Loyalists bombs in Dublin and Monaghan kill 33 civilians. June Michael Gaughan, dies on hunger strike in prison in England. It proposes a constitutional convention to be elected to Stormont N o. 3. IRA condemns bombing of two pubs in Birmingham which kills 21 people. Uninvolved Irish people imprisoned for deaths in Birmingham and also for killing of British soldiers at Guildford, Woolwich and the M62 Motorway.
Irish community declares it racial and anti-Irish.
December Peace talks between Protestant clergymen and Republican leaders disrupted by 26-County police. Unilateral Truce by Provisional IRA at Christmas and New Year. Meanwhile political talks take place between representatives of the Republican Movement and officials of the British government. Loyalist assassinations of nationalist are stepped up in order to wreck the truce. Dublin politicians are silent on this latter development.