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Summary:What if Patrick Magee and his accomplices had succeeded and blown up Mrs. Thatcher?
Description:At 2.54 a.m. on 12th Oct 1984 at the Grand Hotel, Brighton, Margaret Thatcher made the final changes to her speech for the Tory Party Conf. 24 days earlier, Patrick Magee & his IRA accomplices had planted a bomb under the bath of room 629. The explosion that tore through the hotel was the most audacious act in the IRA¿s bombing campaign.
But what was its real impact? Behind the rhetoric of non-negotiation, did the IRA's attempt to assassinate the Prime Minister advance or hinder their cause?