Coventry's day of horror.ON THURSDAY, November 14, 1974, a bomb ripped through the telephone exchange in Coventry city centre. One person was killed in the explosion. He was the man who planted the bomb, 28-year-old IRA lieutenant James McDade James Patrick McDade (24 July, 1946 – 14 November, 1974) was a volunteer (member) and a lieutenant in the Birmingham Battalion [1] of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who was killed in a premature explosion while planting a bomb at the Coventry telephone , aged 28. Another man was caught by members of the public running away from the scene and was later charged with planting the bomb. More than 700 police officers were on duty for McDade's funeral and seven people were arrested during anti-IRA demonstrations. It was one of many bombings carried out by the provisional IRA Noun 1. Provisional IRA - a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland during their campaign in the 1970s. |
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