Community relations for the Irish in Birmingham were complicated by the pub bombings of November 1974 , At inquests into the deaths of the 21 victims , " Witness O " named the men responsible as Seamus McLoughlin , Mick Murray , Michael Hayes and James Gavin . He said he had been given permission to reveal the names by the current head of the IRA in Dublin.Provisional IRA . There were very limited physical attacks on Irish people in the aftermath of the bombings . In November 2018 , Birmingham 's Irish Association revealed a memorial to those killed outside Birmingham New Street Station
pub bombings of November 1974
Birmingham pub bombings
Irish migration to Great Britain