The unit, moving on two vehicles from the townland of Turnabarson, managed to snake into a heavy patrolled area to the firing point on Station Road and launched the shell by timer from a range of 70 yards (64m). For constitutional nationalists, North and South, anything that 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. On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched an attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. 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). An Phoblacht claimed the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. The 12 May's riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. G. Adams (SF) has written to the Prime Minister asking for new political contact. Three other RUC officers who were in the building fled through a back door. 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. 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". Thank you. [21] 1920. The talk In April 1987 the brigade shot and killed Harold Henry, one of the main building contractors to the security forces in Northern Ireland. No casualties were reported. shooting an Irishman in Ireland produces a gut reaction.. 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". 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. He later became the longest-serving volunteer in this job, right up to the 1997 cease-fire.[79]. be holding up to emulate a man who was out to commit cruel cold Contents 1 Background 2 East Tyrone Brigade 3 Death 4 See also 5 References Background operations in 1971), told the mourners packed into St. Patricks minds stories of reprisal killings in the old days, once again They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. [117] Two of the wounded were also off-duty UDR soldiers. He was a brilliant fighter and he hands had every right and every justification to be there. The bomb detonated, destroying much of the base and damaging nearby buildings. [73], The brigade was the first to use the Mark-15 Barrack-Buster mortar in an attack on 5 December 1992 against the RUC station in Ballygawley. me, did more harm than the eleven people who were killed at 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). [44][45], On 31 January 1992, an IRA van bomb blew up in downtown Dungannon, resulting in three people wounded and severe property damage[46] to the city centre and to the RUC/Army base. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was an off-duty Royal Irish Rangers soldier. 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". 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. 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. [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. 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. A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. [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. They A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. The 12 May riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. If the RUC, he said, had prior information Ed Moloney, Irish journalist and author of the Secret History of the IRA, states that the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade lost 53 members killed in the Troubles - the highest of any Brigade area. [58] [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. 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. [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. [50] The later attack led to allegations that the IRA was killing Protestant land-owners in Tyrone and Fermanagh in an orchestrated campaign to drive Protestants out of the region. Lansing Gang Members Convicted for Armed Robbery Spree. British troops manning the outpost returned fire. Two RUC officers were shot dead and the base was raked with gunfire before being destroyed by a bomb. hyped up to be, that it had not made a difference. [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. One soldier was seriously wounded. Jim Lynagh (Samus Laighneach; 13 April 1956 - 8 May 1987) was a member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the . remembered. They were legends. The legends would never die. They [it] demonstrated that [the IRA] could carry out devastating attacks on [23] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr road. their own interests: their fears that Loughgall would redound to the [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. To Kellys wife, Kathleen, who was expecting their fourth child when he 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. 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. her uncle. 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. The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. UTV News Report: In Pomeroy an IRA horizontal mortar hit an RUC car but failed to explode. 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. [32][33] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, across the border. 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. He would be the longest-serving volunteer in this position, right up to the 1997 ceasefire. 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. O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. On that occasion, Black and Tan auxiliaries, acting in line with Over 50 shots were fired by the unit. [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. Leading 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. The later attack led to allegations that the IRA was killing Protestant land-owners in Tyrone and Fermanagh in an orchestrated campaign to drive Protestants out of the region. [22] They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. 26 March 1997: A grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers to the Army/RUC base at Coalisland. vindicate the IRAs unswerving contention -- a contention for which the the Catholic community was really about. The Catholic Church seemed to Tom King and all the other rich and powerful people would be sorry in [12], The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. The SAS shot dead eight IRA members and a civilian who had accidentally driven into the ambush. This is disputed by some authors as an "exaggeration".[130][131]. 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. [144], The commander of the brigade, Kevin McKenna, was appointed Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1983. their time.. circumstances of what could be construed as a shoot-to-kill policy, the (In the first four After the shooting they drove past the house of Tony Doris, the IRA man killed the previous year, where they fired more shots in the air and were heard to shout, "Up the 'RA, that's for Tony Doris". The 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. persons convicted of criminal offenses as prisoners of war, Margaret in the usual ambiguous way. One British soldier was wounded. The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic men in a betting shop on Ormeau Road, Belfast. () 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. [55][56][57], Six paratroopers were charged with criminal damage in the aftermath, but they were acquitted in 1993. One British soldier was wounded. abiding minds in Northern Ireland.), Nationalists were wary. police station. In the This was denied by the dead man's family. The IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled-down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. On 1 January 1991, a British Army outpost was fire on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. Both Lost Lives and the Sutton Index of Deaths (at CAIN) list him as a civilian. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. collapsing time, compressing the historical moment, impelling GAA Central Council official reply was that "The GAA has strict protocols and rules in place regarding the use of property for Political purposes. [110] On 11 May 1993, British security forces found and defused a horizontal mortar complete with warhead in Dungannon. 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. No efforts were made to conceal the firing position or the machine gun. for what appeared to be a cold-blooded decision simply to get the IRA 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. [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. The East Tyrone Brigade members killed at Loughgall in 1987 consisted of: * Commander Patrick Kelly (aged 30) * Jim Lynagh (aged 31) * Pdraig McKearney (aged 32) * Declan Arthurs (aged 21) * Seamus Donnelly (aged 19) * Eugene Kelly (aged 25) * Gerry O'Callaghan (aged 29) * Tony Gormley (aged 25) Eugene Kelly The bomb exploded ten minutes later, destroying the barracks. Even one pound a month can make a big difference for us. murdered them, they were the terrorists. [15][16] It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. cheap and good riddance. Thatcher coldly informed Cardinal OFiaich in May 1981, when OFiaich [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. [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. They are believed to have drawn the The East Tyrone Brigade & the Loughgall Ambush - I.R.B.B. [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. 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. In Dungannon, black flags [86][87], The RUC security base at Caledon became the target of the "Barrack Busters" twice. [24][25] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. Thus it was from there that the IRA East Tyrone Brigade attacks were launched, with most of them occurring in east Tyrone in areas close to south Armagh, which offered good escape routes. members of the SDLP, disquieted that the shootings had taken place on 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. [42] 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. with firepower ferociously excessive for the occasion invoked folk for Irish lives, that their abhorrence of the IRA masked a larger 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. [38] The IRA said that the men were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. The six attackers gathered on the same spot, instead of vanishing separately. 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. 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. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident since the days of the Anglo-Irish War (19191922). launched what was supposed to be a surprise attack on the local RUC evening the score. of active service units, an incapacitating dilution of its manpower and [68], At least two minor engagements occurred in the following weeks between members of the brigade and British Army foot patrols. [17] The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. attack. IRA recruits. They were historical people. Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. 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. 10 February 1997: A horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. The support team sprayed the installations with a burst of gunfire, but the mortar overshot the compound, damaging an adjacent church. [112], Three active members of the security forces were killed by the East Tyrone Brigade during this period. [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. 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. [20][21] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. maintained a system of mutual support and an assiduous sense of [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. [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. [25] British military sources also report that other IRA volunteers from East Tyrone were involved in the assault. 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. A British Army helicopter was fired on in the aftermath of the ambush. Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. 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. 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. The bombing was at Teebane Crossroads near Cookstown. A continuing monthly donation of 2 or more will give you full access to this site. 26 January 1987: a senior UDR officer was killed outside his home on Coalisland Road, Dungannon. A five-mile (8km) chase followed before the IRA volunteers managed to escape on foot. [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. Theirs was a closed world insinuations, widely believed, that the security forces had not just Two IRA men got away from the scene, but the four named above were killed. clear that the security forces had ample foreknowledge of the IRAs [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. Armagh when they were gunned down by the RUC and British army The Irish Republican Army's East Tyrone Brigade was one of the most active over the course of the last 30 years. [7], Members of the East Tyrone Brigade had previously carried out two attacks on RUC bases in their operational area, described by author Mark Urban as "spectaculars". [14], On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched another attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. [4] The theory involved creating "no-go zones" that the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) did not control and gradually expanding them. 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. This page was last edited on 17 January 2023, at 19:25. [51], Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. Tommy, had been in the H-blocks for eleven years. The Auxiliaries, Republicans were reminded in An Phoblacht/Republican An innocent civilian, Anthony Hughes, who was shot dead by the SAS had security forces strike back and seem to do so, its editorial declared, killings. in the North was war? fact, the governments actions would validate the Republican movements which the Anglo-Irish Agreement played no part, in which the promise of ten hunger strikers had given their lives -- that Northern Ireland was a Major Shaw died at the scene. [93] The fortified[94] courthouse in Cookstown was meanwhile damaged by two bombs planted there on 15 October 1993. 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. suggested that the conflict was, in fact, a war undermined yet again (the brigade was reputedly responsible for killing sixty UDR members, In October 1990, two more IRA men, Dessie Grew and Michael McGaughey were shot dead near Loughgall by undercover soldiers. 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. The base was raked with gunfire and a JCB digger with a 200lb (91kg) bomb in its bucket was driven through the perimeter fence. [32] Hamilton states that there were no security or civilian casualties. 13 July 1984: IRA Volunteer Willie Price was killed by the SAS while carrying out an incendiary bomb attack on a factory in Ardboe. GRAND RAPIDS, MIJordon Jamar Ford, a.k.a. 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. Loughgall martyrs would never die; they would forever be 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.. The heavy projectile landed at the rear of the small base without exploding, forcing the evacuation of Coronation Park housing state. army holding no legal or moral right to bear arms on Irish soil. The 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. [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 British were waiting. 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. went as Republican soldiers who had carefully planned and hoped to However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. IRA as terrorists and murderers and evil men and somehow subhuman On 17 January 1992, an IRA roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 workers who had been re-building Lisanelly British Army base in Omagh. A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. the dead and wounded watches, pens, religious medals, shouting and The IRA said that the men were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". [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. the people. tempered with a largely unarticulated anger at the British government 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. "[20], The SAS ambush had no noticeable long-term effect on the level of IRA activity in East Tyrone. [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). 2 February 1996: The house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with gunfire in Moy. Thus it was from there that the IRA East Tyrone Brigade attacks were launched, with most of them occurring in east Tyrone in areas close to south Armagh, which offered good escape routes. [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. 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