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a b Lucy Williamson. " 'Witness' Episode: The Brighton Hotel Bombing". BBC . Retrieved 16 October 2013. Air in your system,'' he said. ''While I'm waiting I'll bleed it. Might as well. If you've got a key.'' John Major replaced Margaret Thatcher after she announced her resignation as Conservative Party leader and prime minister on November 22, 1990.

But when Mrs Thatcher came to visit, the dissidents took to the streets. They gathered in knots, inspecting the press corps and turning their shoul- ders to the hospital gates, where a row of precious parking bays were marked out and designated DOCTORS ONLY. I could give you a string of names,'' he said. ''They were in the paper. Two years, is that too long to remember?'' The armed struggle sought legitimacy in continuity – a torch of resistance passed from generation to generation. For his own pseudonym in 1973, Walsh had chosen Tom Clarke, the name of a well-known Fenian who had bombed Victorian London. To this day, Walsh says he does not know why Magee used his name. He jokingly refers to Magee as “Pat the Imposter”.

The aftermath of the IRA bombing at the Grand Hotel, Brighton, on October 12 1984. Picture: PA Wire.I’m not shooting her because she doesn’t like the opera. Or because you don’t care for – what in sod’s name do you call it? – her accessories. It’s not about her handbag. It’s not about her hairdo.”

As a result of Neave's assassination the INLA was declared illegal across the whole of the United Kingdom on 2 July 1979. [13] Memorial plaque to Airey Neave at his alma mater, Merton College, Oxford I thought of the tourist scrums pushing each other off the pavements, jostling for souvenir humbugs and wind-up Beefeaters. It could have been another country. No voices carried from the street below. Our man was humming, absorbed. I wondered if his song had a second verse. As he lifted each component from his bag he wiped it with a cloth that was cleaner than his handkerchief, handling it with gentle reverence, like an altar boy polishing the vessels for mass. Right after, they'll know where the shot's come from, it won't take any time for them to work that out. Once I get down the stairs and out the front door, they'll have me right there in the street. I'm going to take the gun, so as soon as they sight me they'll shoot me dead.'' He paused and then said, as if I had demurred, ''It's the best way.''Duration 0:23 Featured VideoThe CBC's Ann MacMillan sums up the key questions that needed to be answered in the wake of the bombing in Brighton, England. You can surprise a person with affinity, I thought, and then say, ''Where's the lav?'' Not a Windsor expression. It wasn't really a question, either. The flat was so small that its layout was obvious. He took his weapon with him. I listened to him urinate. Run a tap. I heard splashing. I heard him come out, zipping his trousers. His face was red where he'd been towelling it. He sat down hard on the folding chair. There was a bleat from the fragile canework. He said, ''You've got a number written on your arm.'' But when Mrs Thatcher came to visit, the dissidents took to the streets. They gathered in knots, inspecting the press corps and turning their shoulders to the hospital gates, where a row of precious parking bays were marked out and designated DOCTORS ONLY. Senior, Jennifer (14 March 2016). "Review: Jonathan Lee's 'High Dive' Revisits a Plot to Kill Margaret Thatcher". The New York Times . Retrieved 10 October 2018.