[16] Additionally, most of the attacks which took place in County Fermanagh during this period of the Troubles were also launched from south Tyrone and Monaghan. The volunteers, An Phoblact/Republican News said, had The following is adapted from Biting at the Grave: The Irish Hunger 2 May 1974: Up to 40 members from the IRA's East Tyrone Brigade attacked the isolated 6 UDR Deanery base in Clogher, County Tyrone with machine gun and RPG fire resulting in the death of Private Eva Martin, a UDR Greenfinch, the first female UDR soldier to be killed by enemy action. One British soldier was wounded. The same source reported that a British helicopter, a military ambulance and ground troops arrived to the scene shortly after, and that local residents believed that two soldiers had been wounded. In 1985 and 1986, the East Tyrone Brigade carried out two attacks on RUC bases in their operational area, described by author Mark Urban as "spectaculars". McKearney was buried thirteen years to the day that his The bomb detonated, destroying much of the base and damaging nearby buildings. The IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled-down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. [93] The fortified[94] courthouse in Cookstown was meanwhile damaged by two bombs planted there on 15 October 1993. for what appeared to be a cold-blooded decision simply to get the IRA () The Association is committed to a shared future based on tolerance for the different identities and cultural backgrounds of people who share this Community and this island. Film report. The talk The later attack led to allegations that the IRA was killing Protestant land-owners in Tyrone and Fermanagh in an orchestrated campaign to drive Protestants out of the region. E ight members of the Provos' East Tyrone Brigade were gunned down as . On 1 January 1991, a British Army outpost was fire on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. In addition, the IRA in Tyrone was the target of an assassination campaign carried out by the loyalist paramilitaries of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). An Phoblacht claims that the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. interpretation of the conflict and once again confer on the IRA the He was a brilliant fighter and he [19][unreliable source? [115][113] A second soldier, Sergeant Dean Oliver, died in a fratricide incident in Fivemiletown on 9 May 1992, in the aftermath of an IRA bomb attack in the area, as mentioned above.[61][116]. army holding no legal or moral right to bear arms on Irish soil. The The East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan Brigade[1] was one of the most active republican paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland during "the Troubles". [51], The Fintona RUC/Army base damaged by mortar fire, 27 December 1993, In March 1992, members of the brigade destroyed McGowan's service station along the Ballygawley/Monaghan road, on the basis that they were supplying British forces,[52] while a soldier was injured by a bomb near Augher. their lives, and out of the sacrifice would come a greater number of ambush, in which 8 IRA Volunteers and a civilian were killed in an SAS 7 December 1985: during an attack on the RUC barracks in Ballygawley, the IRA killed two RUC officers (Reserve Constable William Clements and Constable George Gilliland) and destroyed the barracks with a large bomb. Kelly, Sean Donnelly, and Declan Arthurs had come to age when Martin . Cathedral in Dungannon that Kelly was an upright and truthful man who [92][93] RUC sources denied that the soldiers returned fire during the shooting. Sniper Assault Kills A British Soldier in Belfast", "South Armagh Brigade claims sniper attack", http://www.anphoblacht.com/news/detail/27929, Cousin of bomb suspect was top provo; But gun victim denies being a terrorist, Militants Angry About Police's Defense Of Protestant March, CAIN - Listing of Programmes for the Year:1997 - UTV news, 9 July 1997, Loughgall and why the truth will never be told. the Catholic community was really about. The Catholic Church seemed to Six IRA members from a supporting unit managed to slip away. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. [14], On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched another attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. The IRA men were intercepted by the SAS as they were trying to dump the lorry and escape in cars in the car park of Clonoe Roman Catholic church, whose roof was set on fire by Army flares. Read more about this topic: Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade, Subsequent Brigade Activity. The British Army claimed that the mortar round exploded in a bog just outside the perimeter fence, while the IRA unit said that the bomb landed in the grounds of the barracks. [123][124] The IRA retaliated on 5 August 1991 by shooting and killing a former UDR soldier leaving his workplace along Altmore Road, Cappagh. 112 relations. [23] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr road. Jim Lynagh ( Irish: Samus Laighneach; 13 April 1956 - 8 May 1987) was a member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), [1] from Monaghan Town in the Republic of Ireland . 5 July 1997: In Coalisland, a female RUC officer from. Her extradition from Northern Ireland was eventually denied in 2007 due to discrepancies in the claims against her. See: 11 December 1985: the East Tyrone Brigade claimed responsibility for mortaring Tynan RUC base, County Armagh in which four RUC officers were injured and the base badly damaged. The soldiers were being transported from RAF Aldergrove to a military base near Omagh after returning from leave in England. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. It was a devastating setback for the IRA, practically decimating the for the deaths on the IRA leadership, whom they accused of putting A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. The area was previously secured by a group of armed volunteers. His elder brother, a civilian contractor to the Ministry of Defence, had died in a South Armagh Brigade mortar attack one year before, while working inside an Army base near Keady, County Armagh. of their neighbors, hard-working decent members of their communities, [97][98], On 9 April 1994, after a three-day IRA ceasefire, a Mark-15 mortar was launched at midday at the British Army permanent checkpoint in Aughnacloy. The 12 May's riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. The device exploded while he was driving on Carrydarragh road, near Moneymore, County Londonderry, on 31 May 1993, just a few miles from Cookstown. [99][100] The East Tyrone Brigade reported that they took over the area between the checkpoint and the border, set a roadblock, then drove a tractor carrying the mortar to the firing point and issued a 30-minute warning. [105] On 30 July 1993, a 20 pounds (9.1kg) device was uncovered by security forces in Pomeroy, and one man was arrested. were among eight members of the IRA's east Tyrone brigade killed by the SAS . Thatcher coldly informed Cardinal OFiaich in May 1981, when OFiaich "[20], The SAS ambush had no noticeable long-term effect on the level of IRA activity in East Tyrone. Ed Moloney, Irish journalist and author of the Secret History of the IRA, states that the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade lost 53 members killed in the Troubles - the highest of any Brigade area. Next Tuesday, May 8th, marks the 20th anniversary of the Loughgall operatives, and with the IRA for once again forcing constitutional The South Armagh area was considered to be a liberated zone already, since British troops and the RUC could not use the roads there for fear of roadside bombs and long-range harassing fire. For though it was clear that the IRA had In July 1983, the East Tyrone Brigade carried out a landmine ambush on an Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) mobile patrol near Ballygawley, killing three UDR soldiers (a fourth UDR soldier died later). A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. A British Army helicopter was fired on in the aftermath of the ambush. Western District of Michigan (616) 456-2404. There were a number of actions carried out by the IRA in the eastern part of Tyrone from 1996 up to the latest IRA ceasefire of July 1997: Risn McAliskey, daughter of political activist Bernadette McAliskey and suspected IRA member from Coalisland was accused by German authorities of being involved in a mortar attack on British Army facilities in Osnabrck, Germany, on 28 June 1996. disdain for the Irish at large, that the continuous vilification of the The four, Peter Clancy, Kevin Barry O'Donnell, Sean O'Farrell and Patrick Vincent, were killed at Clonoe after an attack on the RUC station in Coalisland. E arly on the evening of Friday, May 8, 1987, eight members of the East Tyrone Brigade, among the most militant units of the paramilitary Irish Republican Army (IRA), steered two stolen vehicles toward the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) station in Loughgall, Northern Ireland. [60], From mid-1992 up to the 1994 cease fire, IRA units in east and south Tyrone executed a total of eight mortar attacks against police and military facilities and were also responsible for at least 16 bombings and shootings. [27] According to author Nick Van der Bijl, British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the bombing of the military bus at Curr Road. G. Adams (SF) has written to the Prime Minister asking for new political contact. Tom Gormley, Eugene The RUC officer, William Logan (aged 23), who was driving the police patrol vehicle was mortally wounded and died the following day, he was the first RUC officer killed by the brigade. List of brigades of the Irish Republican Army Contents 1 Munster 1.1 County Clare 1.2 County Cork[1][2] 1.3 County Kerry 1.4 County Limerick 1.5 County Tipperary 1.6 County Waterford 2 Leinster 2.1 County Carlow 2.2 County Dublin 2.3 County Kildare 2.4 County Kilkenny 2.5 County Laois 2.6 County Longford 2.7 County Louth 2.8 County Offaly [10] The first was an assault on Ballygawley base in December 1985. the funeral of Paddy Kelly, the commander of the East Tyrone Brigade This is disputed by some authors as an "exaggeration".[130][131]. The East Tyrone Brigade members killed in 1987 consisted of: They died in Loughgall, a village no bigger than Galbally, in County GAA Central Council officialreply was that The GAA has strict protocols and rules in place regarding the use of property for Political purposes. The Association is committed to a shared future based on tolerance for the different identities and cultural backgrounds of people who share this Community and this island. [15], The SAS ambush had no noticeable long-term effect on the level of IRA activity in East Tyrone. The level of IRA activity in the area did not show any real decline in the aftermath: in the two years before the Loughgall ambush the IRA killed seven people in East Tyrone and North Armagh, and eleven in the two years following the ambush. It is believed to have drawn its membership from across the eastern side of County Tyrone as well as north County Monaghan and south County Londonderry. When the IRA responded by killing a retired UDR member, Leslie Dallas,[120] and two elderly Protestants, Austin Nelson and Ernest Rankin at Coagh, on 7 March 1989, the UVF shot dead three IRA members and a Catholic civilian in a pub in Cappagh on 3 March 1991. 22 February 1997: an IRA mortar unit was intercepted by the RUC in. It was, of course, the issue of war that raised the most discomfort. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. The East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan Brigade was one of the most active republican paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland during "the Troubles". His elder brother, a civilian contractor to the Ministry of Defence, had died in a South Armagh Brigade[64] mortar attack one year before, while working inside an Army base near Keady, County Armagh.[65]. no prisoners and they took none. They had been murdered -- murder the Irish government was still the Free State government, a partition On 11 February 1990 the brigade managed to shoot down a British Army Gazelle helicopter near Clogher by machine gun fire and wounding three soldiers, one of them seriously. [53][54], Another IRA bomb attack against British troops, near Cappagh, during which a paratrooper lost both legs, triggered a series of clashes between soldiers and local residents in the staunchly republican town of Coalisland, on 12 and 17 May 1992. He would be the longest-serving volunteer in this position, right up to the 1997 ceasefire. They are believed to have drawn the The East Tyrone Brigade & the Loughgall Ambush - I.R.B.B. of active service units, an incapacitating dilution of its manpower and One witness has said that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were then killed by the British soldiers. Another street fracas five days later, on 17 May, between a King's Own Scottish Borderers platoon and a group of nationalist youths in Coalisland resulted in the theft of an army machine gun and a new confrontation with the paratroopers. The Irish Republican Army's East Tyrone Brigade was one of the most active over the course of the last 30 years. vindicate the IRAs unswerving contention -- a contention for which the [21] Additionally, most of the attacks which took place in County Fermanagh during this period of the Troubles were also launched from south Tyrone and Monaghan. [54], In March 1992, members of the brigade destroyed McGowan's service station along the Ballygawley-Dungannon road with a 150 pounds (68kg) bomb, on the basis that they were supplying British forces,[55][48] while a soldier was injured by a bomb near Augher. [34] On 3 June, three IRA men, Lawrence McNally, Michael Ryan and Tony Doris, died in another SAS ambush at Coagh, where their car was riddled with gunfire. [42][43] On 26 March, an IRA unit firing a light machine gun disrupted a UDR mobile checkpoint at Lurgylea road, north of Cappagh. They were war situation in which the legitimate army of the Irish Republic was prison crisis; the question now was whether the British government was IRA recruits. They were historical people. responsibilities to the dead. 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Hamilton states that there were no security or civilian casualties. at the hands of the IRA in the five weeks prior to Loughgall.) 2 February 1996: the house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with 57 gunshots in Moy. Your contribution can be made with a credit or debit card by clicking below. [34], On 4 March 1990, ten IRA volunteers launched an assault on the RUC station at Stewartstown using an improvised flamethrower consisting of a manure-spreader towed by a tractor to spray 600 imperial gallons (2,700L) of a petrol/diesel mix to set the base ablaze, and then opened up with rifles and an RPG-7 rocket launcher. The East Tyrone Brigade members killed at Loughgall in 1987 consisted of: * Commander Patrick Kelly (aged 30) * Jim Lynagh (aged 31) * Pdraig McKearney (aged 32) * Declan Arthurs (aged 21) * Seamus Donnelly (aged 19) * Eugene Kelly (aged 25) * Gerry O'Callaghan (aged 29) * Tony Gormley (aged 25) Eugene Kelly for Irish lives, that their abhorrence of the IRA masked a larger . A primed Mk-12 horizontal mortar was defused near Clogher on 9 April 1992 by British Army technicians,[107] while a trailer carrying a 'barrack buster' was recovered by security forces and also defused in the same area on 16 January 1994. South, were feeling. 1 Battalion: Unit strength on 11 July 1921 was 265 all ranks, and the strength on 1 July 1922 was 312 all ranks.The companies of the 1st. IRA as terrorists and murderers and evil men and somehow subhuman These questions went unanswered, as they could On 31 January an IRA van bomb blew up in downtown Dungannon, resulting in three people wounded and severe damage both on the city centre and the RUC/Army base. [4] The theory involved creating "no-go zones" that the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) did not control and gradually expanding them. could have been the propaganda of a foreign government, the talk from The East Tyrone Brigade members killed in 1987 consisted of: Commander Patrick Kelly (aged 30) Jim Lynagh (aged 31) Padraig McKearney (aged 32) Declan Arthurs (aged 21) Seamus Donnelly (aged 19) Eugene Kelly (aged 25) Gerry O'Callaghan (aged 29) Tony Gormley (aged 25) Then, one spring night in May 1987, the Brigade launched an attack on the Royal RUC's isolated base in the Armagh village of Loughgall. [128] The latter attack led to loyalist allegations that the IRA was killing Protestant land-owners in Tyrone and Fermanagh[129] in an orchestrated campaign to drive Protestants out of the region, to the point that they drew an analogy with contemporaneous ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. The support team sprayed the installations with a burst of gunfire, but the mortar overshot the compound, damaging an adjacent church. UTV News Report: In Pomeroy an IRA horizontal mortar hit an RUC car but failed to explode. Two IRA men escaped from the scene, but the four named above were killed. Ken Maginnis, Official Unionist M.P. the stake-out itself. On that occasion, Black and Tan auxiliaries, acting in line with [43] One witness has said that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were then killed by the British soldiers. sanctioned shoot-to-kill policy, opened fire on a party of fifteen IRA Journalist Ian Bruce, instead, claims that an Irishman who served in the Parachute Regiment was the leader of the IRA unit, citing intelligence sources. [32] Hamilton states that there were no security or civilian casualties. from Dublin that the IRA leadership was trapping people into violence The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. Agreement, show that the agreement was a lot less than it had been Michael Ryan was the same man who according to Moloney had led the mixed flying column under direct orders of top IRA Army Council member 'Slab' Murphy two years before. 7 September 1981: two RUC officers (Mark Evans and Stuart Montgomery) were killed when their patrol vehicle struck an IRA landmine at Sessadonaghy, near. Major Shaw died at the scene. evening the score. The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in the The Birches attack. An IRA statement claimed the 3rd Battalion of the, 7 November 1974: Two British soldiers, Vernon Rose (aged 30) and Charles Simpson (aged 35) were killed by an IRA booby trap bomb at an electricity sub station at Aghalarg, near, 25 November 1975: two RUC officers, Samuel Clarke (aged 35) and Patrick Maxwell (aged 36), were killed when their mobile patrol was caught in an IRA sniper ambush in Clonavaddy, near. The East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan Brigade was one of the most active republican paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland during "the Troubles". Contents 1 Background 2 East Tyrone Brigade 3 Death 4 See also 5 References Background [ edit] engaged in an armed conflict with the army of the United Kingdom. rather than as a criminal organization whose members would be arrested, [61][62] Among the killed were two constables who were shot dead while driving a civilian type vehicle in Fivemiletown's main street on 12 December 1993. were heroes, freedom fighters, peace soldiers. They had sacrificed [26], A 2009 reenacment of a Provisional IRA active service unit in Galbally, County Tyrone, On 11 February 1990 the brigade managed to shoot down a British Army Gazelle helicopter near Clogher by machine gun fire and wounding three soldiers, one of them seriously. [18] In August 1988, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin. Tom King and all the other rich and powerful people would be sorry in [27][28] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. help boost the confidence which must have been eroded in many law The four, Peter Clancy, Kevin Barry O'Donnell, Sean O'Farrell and Patrick Vincent, were killed at Clonoe after an attack on the RUC station in Coalisland. committed against Republicans: Clonmult in County Cork, 20 February [50] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen. A five-mile (8km) chase followed before the IRA volunteers managed to escape on foot. Hurson died. Leading In the there for the Irish people. [35][36] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen.[37]. went as Republican soldiers who had carefully planned and hoped to They had mounted a heavy DShK machine gun on the back of a stolen lorry, driven right to the RUC/British Army station and opened fire with tracer ammunition at the fortified base at point-blank range, when the long-range of the weapon would enable them to fire from a safe distance. Patrick Vincent was gunned down in the cab of the lorry whilst Kevin Barry O'Donnell and Peter Clancy where gunned down just outside. 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. [38] The IRA said that the men were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". would once again be Sinn Fin and the results taken as a barometer of [44] Some republican sources[45] claim that a listening device was found in the roof of OFarrells house during repairs in 2008, exposing that the British intelligence had a forehand knowledge of the IRA operation at Coalisland and could have arrested them before the attack. British military sources reported that other IRA volunteers from East Tyrone were involved in the assault. 10 February 1997: a horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. was cool, was Padraig McKearneys nine-year-old nieces appraisal of security forces strike back and seem to do so, its editorial declared, collapsing time, compressing the historical moment, impelling the success of the agreement, called for a public inquiry into the The more British violence could be seen as IRA volunteers had been lying in wait outside the barracks and, as the officers left, two gunmen stepped out of concealed positions and shot both officers in the head from close range. O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. The bomb exploded ten minutes later, destroying the barracks. fifty RUC personnel, and at least five civilians since it began The IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. An IRA volunteer was arrested, while two other members of the IRA made good their escape. . [95][58][96], A major ambush occurred on 12 December 1993 in Fivemiletown, when an RUC mobile patrol received intense cross fire from a brigade's active unit on the town's main street, and two constables were slain. This in response to a complaint from DUP AssemblymanWilliam McCreaaccusing the GAA of turning a blind eye to "republican terrorist" events in the last years. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. planned to blow up the police station and to kill whomever was in it, The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic male civilians inside a betting shop on the Ormeau Road, Belfast. 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