The violence was shocking and the news was grim.
Forty years ago, a bomb exploded on a wooden fishing boat off the western coast of the Republic of Ireland, killing three people and mortally injuring a fourth on Aug. 27, 1979.
Among the dead that day was Lord Louis Mountbatten, a 79-year-old war hero, diplomat and a cousin of Queen Elizabeth.
His teenage grandson, Nicholas Knatchbull, and Paul Maxwell, a local teenager who worked on the boat, were killed along with Mountbatten.
Three others survived the blast — Timothy Knatchbull, the twin brother of Nicholas, and parents John and Patricia Knatchbull.
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