Forkhill beer keg bombing

Forkhill beer keg bombing
Part of the Troubles
Forkhill beer keg bombing is located in Northern Ireland
Forkhill beer keg bombing
LocationTullydonnell, near Forkhill, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Date17 July 1975
WeaponsImprovised explosive device
Deaths4 British soldiers
Injured1
PerpetratorProvisional IRA
South Armagh Brigade

On 17 July 1975 the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated an improvised bomb inside a beer keg when it was being investigated by British Army soldiers. Four soldiers were killed and another seriously injured. This was the first major breach in the truce negotiated by the IRA and British government in February 1975. The attack took place in Forkhill, County Armagh.[1] It was one of many such attacks by the IRA in the 1970s.

  1. ^ "Chronology of the Conflict: 1975". Conflict Archive on the Internet.