How the suffragettes carried out the first terrorist campaign of the 20th century in Britain

Emmeline Pankhurst and her suffragettes have become revered figures in modern Britain, despite using tactics more in keeping with Al Qaeda or the IRA. Indeed, the IRAs campaign in the 1970s and 1980s was modelled on that of the suffragettes. The first terrorist bomb to explode in Northern Ireland in the twentieth century was detonated not by the IRA, but by the suffragettes in Lisburn, in 1914.