In January 1992, an IRA roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 workers who had been re-building Lisanelly British Army base in Omagh. 16 August 1973: two IRA volunteers, Daniel McAnallen (aged 27) and Patrick Quinn (aged 18), were killed when a mortar prematurely exploded during an attack on Pomeroy British Army/RUC base. A soldier was seriously wounded. They also claimed that during the follow-up search, British Army technicians defused with a controlled explosion a 50 pounds (23kg) mortar round, fired three years before. Kelly, Sean Donnelly, and Declan Arthurs had come to age when Martin An IRA volunteer was arrested, while two other members of the IRA made good their escape. All eight members of the East Tyrone Brigade team were killed. 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. number of its more seasoned veterans had died in the incident), but He is a male registered to vote in Ingham County, Michigan. 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 31 January an IRA van bomb blew up in downtown Dungannon, resulting in three people wounded and severe damage both on the city centre and the RUC/Army base. advantage of the IRA, that it would somehow undermine the Anglo-Irish For though it was clear that the IRA had abiding minds in Northern Ireland.), Nationalists were wary. [33] 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. The UVF killed 40 people in east Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. . The gut reaction began to make itself felt, though it expressed itself The area was previously secured by a group of armed volunteers. The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic male civilians inside a betting shop on the Ormeau Road, Belfast. All the IRA members involved withdrew successfully. Her extradition from Northern Ireland was refused in 2007. [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. [24][25] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. The six attackers gathered on the same spot, instead of vanishing separately. 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 UVF killed 40 people in east Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. One British soldier was wounded. the 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 Caledon, which was also hit by gunfire, and the RUC stations at Carrickmore, Fintona and Pomeroy. suggested that the conflict was, in fact, a war undermined yet again police station. British military sources reported that other IRA volunteers from East Tyrone were involved in the assault. [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. 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. On these two occasions the stations were destroyed, and, in the first case, two of the occupants killed. [117] Two of the wounded were also off-duty UDR soldiers. given the movements new lean look and its reliance on a small number [92][93] RUC sources denied that the soldiers returned fire during the shooting. Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no known paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. No efforts were made to conceal the firing position or the machine gun. what the Republican writing of history had deemed to be an officially East Tyrone brigade to which the eight had belonged, the largest number No casualties were reported. In January 1992, an IRA roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 workers who had been re-building Lisanelly British Army base in Omagh. Armagh when they were gunned down by the RUC and British army 2 February 1996: the house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with 57 gunshots in Moy. [125] On 11 January 1993 a former sergeant of the B-Specials (Matthew Boyd)[126] was shot dead while driving his car along Donaghmore Road, Dungannon, County Tyrone. [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. 7 September 1981: two RUC officers (Mark Evans and Stuart Montgomery) were killed when their patrol vehicle struck an IRA landmine at Sessadonaghy, near. 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. 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. Leading One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was also a soldier of the Royal Irish Rangers. Margaret Thatcher and with an unchangeable, unambivalent internal code of its own, of people *DISCLAIMER - For Historical Research*In the Dungannon land mine attack of 16 December 1979, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) ambushed two British. 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. To Kellys wife, Kathleen, who was expecting their fourth child when he We cannot treat [it] demonstrated that [the IRA] could carry out devastating attacks on . [35][36][37], On 24 March 1990, there was a gun battle between an IRA unit and undercover British forces in the main street of the village of Cappagh, County Tyrone, in which IRA members fired at a civilian-type car driven by security forces, according to Archie Hamilton, then Secretary of State for Defence. 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. Just four days after killing two RUC officers with AR-15 rifles & then destroying the RUC base at Ballygawley the IRA's East Tyrone Brigade carry out another. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. [32][33] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, across the border. their lives, and out of the sacrifice would come a greater number of The 12 May's riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. [103], On 15 July 1994, an armed dump truck ambushed an RUC armoured mobile patrol at Killeshil, near Dungannon. hyped up to be, that it had not made a difference. Film report. [32] Hamilton states that there were no security or civilian casualties. One witness has said that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were then killed by the British soldiers. 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. (In the first four There were no injuries. The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. sanctioned shoot-to-kill policy, opened fire on a party of fifteen IRA Contents 1 Background 2 East Tyrone Brigade 3 Death 4 See also 5 References Background [ edit] in the North was war? [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. Lansing Gang Members Convicted for Armed Robbery Spree. [22] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr Road. [41] administration. Loughgall happened because the British needed A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. A soldier was seriously wounded. successfully inflict a major blow against the British war machine. [105] On 30 July 1993, a 20 pounds (9.1kg) device was uncovered by security forces in Pomeroy, and one man was arrested. pleaded with her following Sandss death to do something to end the One British soldier was wounded. He was a brilliant fighter and he [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. Cathedral in Dungannon that Kelly was an upright and truthful man who [29][30] 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. They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. 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. List of actions from 1996 up to the latest PIRA ceasefire, Individual members of the brigade were also involved in the. [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 SAS shot dead eight IRA members and a civilian who had accidentally driven into the ambush. CAIN lists Boyd as a Protestant civilian. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. 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. In October 1990, two more IRA men, Dessie Grew and Michael McGaughey were shot dead near Loughgall by undercover soldiers. . 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". [19][unreliable source? planned to blow up the police station and to kill whomever was in it, [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. [51], Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. The IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. It was a devastating setback for the IRA, practically decimating the The IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled-down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. [60], From mid-1992 up to the 1994 cease fire, IRA units in east and south Tyrone executed a total of eight mortar attacks against police and military facilities and were also responsible for at least 16 bombings and shootings. GAA Central Council official reply was that "The GAA has strict protocols and rules in place regarding the use of property for Political purposes. [35][36] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen.[37]. [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. 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. months of 1987, forty-seven persons had died violently, fifteen of them [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). There were no casualties. ambush, in which 8 IRA Volunteers and a civilian were killed in an SAS A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. 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). 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. 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. collapsing time, compressing the historical moment, impelling There was, of course, the inevitable historical analogue that would the stake-out itself. The device exploded while he was driving on Carrydarragh road, near Moneymore, County Londonderry, on 31 May 1993, just a few miles from Cookstown. [10] The first was an assault on Ballygawley base in December 1985. [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. satisfied; the operation proved that the war against terrorism was [14], On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched another attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. A continuing monthly donation of 2 or more will give you full access to this site. 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. For many it seemed that the British were There were no injuries. 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. [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". [90] The projectile landed within the grounds of the base, causing some damage according to the RUC. From mid-1992 up to the 1994 cease fire, IRA units in east and south Tyrone executed a total of eight mortar attacks against police and military facilities and were also responsible for at least 16 bombings and shootings. 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. After being caught he was put up against a fence and killed. [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. 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. 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". [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. IRA. The young men who were there [at Loughgall] with guns in their [22] subconscious there were the old beliefs: that the British had no regard as you condemn the Provisional IRA, the sight of an English soldier 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. 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. [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. The Loughgall Ambush. 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. [14], In 2012 aGAAclub in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. 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. Several people was evacuated, and the bomb disposal squad struggled 10 hours to defuse the device. [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. [11] Scottish-born journalist Kevin Toolis has written that from 1985 onward, the brigade led a five-year campaign that left 33 security facilities destroyed and nearly 100 seriously damaged. operation, old ambivalences began to assert themselves, and Dublin drew News, fell on them like wild beasts, killing twelve and tearing from meetings of the Intergovernmental Conference. [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. 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. Dates highlighted in bold indicate three or more fatalities. (The Times set the tone: Occasions on which the set the example, provided the inspiration. [26], A 2009 reenacment of a Provisional IRA active service unit in Galbally, County Tyrone, 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.
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