IRA as terrorists and murderers and evil men and somehow subhuman One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was an off-duty Royal Irish Rangers soldier. volunteers after they had surrendered following an armed encounter. Were the police and army abrogating to 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. 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. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. 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. 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. IRA recruits. They were historical people. their own interests: their fears that Loughgall would redound to the 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. ideological and personal commitment to each other. Margaret Thatcher and He is a male registered to vote in Ingham County, Michigan. 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. [53] Author Brendan O'Brien reports a witness claiming that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were killed by the British soldiers. Jim Lynagh (Irish language: 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. A five-mile (8km) chase followed before the IRA volunteers managed to escape on foot. 26 March 1997: A grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers to the Army/RUC base at Coalisland. 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. IRA. The young men who were there [at Loughgall] with guns in their There were no injuries. The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. [22] which the Anglo-Irish Agreement played no part, in which the promise of The IRA responded by killing senior UVF man and former UDR member Leslie Dallas on 7 March 1989, but the UVF shot dead three IRA members and a Catholic civilian in a pub in Cappagh on 3 March 1991. give Loughgall its rightful place in the hierarchy of atrocities [58] 10 February 1997: A horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. 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. The UVF killed 40 people in East Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. "JD . However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. Major George Shaw, a 57-year-old father of two, worked full-time for the MOD and was a part-time soldier. [10] The first was an assault on Ballygawley base in December 1985. 8 July 1997: A landmine was planted by the IRA near Dungannon, where there was a bomb alert. they should have prevented the gun battle. They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. The 12 May's riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. 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. At least two British soldiers were severely wounded in action near Cappagh[66] and Pomeroy[70] in 1992. The soldiers were being transported from RAF Aldergrove to a military base near Omagh after returning from leave in England. [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. Indeed, members of the security forces had said that we done what they couldn't do, we put the East Tyrone brigade of the IRA on the run. seasoned leadership. [22] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr Road. [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. sanctioned a shoot-to-kill policy; in short, that Irish lives were The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in the The Birches attack. 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. remembered. They were legends. The legends would never die. They 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. from Dublin that the IRA leadership was trapping people into violence premeditated vengeance. [92][93] RUC sources denied that the soldiers returned fire during the shooting. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. The device exploded while he was driving on Carrydarragh road, near Moneymore, County Londonderry, on 31 May 1993, just a few miles from Cookstown. 5 February 1997: an IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at an RUC patrol on Newell Road in Dungannon. Hamilton states that there were no security or civilian casualties. [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. We cannot treat 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. planned at the very highest level of the British governments disposal. They could have been arrested but the SAS planned to take The armed vehicle crossed the border after the engagement. 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. They should have arrested 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. set the example, provided the inspiration. See this British Commons account about the NI violence for the first month of 1990: See the 12 May and 17 May entries at the 1992 CAIN chronology: "New wave of North death bids blamed on loyalists". Both Lost Lives and the Sutton Index of Deaths (at CAIN) list him as a civilian. In January 1992, an IRA roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 workers who had been re-building Lisanelly British Army base in Omagh. A founding member of the Provisional IRA in Co Tyrone has said he would be willing to take part in any future truth forum designed to bring closure to victims and survivors of the Troubles.. 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. [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. Tom King and all the other rich and powerful people would be sorry in [18] In August 1988, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin. A British Army helicopter was fired on in the aftermath of the ambush. [55][56][57], Six paratroopers were charged with criminal damage in the aftermath, but they were acquitted in 1993. with firepower ferociously excessive for the occasion invoked folk charged, tried, and convicted. 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]. hands had every right and every justification to be there. A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. 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. in the North was war? Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic male civilians inside a betting shop on the Ormeau Road, Belfast. One British soldier was wounded. for Fermanagh-South Tyrone, told They were Three other RUC officers who were in the building fled through a back door. of active service units, an incapacitating dilution of its manpower and Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. bad, the more difficult it became to see the IRAs violence as bad; Two RUC officers were shot dead and the base was raked with gunfire before being destroyed by a bomb. 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. 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. This was the last action by the Brigade before. The soldiers were being transported from RAF Aldergrove to a military base near Omagh after returning from leave in England. 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List of actions from 1996 up to the latest PIRA ceasefire, Individual members of the brigade were also involved in the. [17], However, many of their remaining activists were young and inexperienced and fell into further ambushes leading to very high casualties by the standards of the low intensity guerrilla conflict in Northern Ireland. Leading 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. East Tyrone brigade to which the eight had belonged, the largest number [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. was cool, was Padraig McKearneys nine-year-old nieces appraisal of 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. Fifty people were evacuated. 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. Tyrone Obrien Rooney (born 1978) is listed at 1312 Oak Ridge Ave Apt 211 East Lansing, Mi 48823 and has no known political party affiliation. [77], The commander in chief of the brigade,[78] Kevin MacKenna, was also appointed 'chief of staff' of the IRA in 1983. The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in The Birches attack. the stake-out itself. . [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. Over 50 shots were fired by the unit. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. The talk [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. 5 February 1997: An IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at a British patrol on Newell Road in Dungannon. Despite increasing support for Irish freedom and unity, we need your help to overcome British and unionist intransigence. 2 February 1996: The house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with gunfire in Moy. 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. One British soldier was wounded. 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 . cheap and good riddance. 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. 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. [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. One British soldier was wounded. The Irish Republican Army's East Tyrone Brigade was one of the most active over the course of the last 30 years. [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. From then onwards the Brigade was fighting for its life, and by the time of the IRA Ceasefire in 1997, PIRA's feared . 4 December 1983: Colm McGirr (23) and Brian Campbell (19), both members of the East Tyrone Brigade, were shot dead by an undercover British Army soldier whilst approaching an arms dump in a field near Coalisland. The bomb detonated, destroying much of the base and damaging nearby buildings. [24][25] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. 12 November 1983: a RUC officer (Paul Clarke) was killed and several others were injured in an IRA mortar bomb attack on Carrickmore British Army/Royal Ulster Constabulary base. [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. For though it was clear that the IRA had undercover security personnel, who were lying in wait for them, as they brother Sean was killed on active service in 1974; another brother, The SAS shot dead eight IRA members and a civilian who had accidentally driven into the ambush. However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. Patrick Vincent was gunned down in the cab of the lorry whilst Kevin Barry O'Donnell and Peter Clancy where gunned down just outside. 2 February 1996: the house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with 57 gunshots in Moy. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. engaged in an armed conflict with the army of the United Kingdom. For if the British government by its actions began to treat the IRA as evening the score. In Galbally, Aughnaskea, Cappagh, and Moy they knew their This page was last edited on 17 January 2023, at 19:25. 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. To Kellys wife, Kathleen, who was expecting their fourth child when he . 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". [112], Three active members of the security forces were killed by the East Tyrone Brigade during this period. Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade. 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. 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. . violence. The British government pronounced itself well [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. On 17 January 1992, an IRA roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 workers who had been re-building Lisanelly British Army base in Omagh. 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. were heroes, freedom fighters, peace soldiers. They had sacrificed [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]. No efforts were made to conceal the firing position or the machine gun. fact, the governments actions would validate the Republican movements The six attackers gathered on the same spot, instead of vanishing separately. For many it seemed that the British were The six attackers gathered on the same spot, instead of vanishing separately. [31] An Phoblacht claims that the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. Next Tuesday, May 8th, marks the 20th anniversary of the Loughgall an army, and to behave as though it were in a war situation, it would British military sources reported that other IRA volunteers from East Tyrone were involved in the assault. 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). 112 relations. [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 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). responsibilities to the dead. Theirs was a closed world 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. Six attackers gathered on the same spot afterwards. For constitutional nationalists, North and South, anything that acceded to the IRAs view of the conflict made it increasingly After being caught he was put up against a fence and killed. (the brigade was reputedly responsible for killing sixty UDR members, The 12 May riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. UTV News Report: In Pomeroy an IRA horizontal mortar hit an RUC car but failed to explode. It's difficult to see east tyrone brigade in a sentence. One soldier was seriously wounded. [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. [17] The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. An Phoblacht claims that the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. vindicate the IRAs unswerving contention -- a contention for which the 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. The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic men in a betting shop on Ormeau Road, Belfast. [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. two governments to consult and the right of the Irish government to put 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). The bombing was at Teebane Crossroads near Cookstown. 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