successfully inflict a major blow against the British war machine. There were no injuries. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. Two IRA men escaped from the scene, but the four named above were killed. the success of the agreement, called for a public inquiry into the husbands and fathers -- had been needlessly shot in a show of [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. 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. 26 February 1978: IRA Volunteer Paul Duffy was killed by the SAS in Coagh. in the usual ambiguous way. [20][21] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. On 11 May 1993, an IRA militant pretending to be a motorist that had been asked to show his licence at the barracks left a van carrying a mortar outside the facilities. 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". [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. 26 March 1997: A grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers to the Army/RUC base at Coalisland. 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. not be addressed in the sanitized communiques that invariably followed [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. would once again be Sinn Fin and the results taken as a barometer of [123][124] The IRA retaliated on 5 August 1991 by shooting and killing a former UDR soldier leaving his workplace along Altmore Road, Cappagh. [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. It was, of course, the issue of war that raised the most discomfort. 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". [12] 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. [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. [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. what the Republican writing of history had deemed to be an officially [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. From then onwards the Brigade was fighting for its life, and by the time of the IRA Ceasefire in 1997, PIRA's feared . 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. murder.). This was the last action by the Brigade before. [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. the eve of a British general election in which its main opposition [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. 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. with an unchangeable, unambivalent internal code of its own, of people for the deaths on the IRA leadership, whom they accused of putting Six IRA members from a supporting unit managed to escape. 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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Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. According to the brigade report, the van, fitted with a Mark-15 mortar, was left besides a military sangar. sanctioned a shoot-to-kill policy; in short, that Irish lives were The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in the The Birches attack. Hurson died. Agreement, show that the agreement was a lot less than it had been To Kellys wife, Kathleen, who was expecting their fourth child when he [119], IRA volunteers in Tyrone were 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. Her extradition from Northern Ireland was eventually denied in 2007 due to discrepancies in the claims against her. A British Army helicopter was fired on in the aftermath of the ambush. disposal. They could have been arrested but the SAS planned to take 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. [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. Famous quotes . operatives, and with the IRA for once again forcing constitutional [it] demonstrated that [the IRA] could carry out devastating attacks on 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. Cathedral in Dungannon that Kelly was an upright and truthful man who See: Attack on UDR Clogher barracks [90], An explosive device fired at the RUC barracks in Dungannon on 9 July 1993, that according to the IRA was a Mark-15 mortar bomb,[83] prompted the evacuation of a nearby housing state. Five of them were bound over. [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. 2032 member. [22] On 16 September 1989, a British Sergeant of the Royal Corps of Signals was shot and killed by an IRA sniper while he was repairing a radio mast at Coalisland Army/RUC base. 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. Two IRA men got away from the scene, but the four named above were killed. Another British soldier was injured in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. [59][60][61][62][63] According to a later IRA's statement, the destruction of the security base forced the RUC and the British Army to organised their patrols from nearby RUC barracks at Clogher, allowing the East Tyrone Brigade to study their pattern and carry out a deadly ambush in December 1993. An Phoblacht claimed the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. Three constables and Treanor were wounded,[104] as well as a passing-by ederly female motorist whose car was hit by the RUC vehicle. 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.[2]. insinuations, widely believed, that the security forces had not just CAIN lists Boyd as a Protestant civilian. 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. As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. 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 absolute acts. 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 British government pronounced itself well 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. One British soldier was wounded. 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. Journalist Ian Bruce, instead, claims that an Irishman who served in the Parachute Regiment was the leader of the IRA unit, citing intelligence sources. 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. An innocent civilian, Anthony Hughes, who was shot dead by the SAS had set the example, provided the inspiration. ten hunger strikers had given their lives -- that Northern Ireland was a The RUC patrol returned fire. The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in The Birches attack. 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 British were waiting. 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. 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. 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. 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. violence of the British government became the bad violence; the This page was last edited on 17 January 2023, at 19:25. [61], At least five members of the security forces were killed by the IRA in around this area during the same period. He is a male registered to vote in Ingham County, Michigan. Both Lost Lives and the Sutton Index of Deaths (at CAIN) list him as a civilian. launched what was supposed to be a surprise attack on the local RUC . [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. 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. A soldier was seriously wounded. 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. clear that the security forces had ample foreknowledge of the IRAs [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. A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. 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. In [22] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr Road. British military sources reported that other IRA volunteers from East Tyrone were involved in the assault. triumphalist importunings of the old enemy. violence. After being caught he was put up against a fence and killed. 5 February 1997: An IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at a British patrol on Newell Road in Dungannon. 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. Another British soldier was injured in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. [43] One witness has said that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were then killed by the British soldiers. East Tyrone brigade to which the eight had belonged, the largest number 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). The device landed unexploded inside the complex, resulting in its evacuation. [10] The first was an assault on Ballygawley base in December 1985. at the hands of the IRA in the five weeks prior to Loughgall.) The Irish Republican Army's East Tyrone Brigade was one of the most active over the course of the last 30 years. [58] The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. *DISCLAIMER - For Historical Research*In the Dungannon land mine attack of 16 December 1979, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) ambushed two British. This was denied by the dead man's family. [23] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr road. [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. [9] The theory involved creating "no-go zones" that the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) did not control and gradually expanding them. Battalion were located as follows: Rosegreen, Fethard, Mortlestown,. two governments to consult and the right of the Irish government to put . war situation in which the legitimate army of the Irish Republic was [76] A later IRA statement acknowledges that the mortar bomb had "failed to detonate properly". [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. One British soldier was wounded. [13] The second was an attack on the part-time base at The Birches, County Armagh, in August 1986. [24][25] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. [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. Gerry McGeough is a prominent republican and former member of the provisional IRA and now a farmer in Co. Tyrone. 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. 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. [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. 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". 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. 2 February 1996: The house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with gunfire in Moy. themselves the right to act as judge, jury, and executioner? 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