• On 30 March 1979, Airey Neave, British Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, was assassinated by the Irish National Liberation Army with a bomb...
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    Colonel Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave, DSO, OBE, MC, TD (/ˈɛəri ˈniːv/) (23 January 1916 – 30 March 1979) was a British soldier, lawyer and Member of Parliament...
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    Romsey Abbey. As part of the funeral arrangements for him, his body was embalmed by Desmond Henley. Assassination of Airey Neave Kennedy, Leslie (2020-12-22)...
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    Irish National Liberation Army (category Proscribed paramilitary organisations in the Republic of Ireland)
    Droppin Well bombing, the 1994 Shankill Road killings and the assassinations of Airey Neave in 1979 and Billy Wright in 1997. However, it was smaller and...
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  • 1979 Assassination of Airey Neave 1981 Chelsea Barracks bombing 1982 Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings 1983 Harrods bombing 1991 Bombings of Paddington...
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    of real life events including the assassination of Airey Neave prompted criticisms of the show by a number of people, including members of the Neave family...
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    Bernadette Devlin McAliskey (category Independent members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom)
    times in front of her children. British soldiers were watching the McAliskey home at the time, but they failed to prevent the assassination attempt. Allegations...
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    Starry Plough (flag) (category Flags of Ireland)
    background. The flag depicts an asterism (an identifiable part of a constellation) of the constellation Ursa Major, called The Plough (or "Starry Plough")...
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    The Troubles (category 20th-century military history of the United Kingdom)
    sparsely used. Notable events of IRA bombs of Irish origin included Bloody Friday, the Warrenpoint ambush, the assassination of Lord Mountbatten, and the...
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    Northern Ireland of Margaret Thatcher, the leader of the Opposition and then prime minister: the assassination of Airey Neave; the assassination of Lord Mountbatten...
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