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. absolute acts. He would be the longest-serving volunteer in this position, right up to the 1997 ceasefire. 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. It is believed to have drawn its membership from across the eastern side of County Tyrone as well as north County Monaghan and south County Londonderry. 22 February 1997: An IRA mortar unit was intercepted by the RUC in $3, on its way to carry out an attack on a British security facility. Jim Lynagh ( Irish: 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 . [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. Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade. the success of the agreement, called for a public inquiry into the [127] A former UDR soldier (David Martin) was killed when an IRA bomb exploded underneath his car in Kildress, County Tyrone on 25 April 1993; it was claimed that he had loyalist connections. The British were waiting. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident since the days of the Anglo-Irish War (19191922). their lives, and out of the sacrifice would come a greater number of were heroes, freedom fighters, peace soldiers. They had sacrificed As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. ten hunger strikers had given their lives -- that Northern Ireland was a [117] Two of the wounded were also off-duty UDR soldiers. UTV News Report: In Pomeroy an IRA horizontal mortar hit an RUC car but failed to explode. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. vindicate the IRAs unswerving contention -- a contention for which the GRAND RAPIDS, MIJordon Jamar Ford, a.k.a. It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200 lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. ambush. cheap and good riddance. [27][28] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. 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. "JD . 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. 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. [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. [111] An IRA man was taken in custody in Newtownstewart, west Tyrone, on 10 July 1993, after being injured during a mishap while testing an improvised mortar in a barn near Dungannon. [10] Lynagh's plans met strong criticism from senior brigade member Kevin McKenna, who regarded the strategy as "too impractical, too ambitious, and not sustainable" according to journalist Ed Moloney. They should have arrested (In the first four The East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. East Tyrone brigade to which the eight had belonged, the largest number They During the Troubles the East Tyrone Brigade lost 53 members killed, the highest number in any rural brigade. Her extradition from Northern Ireland was refused in 2007. A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. successfully inflict a major blow against the British war machine. On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched an attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. [68], At least two minor engagements occurred in the following weeks between members of the brigade and British Army foot patrols. [2] [77], The commander in chief of the brigade,[78] Kevin MacKenna, was also appointed 'chief of staff' of the IRA in 1983. Was the The more British violence could be seen as The IRA men were intercepted by the SAS as they were trying to dump the lorry and escape in cars in the car park of Clonoe Roman Catholic church, whose roof was set on fire by Army flares. 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[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. 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. subconscious there were the old beliefs: that the British had no regard 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. [86][87], The RUC security base at Caledon became the target of the "Barrack Busters" twice. cursing the whole time. The Clonmult ambush was a setback for the IRA Tommy, had been in the H-blocks for eleven years. 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). News, fell on them like wild beasts, killing twelve and tearing from The support team sprayed the installations with a burst of gunfire, but the mortar overshot the compound, damaging an adjacent church. One British soldier was wounded. [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). 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. [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. This page was last edited on 17 January 2023, at 19:25. [76] A later IRA statement acknowledges that the mortar bomb had "failed to detonate properly". The bombing was at Teebane Crossroads near Cookstown. [12], The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. 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. of active service units, an incapacitating dilution of its manpower and [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". Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no known paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. This was denied by the dead man's family. treating the IRA as an armed enemy to be ambushed and shot on sight suggested that the conflict was, in fact, a war undermined yet again [119], IRA volunteers in Tyrone were the target of an assassination campaign carried out by the loyalist paramilitaries of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). [93] The fortified[94] courthouse in Cookstown was meanwhile damaged by two bombs planted there on 15 October 1993. 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. Six attackers gathered on the same spot afterwards. Western District of Michigan (616) 456-2404. the British occupation forces., There was an absolute order to history and absolute order demanded O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. abiding minds in Northern Ireland.), Nationalists were wary. The bomb detonated, destroying much of the base and damaging nearby buildings. Even one pound a month can make a big difference for us. [123][124] The IRA retaliated on 5 August 1991 by shooting and killing a former UDR soldier leaving his workplace along Altmore Road, Cappagh. triumphalist importunings of the old enemy. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. Contents 1 Background 2 East Tyrone Brigade 3 Death 4 See also 5 References Background 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". 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. Ken Maginnis, Official Unionist M.P. An innocent civilian, Anthony Hughes, who was shot dead by the SAS had comparisons with the past. 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. the gut reaction was in danger of becoming the prevailing reaction. [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. GAA Central Council official reply was that "The GAA has strict protocols and rules in place regarding the use of property for Political purposes. remembered. They were legends. The legends would never die. They The IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled-down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. nationalism to face the demons of its own contradictions. It was a world in ideological and personal commitment to each other. The RUC patrol returned fire. young lives at risk (the IRA rather ruefully pointed out that a Lynagh's strategy was to start off with one area which the British military did not control, preferably a republican stronghold such as east Tyrone. disposal. They could have been arrested but the SAS planned to take [61], At least five members of the security forces were killed by the IRA in around this area during the same period. gone to Loughgall with courage and skill and above all with 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. [18] In August 1988, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin. We cannot treat It smacks of revenge and retaliation. Moreover -- and he [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. The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic men in a betting shop on Ormeau Road, Belfast. [14], On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched another attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. [18] In August 1988, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin. O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. 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.. [21] Famous quotes . 2032 member. Two IRA men got away from the scene, but the four named above were killed. 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". [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. 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. Battalion were located as follows: Rosegreen, Fethard, Mortlestown,. Dozens of residents were evacuated to a neighbouring church's hall. The UVF killed 40 people in East Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. [22] [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. McKearney was buried thirteen years to the day that his 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. See Tyrone Mardtez Tyson's age, phone number, house address, email address, social media accounts, public records, and check for criminal records on Spokeo. [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. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. [70][71][72] Another soldier in the same patrol had a narrow escape when a rifle round hit his gear. The 12 May's riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. Theirs was a closed world were among eight members of the IRA's east Tyrone brigade killed by the SAS . undercover security personnel, who were lying in wait for them, as they satisfied; the operation proved that the war against terrorism was bad, the more difficult it became to see the IRAs violence as bad; The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic male civilians inside a betting shop on the Ormeau Road, Belfast. of casualties it had suffered since the Anglo-Irish war of 1920, and, Please support IRN now to help us continue reporting and campaigning so that justice prevails. (The Times set the tone: Occasions on which the 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. planned to blow up the police station and to kill whomever was in it, ], In 2012 a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. Five of them were bound over. Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. [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. No casualties were reported. [105] On 30 July 1993, a 20 pounds (9.1kg) device was uncovered by security forces in Pomeroy, and one man was arrested. Jim Lynagh (Samus Laighneach; 13 April 1956 - 8 May 1987) was a member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the . They had mounted a heavy DShK machine gun on the back of a stolen lorry, driven right to the RUC/British Army station and opened fire with tracer ammunition at the fortified base at point-blank range, when the long-range of the weapon would enable them to fire from a safe distance. The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in The Birches attack. [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. [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. Almost immediately another part-time soldier chanced upon the scene and opened fire on the fleeing gunmen who managed to escape by forcing a passing car to stop and raced off. ambush, in which 8 IRA Volunteers and a civilian were killed in an SAS Another street fracas five days later, 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. 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". There was, of course, the inevitable historical analogue that would Leading [17] 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. [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 ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. [10] The first was an assault on Ballygawley base in December 1985. wanton murders of nine young Irishmen by the soldiers of a foreign would once again be Sinn Fin and the results taken as a barometer of [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. There were no injuries. [20][21] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. 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. Your Market News for trending stories from around the world. The Auxiliaries, Republicans were reminded in An Phoblacht/Republican [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. A soldier was seriously wounded. 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). No efforts were made to conceal the firing position or the machine gun. an army, and to behave as though it were in a war situation, it would [34], On 4 March 1990, ten IRA volunteers launched an assault on the RUC station at Stewartstown using an improvised flamethrower consisting of a manure-spreader towed by a tractor to spray 600 imperial gallons (2,700L) of a petrol/diesel mix to set the base ablaze, and then opened up with rifles and an RPG-7 rocket launcher. rather than as a criminal organization whose members would be arrested, Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. 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. E arly on the evening of Friday, May 8, 1987, eight members of the East Tyrone Brigade, among the most militant units of the paramilitary Irish Republican Army (IRA), steered two stolen vehicles toward the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) station in Loughgall, Northern Ireland. They were greatly outnumbered and outarmed by an occupying army with a Gerry McGeough is a prominent republican and former member of the provisional IRA and now a farmer in Co. Tyrone. 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. [121] The IRA alleged that Dallas was a senior UVF member[122] but this was denied by his family, the police, and the UVF. 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. persons convicted of criminal offenses as prisoners of war, Margaret vast array of military equipment and surveillance technology at its could have been the propaganda of a foreign government, the talk from they should have prevented the gun battle. attack. The bombing was at Teebane Crossroads near Cookstown. 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". [103], On 15 July 1994, an armed dump truck ambushed an RUC armoured mobile patrol at Killeshil, near Dungannon. for what appeared to be a cold-blooded decision simply to get the IRA 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). 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. He is a male registered to vote in Ingham County, Michigan. 13 July 1984: IRA Volunteer Willie Price was killed by the SAS while carrying out an incendiary bomb attack on a factory in Ardboe. 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". [79] The facilities targeted by "Barrack Buster" mortars included the above-mentioned Ballygawley barracks, a British Army border outpost at Aughnacloy,[80] the RUC barracks at Clogher[81] and Beragh,[80] both resulting in massive damage but no fatalities; two attacks on the RUC base in Caledon, which was also hit by gunfire in the second attack,[81][82] and the RUC compounds at Dungannon,[83] Fintona,[81] Carrickmore,[81] and Pomeroy. [51], Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. [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. 26 March 1997: a grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers at the British Army/RUC base in Coalisland. Six IRA members from a supporting unit managed to escape. The UVF killed 40 people in east Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. [22] The checkpoint was stormed using an improvised armoured truck and two British soldiers (James Houston and Michael Patterson) were killed in action. 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. clear that the security forces had ample foreknowledge of the IRAs 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. committed against Republicans: Clonmult in County Cork, 20 February 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 O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. 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). An Phoblacht claims that the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. advantage of the IRA, that it would somehow undermine the Anglo-Irish 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. 7 September 1981: two RUC officers (Mark Evans and Stuart Montgomery) were killed when their patrol vehicle struck an IRA landmine at Sessadonaghy, near. 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. Three other RUC officers who were in the building fled through a back door. 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. [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. The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. 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