Rose & Crown Bar bombing
| Rose & Crown Bar bombing | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Troubles | |
Rose & Crown Memorial of the bombing | |
| Location | Ormeau Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Date | 2 May 1974 22:00 (GMT) |
| Target | Irish Catholics, Irish Nationalists |
Attack type | Time bomb |
| Weapons | gelignite bomb |
| Deaths | 6 |
| Injured | 18 |
| Perpetrator | Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) |
The Rose & Crown Bar bombing was a bomb attack carried out against a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast. The attack was carried out by the loyalist paramilitary group the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) just less than two weeks before the start of the Ulster Workers' Council strike of May 1974 which brought down the Sunningdale power sharing agreement and just 15 days before the UVF carried out the Dublin and Monaghan bombings which killed 34 and injured 300 people, the highest casualty rate in a single day during The Troubles in either Ireland or Britain.