The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army" id="mwqg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Irish Republican Army">Irish Republican Army</a> carries out the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Coventry_bombing" id="mwqw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1939 Coventry bombing">1939 Coventry bombing</a> in which five civilians were killed.<sup about="#mwt35" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"}}' id="cite_ref-5" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_25#cite_note-5" id="mwrA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwrQ">[5]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"><cite about="#mwt32" class="citation news cs1" id="mwB78"><a class="external text" href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/131921350" id="mwB8A" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Blamed on I. R. A.: Coventry Bomb"</a>. <i id="mwB8E"><a href="./The_News_(Adelaide)" id="mwB8I" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The News (Adelaide)">The News</a></i>. 26 August 1939<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB8M">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB8Q">15 June</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt32" class="Z3988" id="mwB8U" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+News&amp;rft.atitle=Blamed+on+I.+R.+A.%3A+Coventry+Bomb&amp;rft.date=1939-08-26&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftrove.nla.gov.au%2Fnewspaper%2Farticle%2F131921350&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+25"></span></span>