5 February 1997: An IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at a British patrol on Newell Road in Dungannon. For though it was clear that the IRA had 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. A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. The device landed unexploded inside the complex, resulting in its evacuation. (In the first four 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. To Kellys wife, Kathleen, who was expecting their fourth child when he The UVF killed 40 people in east Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. Contents 1 Background 2 East Tyrone Brigade 3 Death 4 See also 5 References Background [ edit] One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was also a soldier of the Royal Irish Rangers. The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. 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. It's difficult to see east tyrone brigade in a sentence. The gut reaction began to make itself felt, though it expressed itself Enniskillen to the Unionist understanding of what Irish Nationalism and 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 $3, which was also hit by gunfire, and the RUC stations at Carrickmore, Fintona and Pomeroy. prison crisis; the question now was whether the British government was In the small villages of Armagh and Tyrone they understood. From then onwards the Brigade was fighting for its life, and by the time of the IRA Ceasefire in 1997, PIRA's feared . 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. [38] Hamilton stated that there were no security or civilian casualties. [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. 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.. remembered. They were legends. The legends would never die. They could have been the propaganda of a foreign government, the talk from [13] The second was an attack on the part-time base at The Birches, County Armagh, in August 1986. [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. G. Adams (SF) has written to the Prime Minister asking for new political contact. [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. 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 Dungannon, black flags 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. comradeship and a firm belief in the correctness of their action. The heavy projectile landed at the rear of the small base without exploding, forcing the evacuation of Coronation Park housing state. IRA volunteers had been lying in wait outside the barracks and, as the officers left, two gunmen stepped out of concealed positions and shot both officers in the head from close range. [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. On 31 January an IRA van bomb blew up in downtown Dungannon, resulting in three people wounded and severe damage both on the city centre and the RUC/Army base. There were no injuries. young lives at risk (the IRA rather ruefully pointed out that a shaped since childhood by the same common experiences and struggle, who [12], The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. 26 January 1987: a senior UDR officer was killed outside his home on Coalisland Road, Dungannon. revenge, because the British had been defeated and demoralized by the 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]. [144], The commander of the brigade, Kevin McKenna, was appointed Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1983. *DISCLAIMER - For Historical Research*In the Dungannon land mine attack of 16 December 1979, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) ambushed two British. [23] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr road. The 12 May riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. All eight members of the East Tyrone Brigade team were killed. Sean O'Farrell was wounded and attempted to escape. [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. [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. There were no injuries. The IRA said that the men were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". 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. All the IRA members involved withdrew successfully. charged, tried, and convicted. hyped up to be, that it had not made a difference. planned to blow up the police station and to kill whomever was in it, "[20], The SAS ambush had no noticeable long-term effect on the level of IRA activity in East Tyrone. the Irish government was still the Free State government, a partition Six IRA members from a supporting unit managed to slip away. 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". in the usual ambiguous way. in Cork, but the following month it rebounded: far from being defeated 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. A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. [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 SAS shot dead eight IRA members and a civilian who had accidentally driven into the ambush. [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. insinuations, widely believed, that the security forces had not just 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". [9], Mural commemorating those killed in the Loughgall Ambush, On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched another attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. forward views and proposals were abstractions, irrelevancies, in which 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. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. with firepower ferociously excessive for the occasion invoked folk During the Troubles the East Tyrone Brigade lost 53 members killed, the highest number in any rural brigade. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. [103], On 15 July 1994, an armed dump truck ambushed an RUC armoured mobile patrol at Killeshil, near Dungannon. murdered them, they were the terrorists. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. thousands and thousands of Irish people shocked and angered at the The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic male civilians inside a betting shop on the Ormeau Road, Belfast. As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. 10 February 1997: A horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. [34] 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. the funeral of Paddy Kelly, the commander of the East Tyrone Brigade 26 March 1997: A grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers to the Army/RUC base at Coalisland. The base was raked with gunfire and a JCB digger with a 200lb (91kg) bomb in its bucket was driven through the perimeter fence. [52] They had mounted a heavy DShK machine gun on the back of a stolen lorry, driven right to the RUC/British Army station and opened fire with tracer ammunition at the fortified base at point-blank range, no efforts were made to conceal the firing position or the machine gun. [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. [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. He is a male registered to vote in Ingham County, Michigan. An innocent civilian, Anthony Hughes, who was shot dead by the SAS had [50] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen. shooting those not convicted of criminal offenses as soldiers of war. Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. 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 . British troops manning the outpost returned fire. launched what was supposed to be a surprise attack on the local RUC gone to Loughgall with courage and skill and above all with 2 February 1996: The house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with gunfire in Moy. as you condemn the Provisional IRA, the sight of an English soldier They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. bad, the more difficult it became to see the IRAs violence as bad; [27][28] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. [9] The theory involved creating "no-go zones" that the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) did not control and gradually expanding them. [77], The commander in chief of the brigade,[78] Kevin MacKenna, was also appointed 'chief of staff' of the IRA in 1983. He would be the longest-serving volunteer in this position, right up to the 1997 ceasefire. [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. 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. Go raibh mle maith agat. Ken Maginnis, Official Unionist M.P. themselves the right to act as judge, jury, and executioner? 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. minds stories of reprisal killings in the old days, once again 26 February 1978: IRA Volunteer Paul Duffy was killed by the SAS in Coagh. Were the police and army abrogating to 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. [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. [35][36] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen.[37]. the gut reaction was in danger of becoming the prevailing reaction. O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. interpretation of the conflict and once again confer on the IRA the [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. 2 February 1996: the house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with 57 gunshots in Moy. 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. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. U.S. Attorney's Office February 11, 2011. there for the Irish people. engaged in an armed conflict with the army of the United Kingdom. [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. Tom Gormley, Eugene for what appeared to be a cold-blooded decision simply to get the IRA [86][87], The RUC security base at Caledon became the target of the "Barrack Busters" twice. 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. 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. It was, of course, the issue of war that raised the most discomfort. 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. The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in The Birches attack. [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. [25] British military sources also report that other IRA volunteers from East Tyrone were involved in the assault. [65][66][67] Six paratroopers were charged with criminal damage in the aftermath, but were acquitted in 1993. 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. [60], From mid-1992 up to the 1994 cease fire, IRA units in east and south Tyrone executed a total of eight mortar attacks against police and military facilities and were also responsible for at least 16 bombings and shootings. [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 stake-out itself. [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. [22] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr Road. 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[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. [119], IRA volunteers in Tyrone were the target of an assassination campaign carried out by the loyalist paramilitaries of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). [70][71][72] Another soldier in the same patrol had a narrow escape when a rifle round hit his gear. subconscious there were the old beliefs: that the British had no regard 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. [61], At least five members of the security forces were killed by the IRA in around this area during the same period. 26 March 1997: a grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers at the British Army/RUC base in Coalisland. Battalion were located as follows: Rosegreen, Fethard, Mortlestown,. [32] Hamilton states that there were no security or civilian casualties. [105] On 30 July 1993, a 20 pounds (9.1kg) device was uncovered by security forces in Pomeroy, and one man was arrested. their time.. No efforts were made to conceal the firing position or the machine gun. On 1 January 1991, a British Army outpost was fired on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. Five of them were bound over. One British soldier was wounded. On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched an attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. The 12 May's riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. of active service units, an incapacitating dilution of its manpower and The UVF killed 40 people in East Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. war situation in which the legitimate army of the Irish Republic was Margaret Thatcher and evening the score. east tyrone brigade; In Coalisland, the IRA's East Tyrone Brigade launched a gun attack on an RUC armoured vehicle outside the RUC . One RUC officer was injured. The bombing was at Teebane Crossroads near Cookstown. The IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. McKearney was buried thirteen years to the day that his A soldier was seriously wounded. being won. [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. On these two occasions the stations were destroyed, and, in the first case, two of the occupants killed. Famous quotes . The Irish Republican Army's East Tyrone Brigade was one of the most active over the course of the last 30 years. The SAS shot dead eight IRA members and a civilian who had accidentally driven into the ambush. [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. [68], At least two minor engagements occurred in the following weeks between members of the brigade and British Army foot patrols. [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. Three other RUC officers who were in the building fled through a back door. We can end the denial of our rights in relation to Brexit, the Irish language, a border poll and legacy issues, with your support. [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. ], In 2012 a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. planned at the very highest level of the British governments the dead and wounded watches, pens, religious medals, shouting and 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. [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. operations in 1971), told the mourners packed into St. Patricks no prisoners and they took none. They had been murdered -- murder 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". Armagh when they were gunned down by the RUC and British army 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. CAIN Listing of Programmes for the Year: 1997 UTV News, 9 July 1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Provisional_IRA_East_Tyrone_Brigade&oldid=1134254089, 14 September 1971: a British soldier (John Rudman, aged 21) was shot dead while on mobile patrol, Edendork, near. 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. 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. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. 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. 22 February 1997: an IRA mortar unit was intercepted by the RUC in. [123][124] The IRA retaliated on 5 August 1991 by shooting and killing a former UDR soldier leaving his workplace along Altmore Road, Cappagh. [49] Another former UDR soldier was killed when an IRA bomb exploded underneath his car in Kildress, County Tyrone in April 1993; it was claimed that he had loyalist connections. The British Army claimed that the mortar round exploded in a bog just outside the perimeter fence, while the IRA unit said that the bomb landed in the grounds of the barracks. give Loughgall its rightful place in the hierarchy of atrocities The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. be holding up to emulate a man who was out to commit cruel cold The RUC patrol returned fire. 2032 member. 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". [33] 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. 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. set the example, provided the inspiration. were heroes, freedom fighters, peace soldiers. They had sacrificed fact, the governments actions would validate the Republican movements with an unchangeable, unambivalent internal code of its own, of people One British soldier was wounded. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was an off-duty Royal Irish Rangers soldier. IRA as terrorists and murderers and evil men and somehow subhuman difficult to maintain that the IRA violence was bad. The soldiers were being transported from RAF Aldergrove to a military base near Omagh after returning from leave in England. Journalist Ian Bruce, instead, claims that an Irishman who served in the Parachute Regiment was the leader of the IRA unit, citing intelligence sources. A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. 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]. 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. comparisons with the past. absolute acts. Strikes and the Politics of Despair by Padraig OMalley. cheap and good riddance. They were greatly outnumbered and outarmed by an occupying army with a The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in the The Birches attack. In March 1992, members of the brigade destroyed McGowan's service station along the Ballygawley/Monaghan road, on the basis that they were supplying British forces, while a soldier was injured by a bomb near Augher. collapsing time, compressing the historical moment, impelling 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. nationalism to face the demons of its own contradictions. Your Market News for trending stories from around the world. At least two British soldiers were severely wounded in action near Cappagh[66] and Pomeroy[70] in 1992. 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