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Bayardo Bar Memorial

Bayardo Bar Memorial

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Location: Town Parks, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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KPSchwamm

August 8, 2021

Memorial to the victims of the IRA attack on the Bayardo Bar in 1975. The memorial was erected on the site where the Bayardo Bar was before its demolition. The large steel monument was integrated into the remaining part of the original structure.

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Cooli 🆒77🦀

August 4, 2024

The Bayardo Bar bombing occurred on 13 August 1975 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A unit of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) led by Brendan McFarlane carried out a bomb and gun attack on a pub on Aberdeen Street in the loyalist Shankill area. IRA members claimed that the pub was targeted because it was frequented by members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). Four Protestant civilians and one UVF member were killed, and over 50 people were injured.

According to journalists Alan Murray and Peter Taylor, it was a reprisal for the Miami Showband massacre almost two weeks earlier, when members of the popular Dublin band were shot dead by the UVF at a fake military checkpoint.

McFarlane and two other IRA volunteers, Peter "Skeet" Hamilton and Seamus Clarke, were sentenced to life imprisonment for carrying out the Bayardo attack. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Cooli 🆒77🦀

August 4, 2024

By 1975, the conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles had already lasted for more than six years. On 10 February 1975, the Provisional IRA and the British government agreed to a ceasefire and resumed negotiations. The IRA agreed to stop carrying out attacks on the British security forces, and the security forces largely ceased their raids and searches. [1] However, there were opponents of the ceasefire on both sides.
In the early hours of 31 July 1975, the popular Miami Showband were driving back to Dublin after a performance in Banbridge. In Buskhill (outside Newry), they were stopped at a checkpoint by Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) gunmen wearing British Army uniforms. Some of the gunmen were soldiers from the Ulster Defence Regiment. The gunmen ordered the group to line up facing a trench. While one gunman took the names and addresses of the band members, two others hid a bomb under the driver's seat of their minivan. However, the bomb detonated prematurely and the two men were blown to pieces. The surviving gunmen then opened fire on the five band members, killing three and wounding two. [4] According to journalists Peter Taylor and Alan Murray, the attack on the Bayardo was retaliation for the massacre. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Location: Town Parks, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Bayardo Bar Memorial

1. Belfast murals & memorial loop via Clonard Martyrs Memorial Garden from Great Victoria Street

2. Belfast City Hall – Albert Memorial Clock, Belfast loop from York Street

3. Belfast City Hall – Albert Memorial Clock, Belfast loop from City Hospital

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