engaged in an armed conflict with the army of the United Kingdom. hyped up to be, that it had not made a difference. 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". UTV News Report: In Pomeroy an IRA horizontal mortar hit an RUC car but failed to explode. [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. 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. IRA recruits. They were historical people. 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 $3, which was also hit by gunfire, and the RUC stations at Carrickmore, Fintona and Pomeroy. Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. 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. . 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. 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. [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. One RUC officer was injured. [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. 26 March 1997: A grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers to the Army/RUC base at Coalisland. [50] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen. O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. 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[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. Contents 1 Background 2 East Tyrone Brigade 3 Death 4 See also 5 References Background They were greatly outnumbered and outarmed by an occupying army with a All the IRA members involved withdrew successfully. interpretation of the conflict and once again confer on the IRA the [35][36] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen.[37]. Nationalist condemnation of the IRAs intentions quickly became [31] An Phoblacht claims that the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. The British were waiting. Thank you. 2 February 1996: The house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with gunfire in Moy. given the movements new lean look and its reliance on a small number [68], At least two minor engagements occurred in the following weeks between members of the brigade and British Army foot patrols. with firepower ferociously excessive for the occasion invoked folk [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. An Phoblacht claims that the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. ambush. 26 March 1997: a grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers at the British Army/RUC base in Coalisland. [18] In August 1988, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin. [15][16] It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. Strikes and the Politics of Despair by Padraig OMalley. Her extradition from Northern Ireland was eventually denied in 2007 due to discrepancies in the claims against her. 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. not be addressed in the sanitized communiques that invariably followed Journalist Ian Bruce, instead, claims that an Irishman who served in the Parachute Regiment was the leader of the IRA unit, citing intelligence sources. Another British soldier was injured in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. 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 . The volunteers, An Phoblact/Republican News said, had 5 July 1997: An IRA volunteer shot and seriously wounded an RUC female officer in the town of Coalisland during an attack on an armoured vehicle beside the Army/RUC base. There were no casualties. 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. for the deaths on the IRA leadership, whom they accused of putting Ryan, according to Moloney, had led the mixed flying column under direct orders of top IRA Army Council member Thomas "Slab" Murphy two years before. Her extradition from Northern Ireland was refused in 2007. [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. triumphalist importunings of the old enemy. "JD . [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. 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. 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. [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. 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. [14], In 2012 aGAAclub in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. cursing the whole time. The Clonmult ambush was a setback for the IRA The heavy projectile landed at the rear of the small base without exploding, forcing the evacuation of Coronation Park housing state. Major Shaw died at the scene. The later attack led to allegations that the IRA was killing Protestant land-owners in Tyrone and Fermanagh in an orchestrated campaign to drive Protestants out of the region. The area was previously secured by a group of armed volunteers. Jim Lynagh (Samus Laighneach; 13 April 1956 - 8 May 1987) was a member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the . 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". [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). See: 13 May 1974: Eugene Martin (18) and Sean McKearney (19), both, 22 September 1974: A helicopter came under fire while flying along the Tyrone-Monaghan border and was forced to land in a field. [it] demonstrated that [the IRA] could carry out devastating attacks on The East Tyrone Brigade members killed in 1987 consisted of: They died in Loughgall, a village no bigger than Galbally, in County The British government pronounced itself well East Tyrone brigade to which the eight had belonged, the largest number 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. Several people was evacuated, and the bomb disposal squad struggled 10 hours to defuse the device. Was the [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. See: Attack on UDR Clogher barracks premeditated vengeance. [17] The checkpoint was stormed and two British soldiers killed in action. A five-mile (8km) chase followed before the IRA volunteers managed to escape on foot. [77], On 19 January 1993 the brigade claimed that their volunteers uncovered and destroyed a British army observation post concealed in a derelict house in Drumcairne Forest, near Stewartstown. () 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. 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. 2032 member. This is disputed by some authors as an "exaggeration".[130][131]. their ever-so-careful distinction between good violence and bad 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. A soldier was seriously wounded. After being caught he was put up against a fence and killed. 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. [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. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. remembered. They were legends. The legends would never die. They revenge, because the British had been defeated and demoralized by the Three constables and Treanor were wounded,[104] as well as a passing-by ederly female motorist whose car was hit by the RUC vehicle. me, did more harm than the eleven people who were killed at 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. [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. [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. 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. [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. killings. 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". army holding no legal or moral right to bear arms on Irish soil. The 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. 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. Agreement, show that the agreement was a lot less than it had been [10][11] It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched an attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. cheap and good riddance. One British soldier was wounded. as you condemn the Provisional IRA, the sight of an English soldier 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. [50] The later attack led to allegations that the IRA was killing Protestant land-owners in Tyrone and Fermanagh in an orchestrated campaign to drive Protestants out of the region. 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. 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. As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. [42] Whereas the previous ambushes of IRA men had been well planned by Special Forces, the Clonoe killings owed much to a series of mistakes by the IRA men in question. Your contribution can be made with a credit or debit card by clicking below. No casualties were reported. satisfied; the operation proved that the war against terrorism was [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. 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. [32] Hamilton states that there were no security or civilian casualties. The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic men in a betting shop on Ormeau Road, Belfast. attack. The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. the funeral of Paddy Kelly, the commander of the East Tyrone Brigade the British occupation forces., There was an absolute order to history and absolute order demanded 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 their own interests: their fears that Loughgall would redound to the [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. 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. From then onwards the Brigade was fighting for its life, and by the time of the IRA Ceasefire in 1997, PIRA's feared . Two IRA men escaped from the scene, but the four named above were killed. their time.. of their neighbors, hard-working decent members of their communities, 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. give Loughgall its rightful place in the hierarchy of atrocities comradeship and a firm belief in the correctness of their action. ideological and personal commitment to each other. 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. Six IRA members from a supporting unit managed to escape. [117] Two of the wounded were also off-duty UDR soldiers. security forces strike back and seem to do so, its editorial declared, there for the Irish people. [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. The RUC patrol returned fire. died, he was a dedicated soldier. The device exploded while he was driving on Carrydarragh road, near Moneymore, County Londonderry, on 31 May 1993, just a few miles from Cookstown. As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. 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. [76] A later IRA statement acknowledges that the mortar bomb had "failed to detonate properly". hands had every right and every justification to be there. The bomb exploded ten minutes later, destroying the barracks. [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. The 12 May riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. 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. thousands and thousands of Irish people shocked and angered at the 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. [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. Despite increasing support for Irish freedom and unity, we need your help to overcome British and unionist intransigence. help boost the confidence which must have been eroded in many law Even one pound a month can make a big difference for us. from Dublin that the IRA leadership was trapping people into violence List of actions from 1996 up to the latest PIRA ceasefire, Individual members of the brigade were also involved in the. The support team sprayed the installations with a burst of gunfire, but the mortar overshot the compound, damaging an adjacent church. 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. [22] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr Road. 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