Lord Mountbatten Assassinated Ireland 1979
On 27 august 1979 lord mountbatten went lobster fishing on his wooden boat shadow v in the village of mullaghmore county sligo in the west of ireland where he had a holiday home.
Lord mountbatten assassinated ireland 1979. Part of the wreckage of lord mountbattens boat the shadow v after it had been bombed by the ira in august 1979. 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. Independent news and mediagetty images august 27 1979 a bank holiday had dawned.
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. Every year he took his family on vacation to sligo on the west coast of ireland to. The irish republican army ira indeed saw this grand old man a prime target and it was at their hands that he was murdered.
One of the earls twin grandsons nicholas 14 and paul. Mountbatten was sadly wrong. Hulton archive getty.
Ira bomb kills lord mountbatten.