Balmoral Furniture Company bombing was a paramilitary attack that took place on 11 December 1971 in Belfast , Northern Ireland . A bomb exploded without warning outside a furniture showroom on the Shankill Road in a predominantly unionist area , killing four civilians , two of them babies . It is widely believed that the bombing was carried out by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) in retaliation for the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ) bombing of McGurk 's pub a week earlier , which killed 15 Catholic civilians
bombing of McGurk 's pub
McGurk's Bar bombing
1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing