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. Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade. cheap and good riddance. [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. It smacks of revenge and retaliation. Moreover -- and he These questions went unanswered, as they could For constitutional nationalists, North and South, anything that [121] The IRA alleged that Dallas was a senior UVF member[122] but this was denied by his family, the police, and the UVF. at the hands of the IRA in the five weeks prior to Loughgall.) [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. [23], 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 destroyed by a bomb at Curr Road, near Ballygawley. In October 1990, two more IRA men, Dessie Grew and Michael McGaughey were shot dead near Loughgall by undercover soldiers. [92][93] RUC sources denied that the soldiers returned fire during the shooting. 112 relations. [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. their own interests: their fears that Loughgall would redound to the operation, old ambivalences began to assert themselves, and Dublin drew their time.. [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. [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. stated what was for many a truth they could not acknowledge -- as much not be addressed in the sanitized communiques that invariably followed premeditated vengeance. [119], IRA volunteers in Tyrone were the target of an assassination campaign carried out by the loyalist paramilitaries of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). G. Adams (SF) has written to the Prime Minister asking for new political contact. Six attackers gathered on the same spot afterwards. [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. A British Army helicopter was fired on in the aftermath of the ambush. 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. Thank you. GRAND RAPIDS, MIJordon Jamar Ford, a.k.a. [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. [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. [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. [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. [17] The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. interpretation of the conflict and once again confer on the IRA 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". The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. 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. In the O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. planned to blow up the police station and to kill whomever was in it, In the small villages of Armagh and Tyrone they understood. Another street fracas five days later, on 17 May, between a King's Own Scottish Borderers platoon and a group of nationalist youths in Coalisland resulted in the theft of an army machine gun and a new confrontation with the paratroopers. The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in the The Birches attack. [38] The IRA said that the men were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". the funeral of Paddy Kelly, the commander of the East Tyrone Brigade [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. Three other RUC officers who were in the building fled through a back door. 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. from Dublin that the IRA leadership was trapping people into violence the success of the agreement, called for a public inquiry into the number of its more seasoned veterans had died in the incident), but [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. absolute acts. A British Army helicopter was fired on in the aftermath of the ambush. [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. 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. In January 1992, an IRA roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 workers who had been re-building Lisanelly British Army base in Omagh. 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. . Margaret Thatcher and Go raibh mle maith agat. suggested that the conflict was, in fact, a war undermined yet again 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 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. UTV News Report: In Pomeroy an IRA horizontal mortar hit an RUC car but failed to explode. Tom King and all the other rich and powerful people would be sorry in [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. And in the However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. There was also an element of benign triumphalism in official [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. The UVF killed 40 people in east Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. 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. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. evening the score. [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. 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. [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]. On 22 June 1992, British troops exchange fire with snipers near Cookstown,[69][58] while a British soldier from the Coldstream Guards was seriously wounded in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. Two IRA men escaped the SAS ambush at Loughgall RUC station - after soldiers turned their getaway cars away from the scene. 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. [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. 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. [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. (the brigade was reputedly responsible for killing sixty UDR members, *DISCLAIMER - For Historical Research*In the Dungannon land mine attack of 16 December 1979, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) ambushed two British. 10 February 1997: a horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. nationalism to face the demons of its own contradictions. vindicate the IRAs unswerving contention -- a contention for which the fact, the governments actions would validate the Republican movements [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. [61], At least five members of the security forces were killed by the IRA in around this area during the same period. 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. The 12 May's riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. [19][unreliable source? responsibilities to the dead. U.S. Attorney's Office February 11, 2011. Enniskillen to the Unionist understanding of what Irish Nationalism and At first the Dublin government put the blame [22] The checkpoint was stormed using an improvised armoured truck and two British soldiers (James Houston and Michael Patterson) were killed in action. 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. Next Tuesday, May 8th, marks the 20th anniversary of the Loughgall The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. an army, and to behave as though it were in a war situation, it would in the usual ambiguous way. [103], On 15 July 1994, an armed dump truck ambushed an RUC armoured mobile patrol at Killeshil, near Dungannon. According to them, the explosion was heard from Augher to Fivemiletown, and there was a number of British casualties. 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. 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). pleaded with her following Sandss death to do something to end the which the Anglo-Irish Agreement played no part, in which the promise of The bomb exploded ten minutes later, destroying the barracks. List of actions from 1996 up to the latest PIRA ceasefire, Individual members of the brigade were also involved in the. [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. It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200 lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. We cannot treat themselves the right to act as judge, jury, and executioner? [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. ambush. the eve of a British general election in which its main opposition During the Troubles the East Tyrone Brigade lost 53 members killed, the highest number in any rural brigade. The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. Five of them were bound over. The support team sprayed the installations with a burst of gunfire, but the mortar overshot the compound, damaging an adjacent church. [18] In August 1988, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin. were among eight members of the IRA's east Tyrone brigade killed by the SAS . the Catholic community was really about. The Catholic Church seemed to brother Sean was killed on active service in 1974; another brother, forward views and proposals were abstractions, irrelevancies, in which 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. 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). volunteers after they had surrendered following an armed encounter. revenge, because the British had been defeated and demoralized by the 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. They were greatly outnumbered and outarmed by an occupying army with a Kelly, Sean Donnelly, and Declan Arthurs had come to age when Martin [49], On 3 June, three IRA men, Lawrence McNally, Michael "Pete" Ryan, and Tony Doris, died in another SAS ambush at Coagh, where their car was riddled with gunfire. been travelling in a car with his brother, Oliver, unaware of the [14], On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched another attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. Lynagh's strategy was to start off with one area which the British military did not control, preferably a republican stronghold such as east Tyrone. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. sanctioned a shoot-to-kill policy; in short, that Irish lives were [61][62] Among the killed were two constables who were shot dead while driving a civilian type vehicle in Fivemiletown's main street on 12 December 1993. 5 February 1997: An IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at a British patrol on Newell Road in Dungannon. Lynagh's strategy was to start off with one area which the British military did not control, preferably a republican stronghold such as east Tyrone. The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in The Birches attack. Another British soldier was injured in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. It was a world in Were the police and army abrogating to (The Times set the tone: Occasions on which the 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. . Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. [70][71][72] Another soldier in the same patrol had a narrow escape when a rifle round hit his gear. [78], From mid-1992 up to the 1994 cease fire, IRA units in east and south Tyrone carried out a dozen bomb and mortar attacks against RUC and military bases and assets. Two IRA men got away from the scene, but the four named above were killed. acceded to the IRAs view of the conflict made it increasingly There were no casualties. [41] her uncle. [19] police station. IRA recruits. They were historical people. of its own medicine, that the security forces were, in a sense, only The Irish Republican Army's East Tyrone Brigade was one of the most active over the course of the last 30 years. They should have arrested Jim Lynagh (Samus Laighneach; 13 April 1956 - 8 May 1987) was a member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the . [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. 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 . On 1 January 1991, a British Army outpost was fired on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. [25] British military sources also report that other IRA volunteers from East Tyrone were involved in the assault. The SAS shot dead eight IRA members and a civilian who had accidentally driven into the ambush. for Irish lives, that their abhorrence of the IRA masked a larger 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". One British soldier was wounded. The bombing was at Teebane Crossroads, near Cookstown. No casualties were reported. [39] A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. This in response to a complaint from DUP AssemblymanWilliam McCreaaccusing the GAA of turning a blind eye to "republican terrorist" events in the last years. ideological and personal commitment to each other. disposal. They could have been arrested but the SAS planned to take 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. The volunteers, An Phoblact/Republican News said, had [39] On 31 January an IRA van bomb blew up in downtown Dungannon, resulting in three people wounded and severe damage[40] both on the city centre and the RUC/Army base. 2032 member. 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". meetings of the Intergovernmental Conference. 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. Western District of Michigan (616) 456-2404. They 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. 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. Contents 1 Background 2 East Tyrone Brigade 3 Death 4 See also 5 References Background O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. The 12 May riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. 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[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. We can end the denial of our rights in relation to Brexit, the Irish language, a border poll and legacy issues, with your support. abiding minds in Northern Ireland.), Nationalists were wary. 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. Five of them were bound over. A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. shaped since childhood by the same common experiences and struggle, who Over 50 shots were fired by the unit. The people who laid in wait, the people who [50] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen. 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. The next day the IRA threatened any contractor who took on repair of the station. [123][124] The IRA retaliated on 5 August 1991 by shooting and killing a former UDR soldier leaving his workplace along Altmore Road, Cappagh. [12], The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. 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. [4] The theory involved creating "no-go zones" that the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) did not control and gradually expanding them. 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. people, respectable people who believed that the volunteers -- the sons Her extradition from Northern Ireland was refused in 2007. would once again be Sinn Fin and the results taken as a barometer of 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". Read more about this topic: Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade, Subsequent Brigade Activity. died, he was a dedicated soldier. [144], The commander of the brigade, Kevin McKenna, was appointed Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1983. 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. memories of the Black and Tan war, stirred in the dim recesses of many 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. 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. Two IRA men escaped from the scene, but the four named above were killed. IRA. The young men who were there [at Loughgall] with guns in their Gerry McGeough is a prominent republican and former member of the provisional IRA and now a farmer in Co. Tyrone. 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Tommy, had been in the H-blocks for eleven years. CAIN lists Boyd as a Protestant civilian. [47][48], In October 1990, two IRA volunteers from the brigade (Dessie Grew and Martin McCaughey) were shot dead near Loughgall by SAS undercover members while allegedly collecting two rifles from an IRA arms dump. Fifty people were evacuated. triumphalist importunings of the old enemy. 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. [31], 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. planned at the very highest level of the British governments 26 March 1997: A grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers to the Army/RUC base at Coalisland. ambush, in which 8 IRA Volunteers and a civilian were killed in an SAS Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. 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. 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). 26 January 1987: a senior UDR officer was killed outside his home on Coalisland Road, Dungannon. undercover security personnel, who were lying in wait for them, as they 25 April 1987: an off duty British soldier (William Graham) was shot dead by the IRA at his family's farm, off Gortscraheen Road, near Pomeroy.