IRA kills Lord Mountbatten in Co Sligo - August 27, 1979 : c

Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed on August 27, 1979 when a bomb planted by the IRA detonated on his boat near Mullaghmore, Co Sligo. Who was the British statesman? And why was he a target for Irish republicans?

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