In the early 1990s , loyalist and republican paramilitaries in the city stepped up their killings of each other and " enemy " civilians . A cycle of killing continued right up to the PIRA ceasefire in August 1994 and the Combined Loyalist Military Command cessation six weeks later . The most horrific single attack of this period came in October 1993 , when the PIRA bombed a fish shop on the Shankill Road in an attempt to kill the UDA leadership . The Shankill Road bombing instead killed nine Protestant shoppers as well as one of the bombers
Shankill Road bombing
Shankill Road bombing
History of Belfast