The Remembrance Day massacre was a Provisional IRA bombing in the County Fermanagh town of Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. The bombing took place on 1987-11-08 at the town's war memorial during Remembrance Sunday commemoration ceremonies for those killed during the First and Second World Wars. Eleven people were killed in the bombing, most of them civilians, and 63 were injured. Those killed in the bombing were: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the Ra) is an Irish Republican paramilitary organization. ... County Fermanagh (Contae Fhear Manach or Fear Manach in Irish), is the westernmost of the six counties that form Northern Ireland. ... Coles Monument Enniskillen (Inis Ceithleann in Irish) is the county town of Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. ... Dieu et mon droit (Royal motto) (French for God and my right)3 Northern Irelands location within the UK Official languages English, Irish, Ulster Scots Capital and largest city Belfast First Minister Office suspended Area  - Total Ranked 4th 13,843 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 4th 1,685... In the United Kingdom Remembrance Sunday is the Sunday nearest to 11 November - Remembrance Day, which is the anniversary of when hostilities in the First World War ended at 11 a. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

• Bertha Armstrong
• Edward Armstrong (a 52 year old member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve)
• Wesley Armstrong
• Samuel Gault
• Jessie Johnson
• Kitchener Johnson
• John Megaw
• Angus Mullen
• William Mullen
• Georgina Quinton
• Marie Wilson (a 20 year old nurse and daughter of Gordon Wilson)

The bombing led to a public outcry throughout Ireland, Britain and elsewhere. In the aftermath of the attack the IRA insisted that its leadership had not sanctioning the bombing. However, most Irish politicians dismissed the claim. The Fermanagh Brigade of the IRA was stood down after what was one of the most horrific and brutal attacks of Northern Ireland's Troubles. The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001. ... Gordon Wilson (1927-1995) was the father of Marie Wilson, a victim of Enniskillen Commemoration Parade bombing by the Provisional IRA. He came to notice with an emotional television interview he gave to the BBC the same evening in which he described his last conversation with his daughter as they... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ...

The Irish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Brian Lenihan, told Dáil Éireann A minister for foreign affairs, or foreign minister, is a cabinet minister that helps to form foreign policy for sovereign nations. ... Brian Lenihan (November 17, 1930 - November 1, 1995) was a senior Irish Fianna Fáil politician. ... The Dáil Chamber Dáil Éireann is the lower house of the Oireachtas (parliament) of the Republic of Ireland. ...

I am quite certain there is no Member of this House who does not share a profound sense of horror at this atrocity by the men of violence in Enniskillen last Sunday — a sense of outrage and horror which is shared by all decent Irish men and women throughout the island and throughout the world. There can be no question but that those who planned and perpetrated this act did so in the clear knowledge that many civilians would be attending the ceremony and would be killed or maimed. We all recognise something obscene in the fact that this attack was planned and carried out on a day which many ordinary Irish men and women had gathered to commemorate those of their families and friends who had died in two World Wars. There is a long Irish tradition of respect for those paying tribute to our dead. This outrage is the latest and most horrific example of the pattern of violence of the IRA — a pattern which shows clearly their contempt for the sanctity of human life and for a sense of human decency.^[1]

The leader of the Workers Party, Tómas MacGiolla, told the Dáil that what had The Workers Party is a name used by various political parties throughout the world. ...

occurred was entirely consistent with the strategy that the Provisional IRA have been pursuing for the past 18 years — sectarian warfare. The objective of this is to provoke an all-out civil war between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland.^[2] Sectarianism is an adherence to a particular sect or party or denomination, it also usually involves a rejection of those not a member of ones sect. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ...

In Seanad Éireann Senator Maurice Manning told the House The Seanad Chamber The Seanad meets in the former picture gallery in Leinster House. ...

In the long catalogue of horror over the past 17 years on this island, few events can have generated such total revulsion as the massacre of innocent, decent Irish people, gathered together to solemnly honour their dead in Enniskillen last Sunday. Our hearts and our prayers go out to the families and friends of those so shamefully slaughtered in the name of Irish unity.^[3]

The bombing has come to be seen as a major tactical error by the IRA. In killing people honouring their war dead the IRA created a backlash which was perceived to have undermined its claim to be a non-sectarian organisation defending nationalists. Irish nationalism refers to political movements that desire greater autonomy or the independence of Ireland from Great Britain. ...

In 1997 Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams apologised for the bombing.[4] 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that Provisional Sinn Féin be merged into this article or section. ... Gerry Adams Gerry Adams, MP, MLA, (born October 6, 1948) is an Irish Republican politician and abstentionist Westminster Member of Parliament for West Belfast. ...

Ronnie Hill, who had been in a coma since the bombing, died in December 2000. This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

Footnotes

1. ^  Dáil Éireann - Volume 375 Column 486-487 - 11 November, 1987
2. ^  Dáil Éireann - Volume 375 Column 482 - 11 November, 1987
3. ^  Seanad Éireann - Seanad Éireann - Volume 117 Column 1346 - 11 November, 1987

External links

• Irish Emigrant newspaper report of the bombing.