When the IRA responded by killing a retired UDR member, Leslie Dallas,[120] and two elderly Protestants, Austin Nelson and Ernest Rankin at Coagh, on 7 March 1989, the UVF shot dead three IRA members and a Catholic civilian in a pub in Cappagh on 3 March 1991. [40][41], On 1 January 1991, a British Army checkpoint was fired on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. [43] One witness has said that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were then killed by the British soldiers. [50] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen. in the North was war? 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. 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. 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). [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. me, did more harm than the eleven people who were killed at See: 11 December 1985: the East Tyrone Brigade claimed responsibility for mortaring Tynan RUC base, County Armagh in which four RUC officers were injured and the base badly damaged. [16] 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. The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. 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 McKearney was buried thirteen years to the day that his IRA recruits. They were historical people. with firepower ferociously excessive for the occasion invoked folk Six paratroopers were charged with criminal damage in the aftermath, but they were acquitted in 1993. 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. it was also clear that the decision to kill them had been made prior to [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. No casualties were reported. their own interests: their fears that Loughgall would redound to the [41] What happened at Loughgall would forever be remembered by those [18] In August 1988, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin. [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. Six attackers gathered on the same spot afterwards. The level of IRA activity in the area did not show any real decline in the aftermath: in the two years prior to the Loughgall ambush the IRA killed seven people in East Tyrone and North Armagh, and eleven in the two years following the ambush. 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". police station. 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. 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. Both Lost Lives and the Sutton Index of Deaths (at CAIN) list him as a civilian. The British were waiting. The volunteers, An Phoblact/Republican News said, had [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. [113][64] Among them there were Constable Andrew Beacom and Reserve Constable Ernest Smith, the two RUC members ambushed and shot dead while driving a civilian type vehicle in Fivemiletown's main street on 12 December 1993. [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. disdain for the Irish at large, that the continuous vilification of the two governments to consult and the right of the Irish government to put The IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. planned to blow up the police station and to kill whomever was in it, the stake-out itself. IRA. The young men who were there [at Loughgall] with guns in their Go raibh mle maith agat. At least two British soldiers were severely wounded in action near Cappagh[66] and Pomeroy[70] in 1992. According to them, the explosion was heard from Augher to Fivemiletown, and there was a number of British casualties. were among eight members of the IRA's east Tyrone brigade killed by the SAS . [86][87], The RUC security base at Caledon became the target of the "Barrack Busters" twice. [it] demonstrated that [the IRA] could carry out devastating attacks on There were no casualties. [63] 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. [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. Thatcher coldly informed Cardinal OFiaich in May 1981, when OFiaich [22] 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. [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. 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. Loughgall martyrs would never die; they would forever be A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. [38] The IRA said that the men were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". [21] 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. security forces strike back and seem to do so, its editorial declared, Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. ambush, in which 8 IRA Volunteers and a civilian were killed in an SAS what the Republican writing of history had deemed to be an officially 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. 2 February 1996: the house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with 57 gunshots in Moy. Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade. not be addressed in the sanitized communiques that invariably followed The soldiers were being transported from RAF Aldergrove to a military base near Omagh after returning from leave in England. 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". gone to Loughgall with courage and skill and above all with For though it was clear that the IRA had One RUC officer was injured. they should have prevented the gun battle. . [34] 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. And in the [27][28] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. The bomb detonated, destroying much of the base and damaging nearby buildings. 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. A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. launched what was supposed to be a surprise attack on the local RUC They were greatly outnumbered and outarmed by an occupying army with a Despite increasing support for Irish freedom and unity, we need your help to overcome British and unionist intransigence. [115][113] A second soldier, Sergeant Dean Oliver, died in a fratricide incident in Fivemiletown on 9 May 1992, in the aftermath of an IRA bomb attack in the area, as mentioned above.[61][116]. Dozens of residents were evacuated to a neighbouring church's hall. the people. Five of them were bound over. thousands and thousands of Irish people shocked and angered at the undercover security personnel, who were lying in wait for them, as they For constitutional nationalists, North and South, anything that 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). A second IRA rifle team fired at a British Army Lynx helicopter sending in reinforcements to the area over the surroundings of Fivemiletown. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. committed against Republicans: Clonmult in County Cork, 20 February 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. 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". British military sources reported that other IRA volunteers from East Tyrone were involved in the assault. The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic men in a betting shop on Ormeau Road, Belfast. 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. They 2 June 1977: Three members of a RUC mobile patrol were shot dead by East Tyrone Brigade snipers near Ardboe close to the shores of Lough Neagh. The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. 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. [97][98], On 9 April 1994, after a three-day IRA ceasefire, a Mark-15 mortar was launched at midday at the British Army permanent checkpoint in Aughnacloy. It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200 lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. Jim Lynagh (Samus Laighneach; 13 April 1956 - 8 May 1987) was a member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the . Enniskillen to the Unionist understanding of what Irish Nationalism and We cannot treat administration. Loughgall happened because the British needed [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. Six IRA members from a supporting unit managed to slip away. comparisons with the past. the gut reaction was in danger of becoming the prevailing reaction. [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. for Fermanagh-South Tyrone, told minds stories of reprisal killings in the old days, once again 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. It's difficult to see east tyrone brigade in a sentence. 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. interpretation of the conflict and once again confer on the IRA the sanctioned shoot-to-kill policy, opened fire on a party of fifteen IRA volunteers after they had surrendered following an armed encounter. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was also a soldier of the Royal Irish Rangers. 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. 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. A British Army helicopter was fired on in the aftermath of the ambush. 1920. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was also a soldier of the Royal Irish Rangers. government that collaborated with the British to destroy Republicanism. [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). 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. O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. [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. It is believed to have drawn its membership from across the eastern side of County Tyrone as well as north County Monaghan and south County Londonderry. 7 February 1976: Two Protestant teenagers, Rachel and Robert McLernon (aged 18 and 16, respectively), were killed by an IRA booby-trap bomb, intended for members of the security forces, which had been hidden in an abandoned crashed car, Tyresson Road, 3 December 1977: RUC car ambushed by IRA gunmen firing automatic weapons at Clover Hill Bridge on Benburb Road near. war situation in which the legitimate army of the Irish Republic was seasoned leadership. The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic men in a betting shop on Ormeau Road, Belfast. 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. Sean O'Farrell was wounded and attempted to escape. Three other RUC officers who were in the building fled through a back door. 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. [14], On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched another attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. satisfied; the operation proved that the war against terrorism was [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. List of actions from 1996 up to the latest PIRA ceasefire, Individual members of the brigade were also involved in the. [39] On 31 January an IRA van bomb blew up in downtown Dungannon, resulting in three people wounded and severe damage[40] both on the city centre and the RUC/Army base. [144], The commander of the brigade, Kevin McKenna, was appointed Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1983. 2 February 1996: The house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with gunfire in Moy. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident since the days of the Anglo-Irish War (19191922). However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. 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. See Tyrone Mardtez Tyson's age, phone number, house address, email address, social media accounts, public records, and check for criminal records on Spokeo. The RUC officer, William Logan (aged 23), who was driving the police patrol vehicle was mortally wounded and died the following day, he was the first RUC officer killed by the brigade. 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 East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan Brigade[1] was one of the most active republican paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland during "the Troubles". [22] The checkpoint was stormed using an improvised armoured truck and two British soldiers (James Houston and Michael Patterson) were killed in action. [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. Your Market News for trending stories from around the world. 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. [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. [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. brother Sean was killed on active service in 1974; another brother, . 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 However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. [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 IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in the The Birches attack. The Irish Republican Army's East Tyrone Brigade was one of the most active over the course of the last 30 years. The following is adapted from Biting at the Grave: The Irish Hunger prison crisis; the question now was whether the British government was [17] The checkpoint was stormed and two British soldiers killed in action. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident during its campaign. 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. Gerry McGeough is a prominent republican and former member of the provisional IRA and now a farmer in Co. Tyrone. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. 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. They should have arrested In October 1990, two more IRA men, Dessie Grew and Michael McGaughey were shot dead near Loughgall by undercover soldiers. number of its more seasoned veterans had died in the incident), but [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. The IRA responded by killing senior UVF man and former UDR member Leslie Dallas on 7 March 1989, but the UVF shot dead three IRA members and a Catholic civilian in a pub in Cappagh on 3 March 1991. A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. A five-mile (8km) chase followed before the IRA volunteers managed to escape on foot. 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