Forkhill beer keg bombing

Forkhill beer keg bombing
Part of the Troubles
Location	Tullydonnell, near Forkhill, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Date	17 July 1975
Weapons	Improvised explosive device
Deaths	4 British soldiers
Injured	1
Perpetrator	Provisional IRA South Armagh Brigade

On 17 July 1975 the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated an improvised bomb inside a beer keg when it was being investigated by British Army soldiers. Four soldiers were killed and another seriously injured. This was the first major breach in the truce negotiated by the IRA and British government in February 1975. The attack took place in Forkhill, County Armagh.^[1] It was one of many such attacks by the IRA in the 1970s.