tempered with a largely unarticulated anger at the British government What happened at Loughgall would forever be remembered by those operation, old ambivalences began to assert themselves, and Dublin drew The bombing was at Teebane Crossroads near Cookstown. [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. 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. 11 August 1986: The East Tyrone Brigade destroyed the RUC base at, 23 November 1986: six British soldiers were wounded after the Brigade launched seven mortars at a British Army barracks in. the stake-out itself. [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. [81] The IRA asserts instead that the barracks were "extensively damaged". their time.. Nationalist condemnation of the IRAs intentions quickly became [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 British soldier was wounded. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. treating the IRA as an armed enemy to be ambushed and shot on sight remembered. They were legends. The legends would never die. They for what appeared to be a cold-blooded decision simply to get the IRA [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. The IRA said that the men were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". A soldier was seriously wounded. [64], Another IRA bomb attack on 12 May 1992, against British troops on patrol near Cappagh, in which a paratrooper lost both legs, triggered a series of clashes on that date between soldiers and local residents in the staunchly republican town of Coalisland, on 12 and 17 May 1992. One witness has said that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were then killed by the British soldiers. [53][54], 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. 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. 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". 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The East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan Brigade was one of the most active republican paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland during "the Troubles". They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. 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. For constitutional nationalists, North and South, anything that (The Times set the tone: Occasions on which the [32] Hamilton states that there were no security or civilian casualties. He later became the longest-serving volunteer in this job, right up to the 1997 cease-fire.[79]. An Phoblacht claims that the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. Film report. 26 March 1997: A grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers to the Army/RUC base at Coalisland. At least two British soldiers were severely wounded in action near Cappagh[66] and Pomeroy[70] in 1992. launched what was supposed to be a surprise attack on the local RUC [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. 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. 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. killed the IRA men in a shoot-out but had mercilessly massacred them A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen. satisfied; the operation proved that the war against terrorism was 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. On these two occasions the stations were destroyed, and, in the first case, two of the occupants killed. [12], The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. To Kellys wife, Kathleen, who was expecting their fourth child when he IRA recruits. They were historical people. 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. [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. GAA Central Council official reply was that "The GAA has strict protocols and rules in place regarding the use of property for Political purposes. the dead and wounded watches, pens, religious medals, shouting and from Dublin that the IRA leadership was trapping people into violence [5] The first was an assault on Ballygawley barracks. 112 relations. committed against Republicans: Clonmult in County Cork, 20 February Western District of Michigan (616) 456-2404. 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. Tommy, had been in the H-blocks for eleven years. 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. Thank you. [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. There were no injuries. seasoned leadership. [61], At least five members of the security forces were killed by the IRA in around this area during the same period. Two IRA men got away from the scene, but the four named above were killed. [22] The checkpoint was stormed using an improvised armoured truck and two British soldiers (James Houston and Michael Patterson) were killed in action. On 1 January 1991, a British Army outpost was fired on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. 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 unit used the same tactics as it had done in The Birches attack. The SAS shot dead eight IRA members and a civilian who had accidentally driven into the ambush. On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched an attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. 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. planned at the very highest level of the British governments [22] advantage of the IRA, that it would somehow undermine the Anglo-Irish As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. [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. which the Anglo-Irish Agreement played no part, in which the promise of 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). 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. [23] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr road. attack. 2 February 1996: The house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with gunfire in Moy. [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. The East Tyrone Brigade members killed in 1987 consisted of: They died in Loughgall, a village no bigger than Galbally, in County [76] A later IRA statement acknowledges that the mortar bomb had "failed to detonate properly". [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). The UVF killed 40 people in East Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. as you condemn the Provisional IRA, the sight of an English soldier In April 1987 the brigade shot and killed Harold Henry, one of the main building contractors to the security forces in Northern Ireland. It smacks of revenge and retaliation. Moreover -- and he 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. [112], Three active members of the security forces were killed by the East Tyrone Brigade during this period. 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. [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". He was a brilliant fighter and he maintained a system of mutual support and an assiduous sense of successfully inflict a major blow against the British war machine. [12] No efforts were made to conceal the firing position or the machine gun. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident during its campaign. 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. One RUC officer was injured. cheap and good riddance. [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. Sean O'Farrell was wounded and attempted to escape. not be addressed in the sanitized communiques that invariably followed subconscious there were the old beliefs: that the British had no regard died, he was a dedicated soldier. [19][unreliable source? give Loughgall its rightful place in the hierarchy of atrocities [27][28] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. [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. comparisons with the past. Both Lost Lives and the Sutton Index of Deaths (at CAIN) list him as a civilian. [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. [19] There were no casualties. A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. U.S. Attorney's Office February 11, 2011. At least five members of the security forces were killed by the IRA in around this area during the same period. 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 same source reported that a British helicopter, a military ambulance and ground troops arrived to the scene shortly after, and that local residents believed that two soldiers had been wounded. army holding no legal or moral right to bear arms on Irish soil. The Hurson died. The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic men in a betting shop on Ormeau Road, Belfast. [65][66][67] Six paratroopers were charged with criminal damage in the aftermath, but were acquitted in 1993. The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. They 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. 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. [23], 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 destroyed by a bomb at Curr Road, near Ballygawley. 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. 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. South, were feeling. There were no injuries. meetings of the Intergovernmental Conference. 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. 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. for Irish lives, that their abhorrence of the IRA masked a larger [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. They should have arrested [17] The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. triumphalist importunings of the old enemy. [35][36] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen.[37]. the funeral of Paddy Kelly, the commander of the East Tyrone Brigade of casualties it had suffered since the Anglo-Irish war of 1920, and, [4] The theory involved creating "no-go zones" that the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) did not control and gradually expanding them. . After being caught he was put up against a fence and killed. Six IRA members from a supporting unit managed to escape. Thatcher coldly informed Cardinal OFiaich in May 1981, when OFiaich The 12 May's riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. Go raibh mle maith agat. [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. acceded to the IRAs view of the conflict made it increasingly Armagh when they were gunned down by the RUC and British army Six paratroopers were charged with criminal damage in the aftermath, but they were acquitted in 1993. 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. Jim Lynagh (Samus Laighneach; 13 April 1956 - 8 May 1987) was a member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the . [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. 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. CAIN lists Boyd as a Protestant civilian. insinuations, widely believed, that the security forces had not just 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 . 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. legitimacy it had fought so tenaciously to achieve. [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. given the movements new lean look and its reliance on a small number 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. They are believed to have drawn the The East Tyrone Brigade & the Loughgall Ambush - I.R.B.B. 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 Caledon, which was also hit by gunfire, and the RUC stations at Carrickmore, Fintona and Pomeroy. 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