The Irish Republican Army, belonging to the nationalist camp, staged numerous bombings and assassinations starting in the 1960s. Besides British military personnel, the targets of their terrorist acts included Protestants, and occasionally even Catholic civilians were harmed.
屬於民族派陣營的愛爾蘭共和軍在 60 年代起多次策劃爆炸與刺殺行動，除了英國軍人外，其恐怖行動的殺戮對象也饒不了新教徒，偶爾也禍延天主教平民。