Mountbatten Assassination Ira

The irish republican army ira indeed saw this grand old man a prime target and it was at their hands that he was murdered.

Mountbatten assassination ira. An fbi dossier on mountbatten released in. Mountbatten a war hero elder. 25 june 1900 27 august 1979 was a british royal navy officer and statesman an uncle of prince philip duke of edinburgh and second cousin once removed of queen elizabeth iiduring the second world war he was supreme allied commander south east asia. At exactly 1145am on 27th august 1979 the peace of the mountbatten family holiday and the silence over the calm donegal waters was broken with an explosion.

The assassination rattled the royal family thus causing extended grief and rifts between that lingered on for decades. The ira claimed responsibility for mountbattens assassination stating at the time that the bombing was a discriminate act to bring to the attention of the english people the continuing. On august 27 1979 lord louis mountbatten is killed when irish republican army ira terrorists detonate a 50 pound bomb hidden on his fishing vessel shadow v. Mountbatten was sadly wrong.

The ira assassination of lord mountbatten. The murder of the british royal and world war ii hero signaled a dark period ahead for relations between england and northern ireland. Mountbatten was assassinated in 1979 during an ira attack using a bomb that was hidden on his boat mid water. Lord mountbatten 1st earl mountbatten of burma died on 27 august 1979 aged 79 while on a family trip to ireland at the height of the troubles.

Throughout lord mountbattens life and in the years after he died in an ira bombing on august 27 1979 rumors swirled about his extramarital affairs.