The IRA planted the bomb at the Grand Hotel, in the seaside resort of Brighton, targeting the British prime minister. There Will Be Fire, by... In 1984, Margaret Thatcher was nearly assassinated — a ...

I used to dread Margaret Thatcher coming to Northern Ireland because it meant 12 hours in the company of the IRA's No 1 target. She was pleasant enough, but always businesslike. No small talk. She ...

Patrick Magee used bombs to kill people. That much is simple. The more complicated question is whether he was just a murderer or whether the loyal member of the Irish Republican Army was a soldier ...

The Samurai Come to Dallas, Cloisonné, a Spiny Lobster, and a Sake Fountain in Tow On a sunny September afternoon in 1984, an Irish Republican Army operative named Patrick Magee stepped into room 629 ...

Former British politician Norman Tebbit has died “peacefully at home” at the age of 94, his son William has said. Lord Tebbit was part of then prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s Cabinet during the ...

A bomb ripped through Brighton’s Grand Hotel on October 12, 1984, killing five people and wounding more than 30. But British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the bomb’s chief target, emerged from the ...

“Vey few tears” would have been shed in parts of the UK if the 1984 IRA Brighton bombing killed Margaret Thatcher, former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has claimed. The 1984 IRA bombing of the Grand ...

Many leaders lauded Thatcher for her steely determination to modernize Britain's industrial landscape, even at the cost of strikes and riots, and to stand beside the United States as the west ...

Street parties were held in republican parts of Londonderry and West Belfast following the former prime minister's death. And for a second night crowds gathered in Belfast. A crowd of around 100 ...

Clearly, the publication of There Will Be Fire has been timed to coincide with the 25th anniversary this month of the Good Friday Agreement, which brought peace, however uneasy, to Northern Ireland.

What if, Carroll asks, Thatcher's movements had been different during two crucial minutes in the small hours of Oct. 12, 1984? What if she had lingered in the bathroom of her suite, which was several ...