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  1. Thomas McMahon (born 1948) is a former volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), and was one of the IRA's most experienced bomb-makers. [1] McMahon was convicted of the murder of Lord Louis Mountbatten and three others off the coast of Mullaghmore, County Sligo , in the west of Ireland .

  2. Assassination of Lord Mountbatten. Map showing Mullaghmore Peninsula (red) within County Sligo, where Mountbatten was killed. Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, a relative of the British royal family, was assassinated on 27 August 1979 by Thomas McMahon, an Irish republican and a volunteer for the Provisional Irish Republican ...

  3. Feb 9, 2010 · Thomas McMahon, a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), is sentenced to life imprisonment for preparing and planting the bomb that killed Lord Louis Mountbatten and three others three months ...

  4. Aug 7, 1998 · Fri Aug 07 1998 - 01:00. The man convicted of the murder of Lord Mountbatten in 1979 was released late last night under the terms of the Belfast Agreement. Thomas McMahon (50) has been on daily ...

  5. Thomas McMahon is a former volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and was one of the Ireland Republican Army"s most experienced bomb-makers. Career McMahon was convicted of the assassination of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma and three others (two children and an elderly lady) at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, in the west of Ireland.

  6. Feb 15, 2024 · 1990–1991. Thomas McMahon (born 1948) is a former volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), and was one of the IRA's most experienced bomb-makers. McMahon was convicted of the murder of Lord Louis Mountbatten and three others off the coast of Mullaghmore, County Slig.

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  8. On August 27, 1979, Lord Mountbatten was killed when McMahon and other IRA terrorists detonated a 50-pound bomb hidden on his fishing vessel Shadow V. Mountbatten, a World War II hero, elder statesman, and second cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, was spending the day with his family in Donegal Bay off Ireland’s northwest coast when the bomb exploded.

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