The burning of the British Embassyin Dublin happened on 2 February 1972 at 39 Merrion Square.[1][2] This occurred during demonstrations outside the chancery by a very large and angry crowd (estimates vary between 20,000 and 100,000 people), following the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry on 30 January 1972, when the British Army's Parachute Regiment shot dead 14 unarmed Catholic civilians during a civil rights demonstration.[3]
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British EmbassyinDublin. Despite the strains in relations between the United Kingdom and Ireland inthe wake of those events, the then British Ambassador...
British EmbassyinDublin: Anti-British riots take place throughout Ireland. TheEmbassyofthe United Kingdom in Merrion Square, Dublin, is burned to the ground...
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methods of destruction (such as burningin public) or forbidding particular uses (such as for commercial purposes); such laws may distinguish between the desecration...
in Northern Ireland from 1969 to the late 1990s. In 1972, angry crowds inDublin burned down theBritishEmbassyin Merrion Square in protest at the shooting...
of anti-British sentiment was unleashed in Ireland and beyond. An angry crowd inDublin attacked theBritishembassy and burnt it to the ground. The Official...
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to the American Red Cross for humanitarian assistance. The society, having taken advice from U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, theBritishembassyin Washington...
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(including the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the Salman Rushdie affair, and the 2011 storming oftheBritishembassyin Tehran), Sweden served as the protecting...
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