page_title: Shore Road, Belfast
section_title: Provisional IRA
hierarchical_section_title: Shore Road, Belfast / History / The Troubles / Provisional IRA
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial and garden of remembrance to republican activists and local civilians killed in the Bawnmore area, Bawnmore Crescent, Newtownabbey
context_page_description: The Shore Road is a major arterial route and area of housing and commerce that runs through north Belfast and Newtownabbey in Northern Ireland. It forms part of the A2 road, a traffic route which links Belfast to the County Antrim coast.
context_section_description: Given the high volume of Protestant and loyalist inhabitants on the Shore Road the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) launched a number of attacks in the area. One of the first came on 5 January 1973 when 18-year-old Trevor Rankin was killed at a petrol station on the road. It was later claimed that the killers had mistaken the civilian Rankin for an off-duty member of the Ulster Defence Regiment. John Beattie, a 17-year-old member of the UDA, was killed by the PIRA on 12 July 1974 in the Tiger's Bay area.
  On 5 June 1976, the IRA launched a bomb attack on the Times Bar on York Road killing two Protestant patrons. In response to the attack the UVF launched a reprisal hit on the Chlorane Bar in the city centre, killing five people. On 4 February 1978 the PIRA shot a civilian dead while mounting an attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) foot patrol on the road. A similar attack, carried out from the Seaview football ground on 12 January 1980 resulted in the death of David Purse, a member of the RUC.
caption: Republican memorial garden, Bawnmore
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