page_title: Chronology of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions (1980–89)
section_title: 1984
hierarchical_section_title: Chronology of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions (1980–89) / 1984
caption_attribution_description: English: The Grand Hotel in Brighton following the IRA bomb attack. The photo was taken on the morning of October 12 1984, some hours after the blast.
context_page_description: This is a chronology of activities by the Provisional Irish Republican Army from 1980 to 1989.
context_section_description: 2 January: an off-duty UDR soldier (Robert Elliott) was shot dead outside his home, Lislaird Road, Castlederg, County Tyrone.
  10 January: an off-duty RUC officer (William Fullerton) was shot dead by an IRA sniper while driving his car along Warrenpoint Road, Newry, County Down.
  23 January: a bomb targeting a British Army patrol injured one soldier and 3 civilians on Clonard Street, West Belfast.
  31 January: two RUC officers (William Savage and Thomas Bingham) were killed in an IRA land mine attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary armoured patrol car, Drumintee Road, near Forkill, County Armagh.
  10 February: an IRA unit fired a rocket at a British Army Saracen armoured vehicle in Glenalina Park, Belfast. The rocket bounced off the front of the vehicle and landed in a school. There were no injuries.
  13 February: James Young was shot dead by the IRA as an alleged informer, Blaney Road, near Crossmaglen, County Armagh.
  20 February: a factory in Armagh City was destroyed by a bomb.
  25 February: a 1000-pound bomb was left in a culvert near Cookstown, Country Tyrone. The device was later defused.
  21 February: two IRA volunteers (Henry Hogan and Declan Martin) and a British soldier (Paul Oram) were killed in a gun battle at Dunloy, near Ballymoney, County Antrim.
  2 March: an off-duty UDR soldier (Thomas Loughlin) was killed by a booby trap bomb attached to his van, outside his home, Castlederg, County Tyrone.
  3 March: Herbert Burrows was killed by a booby-trap bomb attached to a garage door at his workplace on Alexander Road, Armagh town. The IRA claimed responsibility and said he was a serving member of the UDR, but he is listed as a civilian at CAIN.
  6 March: William McConnell, then Assistant Governor of the Maze Prison, was shot dead by the IRA outside his home in East Belfast.
  8 March: an off-duty UDR soldier (David Montgomery) was shot dead by the IRA at his workplace, a petrol station, Airport Road, near Moira, County Down.
  10 March: RUC officers guarding a Loyalist march in Derry came under fire from a Republican gunman. There were no injuries.
  13 March: an ex-UDR soldier (Ronald Funston) was shot dead by the IRA at his farm, Lowery, near Pettigoe, County Fermanagh.
  19 March: a part-time UDR soldier was seriously wounded by two gunmen after being shot at the blood transfusion centre where he worked.
  27 March: a British soldier (David Ross) was killed by an IRA remote controlled bomb, hidden in a parked van, which detonated when a British Army civilian-type mini bus passed by, near Gransha Hospital, Clooney Road, Derry.
  8 April: an IRA unit carried out a gun attack on Thomas Travers, then a Resident Magistrate, outside St Brigid's Catholic Church in Belfast after Sunday Mass. Judge Travers was badly injured and his daughter Mary was killed by a ricochet bullet.
  11 April: a former UDR soldier was badly injured when a bomb exploded underneath his car in Belfast.
  14 April: a British soldier was badly injured when he was shot in the face by IRA volunteers in an attack in Glasdrumman, South Armagh.
  16 April: IRA volunteers shot and badly injured a civilian in Derry City. The IRA later apologised, saying the civilian had been mistaken for an undercover British soldier.
  19 April: a soldier was wounded after being shot on foot patrol in West Belfast.
  21 April: an IRA unit launched a remote-controlled bomb attack against a British patrol in Foyle Street, Derry City. Three British soldiers were injured and an IRA volunteer (Richard Quigley) was killed by shrapnel from the explosion.
  23 April: bombers had dropped sweet-jars filled with petrol on two Army landrovers in Derry. As the soldiers began fleeing the IRA opened fire, killing one soldier and injuring five.
  8 May: an off-duty UDR soldier (James Johnstone) was shot dead by the IRA in the car park of his workplace, Drumglass Hospital, Dungannon, County Tyrone.
  9 May: an off-duty British Army Territorial Army soldier (Trevor May) was killed by an IRA booby trap bomb while travelling in his car shortly after leaving his workplace, Telephone Exchange, Downshire Road, Newry, County Dow
caption: Brighton's Grand Hotel after the October 1984 bombing by the IRA
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