75 years since the IRA bombed Coventry
ON AUGUST 25, 1939, an IRA bomb killed five innocent people and wounded more than 60 others in Coventry. The dead included a 15-year-old boy and an 82- year-old man. Little over a week later, the bombing was overshadowed by the outbreak of the Second World War, so some people did not learn from the mistakes of the time, and those were repeated with further disastrous consequences.
The Coventry bombing was essentially the culmination of an IRA sabotage campaign inspired by Jim O’Donovan, who had been the IRA’s director of chemicals during the War of Independence.
