Enniskillen Bombing – Remembrance Day Bombing

Those who died that day are now remembered at the Cenotaph alongside the names of the war dead they went there to honour

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The Enniskillen Rememberance Day Massacre

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The Remembrance Day bombing (also known as the Enniskillen bombing or Poppy Day massacre^[1][2]) took place on 8 November 1987 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. A Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb exploded near the town’s war memorial (cenotaph) during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony, which was being held to commemorate British military war dead. Eleven people (ten civilians and a police officer) were killed and 63 were injured. The IRA said it had made a mistake and that its target had been the British soldiers parading to the memorial. The unit who carried out the bombing was disbanded.

Enniskillen Remembrance Day bomb

The bombing was…