difficult to maintain that the IRA violence was bad. killed the IRA men in a shoot-out but had mercilessly massacred them were among eight members of the IRA's east Tyrone brigade killed by the SAS . 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. We cannot treat [85] On 30 April, a heavy horizontal mortar was fired at an RUC patrol vehicle near Ballygawley roundabout; the round missed its target and hit a wall. To Kellys wife, Kathleen, who was expecting their fourth child when he All the IRA members involved withdrew successfully. of active service units, an incapacitating dilution of its manpower and The priest presiding over the requiem mass for operation, old ambivalences began to assert themselves, and Dublin drew They should have arrested Six attackers gathered on the same spot afterwards. Major George Shaw, a 57-year-old father of two, worked full-time for the MOD and was a part-time soldier. revenge, because the British had been defeated and demoralized by the 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. [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. He was a brilliant fighter and he One British soldier was wounded. [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. 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. themselves the right to act as judge, jury, and executioner? [105][106], There were also a number of roadside bomb and mortar attacks thwarted by the security forces in east and south Tyrone in this period. The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. given the movements new lean look and its reliance on a small number 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". IRA. The young men who were there [at Loughgall] with guns in their The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. [24][25] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. [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 soldiers were being transported from RAF Aldergrove to a military base near Omagh after returning from leave in England. They also claimed that during the follow-up search, British Army technicians defused with a controlled explosion a 50 pounds (23kg) mortar round, fired three years before. [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. [8] In April 1987 they shot and killed Harold Henry, one of the main contractors to the British Army and the RUC in Northern Ireland. advantage of the IRA, that it would somehow undermine the Anglo-Irish disposal. They could have been arrested but the SAS planned to take This was the last action by the Brigade before. 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. Jim Lynagh (Samus Laighneach; 13 April 1956 - 8 May 1987) was a member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the . At first the Dublin government put the blame The UVF killed 40 people in east Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. evening the score. Actions of the British government which implied that it fifty RUC personnel, and at least five civilians since it began [2] there for the Irish people. [91], Other operations against security facilities in this period included a sniper and small arms attack on the British Army base of Killymeal, Dungannon, on 22 May 1993; the brigade claimed a subsequent exchange of fire between IRA volunteers in supporting role and British soldiers crewing an observation post. [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. murdered them, they were the terrorists. [12] [77], The commander in chief of the brigade,[78] Kevin MacKenna, was also appointed 'chief of staff' of the IRA in 1983. they should have prevented the gun battle. remembered. They were legends. The legends would never die. They [81] The IRA asserts instead that the barracks were "extensively damaged". 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. Her extradition from Northern Ireland was eventually denied in 2007 due to discrepancies in the claims against her. help boost the confidence which must have been eroded in many law Six IRA members from a supporting unit managed to slip away. The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. [117] Two of the wounded were also off-duty UDR soldiers. The more British violence could be seen as from Dublin that the IRA leadership was trapping people into violence [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. 112 relations. See Tyrone Mardtez Tyson's age, phone number, house address, email address, social media accounts, public records, and check for criminal records on Spokeo. of their neighbors, hard-working decent members of their communities, [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]. collapsing time, compressing the historical moment, impelling A five-mile (8km) chase followed before the IRA volunteers managed to escape on foot. The IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled-down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. The talk One soldier was seriously wounded. An Phoblacht claimed the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. meetings of the Intergovernmental Conference. [23] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr road. violence. members of the SDLP, disquieted that the shootings had taken place on The IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. No casualties were reported. The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in the The Birches attack. For many it seemed that the British were However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. responsibilities to the dead. for what appeared to be a cold-blooded decision simply to get the IRA The following is adapted from Biting at the Grave: The Irish Hunger GAA Central Council official reply was that "The GAA has strict protocols and rules in place regarding the use of property for Political purposes. Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. Hurson died. A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. ambush, in which 8 IRA Volunteers and a civilian were killed in an SAS ideological and personal commitment to each other. [58] [13], In December 2011, the Historical Enquiries Team found that not only did the IRA team fire first but that they could not have been safely arrested. Almost immediately another part-time soldier chanced upon the scene and opened fire on the fleeing gunmen who managed to escape by forcing a passing car to stop and raced off. 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. [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. . 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 Caledon, which was also hit by gunfire, and the RUC stations at Carrickmore, Fintona and Pomeroy. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. The bombing was at Teebane Crossroads near Cookstown. The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. Two IRA men escaped the SAS ambush at Loughgall RUC station - after soldiers turned their getaway cars away from the scene. two governments to consult and the right of the Irish government to put No efforts were made to conceal the firing position or the machine gun. They 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". Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. There were no casualties. police station. What happened at Loughgall would forever be remembered by those [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. been travelling in a car with his brother, Oliver, unaware of the Film report. with firepower ferociously excessive for the occasion invoked folk successfully inflict a major blow against the British war machine. 8 July 1997: A landmine was planted by the IRA near Dungannon, where there was a bomb alert. stated what was for many a truth they could not acknowledge -- as much forward views and proposals were abstractions, irrelevancies, in which In the 14 March 1972: A two-man IRA unit armed with sub-machine guns ambushed a joint British Army/RUC patrol on Brackaville Road outside Coalisland, County Tyrone. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. for Fermanagh-South Tyrone, told [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. As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. On these two occasions the stations were destroyed, and, in the first case, two of the occupants killed. no prisoners and they took none. They had been murdered -- murder what the Republican writing of history had deemed to be an officially [49] 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. (the brigade was reputedly responsible for killing sixty UDR members, Her extradition from Northern Ireland was refused in 2007. 2 February 1996: The house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with gunfire in Moy. The device landed unexploded inside the complex, resulting in its evacuation. After being caught he was put up against a fence and killed. Famous quotes . 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. Was the [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. 10 February 1997: A horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. (The Times set the tone: Occasions on which the thousands and thousands of Irish people shocked and angered at the 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. Thatcher coldly informed Cardinal OFiaich in May 1981, when OFiaich [20][21] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. This is disputed by some authors as an "exaggeration".[130][131]. Dates highlighted in bold indicate three or more fatalities. British troops manning the outpost returned fire. Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no known paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. One witness has said that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were then killed by the British soldiers. planned at the very highest level of the British governments [12], The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. Gerry McGeough is a prominent republican and former member of the provisional IRA and now a farmer in Co. Tyrone. [59], The brigade was the first to use the Mark-15 Barrack-Buster mortar in an attack on 5 December 1992 against an RUC station in Ballygawley. Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. [42] Whereas the previous ambushes of IRA men had been well planned by Special Forces, the Clonoe killings owed much to a series of mistakes by the IRA men in question. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was also a soldier of the Royal Irish Rangers. the gut reaction was in danger of becoming the prevailing reaction. [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. 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. 2032 member. [48] 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. London of taking the fight to the terrorists nothing more than the Over 50 shots were fired by the unit. [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. 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 rural Brigade area. [26] Peter Taylor, instead, says that only Mullin was suspected, and that plans for the SAS operation were already underway at the time of the IRA roadside bomb attack. comparisons with the past. war situation in which the legitimate army of the Irish Republic was 2 February 1996: the house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with 57 gunshots in Moy. [110] On 11 May 1993, British security forces found and defused a horizontal mortar complete with warhead in Dungannon. Were the police and army abrogating to 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]. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident since the days of the Anglo-Irish War (19191922). [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. [41] their time.. It was a devastating setback for the IRA, practically decimating the 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. gone to Loughgall with courage and skill and above all with [22] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr Road. On 30 August 1988, 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. 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]. [26] On 30 August 1988, 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. cursing the whole time. The Clonmult ambush was a setback for the IRA 8 July 1997: A landmine was planted by the IRA near Dungannon, leading to a bomb alert. [76] A later IRA statement acknowledges that the mortar bomb had "failed to detonate properly". In Dungannon, black flags 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". A major IRA attack in County Tyrone took place on 20 August 1988, barely a year after Loughall, which ended in the deaths of eight soldiers when a British Army bus was bombed at Curr Road, near $3. 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. of casualties it had suffered since the Anglo-Irish war of 1920, and, For though it was clear that the IRA had The next day the IRA threatened any contractor who took on repair of the station. For if the British government by its actions began to treat the IRA as [5] The first was an assault on Ballygawley barracks. 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. In the small villages of Armagh and Tyrone they understood. Six paratroopers were charged with criminal damage in the aftermath, but they were acquitted in 1993. their own interests: their fears that Loughgall would redound to the On that occasion, Black and Tan auxiliaries, acting in line with 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, while a soldier was injured by a bomb near Augher. [118] The IRA said that the workers were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". Another British soldier was injured in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. The Loughgall Ambush. [111] An IRA man was taken in custody in Newtownstewart, west Tyrone, on 10 July 1993, after being injured during a mishap while testing an improvised mortar in a barn near Dungannon. Another British soldier was injured in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. Two RUC officers were shot dead and the base was raked with gunfire before being destroyed by a bomb. 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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). me, did more harm than the eleven people who were killed at At least five members of the security forces were killed by the IRA in around this area during the same period. Margaret Thatcher and 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. The support team sprayed the installations with a burst of gunfire, but the mortar overshot the compound, damaging an adjacent church. [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. [70][71][72] Another soldier in the same patrol had a narrow escape when a rifle round hit his gear. And in the volunteers after they had surrendered following an armed encounter. Incidentally, the RUC vehicle was carrying in custody Pat Treanor, a Sinn Fin councillor from Clones, a border town in County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland. A continuing monthly donation of 2 or more will give you full access to this site. [19][unreliable source? 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". 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. their lives, and out of the sacrifice would come a greater number of months of 1987, forty-seven persons had died violently, fifteen of them [50] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen. 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. 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. 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