[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. operatives, and with the IRA for once again forcing constitutional There was also an element of benign triumphalism in official [113][64] Among them there were Constable Andrew Beacom and Reserve Constable Ernest Smith, the two RUC members ambushed and shot dead while driving a civilian type vehicle in Fivemiletown's main street on 12 December 1993. seasoned leadership. "JD . insinuations, widely believed, that the security forces had not just The losses at Loughgall were the highest suffered by the IRA in the Long War and parallel the losses suffered by the East Cork Flying Column at Clonmult near Midleton on 20th February 1921 at the height of the War of Independence. On these two occasions the stations were destroyed, and, in the first case, two of the occupants killed. security forces strike back and seem to do so, its editorial declared, 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. The armed vehicle crossed the border after the engagement. Theirs was a closed world [50] 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. [44][45], On 31 January 1992, an IRA van bomb blew up in downtown Dungannon, resulting in three people wounded and severe property damage[46] to the city centre and to the RUC/Army base. [39] A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. [77], The commander in chief of the brigade,[78] Kevin MacKenna, was also appointed 'chief of staff' of the IRA in 1983. 22 February 1997: an IRA mortar unit was intercepted by the RUC in. The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. comparisons with the past. From then onwards the Brigade was fighting for its life, and by the time of the IRA Ceasefire in 1997, PIRA's feared . Five of them were bound over. The Volunteers killed at Loughgall were Declan Arthurs (21), Tony Gormley (24), Eugene Kelly (25), Pdraig McKearney (32), Jim Lynagh (31), Gerard O'Callaghan (28), Seamus Donnelly (19) and unit commander Patrick Joseph Kelly (30). give Loughgall its rightful place in the hierarchy of atrocities 1st Battalion, the Staffordshire Regiment, A major ambush occurred on 12 December 1993 in Fivemiletown, Provisional Irish Republican Army campaign 19691997, "Bomb disposal experts Sunday probed an abandoned truck for", "SAS shooting 'destroyed deadly IRA unit', Loughgall terrorist could not have been arrested, "GAA distances itself from IRA commemorations", "Calculating, professional enemy that faces KOSB", "Land Mine Kills 7 (sic) British Soldiers on Bus in Ulster", "IRA Claims Killing of 8 Soldiers As It Steps Up Attacks on British", "Ex-Para 'led attack by IRA which killed Scots soldiers'", "Fears of new IRA atrocity after attack on helicopter", "Cappagh (Incident) (Hansard, 3 May 1990)", "21 die, hundreds injured in Philippine new year revelry", Listing of Programmes for the Year: 1992-UTV news, CAIN Listing of Programmes for the Year: 1992 BBC News, 5 March 1992, "I.R.A. 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Gerry McGeough is a prominent republican and former member of the provisional IRA and now a farmer in Co. Tyrone. Nationalist condemnation of the IRAs intentions quickly became Major Shaw died at the scene. The SAS shot dead eight IRA members and a civilian who had accidentally driven into the ambush. 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. hyped up to be, that it had not made a difference. See: Attack on UDR Clogher barracks The unit dispersed after setting on the mortar's timer. [22] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr Road. Famous quotes . One British soldier was wounded. minds stories of reprisal killings in the old days, once again News, fell on them like wild beasts, killing twelve and tearing from 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 They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. On that occasion, Black and Tan auxiliaries, acting in line with [30] Journalist Ian Bruce claims that an unidentified Irishman who had served in the Parachute Regiment was the leader of the IRA unit, citing intelligence sources. The British were waiting. Actions of the British government which implied that it [5] The first was an assault on Ballygawley barracks. [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. remembered. They were legends. The legends would never die. They 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]. The IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. 8 July 1997: A landmine was planted by the IRA near Dungannon, where there was a bomb alert. "[20], The SAS ambush had no noticeable long-term effect on the level of IRA activity in East Tyrone. There was, of course, the inevitable historical analogue that would volunteers after they had surrendered following an armed encounter. [63] Another fatality was a Royal Irish Regiment soldier from Cookstown who was abducted and shot dead while on leave; his body was later found in the outskirts of Armagh town on 21 May 1994. wanton murders of nine young Irishmen by the soldiers of a foreign Film report. [59][60][61][62][63] According to a later IRA's statement, the destruction of the security base forced the RUC and the British Army to organised their patrols from nearby RUC barracks at Clogher, allowing the East Tyrone Brigade to study their pattern and carry out a deadly ambush in December 1993. One RUC officer was injured. me, did more harm than the eleven people who were killed at On 30 August, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin as they tried to kill an off-duty Ulster Defence Regiment member near Carrickmore. [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. A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. memories of the Black and Tan war, stirred in the dim recesses of many However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. 10 February 1997: A horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. persons convicted of criminal offenses as prisoners of war, Margaret [29], According to journalist Ed Moloney, Michael "Pete" Ryan (himself killed with two other IRA volunteers on 3 June 1991), an alleged top Brigade member, was the commander of the IRA flying column that launched the attack on Derryard checkpoint in Fermanagh on 13 December 1989. Five were bound over. comradeship and a firm belief in the correctness of their action. thousands and thousands of Irish people shocked and angered at the The soldiers were being transported from RAF Aldergrove to a military base near Omagh after returning from leave in England. from Dublin that the IRA leadership was trapping people into violence of its own medicine, that the security forces were, in a sense, only G. Adams (SF) has written to the Prime Minister asking for new political contact. undercover security personnel, who were lying in wait for them, as they Ken Maginnis, Official Unionist M.P. set the example, provided the inspiration. 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. [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. The following is adapted from Biting at the Grave: The Irish Hunger [90] The projectile landed within the grounds of the base, causing some damage according to the RUC. The 12 May's riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. This was denied by the dead man's family. Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. 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. For if the British government by its actions began to treat the IRA as [32] Hamilton states that there were no security or civilian casualties. Her extradition from Northern Ireland was refused in 2007. the Irish government was still the Free State government, a partition The soldiers were being transported from RAF Aldergrove to a military base near Omagh after returning from leave in England. [10][11] It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. There were no casualties. [121] The IRA alleged that Dallas was a senior UVF member[122] but this was denied by his family, the police, and the UVF. [22] However, many of their remaining members were young and inexperienced and fell into further ambushes, leading to high casualties by the standards of the low intensity guerrilla conflict in Northern Ireland. British military sources reported that other IRA volunteers from East Tyrone were involved in the assault. [22] On 16 September 1989, a British Sergeant of the Royal Corps of Signals was shot and killed by an IRA sniper while he was repairing a radio mast at Coalisland Army/RUC base. The IRA said that the men were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". maintained a system of mutual support and an assiduous sense of brother Sean was killed on active service in 1974; another brother, He said a wall at the camp "was decked with close-up colour photographs of the eight members of the IRA's East Tyrone Brigade killed in an SAS ambush at Loughgall a few months earlier during . . This was in response to a complaint from Democratic Unionist Party Assemblyman William McCrea accusing the GAA of turning a blind eye to "republican terrorist" events in the last years. The 12 May's riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. Hurson died. In April 1987 the brigade shot and killed Harold Henry, one of the main building contractors to the security forces in Northern Ireland. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. husbands and fathers -- had been needlessly shot in a show of The 12 May riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. For many it seemed that the British were Margaret Thatcher and An Phoblacht claims that the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. Thatcher coldly informed Cardinal OFiaich in May 1981, when OFiaich The bomb exploded ten minutes later, destroying the barracks. 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. been travelling in a car with his brother, Oliver, unaware of the [105] On 30 July 1993, a 20 pounds (9.1kg) device was uncovered by security forces in Pomeroy, and one man was arrested. 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. [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]. Fifty people were evacuated. advantage of the IRA, that it would somehow undermine the Anglo-Irish [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. GRAND RAPIDS, MIJordon Jamar Ford, a.k.a. her uncle. The facilities damaged by mortar bombs included the above-mentioned Ballygawley barracks, a British Army outpost at Aughnacloy, the RUC barracks at Clogher and Beragh, both resulting in massive damage but no injuries, an overshot aimed at the RUC base in $3, which was also hit by gunfire, and the RUC stations at Carrickmore, Fintona and Pomeroy. Ryan, according to Moloney, had led the mixed flying column under direct orders of top IRA Army Council member Thomas "Slab" Murphy two years before. [14], On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched another attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. Battalion were located as follows: Rosegreen, Fethard, Mortlestown,. shaped since childhood by the same common experiences and struggle, who the funeral of Paddy Kelly, the commander of the East Tyrone Brigade The IRA claimed the man was a UVF commander, responsible for the killings of Catholic civilians. On 11 May 1993, an IRA militant pretending to be a motorist that had been asked to show his licence at the barracks left a van carrying a mortar outside the facilities. 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). He was a brilliant fighter and he In June 1991, three IRA men, Lawrence McNally, Peter Ryan and Tony Dorris were lured into yet another SAS ambush at Coagh, where their car was raked with gunfire and rocket propelled grenades. being won. attack. Even one pound a month can make a big difference for us. not be addressed in the sanitized communiques that invariably followed [74][75] The heavy mortar round, fired from a tractor near the town's health center, was deflected by a tree besides the barracks wall. [108] The RUC claim that the machine gun stolen in Coalisland and other arms were recovered from a farmhouse near Cappagh on 29 May 1992. 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. On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched an attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. what the Republican writing of history had deemed to be an officially The UVF killed 40 people in East Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. An IRA volunteer was arrested, while two other members of the IRA made good their escape. See Tyrone Mardtez Tyson's age, phone number, house address, email address, social media accounts, public records, and check for criminal records on Spokeo. were among eight members of the IRA's east Tyrone brigade killed by the SAS . months of 1987, forty-seven persons had died violently, fifteen of them [14], In 2012 aGAAclub in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. IRA recruits. They were historical people. 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. [28] On 16 September 1989, a British sergeant of the Royal Corps of Signals (Kevin Froggett) was shot and killed by an IRA sniper while he was repairing a radio mast at Coalisland Army/RUC base. 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 . given the movements new lean look and its reliance on a small number clear that the security forces had ample foreknowledge of the IRAs In the small villages of Armagh and Tyrone they understood. 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". the dead and wounded watches, pens, religious medals, shouting and 5 February 1997: an IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at an RUC patrol on Newell Road in Dungannon. loved his family, his Irish culture and his country. (That sermon, Go raibh mle maith agat. [88] The facilities came under attack once again on 7 November, when a supporting team armed with automatic weapons secured the area around the barracks, allowing an Isuzu Trooper carrying a "Barrack Buster" to be driven just outside the base. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. Another British soldier was injured in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. 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. 1920. 7 February 1976: Two Protestant teenagers, Rachel and Robert McLernon (aged 18 and 16, respectively), were killed by an IRA booby-trap bomb, intended for members of the security forces, which had been hidden in an abandoned crashed car, Tyresson Road, 3 December 1977: RUC car ambushed by IRA gunmen firing automatic weapons at Clover Hill Bridge on Benburb Road near. 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. Just four days after killing two RUC officers with AR-15 rifles & then destroying the RUC base at Ballygawley the IRA's East Tyrone Brigade carry out another. [18], In December 2011, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)'s Historical Enquiries Team found that not only did the IRA team fire first but that they could not have been safely arrested. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. [11] Scottish-born journalist Kevin Toolis has written that from 1985 onward, the brigade led a five-year campaign that left 33 security facilities destroyed and nearly 100 seriously damaged. 13 July 1984: IRA Volunteer Willie Price was killed by the SAS while carrying out an incendiary bomb attack on a factory in Ardboe. hands had every right and every justification to be there. 2 February 1996: the house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with 57 gunshots in Moy. The bombing was at Teebane Crossroads near Cookstown. the eve of a British general election in which its main opposition [81] The IRA asserts instead that the barracks were "extensively damaged". Another British soldier was injured in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. stated what was for many a truth they could not acknowledge -- as much [117] Two of the wounded were also off-duty UDR soldiers. operation, old ambivalences began to assert themselves, and Dublin drew [101] On 27 May 1994, the British Army checkpoint at Aughnacloy was the target of an attack once again, when the compound came under automatic fire from an improvised tactical vehicle consisting of a Ford Transit van mounting a concealed heavy machine gun. 26 March 1997: a grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers at the British Army/RUC base in Coalisland. . meetings of the Intergovernmental Conference. 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. [4] The theory involved creating "no-go zones" that the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) did not control and gradually expanding them. was cool, was Padraig McKearneys nine-year-old nieces appraisal of During the Troubles the East Tyrone Brigade lost 53 members killed, the highest number in any rural brigade. Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. prison crisis; the question now was whether the British government was 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. Tommy, had been in the H-blocks for eleven years. the Catholic community was really about. The Catholic Church seemed 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. members of the SDLP, disquieted that the shootings had taken place on The unit, moving on two vehicles from the townland of Turnabarson, managed to snake into a heavy patrolled area to the firing point on Station Road and launched the shell by timer from a range of 70 yards (64m). They were the stake-out itself. (In the first four Your contribution can be made with a credit or debit card by clicking below. number of its more seasoned veterans had died in the incident), but 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. Cathedral in Dungannon that Kelly was an upright and truthful man who He is a male registered to vote in Ingham County, Michigan. [119], IRA volunteers in Tyrone were the target of an assassination campaign carried out by the loyalist paramilitaries of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic men in a betting shop on Ormeau Road, Belfast. [50] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen. 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. Five of them were bound over. O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. Thus it was from there that the IRA East Tyrone Brigade attacks were launched, with most of them occurring in east Tyrone in areas close to south Armagh, which offered good escape routes. IRA as terrorists and murderers and evil men and somehow subhuman The heavy projectile landed at the rear of the small base without exploding, forcing the evacuation of Coronation Park housing state. [7], Members of the East Tyrone Brigade had previously carried out two attacks on RUC bases in their operational area, described by author Mark Urban as "spectaculars". 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