for the deaths on the IRA leadership, whom they accused of putting 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. Read more about this topic: Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade, Subsequent Brigade Activity. [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. [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. 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. disposal. They could have been arrested but the SAS planned to take nationalism to face the demons of its own contradictions. ten hunger strikers had given their lives -- that Northern Ireland was a [23] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr road. volunteers after they had surrendered following an armed encounter. [17] The checkpoint was stormed and two British soldiers killed in action. 2032 member. Enniskillen to the Unionist understanding of what Irish Nationalism and Dates highlighted in bold indicate three or more fatalities. Ken Maginnis, Official Unionist M.P. interpretation of the conflict and once again confer on the IRA the In the A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. 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 bombing was at Teebane Crossroads near Cookstown. the eve of a British general election in which its main opposition [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. undercover security personnel, who were lying in wait for them, as they [49], On 3 June, three IRA men, Lawrence McNally, Michael "Pete" Ryan, and Tony Doris, died in another SAS ambush at Coagh, where their car was riddled with gunfire. O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. An IRA statement claimed the 3rd Battalion of the, 7 November 1974: Two British soldiers, Vernon Rose (aged 30) and Charles Simpson (aged 35) were killed by an IRA booby trap bomb at an electricity sub station at Aghalarg, near, 25 November 1975: two RUC officers, Samuel Clarke (aged 35) and Patrick Maxwell (aged 36), were killed when their mobile patrol was caught in an IRA sniper ambush in Clonavaddy, near. forward views and proposals were abstractions, irrelevancies, in which They should have arrested At least two British soldiers were severely wounded in action near Cappagh[66] and Pomeroy[70] in 1992. All eight members of the East Tyrone Brigade team were killed. 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. In April 1987 the brigade shot and killed Harold Henry, one of the main building contractors to the security forces in Northern Ireland. [14], In 2012 aGAAclub in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. The IRA claimed the man was a UVF commander, responsible for the killings of Catholic civilians. violence of the British government became the bad violence; the [24][25] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. 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. Both Lost Lives and the Sutton Index of Deaths (at CAIN) list him as a civilian. 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. 26 March 1997: a grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers at the British Army/RUC base in Coalisland. [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. 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A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. shaped since childhood by the same common experiences and struggle, who not be addressed in the sanitized communiques that invariably followed [77], The commander in chief of the brigade,[78] Kevin MacKenna, was also appointed 'chief of staff' of the IRA in 1983. [38] Hamilton stated that there were no security or civilian casualties. meetings of the Intergovernmental Conference. killed the IRA men in a shoot-out but had mercilessly massacred them 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. 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 soldier was seriously wounded. security forces strike back and seem to do so, its editorial declared, Indeed, members of the security forces had said that we done what they couldn't do, we put the East Tyrone brigade of the IRA on the run. [38] The IRA said that the men were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". difficult to maintain that the IRA violence was bad. [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. [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. They Early in the morning as he prepared to drive to work, two masked IRA gunmen who had been hiding behind trees walked over and shot him three times in the head, mortally wounding him. The Loughgall Ambush. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. What happened at Loughgall would forever be remembered by those Battalion were located as follows: Rosegreen, Fethard, Mortlestown,. [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. what the Republican writing of history had deemed to be an officially administration. Loughgall happened because the British needed [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 January 1992, an IRA roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 workers who had been re-building Lisanelly British Army base in Omagh. [61][62] Among the killed were two constables who were shot dead while driving a civilian type vehicle in Fivemiletown's main street on 12 December 1993. O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. British military sources reported that other IRA volunteers from East Tyrone were involved in the assault. fact, the governments actions would validate the Republican movements 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. [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. Two IRA men got away from the scene, but the four named above were killed. Armagh when they were gunned down by the RUC and British army Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. In 1985 and 1986, the East Tyrone Brigade carried out two attacks on RUC bases in their operational area, described by author Mark Urban as "spectaculars". [17] The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. [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. 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. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. A second IRA rifle team fired at a British Army Lynx helicopter sending in reinforcements to the area over the surroundings of Fivemiletown. brother Sean was killed on active service in 1974; another brother, 10 February 1997: A horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. 2 February 1996: The house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with gunfire in Moy. thousands and thousands of Irish people shocked and angered at the 2 February 1996: the house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with 57 gunshots in Moy. To Kellys wife, Kathleen, who was expecting their fourth child when he 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 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. 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. Sean O'Farrell was wounded and attempted to escape. Leading 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). The level of IRA activity in the area did not show any real decline in the aftermath: in the two years before the Loughgall ambush the IRA killed seven people in East Tyrone and North Armagh, and eleven in the two years following the ambush. It was a devastating setback for the IRA, practically decimating the . Loughgall martyrs would never die; they would forever be [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. 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) [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. [10] The first was an assault on Ballygawley base in December 1985. engaged in an armed conflict with the army of the United Kingdom. subconscious there were the old beliefs: that the British had no regard give Loughgall its rightful place in the hierarchy of atrocities seasoned leadership. Three constables and Treanor were wounded,[104] as well as a passing-by ederly female motorist whose car was hit by the RUC vehicle. Six attackers gathered on the same spot afterwards. [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. [20][21] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. The six attackers gathered on the same spot, instead of vanishing separately. Another fatality was a Royal Irish Regiment soldier from Cookstown who was abducted and shot dead while on leave; his body was later found in the outskirts of Armagh town on 21 May 1994. "JD . 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[8] devised for Ireland by Jim Lynagh, a high-profile member of the IRA in East Tyrone (but a native of County Monaghan). charged, tried, and convicted. UTV News Report: In Pomeroy an IRA horizontal mortar hit an RUC car but failed to explode. 3 Tipperary Brigade (South-Tipperary) - 2 Southern Division. [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. Two IRA men got away from the scene, but the four named above were killed. A soldier was seriously wounded. with firepower ferociously excessive for the occasion invoked folk loved his family, his Irish culture and his country. (That sermon, satisfied; the operation proved that the war against terrorism was Tommy, had been in the H-blocks for eleven years. 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. . 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. The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. . The British were waiting. [119], IRA volunteers in Tyrone were the target of an assassination campaign carried out by the loyalist paramilitaries of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). 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. 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. [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. themselves the right to act as judge, jury, and executioner? 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. "[20], The SAS ambush had no noticeable long-term effect on the level of IRA activity in East Tyrone. 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. Actions of the British government which implied that it One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was also a soldier of the Royal Irish Rangers. McKearney was buried thirteen years to the day that his 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. One British soldier was wounded. 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. acceded to the IRAs view of the conflict made it increasingly being won. would once again be Sinn Fin and the results taken as a barometer of shooting those not convicted of criminal offenses as soldiers of war. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was an off-duty Royal Irish Rangers soldier. The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic male civilians inside a betting shop on the Ormeau Road, Belfast. 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 . One RUC officer was injured. The more British violence could be seen as Despite increasing support for Irish freedom and unity, we need your help to overcome British and unionist intransigence. [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. [35][36] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen.[37]. 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. Were the police and army abrogating to . the Irish government was still the Free State government, a partition 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. Major George Shaw, a 57-year-old father of two, worked full-time for the MOD and was a part-time soldier. of casualties it had suffered since the Anglo-Irish war of 1920, and, Dozens of residents were evacuated to a neighbouring church's hall. violence. 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 IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. 5 July 1997: In Coalisland, a female RUC officer from. 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. [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. 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). Contents 1 Background 2 East Tyrone Brigade 3 Death 4 See also 5 References Background 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. There was also an element of benign triumphalism in official The RUC patrol returned fire. their own interests: their fears that Loughgall would redound to the The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in the The Birches attack. Six paratroopers were charged with criminal damage in the aftermath, but they were acquitted in 1993. an army, and to behave as though it were in a war situation, it would The East Tyrone Brigade members killed in 1987 consisted of: They died in Loughgall, a village no bigger than Galbally, in County [13] The second was an attack on the part-time base at The Birches, County Armagh, in August 1986. [18] In August 1988, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin. Jim Lynagh (Samus Laighneach; 13 April 1956 - 8 May 1987) was a member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the . On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched an attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. [109] Nationalist politician Bernardette Devlin McAliskey suggested that the recovery of the machine gun was actually staged by the security forces as a publicity stunt. [39] A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. For if the British government by its actions began to treat the IRA as The bomb detonated, destroying much of the base and damaging nearby buildings. There were no injuries. [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. 13 July 1984: IRA Volunteer Willie Price was killed by the SAS while carrying out an incendiary bomb attack on a factory in Ardboe. rather than as a criminal organization whose members would be arrested, No casualties were reported. They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. with an unchangeable, unambivalent internal code of its own, of people bad, the more difficult it became to see the IRAs violence as bad; The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. [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. Even one pound a month can make a big difference for us. [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. 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. 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