{"id":59,"date":"2020-12-08T01:29:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T06:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/irishmusic\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2020-12-09T18:53:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T23:53:50","slug":"warrington-england-ira-bombing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/irishmusic\/warrington-england-ira-bombing\/","title":{"rendered":"“Zombie”: IRA Bombings in Warrington, England"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Litter bins in Warrington, England where bombing took place in 1993.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Zombie” by The Cranberries describes the bombs detonated by the IRA on March 20, 1993, killing Johnathan Ball, three, and Tim Parry, twelve. <\/span>Johnathan Ball was killed instantly and Tim Parry died from his injuries five days later. 50 others were injured.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Zombie” refers to the tensions in Ireland that were never fully resolved, pa<\/span>rticularly in the line “In your head, in your head, they are fighting.”\u00a0<\/span>The song was recorded in 1994.<\/span><\/p>\n

Following the bombing, the police interviewed 10,000 people. Despite former Irish Republican Army (IRA) commander Martin McGuinness “describing the bombings as a ‘shameful act’ and expressing his personal regret in 2013,” (Britton). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The IRA used Englishmen to carry out the attacks, as security footage later displayed: John Hayes and Patrick Taylor avoided arrest for thirty years because authorities believed the culprits were Irish. (BBC). Hayes was a member of Red-Action, “a British ultra-left anti-fascism group in support of the IRA” (BBC).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It is expected that the IRA selected Hayes and Taylor to detonate the bombs because they would be less likely to fit the description of sympathizers to their cause.<\/p>\n

The Provisional IRA claimed involvement in the attacks.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPolice Release Pictures of Warrington Bomb Suspects.\u201d UPI<\/i>, UPI, 10 Sept. 1993, www.upi.com\/Archives\/1993\/09\/10\/Police-release-pictures-of-Warrington-bomb-suspects\/6708747633600\/.<\/p>\n

\u201cWarrington Bombing Linked to Red Action Group.\u201d BBC News<\/i>, BBC, 1 Sept. 2013, www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/uk-england-23632246.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Zombie” by The Cranberries describes the bombs detonated by the IRA on March 20, 1993, killing Johnathan Ball, three, and Tim Parry, twelve. Johnathan Ball…<\/p>\n

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