The IRA claimed responsibility for the bombings and in a statement said : '' While Britain maintains its colonial grip on the north of Ireland , the IRA will continue to strike at those who oversee and implement British Government policy in our country , '' Clive Barracks bombing at Ternhill happened in February 1989 . Then five months later in July 1989 , the IRA killed a British soldier in Hanover , West Germany when they placed a booby-trap IED under his car . On the 7 September the IRA mistakenly shot dead Heidi Hazell , the German wife of a British soldier , in a hail of bullets in Dortmund . In the climax of the England and European campaign by the IRA closing in on the end of the 1980s was the Deal barracks bombing in which the IRA killed 11 Royal Marines and seriously injured 22 others ; it was the highest death toll from an operation in England in seven years since Hyde Park and Regent 's Park bombings of 1982 , which again killed 11 soldiers and injured over 50
Hyde Park and Regent 's Park bombings
Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings
Clive Barracks bombing