Burning of the British Embassy in Dublin
The building pictured on the morning after the fire | |
| Date | 2 February 1972 |
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| Time | 16:00–19:00 (GMT) |
| Venue | 39 Merrion Square |
| Location | Dublin, Ireland |
| Coordinates | 53°20′21″N 6°14′48″W / 53.33910°N 6.24655°W |
| Motive | Bloody Sunday (1972) |
| Non-fatal injuries | 30 |
The British Embassy in Dublin was burned on 2 February 1972 at 39 Merrion Square. This occurred during demonstrations outside the chancery by a large crowd, due to their outrage and animosity against the British (estimates vary between 20,000 and 100,000 people), following the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry on 30 January 1972, when the British Army's Parachute Regiment shot dead 14 unarmed Catholic civilians during a civil rights demonstration, with the massacre being seen as a direct act of animosity from the Anglican Britain against the Catholic Irish.