Unlike the current terrorists who aim to kill, the IRA mostly sent warnings and hit infrastructure. There were a few exceptions like eniskillen and inglis barracks
This is simply a myth. I have not included any attacks on police or army stations, nor any political assignation in the following list.
Ealing 2001 ... 7 civilians injured
Omagh 1998...29 dead
Docklands 1996 ...2 dead
Manchester shopping centre 1996 ... approx 200 injured
Shankill Road 1993...8 dead
Bishopsgate 1993...1 dead 30 plus injured
County down 1993...7 injured
Teebane 1992...8 construction workers dead
Baltic exchange 1992 ...3 dead 91 injured
Victoria train station...1 dead 38 injured
Harrods bombing 1982...3 dead 90 plus injured
Hyde Park 1982...11 dead dozens injured
Dunmurry train bomb....3 dead 12 injured
LaMon restaurant bombing 1978 ...12 dead 30 injured
London hit on hotel bomb 1975 2 dead 30 plus injured
Birmingham and Guildford pub bombs 1974...26 dead hundreds injured
I haven't included any of the shootings by the IRA or all of the attacks made or any by loyalist terrorists.
Human life was absolutely targeted by the IRA and other terrorists at the time.
Note also forgot to put in the Warrington bombings in the 1990s