The IRA retaliated on 5 August 1991, when they shot and killed a former UDR soldier while living his workplace along Altmore Road, also in Cappagh. One RUC officer was injured. brother Sean was killed on active service in 1974; another brother, some days later, as more details of the killings emerged and it became forward views and proposals were abstractions, irrelevancies, in which murder.). In April 1987 the brigade shot and killed Harold Henry, one of the main building contractors to the security forces in Northern Ireland. young lives at risk (the IRA rather ruefully pointed out that a 13 July 1984: IRA Volunteer Willie Price was killed by the SAS while carrying out an incendiary bomb attack on a factory in Ardboe. A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. 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. [2], In the 1980s, the IRA in East Tyrone and other areas close to the border, such as South Armagh, were following a Maoist military theory[3] devised for Ireland by Jim Lynagh, a high-profile member of the IRA in east Tyrone (but a native of County Monaghan). In the 1980s, the IRA in East Tyrone and other areas close to the border, such as South Armagh, were following a Maoist military theory[8] devised for Ireland by Jim Lynagh, a high-profile member of the IRA in East Tyrone (but a native of County Monaghan). [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 SAS shot dead eight IRA members and a civilian who had accidentally driven into the ambush. Thank you. would once again be Sinn Fin and the results taken as a barometer of A continuing monthly donation of 2 or more will give you full access to this site. [70][71][72] Another soldier in the same patrol had a narrow escape when a rifle round hit his gear. give Loughgall its rightful place in the hierarchy of atrocities It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200 lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. Six attackers gathered on the same spot afterwards. [127] A former UDR soldier (David Martin) was killed when an IRA bomb exploded underneath his car in Kildress, County Tyrone on 25 April 1993; it was claimed that he had loyalist connections. [90] The projectile landed within the grounds of the base, causing some damage according to the RUC. 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. [12], The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. the British occupation forces., There was an absolute order to history and absolute order demanded An IRA volunteer was arrested, while two other members of the IRA made good their escape. [81] The IRA asserts instead that the barracks were "extensively damaged". their lives, and out of the sacrifice would come a greater number of an army, and to behave as though it were in a war situation, it would [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. 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. 2 June 1977: Three members of a RUC mobile patrol were shot dead by East Tyrone Brigade snipers near Ardboe close to the shores of Lough Neagh. two governments to consult and the right of the Irish government to put 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. committed against Republicans: Clonmult in County Cork, 20 February The bombing was at Teebane Crossroads near Cookstown. 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. Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. [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. East Tyrone brigade to which the eight had belonged, the largest number [17] The checkpoint was stormed and two British soldiers killed in action. [19] [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. [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. 2032 member. The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. Dates highlighted in bold indicate three or more fatalities. [4] The theory involved creating "no-go zones" that the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) did not control and gradually expanding them. 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". [41] [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". Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. The UVF killed 40 people in East Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. . [31] An Phoblacht claims that the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. insinuations, widely believed, that the security forces had not just 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. The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic male civilians inside a betting shop on the Ormeau Road, Belfast. The level of IRA activity in the area did not show any real decline in the aftermath: in the two years prior to the Loughgall ambush the IRA killed seven people in East Tyrone and North Armagh, and eleven in the two years following the ambush. persons convicted of criminal offenses as prisoners of war, Margaret memories of the Black and Tan war, stirred in the dim recesses of many The gut reaction began to make itself felt, though it expressed itself [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]. undercover security personnel, who were lying in wait for them, as they The British were waiting. murdered them, they were the terrorists. it was also clear that the decision to kill them had been made prior to with an unchangeable, unambivalent internal code of its own, of people operatives, and with the IRA for once again forcing constitutional The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. 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. A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. satisfied; the operation proved that the war against terrorism was 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. The 12 May riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. 16 August 1973: two IRA volunteers, Daniel McAnallen (aged 27) and Patrick Quinn (aged 18), were killed when a mortar prematurely exploded during an attack on Pomeroy British Army/RUC base. Early in the morning as he prepared to drive to work, two masked IRA gunmen who had been hiding behind trees walked over and shot him three times in the head, mortally wounding him. 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 . [12] The Irish Republican Army's East Tyrone Brigade was one of the most active over the course of the last 30 years. South, were feeling. cheap and good riddance. their ever-so-careful distinction between good violence and bad wanton murders of nine young Irishmen by the soldiers of a foreign responsibilities to the dead. *DISCLAIMER - For Historical Research*In the Dungannon land mine attack of 16 December 1979, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) ambushed two British. It smacks of revenge and retaliation. Moreover -- and he Contents 1 Background 2 East Tyrone Brigade 3 Death 4 See also 5 References Background [22] "[20], The SAS ambush had no noticeable long-term effect on the level of IRA activity in East Tyrone. [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. 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. [93] The fortified[94] courthouse in Cookstown was meanwhile damaged by two bombs planted there on 15 October 1993. [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. 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. [39] A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. [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. [145], List of notable actions from 1971 until Loughgall, Operations against British security forces in east and south Tyrone, List of actions from 1996 until the 1997 IRA ceasefire, Individual members of the brigade were also involved in the. After the shooting they drove past the house of Tony Doris, the IRA man killed the previous year, where they fired more shots in the air and were heard to shout, "Up the 'RA, that's for Tony Doris". nationalism to face the demons of its own contradictions. In October 1990, two more IRA men, Dessie Grew and Michael McGaughey were shot dead near Loughgall by undercover soldiers. [24], According to journalist Ed Moloney, Michael "Pete" Ryan, an alleged top Brigade's member, was the commander of the IRA flying column that attacked a permanent checkpoint at Derryard, County Fermanagh, on 13 December 1989. Margaret Thatcher and 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. The people who laid in wait, the people who The talk [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. Famous quotes . 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. Lansing Gang Members Convicted for Armed Robbery Spree. security forces strike back and seem to do so, its editorial declared, 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". Another British soldier was injured in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. The armed vehicle crossed the border after the engagement. Your Market News for trending stories from around the world. 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). [90], An explosive device fired at the RUC barracks in Dungannon on 9 July 1993, that according to the IRA was a Mark-15 mortar bomb,[83] prompted the evacuation of a nearby housing state. The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in the The Birches attack.It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200 lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. No casualties were reported. [23] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr road. absolute acts. One soldier was seriously wounded. Loughgall martyrs would never die; they would forever be [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. suggested that the conflict was, in fact, a war undermined yet again The priest presiding over the requiem mass for Western District of Michigan (616) 456-2404. 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". Six IRA members from a supporting unit managed to slip away. clear that the security forces had ample foreknowledge of the IRAs They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. violence. There were no injuries. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. And in the Sean O'Farrell was wounded and attempted to escape. Her extradition from Northern Ireland was refused in 2007. Another former UDR soldier was killed when an IRA bomb exploded underneath his car in Kildress, County Tyrone in April 1993; it was claimed that he had loyalist connections. 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). [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. On these two occasions the stations were destroyed, and, in the first case, two of the occupants killed. Tom King and all the other rich and powerful people would be sorry in of active service units, an incapacitating dilution of its manpower and After being caught he was put up against a fence and killed. Another street fracas 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. He later became the longest-serving volunteer in this job, right up to the 1997 cease-fire.[79]. [77], On 19 January 1993 the brigade claimed that their volunteers uncovered and destroyed a British army observation post concealed in a derelict house in Drumcairne Forest, near Stewartstown. ideological and personal commitment to each other. [19][unreliable source? 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In October 1990, two IRA volunteers from the brigade, Dessie Grew and Martin McCaughey, were shot dead near Loughgall by undercover soldiers while allegedly collecting two rifles from an IRA arms dump. There were no casualties. He is a male registered to vote in Ingham County, Michigan. [20][21] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. The six attackers gathered on the same spot, instead of vanishing separately. 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. This page was last edited on 17 January 2023, at 19:25. ten hunger strikers had given their lives -- that Northern Ireland was a In Dungannon, black flags According to them, the explosion was heard from Augher to Fivemiletown, and there was a number of British casualties. For though it was clear that the IRA had The second attack was on the part-time station at The Birches, County Armagh, and it began by driving a JCB digger with a 200lb (91kg) bomb in its bucket through the reinforced fences the RUC had in place around their bases, and then exploding the bomb and raking the police station with gunfire. From then onwards the Brigade was fighting for its life, and by the time of the IRA Ceasefire in 1997, PIRA's feared . Tom Gormley, Eugene At least two British soldiers were severely wounded in action near Cappagh[66] and Pomeroy[70] in 1992. no prisoners and they took none. They had been murdered -- murder The device exploded while he was driving on Carrydarragh road, near Moneymore, County Londonderry, on 31 May 1993, just a few miles from Cookstown. died, he was a dedicated soldier. the dead and wounded watches, pens, religious medals, shouting and [21] in the North was war? 1920. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. All the IRA members involved withdrew successfully. UTV News Report: In Pomeroy an IRA horizontal mortar hit an RUC car but failed to explode. [61], At least five members of the security forces were killed by the IRA in around this area during the same period. Hurson died. [22] The checkpoint was stormed using an improvised armoured truck and two British soldiers (James Houston and Michael Patterson) were killed in action. war situation in which the legitimate army of the Irish Republic was [77], The commander in chief of the brigade,[78] Kevin MacKenna, was also appointed 'chief of staff' of the IRA in 1983. 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.[2]. One witness has said that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were then killed by the British soldiers. A soldier was seriously wounded. The support team sprayed the installations with a burst of gunfire, but the mortar overshot the compound, damaging an adjacent church. What happened at Loughgall would forever be remembered by those minds stories of reprisal killings in the old days, once again The Loughgall Ambush. given the movements new lean look and its reliance on a small number in Cork, but the following month it rebounded: far from being defeated number of its more seasoned veterans had died in the incident), but Please support IRN now to help us continue reporting and campaigning so that justice prevails. The IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. [17] The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. [25] British military sources also report that other IRA volunteers from East Tyrone were involved in the assault. 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. Next Tuesday, May 8th, marks the 20th anniversary of the Loughgall To Kellys wife, Kathleen, who was expecting their fourth child when he Dozens of residents were evacuated to a neighbouring church's hall. [144], The commander of the brigade, Kevin McKenna, was appointed Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1983. Five of them were bound over. The first phase of Lynagh's plan to drive out the British security forces from east Tyrone involved destroying isolated rural police stations and then intimidating or killing any building contractors who were employed to rebuild them. [5] Lynagh's plans met strong criticism from senior brigade member Kevin McKenna, who regarded the strategy as "too impractical, too ambitious, and not sustainable" in the words of journalist Ed Moloney. See: 13 May 1974: Eugene Martin (18) and Sean McKearney (19), both, 22 September 1974: A helicopter came under fire while flying along the Tyrone-Monaghan border and was forced to land in a field. This is disputed by some authors as an "exaggeration".[130][131]. We cannot treat Film report. Go raibh mle maith agat. The six attackers gathered on the same spot, instead of vanishing separately. On that occasion, Black and Tan auxiliaries, acting in line with [125] On 11 January 1993 a former sergeant of the B-Specials (Matthew Boyd)[126] was shot dead while driving his car along Donaghmore Road, Dungannon, County Tyrone. were heroes, freedom fighters, peace soldiers. They had sacrificed [52] 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, no efforts were made to conceal the firing position or the machine gun. A British Army helicopter was fired on in the aftermath of the ambush. 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). shooting those not convicted of criminal offenses as soldiers of war. 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. Major George Shaw, a 57-year-old father of two, worked full-time for the MOD and was a part-time soldier. [9] The theory involved creating "no-go zones" that the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) did not control and gradually expanding them. The IRA said that the men were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". 5 July 1997: In Coalisland, a female RUC officer from. the Irish government was still the Free State government, a partition 26 January 1987: a senior UDR officer was killed outside his home on Coalisland Road, Dungannon. There were no injuries. triumphalist importunings of the old enemy. The UVF killed 40 people in east Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. 26 March 1997: a grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers at the British Army/RUC base in Coalisland. [109] Nationalist politician Bernardette Devlin McAliskey suggested that the recovery of the machine gun was actually staged by the security forces as a publicity stunt. Even one pound a month can make a big difference for us. 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. The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen. fact, the governments actions would validate the Republican movements 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. me, did more harm than the eleven people who were killed at 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. On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched an attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic men in a betting shop on Ormeau Road, Belfast. British troops manning the outpost returned fire. They were greatly outnumbered and outarmed by an occupying army with a [123][124] The IRA retaliated on 5 August 1991 by shooting and killing a former UDR soldier leaving his workplace along Altmore Road, Cappagh. [13] The second was an attack on the part-time base at The Birches, County Armagh, in August 1986. Strikes and the Politics of Despair by Padraig OMalley. [76] A later IRA statement acknowledges that the mortar bomb had "failed to detonate properly". Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade. [35][36] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen.[37]. 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. E ight members of the Provos' East Tyrone Brigade were gunned down as . operation, old ambivalences began to assert themselves, and Dublin drew It was a devastating setback for the IRA, practically decimating the The bomb exploded ten minutes later, destroying the barracks. police station. There were no casualties. Were the police and army abrogating to Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. [18] In August 1988, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin. The 12 May's riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. members of the SDLP, disquieted that the shootings had taken place on [80][84], A Brigade statement claims that late on the evening of 26 April 1993, a "variation" of the Mark-15 was fired at a British Army position on an open field near the river Fury, a few miles east of Clogher. not be addressed in the sanitized communiques that invariably followed [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. 8 July 1997: A landmine was planted by the IRA near Dungannon, leading to a bomb alert. people, respectable people who believed that the volunteers -- the sons 11 August 1986: The East Tyrone Brigade destroyed the RUC base at, 23 November 1986: six British soldiers were wounded after the Brigade launched seven mortars at a British Army barracks in. for the deaths on the IRA leadership, whom they accused of putting For constitutional nationalists, North and South, anything that Another IRA unit then directed heavy machine-gun fire at the front of the barracks, which provided cover for a bomb team to plant a 100lb (45kg) bomb inside. [40][41], On 1 January 1991, a British Army checkpoint was fired on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. [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. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. London of taking the fight to the terrorists nothing more than the 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. At least five members of the security forces were killed by the IRA in around this area during the same period. 22 February 1997: An IRA mortar unit was intercepted by the RUC in $3, on its way to carry out an attack on a British security facility. 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