source: 4WardEverUK

published: October 2026

Image Credit: Birmingham Irish Association

The 21st November 2026 will mark the 52nd anniversary of the Birmingham pub bombings.

The bombs were detonated in the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town on New Street on the evening of 21 November 1974.

An inquest in 2019 heard 220 people were injured in the attacks, but the perpetrators have never faced justice. In September 2026 the families of the 21 victims murdered in the Birmingham Pub Bombings accused the Government of a major snub over a national memorial day for victims of the worst UK terrorist atrocities.

Campaign group Justice for the 21 say they were not invited or informed about the Government's first National Day for Victims and Survivors of Terrorism, held last month, with Prime Minister Andy Burnham among the speakers.

Also in September 2026 families of the victims held a march in central Birmingham to persuade Security Minister Dan Jarvis to reconsider the Government’s refusal to establish a public inquiry into the bombings.

Gary Jordan, one of the organisers, said: "The ‘Birmingham problem’ has been swept under the carpet time and time again by successive governments, and it's about time Birmingham was given a judge-led public inquiry.

"Birmingham needs to come together, to force the government to back down from their decision made in error." He said the march aims to send a clear message to Westminster.

In those two pubs, the Provisional IRA murdered 21 souls. James Caddick, John Jones, Stanley Bodman, John Rowlands, Charles Grey, Jimmy Craig, Trevor Thrupp, Michael Beasley, Thomas Chaytor, Marilyn Nash, Stephen Whalley, Eugene Reilly, Desmond Reilly, Maureen Roberts, Pamela Palmer, Anne Hayes, Maxine Hambleton, Lynn Bennett, Jane Davis, Paul Anthony Davies and Neil “Tommy” Marsh all lost their life.

They were sons, daughters, parents, brothers, sisters—innocent people murdered in cold blood in Britain’s deadliest act of terrorism before 7/7. Today, it is still the largest, worst, unsolved mass murder in our nation’s history.

To this day, not one person—not one—has been brought to justice for this atrocity. That is why I rise today to call for a statutory, judge-led public inquiry into the Birmingham pub bombings under section 1 of the Inquiries Act 2005. Read more here >

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