Assassination of Lord Mountbatten

Assassination of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Part of The Troubles
Location	Mullaghmore Peninsula, Ireland
Coordinates	54°27′59″N 8°26′55″W / 54.4664°N 8.4486°W / 54.4664; -8.4486
Date	27 August 1979 (1979-08-27)
Target	Lord Louis Mountbatten
Weapon	Bomb
Deaths	Earl Mountbatten Nicholas Knatchbull Paul Maxwell Doreen Knatchbull
Injured	Patricia Knatchbull John Knatchbull Timothy Knatchbull
Perpetrator	Provisional IRA
Assailant	Thomas McMahon
Motive	Irish republicanism
Convicted	Thomas McMahon
Charges	Murder
Location: 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 volunteer for the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).