of ...
,
County Fermanagh
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The county covers an area of 1,691 km2 (653 sq mi) and has a population of 61,805 a ...
,
Northern Ireland
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. A
Provisional Irish Republican Army
The Irish Republican Army (IRA; ), also known as the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and informally as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reun ...
(IRA) bomb exploded near
the town's war memorial (
cenotaph
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) during a
Remembrance Sunday
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ceremony, which was being held to commemorate
British military
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war dead. Eleven people (10
civilian
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s and a
police
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officer) were killed, many of them elderly, and 63 were injured. The IRA said it had made a mistake and that its target had been the British soldiers parading to the memorial.
The bombing was strongly condemned by all sides and undermined support for the IRA and
Sinn Féin
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The original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur Gri ...
. It also facilitated the passing of the Extradition Act, which made it easier to
extradite
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IRA suspects from the
Republic of Ireland
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to the
United Kingdom
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.
Loyalist
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paramilitaries responded to the bombing with revenge attacks on Catholic civilians.
[McKittrick, David. ''Lost Lives: The stories of the men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland Troubles''. Random House, 2001. pp.1094–1099] The bombing is often seen as a turning point in
the Troubles
The Troubles ( ga, Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it is sometimes described as an "i ...
,
[ an incident that shook the IRA "to its core",] and spurred on new efforts by Irish nationalists towards a political solution to the conflict.[Dawson, Graham. ''Making Peace with the Past?: Memories, Trauma and the Irish Troubles''. Manchester University Press, 2007. p.288]
Background and planning
The IRA said that the bombing was an attempt to kill British soldiers. It has also been suggested that it was partly a retaliation for the alleged harassment of republican memorial services by the security forces. A week before the bombing, the Royal Ulster Constabulary
The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001. It was founded on 1 June 1922 as a successor to the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC)Richard Doherty, ''The Thin Green Line – The History of the Royal ...
(RUC) clashed with mourners at the funeral of IRA members Eddie McSheffrey and Paddy Deery. When an IRA gunman fired a three-volley salute
The three-volley salute is a ceremonial act performed at military funerals and sometimes also police funerals. The custom originates from the European dynastic wars, in which the fighting ceased so that the dead and wounded could be removed. Af ...
over the coffins, police baton charge
A baton charge is a coordinated tactic for dispersing crowds of people, usually used by police or military in response to public disorder. In South Asia, a long bamboo stick, called ''lathi'' in Hindi, is used for crowd control, and the expressi ...
d and fired plastic bullet
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Plastic bullets are generally used for ...
s into the crowd. One of the coffins was knocked to the ground and a number of civilians and officers were injured.
The bombing was thought by the British and Irish security forces to have involved at least two IRA units, from both sides of the border. Although IRA units were given "a degree of operational autonomy" at the time, they believed that such a bombing must have been sanctioned by IRA Northern Command
Northern Command was a command division in the Irish Republican Army (1922–1969) and Provisional IRA, responsible for directing IRA operations in the northern part of Ireland.
IRA
The IRA had difficulty with cross-border communications between D ...
. However, a high-ranking IRA member said that it was suggested by IRA men at the local level and sanctioned by a "middle level" officer.["Police: IRA Planted Bomb in Town Near Enniskillen That Didn't Explode"]
(11 November 1987). Associated Press
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News Archive. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
Denzil McDaniel, author of ''Enniskillen: The Remembrance Sunday Bombing'', later interviewed security and IRA contacts, putting together an account of the bombers' movements. He wrote that the bomb was made in Ballinamore
Ballinamore (, meaning "mouth of the big ford") is a small town in County Leitrim, Ireland.
Etymology
, corrupted ''Bellanamore'', means "town at the mouth of the big ford", so named because it was a main crossing (ford) of the Yellow River. T ...
, County Leitrim
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, and brought to Enniskillen by up to thirty IRA members, moving in relay teams to avoid security patrols. It is thought to have taken over 24 hours to transport the bomb. On the night of 7 November, the bomb, hidden in a sports bag, was left at the gable wall inside the town's Reading Rooms, and set to explode at 10:43 am the next day,[House of Commons Official Report 9 November 1987 Column 19] minutes before the ceremony was to start. The security forces searched the route of the planned military parade for explosives, but did not search the Reading Rooms as it was thought to be a "secure area".
Explosion
The bomb exploded as a parade of Ulster Defence Regiment
The Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) was an infantry regiment of the British Army established in 1970, with a comparatively short existence ending in 1992. Raised through public appeal, newspaper and television advertisements,Potter p25 their offi ...
(UDR) soldiers was making its way to the memorial and as people waited for the ceremony to begin.[ It blew out the wall of the Reading Rooms, where many of the victims were standing, burying them under rubble and hurling masonry towards the gathered crowd.] Bystanders rushed to free those trapped underneath.
Eleven people were killed, including three married couples. The dead were Wesley and Bertha Armstrong (aged 62 and 55), Kit and Jessie Johnston (aged 71 and 62), William and Agnes Mullan (aged 74 and 73), John Megaw (67), Alberta Quinton (72), Marie Wilson (20), Samuel Gault (49) and Edward Armstrong (52).[ Edward Armstrong was a serving RUC officer and Gault had recently left the force. Gordon Wilson, whose daughter Marie died in the blast and who was himself injured, went on to become a peace campaigner and member of ]Seanad Éireann
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It is commonly called the Seanad or Senate and its memb ...
. The twelfth fatality, Ronnie Hill, died after spending 13 years in a coma (aged almost 69). Sixty-three people were injured, including thirteen children, some of them permanently. Ulster Unionist
The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a Unionism in Ireland, unionist political party in Northern Ireland. The party was founded in 1905, emerging from the Irish Unionist Alliance in Ulster. Under Edward Carson, it led unionist opposition to the I ...
politicians Sammy Foster and Jim Dixon were among the crowd; the latter received extensive head injuries but recovered. A local businessman captured the immediate aftermath of the bombing on video camera. His footage, showing the effects of the bombing, was broadcast on international television. All the victims were Protestant
Protestantism is a Christian denomination, branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Reformation, Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century agai ...
.
A few hours after the blast, the IRA called a radio station and said it had abandoned a bomb in , away, after it failed to detonate.[McDaniel, Denzil. ''Enniskillen: The Remembrance Sunday bombing''. Wolfhound Press, 1997. pp.119–120] That morning, a Remembrance Sunday parade (which included many members of the Boys' and Girls' Brigade
The Girls' Brigade is an international, interdenominational Christian youth organisation. It was founded in 1893 in Dublin, Ireland. The modern organization was formed as the result of the amalgamation of three like-minded and similarly structur ...
s) had unwittingly gathered near the Tullyhommon bomb.[ Soldiers and RUC officers had also been there,][ and the IRA said it attempted to trigger the bomb when soldiers were standing beside it.][ It was defused by ]security forces
Security forces are statutory organizations with internal security mandates. In the legal context of several nations, the term has variously denoted police and military units working in concert, or the role of military and paramilitary forces (s ...
and was found to have a command wire leading to a firing point across the border.[
]
Reactions
The IRA apologised, saying it had made a mistake and that the target had been the UDR soldiers who were parading to the memorial.
Denzil McDaniel, author of ''Enniskillen: The Remembrance Sunday Bombing'', commented: "I don't believe the IRA set out to specifically kill civilians. I think they made mistakes, probably with their intelligence on the timetable for the service, but the IRA was reckless about civilian life". RUC Detective Chief Superintendent Norman Baxter said: "Their intention was to inflict casualties. The only mistake in the operation was that the bomb went off before the parade arrived". Many Irish nationalists
Irish nationalism is a nationalist political movement which, in its broadest sense, asserts that the people of Ireland should govern Ireland as a sovereign state. Since the mid-19th century, Irish nationalism has largely taken the form of cu ...
and republicans were horrified by the bombing and described it as a blow to the republican cause. Sinn Féin's weekly newspaper, ''An Phoblacht
''An Phoblacht'' (Irish pronunciation: ; en, "The Republic") is a formerly weekly, and currently monthly newspaper published by Sinn Féin in Ireland. From early 2018 onwards, ''An Phoblacht'' has moved to a magazine format while remaining an ...
'', criticised the bombing, calling it a "monumental error" that would strengthen the IRA's opponents. The IRA disbanded the unit responsible.
The bombing led to an outcry among politicians in the Republic of Ireland
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and the United Kingdom
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. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
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said: "It's really desecrating the dead and a blot on mankind". The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
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, Tom King, denounced the "outrage" in the House of Commons
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, as did the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs
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, Brian Lenihan in Dáil Éireann
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(the lower house of the Oireachtas
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*The President of Ireland
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, the Republic's legislature), while in Seanad Éireann
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It is commonly called the Seanad or Senate and its memb ...
Senator Maurice Manning
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spoke of people's "total revulsion". Many public figures used terms such as "barbarism" and "savagery" to describe the bombing.
The bombing was seen by many Northern Irish Protestants as an attack on them, and loyalist
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paramilitaries retaliated with attacks on Catholic civilians. The day after, five Catholic teenagers were wounded in a shooting in Belfast
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, and a Protestant teenager was killed by the Ulster Defence Association
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after being mistaken for a Catholic. In the week after the bombing, there were 14 gun and bomb attacks on Catholics in Belfast.
Irish band U2 were holding a concert in Denver
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, Colorado, US the same day. During a performance of their song "Sunday Bloody Sunday
"Sunday Bloody Sunday" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the opening track from their 1983 album ''War'' and was released as the album's third single on 21 March 1983 in the Netherlands and West Germany. "Sunday Bloody Sunday" is noted f ...
", singer Bono
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Born and raised in Dublin, he attended M ...
passionately condemned the bombing, stating "fuck the revolution" in his mid-song speech, as well as criticising the armchair republicanism of many Irish-Americans
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and stating that the majority of people in his country did not want "the revolution". The footage is included in U2's rockumentary
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Early history
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''Rattle and Hum
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''. Simple Minds
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had a number 1 single in the UK with "Belfast Child
"Belfast Child" is a song by Simple Minds, first released as the lead track on the ''Ballad of the Streets'' EP on 6 February 1989. The EP also included "Mandela Day" (originally its B-side). The record reached number one on the UK Singles Cha ...
", inspired by the bombing.
Long-term results
At the time, the British and Irish governments were negotiating an Extradition Act that would make it easier to extradite
Extradition is an action wherein one jurisdiction delivers a person accused or convicted of committing a crime in another jurisdiction, over to the other's law enforcement. It is a cooperative law enforcement procedure between the two jurisdict ...
IRA suspects from the Republic to the UK.[Seakamp, Gail]
"Impasse on Irish extradition"
''The Glasgow Herald
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'', 13 October 1987. The Act was to come before the Irish parliament less than a month after the bombing. The Irish government wanted the British to reform the justice system in Northern Ireland (such as by abolishing "Diplock courts
Diplock courts were criminal courts in Northern Ireland for non-jury trial of specified serious crimes ("scheduled offences"). They were introduced by the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1973, used for political and terrorism-relat ...
") before it would pass the Act. Many in the Republic insisted that the Act should only be passed after the reforms took place. However, after the bombing, opposition to the Act dwindled and it was passed by the Irish Parliament, albeit with some changes.
The bombing is often seen as a turning point in the Troubles. It undermined support for the IRA's campaign, both locally and internationally. Crucially, the Gaddafi regime in Libya withdrew its support and with it the supply of weapons and ammunition to the IRA.[BBC History – Enniskillen bombing](_blank)
Retrieved 14 January 2021. The bombing also harmed Sinn Féin's electoral support. In 1989, in the first local elections held after the bombing, Sinn Féin lost four of its eight seats on Fermanagh District Council
Fermanagh District Council was a local council in Northern Ireland. It was created out of Fermanagh County Council and later merged with Omagh District Council in April 2015 under local government reorganisation to become Fermanagh and Omagh Di ...
and was overtaken by the SDLP
The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) ( ga, Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre) is a social-democratic and Irish nationalist political party in Northern Ireland. The SDLP currently has eight members in the Northern Irelan ...
as the biggest Irish nationalist party there. It was not until 2001, fourteen years after the bombing, that Sinn Féin support returned to its 1985 level. The bombing drove new efforts by Irish nationalists towards a political solution to the conflict. It led to the resumption of talks between Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams
Gerard Adams ( ga, Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh; born 6 October 1948) is an Irish republican politician who was the president of Sinn Féin between 13 November 1983 and 10 February 2018, and served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Louth from 2011 to 2020 ...
and SDLP leader John Hume
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, paving the way for formal talks between the two parties and the beginnings of the Northern Ireland peace process
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. In 1997, Adams apologised for the bombing on behalf of the republican movement.
Enniskillen's Remembrance Day service was re-staged two weeks after the bombing, and attended by about 5,000 people, including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
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. The site of the bomb, which was owned by the Catholic Church
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, was rebuilt as The Clinton Centre
The Clinton Centre is situated on the site of the Remembrance Day bombing on 8 November 1987 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland when the Provisional Irish Republican Army murdered 12 and injured 63 with a time bomb. Former Presi ...
, a youth hostel, in 2002. The hostel was opened by and named after former US President
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United Stat ...
Bill Clinton
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.
Letter released under thirty-year rule
Under the thirty-year rule
The "thirty-year rule" is the informal name given to laws in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and the Commonwealth of Australia that provide that certain government documents will be released publicly thirty years after they were creat ...
, a letter sent after the bombing was released by the Irish Government. The author was anonymous but claimed to be working for MI5
The Security Service, also known as MI5 ( Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Go ...
, and the letter was sent to then Tánaiste
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and Minister for Foreign Affairs
A foreign affairs minister or minister of foreign affairs (less commonly minister for foreign affairs) is generally a cabinet minister in charge of a state's foreign policy and relations. The formal title of the top official varies between coun ...
, Brian Lenihan. Without providing any evidence, it claimed that MI5 had advance knowledge of the Remembrance Day bombing but allowed it to go ahead, so that the public could turn against the Provisional IRA and new security measures could be justified.
See also
*Timeline of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions
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Timelines can use any suitable scale representi ...
*List of massacres in Ireland
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