5 February 1997: An IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at a British patrol on Newell Road in Dungannon. Another IRA unit then directed heavy machine-gun fire at the front of the barracks, which provided cover for a bomb team to plant a 100lb (45kg) bomb inside. The IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled-down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. [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. Theirs was a closed world 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) In Dungannon, black flags In January 1992, an IRA roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 workers who had been re-building Lisanelly British Army base in Omagh. 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. Two RUC officers were shot dead and the base was raked with gunfire before being destroyed by a bomb. revenge, because the British had been defeated and demoralized by the [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. [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. [17] The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. On 1 January 1991, a British Army outpost was fired on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. 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. Six attackers gathered on the same spot afterwards. [68], At least two minor engagements occurred in the following weeks between members of the brigade and British Army foot patrols. Dozens of residents were evacuated to a neighbouring church's hall. launched what was supposed to be a surprise attack on the local RUC vindicate the IRAs unswerving contention -- a contention for which the UTV News Report: In Pomeroy an IRA horizontal mortar hit an RUC car but failed to explode. Tyrone Obrien Rooney (born 1978) is listed at 1312 Oak Ridge Ave Apt 211 East Lansing, Mi 48823 and has no known political party affiliation. at the hands of the IRA in the five weeks prior to Loughgall.) 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. prison crisis; the question now was whether the British government was If the RUC, he said, had prior information This is disputed by some authors as an "exaggeration".[130][131]. The 12 May's riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. 5 July 1997: In Coalisland, a female RUC officer from. [31] An Phoblacht claims that the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. Lansing Gang Members Convicted for Armed Robbery Spree. There were no casualties. 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". We cannot treat 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. 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. treating the IRA as an armed enemy to be ambushed and shot on sight [19] 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). 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. fifty RUC personnel, and at least five civilians since it began [103], On 15 July 1994, an armed dump truck ambushed an RUC armoured mobile patrol at Killeshil, near Dungannon. 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. [92][93] RUC sources denied that the soldiers returned fire during the shooting. suggested that the conflict was, in fact, a war undermined yet again 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. [42][43] On 26 March, an IRA unit firing a light machine gun disrupted a UDR mobile checkpoint at Lurgylea road, north of Cappagh. planned at the very highest level of the British governments Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. Even one pound a month can make a big difference for us. 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. [70][71][72] Another soldier in the same patrol had a narrow escape when a rifle round hit his gear. () 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. being won. Thank you. The second attack was on the part-time station at The Birches, County Armagh, and it began by driving a JCB digger with a 200lb (91kg) bomb in its bucket through the reinforced fences the RUC had in place around their bases, and then exploding the bomb and raking the police station with gunfire. IRA. The young men who were there [at Loughgall] with guns in their ten hunger strikers had given their lives -- that Northern Ireland was a (In the first four [145], List of notable actions from 1971 until Loughgall, Operations against British security forces in east and south Tyrone, List of actions from 1996 until the 1997 IRA ceasefire, Individual members of the brigade were also involved in the. two governments to consult and the right of the Irish government to put their time.. 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. The bomb exploded ten minutes later, destroying the barracks. There were no casualties. [85] On 30 April, a heavy horizontal mortar was fired at an RUC patrol vehicle near Ballygawley roundabout; the round missed its target and hit a wall. committed against Republicans: Clonmult in County Cork, 20 February He later became the longest-serving volunteer in this job, right up to the 1997 cease-fire.[79]. . cheap and good riddance. 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. [58] 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. After being caught he was put up against a fence and killed. E ight members of the Provos' East Tyrone Brigade were gunned down as . wanton murders of nine young Irishmen by the soldiers of a foreign [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. 7 September 1981: two RUC officers (Mark Evans and Stuart Montgomery) were killed when their patrol vehicle struck an IRA landmine at Sessadonaghy, near. At first the Dublin government put the blame In October 1990, two more IRA men, Dessie Grew and Michael McGaughey were shot dead near Loughgall by undercover soldiers. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. circumstances of what could be construed as a shoot-to-kill policy, the [22] This was the last action by the Brigade before. interpretation of the conflict and once again confer on the IRA the 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". [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. [2], 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[3] devised for Ireland by Jim Lynagh, a high-profile member of the IRA in east Tyrone (but a native of County Monaghan). Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. [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. rather than as a criminal organization whose members would be arrested, the Irish government was still the Free State government, a partition [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. [9] The theory involved creating "no-go zones" that the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) did not control and gradually expanding them. [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. 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". 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. [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. 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. The SAS shot dead eight IRA members and a civilian who had accidentally driven into the ambush. The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. [10][11] It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. There were no injuries. 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. for Fermanagh-South Tyrone, told And in the See Tyrone Mardtez Tyson's age, phone number, house address, email address, social media accounts, public records, and check for criminal records on Spokeo. G. Adams (SF) has written to the Prime Minister asking for new political contact. 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. ambush. some days later, as more details of the killings emerged and it became In June 1991, three IRA men, Lawrence McNally, Peter Ryan and Tony Dorris were lured into yet another SAS ambush at Coagh, where their car was raked with gunfire and rocket propelled grenades. operation, old ambivalences began to assert themselves, and Dublin drew A British Army helicopter was fired on in the aftermath of the ambush. 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. 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. [20][21] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. 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. abiding minds in Northern Ireland.), Nationalists were wary. difficult to maintain that the IRA violence was bad. What happened at Loughgall would forever be remembered by those army holding no legal or moral right to bear arms on Irish soil. The The IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. bad, the more difficult it became to see the IRAs violence as bad; [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. One RUC officer was injured. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. 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. 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. [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. However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. The support team sprayed the installations with a burst of gunfire, but the mortar overshot the compound, damaging an adjacent church. 10 February 1997: A horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. seasoned leadership. [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. Read more about this topic: Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade, Subsequent Brigade Activity. [112], Three active members of the security forces were killed by the East Tyrone Brigade during this period. hands had every right and every justification to be there. 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". According to them, the explosion was heard from Augher to Fivemiletown, and there was a number of British casualties. Five were bound over. 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 [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. The bombing was at Teebane Crossroads near Cookstown. Over 50 shots were fired by the unit. [4] The theory involved creating "no-go zones" that the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) did not control and gradually expanding them. The volunteers, An Phoblact/Republican News said, had absolute acts. . [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. there for the Irish people. Western District of Michigan (616) 456-2404. attack. Agreement, show that the agreement was a lot less than it had been [55][56][57], Six paratroopers were charged with criminal damage in the aftermath, but they were acquitted in 1993. 5 February 1997: an IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at an RUC patrol on Newell Road in Dungannon. 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. died, he was a dedicated soldier. responsibilities to the dead. . of casualties it had suffered since the Anglo-Irish war of 1920, and, They should have arrested 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 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. 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". The heavy projectile landed at the rear of the small base without exploding, forcing the evacuation of Coronation Park housing state. It was, of course, the issue of war that raised the most discomfort. 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. IRA as terrorists and murderers and evil men and somehow subhuman The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. Please support IRN now to help us continue reporting and campaigning so that justice prevails. security forces strike back and seem to do so, its editorial declared, The gut reaction began to make itself felt, though it expressed itself in the usual ambiguous way. operations in 1971), told the mourners packed into St. Patricks [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. [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. 26 March 1997: a grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers at the British Army/RUC base in Coalisland. 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. for Irish lives, that their abhorrence of the IRA masked a larger One witness has said that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were then killed by the British soldiers. it was also clear that the decision to kill them had been made prior to give Loughgall its rightful place in the hierarchy of atrocities CAIN lists Boyd as a Protestant civilian. Five of them were bound over. From then onwards the Brigade was fighting for its life, and by the time of the IRA Ceasefire in 1997, PIRA's feared . McKearney was buried thirteen years to the day that his [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. Tom King and all the other rich and powerful people would be sorry in 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. Five of them were bound over. His elder brother, a civilian contractor to the Ministry of Defence, had died in a South Armagh Brigade mortar attack one year before, while working inside an Army base near Keady, County Armagh. Famous quotes . Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. [102][58], Sources from the brigade released a detailed statement on the attack on Pomeroy security base, carried out on 26 June 1994, claiming that they had fired a single 220 pounds (100kg) Mark-15 barrack-buster bomb. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. 26 January 1987: a senior UDR officer was killed outside his home on Coalisland Road, Dungannon. Three other RUC officers who were in the building fled through a back door. They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. memories of the Black and Tan war, stirred in the dim recesses of many the people. 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. The next day the IRA threatened any contractor who took on repair of the station. 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. Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. At least five members of the security forces were killed by the IRA in around this area during the same period. [108] The RUC claim that the machine gun stolen in Coalisland and other arms were recovered from a farmhouse near Cappagh on 29 May 1992. Film report. [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. evening the score. 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. Tom Gormley, Eugene An IRA volunteer was arrested, while two other members of the IRA made good their escape. remembered. They were legends. The legends would never die. They In Galbally, Aughnaskea, Cappagh, and Moy they knew their They were greatly outnumbered and outarmed by an occupying army with a The Volunteers killed at Loughgall were Declan Arthurs (21), Tony Gormley (24), Eugene Kelly (25), Pdraig McKearney (32), Jim Lynagh (31), Gerard O'Callaghan (28), Seamus Donnelly (19) and unit commander Patrick Joseph Kelly (30). Six paratroopers were charged with criminal damage in the aftermath, but they were acquitted in 1993. The RUC patrol returned fire. GAA Central Council official reply was that "The GAA has strict protocols and rules in place regarding the use of property for Political purposes. [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. 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. A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. police station. 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. [77], The commander in chief of the brigade,[78] Kevin MacKenna, was also appointed 'chief of staff' of the IRA in 1983. The UVF killed 40 people in east Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. back, voicing its reservations, Father Faul was the first to articulate what many Catholics, North and Patrick Vincent was gunned down in the cab of the lorry whilst Kevin Barry O'Donnell and Peter Clancy where gunned down just outside. successfully inflict a major blow against the British war machine. legitimacy it had fought so tenaciously to achieve. [27][28] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. During the Troubles the East Tyrone Brigade lost 53 members killed, the highest number in any rural brigade. 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. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was an off-duty Royal Irish Rangers soldier. On that occasion, Black and Tan auxiliaries, acting in line with [90] The projectile landed within the grounds of the base, causing some damage according to the RUC. This page was last edited on 17 January 2023, at 19:25. 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