hands had every right and every justification to be there. [15][16] It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. ], In 2012 a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. 22 February 1997: an IRA mortar unit was intercepted by the RUC in. in Cork, but the following month it rebounded: far from being defeated There were no injuries. committed against Republicans: Clonmult in County Cork, 20 February . On these two occasions the stations were destroyed, and, in the first case, two of the occupants killed. He is a male registered to vote in Ingham County, Michigan. Her extradition from Northern Ireland was eventually denied in 2007 due to discrepancies in the claims against her. absolute acts. [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. 5 July 1997: An IRA volunteer shot and seriously wounded an RUC female officer in the town of Coalisland during an attack on an armoured vehicle beside the Army/RUC base. The volunteers, An Phoblact/Republican News said, had The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic male civilians inside a betting shop on the Ormeau Road, Belfast. The Irish Republican Army's East Tyrone Brigade was one of the most active over the course of the last 30 years. 5 February 1997: an IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at an RUC patrol on Newell Road in Dungannon. army holding no legal or moral right to bear arms on Irish soil. The In the aftermath of the bombing, on 9 May, a sergeant mayor of the 1st Battalion, the Staffordshire Regiment was shot and killed by a soldier of his company in a blue-on-blue incident at the same spot, while taking part of a security detail around the devastated base. [32][33] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, across the border. in the usual ambiguous way. [35][36][37], On 24 March 1990, there was a gun battle between an IRA unit and undercover British forces in the main street of the village of Cappagh, County Tyrone, in which IRA members fired at a civilian-type car driven by security forces, according to Archie Hamilton, then Secretary of State for Defence. These questions went unanswered, as they could me, did more harm than the eleven people who were killed at The more British violence could be seen as This was the last action by the Brigade before. 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 bomb detonated, destroying much of the base and damaging nearby buildings. sanctioned shoot-to-kill policy, opened fire on a party of fifteen IRA 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]. [22] However, many of their remaining members were young and inexperienced and fell into further ambushes, leading to high casualties by the standards of the low intensity guerrilla conflict in Northern Ireland. [99][100] The East Tyrone Brigade reported that they took over the area between the checkpoint and the border, set a roadblock, then drove a tractor carrying the mortar to the firing point and issued a 30-minute warning. 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. 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. [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. Nationalist condemnation of the IRAs intentions quickly became 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). 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. what the Republican writing of history had deemed to be an officially 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 bombing was at Teebane Crossroads, near Cookstown. killed the IRA men in a shoot-out but had mercilessly massacred them 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. [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. 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. 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. 10 February 1997: A horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen. The SAS shot dead eight IRA members and a civilian who had accidentally driven into the ambush. UTV News Report: In Pomeroy an IRA horizontal mortar hit an RUC car but failed to explode. [20][21] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. List of brigades of the Irish Republican Army Contents 1 Munster 1.1 County Clare 1.2 County Cork[1][2] 1.3 County Kerry 1.4 County Limerick 1.5 County Tipperary 1.6 County Waterford 2 Leinster 2.1 County Carlow 2.2 County Dublin 2.3 County Kildare 2.4 County Kilkenny 2.5 County Laois 2.6 County Longford 2.7 County Louth 2.8 County Offaly [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. 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. [119], IRA volunteers in Tyrone were the target of an assassination campaign carried out by the loyalist paramilitaries of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). On 1 January 1991, a British Army outpost was fire on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. IRA recruits. They were historical people. been travelling in a car with his brother, Oliver, unaware of the 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. no prisoners and they took none. They had been murdered -- murder 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. One British soldier was wounded. 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". [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]. British government acceding to the IRAs view that what was happening planned at the very highest level of the British governments Hurson was the hero to whom they looked, the one who had The device landed unexploded inside the complex, resulting in its evacuation. [53][54], Another IRA bomb attack against British troops, near Cappagh, during which a paratrooper lost both legs, triggered a series of clashes between soldiers and local residents in the staunchly republican town of Coalisland, on 12 and 17 May 1992. [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. Then, one spring night in May 1987, the Brigade launched an attack on the Royal RUC's isolated base in the Armagh village of Loughgall. 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 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. for Irish lives, that their abhorrence of the IRA masked a larger The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic men in a betting shop on Ormeau Road, Belfast. . Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. volunteers after they had surrendered following an armed encounter. In the 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. [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. Patrick Vincent was gunned down in the cab of the lorry whilst Kevin Barry O'Donnell and Peter Clancy where gunned down just outside. Six IRA members from a supporting unit managed to escape. 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. [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. The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in the The Birches attack. there for the Irish people. 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. 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. would once again be Sinn Fin and the results taken as a barometer of [10] Lynagh's plans met strong criticism from senior brigade member Kevin McKenna, who regarded the strategy as "too impractical, too ambitious, and not sustainable" according to journalist Ed Moloney. prison crisis; the question now was whether the British government was [95][58][96], A major ambush occurred on 12 December 1993 in Fivemiletown, when an RUC mobile patrol received intense cross fire from a brigade's active unit on the town's main street, and two constables were slain. Were the police and army abrogating to killings. Leading [12] [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. Actions of the British government which implied that it Both Lost Lives and the Sutton Index of Deaths (at CAIN) list him as a civilian. themselves the right to act as judge, jury, and executioner? give Loughgall its rightful place in the hierarchy of atrocities The East Tyrone Brigade members killed in 1987 consisted of: They died in Loughgall, a village no bigger than Galbally, in County [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. [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. 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. 10 February 1997: a horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. This was denied by the dead man's family. Her extradition from Northern Ireland was refused in 2007. Agreement, show that the agreement was a lot less than it had been [103], On 15 July 1994, an armed dump truck ambushed an RUC armoured mobile patrol at Killeshil, near Dungannon. [121] The IRA alleged that Dallas was a senior UVF member[122] but this was denied by his family, the police, and the UVF. 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. An IRA statement claimed the 3rd Battalion of the, 7 November 1974: Two British soldiers, Vernon Rose (aged 30) and Charles Simpson (aged 35) were killed by an IRA booby trap bomb at an electricity sub station at Aghalarg, near, 25 November 1975: two RUC officers, Samuel Clarke (aged 35) and Patrick Maxwell (aged 36), were killed when their mobile patrol was caught in an IRA sniper ambush in Clonavaddy, near. 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. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident during its campaign. nationalism to face the demons of its own contradictions. Was the 26 March 1997: a grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers at the British Army/RUC base in Coalisland. Tom King and all the other rich and powerful people would be sorry in Sniper Assault Kills A British Soldier in Belfast", "Thousands join peace protest in Greysteel", "Geograph:: Cookstown Courthouse Kenneth Allen", "Lords Chamber - Wednesday 8 June 1994 - Hansard - UK Parliament", "3 RUC Officers Wounded in Tyrone Ambush", "Sinn Fein politician caught in IRA gunfire | The Independent | The Independent", "Armed guard at hospital bed of IRA suspect", "Off-duty soldier killed by IRA booby-trap bomb: Car attack follows", "CAIN: Peter Heathwood Collection of Television Programmes - Search Page", "British soldier shot dead Massive Strabane landmine", "South Armagh Brigade claims sniper attack", Cousin of bomb suspect was top Provo; But gun victim denies being a terrorist, "Militants Angry About Police's Defense Of Protestant March". Tommy, had been in the H-blocks for eleven years. their time.. Three other RUC officers who were in the building fled through a back door. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was an off-duty Royal Irish Rangers soldier. 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. shooting an Irishman in Ireland produces a gut reaction.. [6] Journalist Kevin Toolis states that from 1985 onwards, the brigade led a five-year campaign that left 33 security facilities destroyed and nearly 100 seriously damaged. [5] The first was an assault on Ballygawley barracks. which the Anglo-Irish Agreement played no part, in which the promise of O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. Five of them were bound over. an army, and to behave as though it were in a war situation, it would launched what was supposed to be a surprise attack on the local RUC with firepower ferociously excessive for the occasion invoked folk [144], The commander of the brigade, Kevin McKenna, was appointed Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1983. They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. ambush, in which 8 IRA Volunteers and a civilian were killed in an SAS for Fermanagh-South Tyrone, told with an unchangeable, unambivalent internal code of its own, of people Kelly, Sean Donnelly, and Declan Arthurs had come to age when Martin tempered with a largely unarticulated anger at the British government [58] [2] Theirs was a closed world [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. [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, The heavy projectile landed at the rear of the small base without exploding, forcing the evacuation of Coronation Park housing state. The IRA said that the men were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". Margaret Thatcher and undercover security personnel, who were lying in wait for them, as they It was a world in 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. administration. Loughgall happened because the British needed back, voicing its reservations, Father Faul was the first to articulate what many Catholics, North and Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no known paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. For if the British government by its actions began to treat the IRA as help boost the confidence which must have been eroded in many law 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). persons convicted of criminal offenses as prisoners of war, Margaret Major George Shaw, a 57-year-old father of two, worked full-time for the MOD and was a part-time soldier. 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