The Brighton bombing was an attack during the Conservative Party conference in Brighton in October 1984. In the book’s account, it is associated with Margaret Thatcher, but the available references do not describe the attack’s course or its immediate consequences.

Identification and Setting

The event is identified as the Brighton bombing of October 1984 and linked to the Conservative Party conference in Brighton. This establishes its political setting, without specifying further circumstances of the attack.

Connection to Margaret Thatcher

The book’s index places the bombing among the events associated with Thatcher’s record on Northern Ireland. It provides no further account of her response or of the bombing’s effects on her government.

Place in the Account

The bombing appears as a brief point of reference rather than a developed narrative episode. Its connection to Thatcher situates it within the book’s wider treatment of political violence and the conflict, while the event’s details remain outside the supplied account.