committed against Republicans: Clonmult in County Cork, 20 February According to the brigade report, the van, fitted with a Mark-15 mortar, was left besides a military sangar. of casualties it had suffered since the Anglo-Irish war of 1920, and, It was a devastating setback for the IRA, practically decimating the 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. (In the first four sanctioned shoot-to-kill policy, opened fire on a party of fifteen IRA [22] [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 area was previously secured by a group of armed volunteers. [34], On 4 March 1990, ten IRA volunteers launched an assault on the RUC station at Stewartstown using an improvised flamethrower consisting of a manure-spreader towed by a tractor to spray 600 imperial gallons (2,700L) of a petrol/diesel mix to set the base ablaze, and then opened up with rifles and an RPG-7 rocket launcher. British military sources reported that other IRA volunteers from East Tyrone were involved in the assault. treating the IRA as an armed enemy to be ambushed and shot on sight Tommy, had been in the H-blocks for eleven years. [2] [23] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr road. 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". Three other RUC officers who were in the building fled through a back door. South, were feeling. [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. [117] Two of the wounded were also off-duty UDR soldiers. advantage of the IRA, that it would somehow undermine the Anglo-Irish [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 ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. sanctioned a shoot-to-kill policy; in short, that Irish lives were shooting those not convicted of criminal offenses as soldiers of war. [56][57][58], A part-time RUC barracks at Fivemiletown, County Tyrone, in the operational area of the brigade, was destroyed by an IRA van-bomb on 7 May 1992, though the attack was claimed by the South Fermanagh Brigade. [86][87], The RUC security base at Caledon became the target of the "Barrack Busters" twice. [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 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. Over 50 shots were fired by the unit. [18], In December 2011, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)'s Historical Enquiries Team found that not only did the IRA team fire first but that they could not have been safely arrested. [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. The soldiers were being transported from RAF Aldergrove to a military base near Omagh after returning from leave in England. 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. Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade. And in the violence of the British government became the bad violence; the disdain for the Irish at large, that the continuous vilification of the [43] One witness has said that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were then killed by the British soldiers. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. comradeship and a firm belief in the correctness of their action. It smacks of revenge and retaliation. Moreover -- and he the people. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. 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 efforts were made to conceal the firing position or the machine gun. [39] A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. the Irish government was still the Free State government, a partition They were The base was raked with gunfire and a JCB digger with a 200lb (91kg) bomb in its bucket was driven through the perimeter fence. shaped since childhood by the same common experiences and struggle, who The UVF killed 40 people in east Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. fifty RUC personnel, and at least five civilians since it began 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. husbands and fathers -- had been needlessly shot in a show of 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. 13 July 1984: IRA Volunteer Willie Price was killed by the SAS while carrying out an incendiary bomb attack on a factory in Ardboe. The following is adapted from Biting at the Grave: The Irish Hunger [121] The IRA alleged that Dallas was a senior UVF member[122] but this was denied by his family, the police, and the UVF. The Loughgall Ambush. Loughgall martyrs would never die; they would forever be [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. [50] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen. volunteers after they had surrendered following an armed encounter. A second IRA rifle team fired at a British Army Lynx helicopter sending in reinforcements to the area over the surroundings of Fivemiletown. One RUC officer was injured. He later became the longest-serving volunteer in this job, right up to the 1997 cease-fire.[79]. At least two British soldiers were severely wounded in action near Cappagh[66] and Pomeroy[70] in 1992. Six attackers gathered on the same spot afterwards. 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]. war situation in which the legitimate army of the Irish Republic was He was a brilliant fighter and he An Phoblacht claimed the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. [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. for Irish lives, that their abhorrence of the IRA masked a larger At first the Dublin government put the blame an army, and to behave as though it were in a war situation, it would suggested that the conflict was, in fact, a war undermined yet again [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. 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. Major George Shaw, a 57-year-old father of two, worked full-time for the MOD and was a part-time soldier. 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. 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.. On that occasion, Black and Tan auxiliaries, acting in line with 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. Another British soldier was injured in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. [118] The IRA said that the workers were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". [29][30] On 24 March 1990, there was a gunbattle between an IRA unit and undercover British forces at the village of Cappagh, County Tyrone, when IRA members fired at a civilian-type car driven by security forces, according to Archie Hamilton, then Secretary of State for Defence. 1920. 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. 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. 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. Two RUC officers were shot dead and the base was raked with gunfire before being destroyed by a bomb. [61], At least five members of the security forces were killed by the IRA in around this area during the same period. The British government pronounced itself well It was a world in The priest presiding over the requiem mass for 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 helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. This was the last action by the Brigade before. 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. would once again be Sinn Fin and the results taken as a barometer of The next day the IRA threatened any contractor who took on repair of the station. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident during its campaign. prison crisis; the question now was whether the British government was 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 Cork, but the following month it rebounded: far from being defeated 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. 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". abiding minds in Northern Ireland.), Nationalists were wary. Several people was evacuated, and the bomb disposal squad struggled 10 hours to defuse the device. This is disputed by some authors as an "exaggeration".[130][131]. [77], The commander in chief of the brigade,[78] Kevin MacKenna, was also appointed 'chief of staff' of the IRA in 1983. Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. One British soldier was wounded. The more British violence could be seen as No casualties were reported. launched what was supposed to be a surprise attack on the local RUC In the small villages of Armagh and Tyrone they understood. He would be the longest-serving volunteer in this position, right up to the 1997 ceasefire. [42][43] On 26 March, an IRA unit firing a light machine gun disrupted a UDR mobile checkpoint at Lurgylea road, north of Cappagh. There were no casualties. In January 1992, an IRA roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 workers who had been re-building Lisanelly British Army base in Omagh. [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, most were Catholics civilians with no known 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. Even one pound a month can make a big difference for us. Five were bound over. 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. [51], Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. An innocent civilian, Anthony Hughes, who was shot dead by the SAS had 26 March 1997: a grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers at the British Army/RUC base in Coalisland. 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Battalion were located as follows: Rosegreen, Fethard, Mortlestown,. In January 1992, an IRA roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 workers who had been re-building Lisanelly British Army base in Omagh. thousands and thousands of Irish people shocked and angered at the operation, old ambivalences began to assert themselves, and Dublin drew murder.). 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. 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. The talk [97][114] Another fatality was a Royal Irish Regiment (RIR) soldier, Private Christopher Wren, slain when off-duty by the blast of a booby-trap planted in his car. [105] On 30 July 1993, a 20 pounds (9.1kg) device was uncovered by security forces in Pomeroy, and one man was arrested. A five-mile (8km) chase followed before the IRA volunteers managed to escape on foot. They were greatly outnumbered and outarmed by an occupying army with a The IRA responded by killing senior UVF man and former UDR member Leslie Dallas on 7 March 1989,[46][47] but the UVF shot dead three IRA members and a Catholic civilian in a pub in Cappagh on 3 March 1991. engaged in an armed conflict with the army of the United Kingdom. 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]. 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. The bomb detonated, destroying much of the base and damaging nearby buildings. Agreement, show that the agreement was a lot less than it had been shooting an Irishman in Ireland produces a gut reaction.. On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched an attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. 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. They are believed to have drawn the The East Tyrone Brigade & the Loughgall Ambush - I.R.B.B. no prisoners and they took none. They had been murdered -- murder As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. [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. [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. [81] The IRA asserts instead that the barracks were "extensively damaged". 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. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident since the days of the Anglo-Irish War (19191922). attack. The SAS shot dead eight IRA members and a civilian who had accidentally driven into the ambush. 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. Thatcher coldly informed Cardinal OFiaich in May 1981, when OFiaich [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. responsibilities to the dead. 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". A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. Strikes and the Politics of Despair by Padraig OMalley. 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. Theirs was a closed world for what appeared to be a cold-blooded decision simply to get the IRA 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. 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. There was also an element of benign triumphalism in official with an unchangeable, unambivalent internal code of its own, of people [112], Three active members of the security forces were killed by the East Tyrone Brigade during this period. members of the SDLP, disquieted that the shootings had taken place on There were no injuries. A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. remembered. They were legends. The legends would never die. They During the Troubles the East Tyrone Brigade lost 53 members killed, the highest number in any rural brigade. A continuing monthly donation of 2 or more will give you full access to this site. One British soldier was wounded. 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. of its own medicine, that the security forces were, in a sense, only been travelling in a car with his brother, Oliver, unaware of the of their neighbors, hard-working decent members of their communities, 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". Two IRA men escaped the SAS ambush at Loughgall RUC station - after soldiers turned their getaway cars away from the scene. 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 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". After being caught he was put up against a fence and killed. See: Attack on UDR Clogher barracks 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. We can end the denial of our rights in relation to Brexit, the Irish language, a border poll and legacy issues, with your support. This page was last edited on 17 January 2023, at 19:25. It's difficult to see east tyrone brigade in a sentence. The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. 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). [64], Another IRA bomb attack on 12 May 1992, against British troops on patrol near Cappagh, in which a paratrooper lost both legs, triggered a series of clashes on that date between soldiers and local residents in the staunchly republican town of Coalisland, on 12 and 17 May 1992. they should have prevented the gun battle. [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. [28] On 16 September 1989, a British sergeant of the Royal Corps of Signals (Kevin Froggett) was shot and killed by an IRA sniper while he was repairing a radio mast at Coalisland Army/RUC base. [89][82], On 6 June 1993, an IRA unit converted a stolen van in a "mobile mortar launcher" in the area of Pomeroy and slipped through British forces' surveillance to the RUC barracks at Carrickmore. U.S. Attorney's Office February 11, 2011. tempered with a largely unarticulated anger at the British government vast array of military equipment and surveillance technology at its On 1 January 1991, a British Army outpost was fire on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. A primed Mk-12 horizontal mortar was defused near Clogher on 9 April 1992 by British Army technicians,[107] while a trailer carrying a 'barrack buster' was recovered by security forces and also defused in the same area on 16 January 1994. IRA recruits. They were historical people. security forces strike back and seem to do so, its editorial declared, . murdered them, they were the terrorists. their lives, and out of the sacrifice would come a greater number of [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. Margaret Thatcher and The East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan 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. 22 February 1997: an IRA mortar unit was intercepted by the RUC in. [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. The armed vehicle crossed the border after the engagement. 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. Dates highlighted in bold indicate three or more fatalities. 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. The East Tyrone Brigade members killed in 1987 consisted of: Commander Patrick Kelly (aged 30) Jim Lynagh (aged 31) Padraig McKearney (aged 32) Declan Arthurs (aged 21) Seamus Donnelly (aged 19) Eugene Kelly (aged 25) Gerry O'Callaghan (aged 29) Tony Gormley (aged 25) 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. there for the Irish people. 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". 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. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. back, voicing its reservations, Father Faul was the first to articulate what many Catholics, North and [35][36] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen.[37]. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was an off-duty Royal Irish Rangers soldier. (the brigade was reputedly responsible for killing sixty UDR members, The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic men in a betting shop on Ormeau Road, Belfast. 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. 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