What the records say
- When
- 13 Aug 1975
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 54.60° N, 5.95° W
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Bayardo Bar attack.
Summary
Bayardo Bar Attack: The PIRA carried out a gun and bomb attack on the Bayardo Bar on the Shankill Road in Belfast, a bar frequented by UVF commanders. Four Protestant civilians and one UVF member were killed.
Bayardo Bar attack
1975 terrorist attack in Northern Ireland
The Bayardo Bar attack took place on 13 August 1975 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A unit of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), led by Brendan McFarlane, launched a bombing and shooting attack on a pub on Aberdeen Street, in the loyalist Shankill area. IRA members stated the pub was targeted because it was frequented by members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).
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