Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Hare-hare kan manyan manufofin siyasa da na soja sun kasance fifiko ga IRA. Bam din Chelsea Barracks a London a watan Oktoba 1981 ya kashe fararen hula biyu kuma ya jikkata sojoji ashirin da uku; mako guda bayan haka IRA ta sake kai hari a London ta hanyar yunkurin kisan kai kan Laftanar Janar Steuart Pringle, Kwamandan Janar na Royal Marines. Hare-haren da aka kai wa sojoji a Ingila sun ci gaba da fashewar Hyde Park da Regent's Park a watan Yulin 1982, wanda ya kashe sojoji goma sha ɗaya kuma ya raunata mutane fiye da hamsin ciki har da fararen hula. A watan Oktoban 1984 ne suka kai harin bam a otal din Brighton
, wani yunkurin kisan gillar da aka yi wa Firayim Ministan Birtaniya Margaret Thatcher, wanda suka zargi shi da mutuwar masu fama da yunwa goma. Harin bam din ya kashe mambobi biyar na Jam'iyyar Conservative wadanda ke halartar taron jam'iyyar ciki har da MP Anthony Berry, tare da Thatcher da kyar ya tsere daga mutuwa. An hana wani shirin da aka shirya na kamfen na bama-bamai na Ingila a 1985 lokacin da aka kama 'yan sa-kai shida na IRA, ciki har da Martina Anderson da kuma dan kunar bakin wake na Brighton Patrick Magee, a Glasgow. An soke shirye-shiryen da aka yi na karfafa yakin neman zabe a karshen shekarun 1980 bayan da aka kama jirgin da ke dauke da makamai tan 150 da Libya ta bayar a gabar tekun Faransa. Shirye-shiryen, wanda aka tsara a kan Tet Offensive a lokacin yakin Vietnam, ya dogara ne akan abin mamaki wanda ya ɓace lokacin da kyaftin din jirgin ya sanar da hukumomin Faransa game da jigilar makamai huɗu da suka gabata, wanda ya ba sojojin Birtaniya damar tura matakan da suka dace. A cikin 1987 IRA ta fara kai hari kan sojojin Burtaniya a cikin babban yankin Turai, farawa da fashewar bam din Rheindahlen, wanda aka biyo baya da kusan wasu bindigogi da hare-haren bam guda ashirin da aka yi niyya ga ma'aikatan Sojojin Burtaniya da sansanonin tsakanin 1988 da 1990.