See also: The Troubles in Ireland and Assassinations during the Troubles
Modern view of Balcombe Street, Marylebone. No. 22b, the building involved in the siege, is to the left.
The Balcombe Street siege was an incident involving members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and London's Metropolitan Police lasting from 6 to 12 December 1975. The siege ended with the surrender of the four IRA members and the release of their two hostages. The events were televised and watched by millions.[1]
The BalcombeStreetsiege was an incident involving members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and London's Metropolitan Police lasting from...
BalcombeStreet Gang was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) active service unit (ASU) (also known as the BalcombeStreet Four or the Balcombe Street...
inconsistencies between an account Blair gave of his involvement in the BalcombeStreetSiege on the night of 6 December 1975, and the recollections of others...
by IRA members who were subsequently arrested at the end of the BalcombeStreetSiege. Bishop, Patrick & Mallie, Eamonn (1987). The Provisional IRA. Corgi...
London's Downing Street by British prime minister John Major and the Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds. They delivered the Downing Street Declaration which...
England in 1974 and 1975 by Provisional IRA active service unit the BalcombeStreet Gang. The British Government reinstated the ban against the UVF in...
worsened, and the minority Catholic population there found itself under siege. Despite always having had Protestant friends, Sands suddenly found that...
Town Hall was completed in 1920. Marylebone was the scene of the BalcombeStreetsiege in 1975, when Provisional Irish Republican Army terrorists held...
the difference in outcomes between the Iranian Embassy siege and the 1975 BalcombeStreetsiege, in which the police negotiated the surrender of four Provisional...
specifically by part of the Active Service Unit apprehended at the BalcombeStreetSiege. Some of the Guildford Four were wrongfully charged with involvement...
themselves for six days in a flat on BalcombeStreet before they surrendered, an incident known as the BalcombeStreetSiege. They were sentenced to thirty...
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work of the infamous BalcombeStreet Gang who also carried out high-profile bombings in Knightsbridge, Piccadilly, Oxford Street, Woolwich, and many other...
our country and torture our prisoners and shoot our people in their own streets and get away with it. Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have...
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Sinn Féin and Fianna Éireann in 1964, after being radicalised by the Divis Street riots during that year's general election campaign. In the late 1960s, a...
Oyster Bar bombing Walton's Restaurant bombing Drummuckavall ambush BalcombeStreetsiege Kingsmill massacre West Ham station attack Olympia bombing Store...
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