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	Birmingham Pub Bombing - The Birmingham Six were Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, ...
		Birmingham Pub Bombing - The Birmingham Six were Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William Power and John Walker.
		The Birmingham bombings were credited to the Provisional IRA, although the group denied this two days later.
		The devices were placed in two central Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush, at the foot of the Rotunda, and the Tavern in the Town, a basement pub on New Street.
	www.birminghamuk.com /wikipedia/Birmingham_pub_bombing.htm (643 words)

	Birmingham Six - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although the Balcombe Street Gang admitted responsibility for the bombings which led to the wrongful imprisonment of the Maguire Seven and the Guildford Four, the perpetrators of the Birmingham bombings were never revealed.
		The Birmingham bombings were attributed to the Provisional IRA, although the group denied this two days later (they eventually conceded that they were responsible).
		The devices were placed in two central Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush (later renamed, then redeveloped in 2003 as a tourist information office), at the foot of the Rotunda, and the Tavern in the Town, a basement pub on New Street (later renamed the Yard of Ale).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Birmingham_pub_bombing (951 words)

	Birmingham pub bombings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Birmingham pub bombings were two pub bombings by the Provisional IRA in Birmingham, England on November 21, 1974 which killed 21 people.
		The bombings were in revenge for a ban on a local funeral for James McDade, an IRA member who was killed a week earlier when the bomb he was placing in Coventry city center detonated prematurely.
		The Birmingham Six were accused of carrying out the attack, convicted and spent years in jail before they had their convictions overturned.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Birmingham_Pub_Bombings (263 words)

	Birmingham pub bombings Information
		At 20:14 a man with an Irish accent telephoned the Birmingham Post newspaper and said that there was a bomb in the 17 story Rotunda office block housing the Mulberry Bush pub.
		Collectively, the attacks were the most injurious terrorist attacks in England until the July 2005 London bombings; 21 people were killed (ten at the Mulberry Bush and eleven at the Tavern in the Town) and 182 people were injured.
		Six innocent people, the Birmingham Six, were later accused of carrying out the attack, convicted and served sixteen years in jail before they had their convictions overturned due to malicious police tampering with evidence.
	www.bookrags.com /Birmingham_pub_bombings (281 words)

	INNOCENT - Birmingham Six
		It has been reported that Hill, the best known of the Birmingham Six who were wrongly convicted of planting the pub bombs that killed 21 people in 1974, is to receive £1m compensation.
		By the time he was set up for the pub bombings, he had 17 convictions, mainly for violence.
		A former Conservative MP apologised to the Birmingham Six at the High Court in London yesterday after claiming in an interview that they were guilty, even though they had been cleared by the Court of Appeal.
	www.innocent.org.uk /cases/birmingham6 (3476 words)

	BIRMINGHAM SIX FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In a famous miscarriage_of_justice they were sentenced to life_imprisonment in 1975 for two pub bombings in Birmingham, England on November_21, 1974 that killed 21 people.
		The Birmingham bombings were attributed to the Provisional_IRA, although the group denied this two days later (they eventually conceded that they were responsible).
		Five of the men, Hill, Hunter, McIlkenny, Power and Walker, had left the city on the early evening of November_21 from New Street Station, some hours prior to the explosions, to travel to Belfast to attend the funeral of James_McDade, an IRA member who had accidentally killed himself while planting a bomb in Coventry.
	www.witwik.com /Birmingham_Six (949 words)

	CAIN: Events: Birmingham Six: Fr. Denis Faul and Fr. Raymond Murray. (1976) The Birmingham Framework: Six innocent men ...
		Any human being who studies the outrage of the Birmingham pub bombings must experience compassion and sorrow for the deceased and their relatives and for the injured and their families.
		But the Birmingham jury yesterday decided that the 14 men in the dock, many of whom had been in the reception area that day, were not the men who inflicted fl eyes and cuts on the Irishmen’s faces.
		Only the Provisionals can now say whether the bombings were done by men acting on their own Initiative or under orders, who may have gone for a dreadfully ‘overkill’ bombing or who may have hopelessly bungled the whole operation with inept warning phone calls.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /events/other/1974/faul76.htm (9666 words)

	Birmingham 6
		In the immediacy of the situation, reeling from the searing horror of the bomb blasts, the police jumped to conclusions.
		Murray is the only one of the team responsible for the Birmingham pub bombings to have been captured, captured but, since he was never charged with the offence, not brought to justice.
		As regards the Birmingham bombs case, the crux of the matter was now indubitably the "confessions".
	www.portia.org /chapter10/bmpub.html (8904 words)

	icBirmingham - Pub bombings rally to be held in secret (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A public rally by Loyalists on the 30th anniversary of the Birmingham pub bombings is to be held at a secret venue today after fears of clashes with rival groups.
		But it was refused permission by the cathedral while West Midlands Police and Birmingham City Council also discouraged the BUA from holding the event in any other public place for fear of the disruption it could cause.
		Maureen Mitchell, a survivor of the pub bombings and a member of the Glencree Centre for Reconciliation, a support group for people closely linked to the history of Northern Ireland troubles, said she would prefer the rally not to take place at all.
	icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=14894131&method=full&siteid=50002&headline=pub-bombings-rally-to-be-held-in-secret-name_page.html (364 words)

	Articles - Provisional Irish Republican Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		On at least two occasions, at Birmingham and Guildford, bombings of pubs (on the basis that they were used by British soldiers) caused large-scale civilian loss of life.
		The IRA had an official policy of bombing only targets in England (not the Celtic countries of Scotland and Wales), although they detonated a bomb at an oil terminal in the Shetland Isles in 1981 while Queen Elizabeth II was performing the official opening of the terminal.
		The motive for the bombing was that the pub attacked was frequented by off-duty, unarmed soldiers.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army?mySession=d336caf968ef20ed24e1689cc923deaa (6263 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| IRA should apologise for pub bombings: Sinn Fein
		Sinn Fein today backed calls for the IRA to apologise for the Birmingham pub bombings, which were carried out 30 years ago this week, killing 21 people and injuring almost 200 more.
		The attack on the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town pubs in the city centre on November 21, 1974 was one of the worst atrocities carried out by the IRA on the British mainland.
		Sinn Fein responded positively to his suggestion, saying that if "issues relating to the IRA concerning the Birmingham bombings are still to be addressed, then it is very clearly the Sinn Fein position that this should happen".
	www.guardian.co.uk /Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1354425,00.html (435 words)

	OUT OF THE ASHES '69 :: SAY HELLO TO THE PROVOS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Due to its frequent use of bombs, its killing of hundreds of policemen, soldiers and civilians, predominantly though not exclusively in Northern Ireland, its alleged role in racketeering and the fact that the slight Unionist (or Loyalist) majority in Northern Ireland want British rule, it is generally described as a terrorist group
		PIRA bombing campaigns have been conducted against rail and London Underground (subway) stations, pubs and shopping areas on the island of Great Britain, and a British military facility on Continental Europe.
		The motive for the bombing was apparently that the pub attacked was frequented by soldiers.
	www.freewebs.com /provos_1969/provisionalira.htm (3560 words)

	Independent Catholic News
		Archbishop Vincent Nichols gave the following homily yesterday afternoon at St Philip's Anglican Cathedral in Birmingham during a memorial service to mark the 30th anniversary of the Birmingham pub bombings.
		Peter Jennings writes: After a moving and prayerful 45-minute service, the Dean of Birmingham, the Very Reverend Gordon Mursell, and Archbishop Vincent Nichols, accompanied the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Councillor, Michael Nangle, outside to the stone memorial in the Cathedral grounds where he laid a wreath in memory of the 21 victims.
		Archbishop Nichols helped an elderly lady, Mrs Bridget Reilly from Birmingham, originally from Donegal, Southern Ireland, whose two sons, Eugene and Desmond were killed in the Birmingham pub bombings thirty years ago, on Thursday 21 November 1974.
	www.indcatholicnews.com /bhambomb.html (1604 words)

	Service Marks IRA Pub Bombings - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A memorial service is being held in Birmingham to remember the victims of the IRA pub bombings 30 years ago.
		Survivors of the bombs, in which 21 people died and 200 were injured, have called on the IRA to apologise.
		The bombings were blamed on the IRA and led to reprisal attacks on the city's large Irish community.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=27594 (1197 words)

	Irish News UK - News from the Irish Community in Britain
		A TV crew is putting the finishing touches to a new documentary to mark the 30th anniversary of the Birmingham pub bombings.
		The bombings were said to be in retaliation for a ban on a local funeral for James McDaid — a member of the IRA who had been killed a week previously when a bomb he was placing in Coventry exploded prematurely.
		The explosions led to the worst backlash the Irish community in Birmingham had ever experienced — and also one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British legal history when six men were later wrongfully jailed for the bombings.
	www.irishabroad.com /news/irishpost/news/BBClooksbackblasts.asp (481 words)

	Tony Blair Ordered The London Bombings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Whatever, the British had insisted on bombing close to the venue at which he had been billed to deliver an important seminar, if only to give the attacks, in the words of an MI6 liason officer, "a real whiff of al Qaeda".
		When Tony Blair told the press that the bombings bore all the hallmarks of al Qaeda, he broke with tradition and actually told the truth.
		Recent exposures have shown that most of the bombings carried out by the Irish Republican Army during its long campaign against the illegal British occupation of Northern Ireland were, in fact, provoked, instigated and executed by undercover MI5 agents posing as Irish patriots.
	www.rense.com /general66/blair.htm (3704 words)

	Seanad Éireann - Volume 113 - 09 July, 1986 - Request Under Standing Order 29. - The Birmingham Six.
		I condemn, as all the other sane people have to do, the bombing atrocity committed in Birmingham in November 1974 in which 21 people were killed and more than 160 people were injured.
		If we accept that in the case of the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four that there are at least ten people, not all of them Irish, serving sentences in Britain for offences that they most manifestly did not commit, then a very serious matter of relationships between this country and Britain arises.
		The people portrayed in the recent British television programme in connection with the Guildford bombing seem to me to be the direct antithesis of what you would expect for a ruthless IRA bomb squad capable of such co-ordination of activity, speed of response and so on.
	www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /S/0113/S.0113.198607090014.html (6061 words)

	icBirmingham - MP condemned for IRA claims (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Survivors of the Birmingham pub bombings condemned city MP Clare Short last night after she claimed the IRA had "never targeted civilians" in its terror campaign.
		Her comments in an English-language newspaper based in the United Arab Emirates came as Birmingham prepares to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the atrocity, in which 21 people were killed and 170 injured.
		Conservative Birmingham MP Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield) said: "Clare Short is simply wrong, and I cannot imagine what has got in to her."
	icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=14728119&method=full&siteid=50002&headline=does-she-know-what-happened-that-night--name_page.html (714 words)

	Innocent Man Imprisoned For 25 Years - Must Pay Costs!
		He spent 16 years behind bars for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings by the IRA.
		Hill said he cannot lead the legal fight as the Birmingham Six have fought every legal action together, but now three of them are over 70 and Hill believes it is too much to ask them to join him in taking on the government yet again.
		He said he was also worried about the compensation payments for the other members of the Birmingham Six being affected if they joined him in court against the government.
	www.rense.com /general50/25yt.htm (1309 words)

	::: u.tv ::: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The IRA has never claimed responsibility for the bombs that blasted the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town pubs in the centre of Birmingham on November 21, 1974.
		The IRA should never have bombed and murdered so many young and innocent to the troubles the same as the British army in Derry, Belfast etc. Their war shouldn't have affected inocent english people which was not their fault.
		Whilst the Birmingham Bombings was wrong, I hope Unionists don't use the 30th Anniversary of this incident as a political Football.
	www.utvlive.com /newsroom/indepth.asp?id=53049&pt=n (1616 words)

	Slugger O'Toole: IRA to admit bombing was wrong..?
		THE 30th anniversary of the Birmingham pub bombings should be marked by an IRA apology for the deaths of the 21 victims, a senior Sinn Fein official told The Times yesterday.
		Mick Murray was one of the ringleaders of the IRA unit that murdered 21 people in the Birmingham pub bombings 30 years ago.
		The IRA never admitted planting the Birmingham bombs and, in the immediate aftermath of the bombings, said that if its members had been involved they would be court-martialled for a “violation of operational policy”.
	www.sluggerotoole.com /archives/2004/11/ira_to_admit_bo.php (1573 words)

	Our Century 1950-1975 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		On November 21 Birmingham was rocked to its roots with shock and horror as two massive blasts wrecked pubs in the town centre, killing 19 people, and injuring nearly 200 in a massive IRA bombing attack.
		The bombs exploded in the popular Mulberry Bush and Tavern in the Town at a time when both inns were packed with young people enjoying a night out.
		Just days after the Birmingham carnage, a 500-strong crowd had to be held back by police as six men appeared at the city's Victoria Law Courts charged with the murder of a girl killed in one of the bomb blasts.
	www.westmidlands.com /millennium/1900/1950-1975/1974.html (1188 words)

	RTE News - SF admits Birmingham bombings were wrong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The 1974 Birmingham pub bombings were wrong and should not have happened, Sinn Féin has admitted.
		A party spokesman said today that if there were issues relating to the IRA still to be addressed over the bombings, then this should happen.
		The statement comes days before the 30th anniversary of the two bombings, which killed 21 people and injured 182 on 21 November 1974.
	www.rte.ie /news/2004/1118/sinnfein (90 words)

	The reign of terror by Jeremy Corbyn MP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In 1974, in the wake of the Birmingham pub bombings, parliament was asked to approve the Prevention of Terrorism Bill.
		On his, and the Birmingham Six’s release, new procedures were brought in to review criminal cases, but the essence of the laws remained.
		In the aftermath of the Omagh Bombings in 1998, new and stronger anti-terror laws were passed and the concept of a permanent anti-terror law was approved by parliament.
	www.poptel.org.uk /scgn/articles/0306/page5b.htm (749 words)

	Encyclopedia: Birmingham Pub Bombings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) is a paramilitary group which aimed, through the use of violence, to achieve three goals: (i) British withdrawal from Ireland, (ii) the political unification of Ireland through the merger of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and (iii) the creation of an all...
		The Rotunda is an iconic, cylindrical tower block in Birmingham, England.
		The Precinct in Coventry city centre For alternative meanings see: Coventry (disambiguation) Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Birmingham-Pub-Bombings (595 words)

	Birmingham \| Visiting the City \| Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing \| Religious Sights \| Birmingham Pub Bombings ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This is a small, simple, yet fitting memorial to the 21 people who lost their lives in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings.
		Two city centre pubs were bombed by the IRA in November of that year, the last time that terrorist violence was experienced in the city.
		The memorial, in the grounds of St Philip's Cathedral in the city centre, is a tasteful plaque on a plinth and lists the names of those who died.
	americanairlines.wcities.com /en/record/162,16937/2/index.html (86 words)

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