Patrick Magee (Irish Republican)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Patrick Joseph Magee (born 1951) is a former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer, best known for planting a bomb in the Brighton's Grand Hotel, targeting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet, which killed 2 men and 3 women. He is sometimes referred to as the Brighton bomber.Magee was born in Belfast but moved with his family to Norwich when he was two years old. He returned to Belfast at the age of 18 in 1969, and joined the IRA soon afterwards. By the height of the Troubles in the 1970s, Magee had been made an officer and was responsible for the development of bombs. In 1973 he was sentenced to two years imprisonment after admitting to being a member of the IRA, and was released in November 1975. In 1978 he travelled to England and planted sixteen bombs in cities across the country, including London, Manchester, Liverpool, Coventry and Southampton.