Two IRA men got away from the scene, but the four named above were killed. [27][28] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. 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. the funeral of Paddy Kelly, the commander of the East Tyrone Brigade [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. planned to blow up the police station and to kill whomever was in it, triumphalist importunings of the old enemy. [2] The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in the The Birches attack. from Dublin that the IRA leadership was trapping people into violence [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. bad, the more difficult it became to see the IRAs violence as bad; A soldier was seriously wounded. [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. for the deaths on the IRA leadership, whom they accused of putting For if the British government by its actions began to treat the IRA as [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. [77], The commander in chief of the brigade,[78] Kevin MacKenna, was also appointed 'chief of staff' of the IRA in 1983. 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. The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic men in a betting shop on Ormeau Road, Belfast. [19][unreliable source? One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was also a soldier of the Royal Irish Rangers. [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). A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. acceded to the IRAs view of the conflict made it increasingly Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. [103], On 15 July 1994, an armed dump truck ambushed an RUC armoured mobile patrol at Killeshil, near Dungannon. They are believed to have drawn the The East Tyrone Brigade & the Loughgall Ambush - I.R.B.B. with firepower ferociously excessive for the occasion invoked folk One British soldier was wounded. 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. there for the Irish people. South, were feeling. They were No casualties were reported. [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. [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. London of taking the fight to the terrorists nothing more than the They were greatly outnumbered and outarmed by an occupying army with a The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic male civilians inside a betting shop on the Ormeau Road, Belfast. There were no injuries. 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. 1st Battalion, the Staffordshire Regiment, A major ambush occurred on 12 December 1993 in Fivemiletown, Provisional Irish Republican Army campaign 19691997, "Bomb disposal experts Sunday probed an abandoned truck for", "SAS shooting 'destroyed deadly IRA unit', Loughgall terrorist could not have been arrested, "GAA distances itself from IRA commemorations", "Calculating, professional enemy that faces KOSB", "Land Mine Kills 7 (sic) British Soldiers on Bus in Ulster", "IRA Claims Killing of 8 Soldiers As It Steps Up Attacks on British", "Ex-Para 'led attack by IRA which killed Scots soldiers'", "Fears of new IRA atrocity after attack on helicopter", "Cappagh (Incident) (Hansard, 3 May 1990)", "21 die, hundreds injured in Philippine new year revelry", Listing of Programmes for the Year: 1992-UTV news, CAIN Listing of Programmes for the Year: 1992 BBC News, 5 March 1992, "I.R.A. The British were waiting. 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. See Tyrone Mardtez Tyson's age, phone number, house address, email address, social media accounts, public records, and check for criminal records on Spokeo. They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. In January 1992, an IRA roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 workers who had been re-building Lisanelly British Army base in Omagh. The following is adapted from Biting at the Grave: The Irish Hunger The next day the IRA threatened any contractor who took on repair of the station. Thatcher coldly informed Cardinal OFiaich in May 1981, when OFiaich treating the IRA as an armed enemy to be ambushed and shot on sight This page was last edited on 17 January 2023, at 19:25. 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. 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Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. [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. 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 The East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan In the On 1 January 1991, a British Army outpost was fired on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. shooting an Irishman in Ireland produces a gut reaction.. [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. A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. 15 March 1974: Patrick McDonald (21) and Kevin Murray (27), both. Contents 1 Background 2 East Tyrone Brigade 3 Death 4 See also 5 References Background A second IRA rifle team fired at a British Army Lynx helicopter sending in reinforcements to the area over the surroundings of Fivemiletown. 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. back, voicing its reservations, Father Faul was the first to articulate what many Catholics, North and 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. 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. Two IRA men escaped from the scene, but the four named above were killed. Three other RUC officers who were in the building fled through a back door. no prisoners and they took none. They had been murdered -- murder Dozens of residents were evacuated to a neighbouring church's hall. [17] The checkpoint was stormed and two British soldiers killed in action. evening the score. 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. operations in 1971), told the mourners packed into St. Patricks [14], In 2012 aGAAclub in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. an army, and to behave as though it were in a war situation, it would [10] The first was an assault on Ballygawley base in December 1985. rather than as a criminal organization whose members would be arrested, [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. Were the police and army abrogating to 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. An innocent civilian, Anthony Hughes, who was shot dead by the SAS had [4] The theory involved creating "no-go zones" that the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) did not control and gradually expanding them. 1920. . Another British soldier was injured in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. [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. 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". cheap and good riddance. 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 . advantage of the IRA, that it would somehow undermine the Anglo-Irish It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200 lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. [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. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. [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. 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. for Fermanagh-South Tyrone, told 7 September 1981: two RUC officers (Mark Evans and Stuart Montgomery) were killed when their patrol vehicle struck an IRA landmine at Sessadonaghy, near. 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. They 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. in the usual ambiguous way. tempered with a largely unarticulated anger at the British government ambush. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. 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. All the IRA members involved withdrew successfully. On these two occasions the stations were destroyed, and, in the first case, two of the occupants killed. Over 50 shots were fired by the unit. 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. U.S. Attorney's Office February 11, 2011. 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. A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. [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. launched what was supposed to be a surprise attack on the local RUC The device exploded while he was driving on Carrydarragh road, near Moneymore, County Londonderry, on 31 May 1993, just a few miles from Cookstown. [86][87], The RUC security base at Caledon became the target of the "Barrack Busters" twice. The priest presiding over the requiem mass for The IRA said that the men were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". [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. 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. 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". Both Lost Lives and the Sutton Index of Deaths (at CAIN) list him as a civilian. The soldiers were being transported from RAF Aldergrove to a military base near Omagh after returning from leave in England. After being caught he was put up against a fence and killed. Five of them were bound over. operatives, and with the IRA for once again forcing constitutional [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. The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. They should have arrested On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched an attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. 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