Birmingham pub bombings

The Birmingham pub bombings was a terrorist attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on 21 November 1974.IRA bomber names four men 'involved in' 1974 atrocity Two bombs exploded in pubs in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, killing 21 people.Birmingham pub bombings

The first bomb exploded in the Mulberry Bush, killing ten people.

The second bomb exploded in the Tavern in the Town, killing eleven people.

A third bomb was planted in the doorway of a branch of Barclays bank. It was found by a policeman and did not explode. 

The Birmingham bombings were 20th century England's most deadly terrorist attack.

Six Irishmen were arrested within hours of the blasts, and in 1975 sentenced to life imprisonment for the bombings. The men—who became known as the Birmingham Six—continued to say that they were innocent and believed that the police had forced them into signing false confessions through abuse. After 16 years in prison, their convictions were overturned by the Court of Appeal in 1991.  

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