The World - News from April 8, 1985
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Thousands of nationalists marched in cities throughout Northern Ireland to mark the 1916 Easter Rebellion in Dublin that led to the creation of the independent Irish Republic. Police found and removed two homemade bombs at Milltown Cemetery in West Belfast, close to where nationalist Gerry Adams later spoke during an Easter Rebellion parade. Adams, president of the outlawed Irish Republican Army’s legal political arm, Sinn Fein, blamed the bombs on “pro-British elements.”
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