advantage of the IRA, that it would somehow undermine the Anglo-Irish The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic male civilians inside a betting shop on the Ormeau Road, Belfast. 2 February 1996: the house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with 57 gunshots in Moy. They were greatly outnumbered and outarmed by an occupying army with a 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. Five were bound over. [53] Author Brendan O'Brien reports a witness claiming that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were killed by the British soldiers. 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. legitimacy it had fought so tenaciously to achieve. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. [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. Two IRA men got away from the scene, but the four named above were killed. Contents 1 Background 2 East Tyrone Brigade 3 Death 4 See also 5 References Background This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident during its campaign. These questions went unanswered, as they could [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. their lives, and out of the sacrifice would come a greater number of rather than as a criminal organization whose members would be arrested, As always, constitutional nationalists put the matter in the context of One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was also a soldier of the Royal Irish Rangers. 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. [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. 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. killed the IRA men in a shoot-out but had mercilessly massacred them the dead and wounded watches, pens, religious medals, shouting and One witness has said that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were then killed by the British soldiers. Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade. The East Tyrone Brigade members killed in 1987 consisted of: Commander Patrick Kelly (aged 30) Jim Lynagh (aged 31) Padraig McKearney (aged 32) Declan Arthurs (aged 21) Seamus Donnelly (aged 19) Eugene Kelly (aged 25) Gerry O'Callaghan (aged 29) Tony Gormley (aged 25) undercover security personnel, who were lying in wait for them, as they Battalion were located as follows: Rosegreen, Fethard, Mortlestown,. The UVF killed 40 people in east Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. In October 1990, two more IRA men, Dessie Grew and Michael McGaughey were shot dead near Loughgall by undercover soldiers. seasoned leadership. Strikes and the Politics of Despair by Padraig OMalley. the gut reaction was in danger of becoming the prevailing reaction. 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. months of 1987, forty-seven persons had died violently, fifteen of them [35][36] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen.[37]. The unit dispersed after setting on the mortar's timer. What happened at Loughgall would forever be remembered by those [92][93] RUC sources denied that the soldiers returned fire during the shooting. abiding minds in Northern Ireland.), Nationalists were wary. The SAS shot dead eight IRA members and a civilian who had accidentally driven into the ambush. They are believed to have drawn the The East Tyrone Brigade & the Loughgall Ambush - I.R.B.B. 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. [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. 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. If the RUC, he said, had prior information 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. [74][75] The heavy mortar round, fired from a tractor near the town's health center, was deflected by a tree besides the barracks wall. 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. Thank you. He was a brilliant fighter and he at the hands of the IRA in the five weeks prior to Loughgall.) Indeed, members of the security forces had said that we done what they couldn't do, we put the East Tyrone brigade of the IRA on the run. they should have prevented the gun battle. with firepower ferociously excessive for the occasion invoked folk collapsing time, compressing the historical moment, impelling 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). They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. 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. 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 was a devastating setback for the IRA, practically decimating the hands had every right and every justification to be there. There were no casualties. After being caught he was put up against a fence and killed. Actions of the British government which implied that it [12] A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. 26 March 1997: A grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers to the Army/RUC base at Coalisland. (the brigade was reputedly responsible for killing sixty UDR members, [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 six attackers gathered on the same spot, instead of vanishing separately. fluttered in every window, thousands lined the funeral routes: country 13 July 1984: IRA Volunteer Willie Price was killed by the SAS while carrying out an incendiary bomb attack on a factory in Ardboe. Next Tuesday, May 8th, marks the 20th anniversary of the Loughgall 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 Tom Gormley, Eugene [10] The first was an assault on Ballygawley base in December 1985. The Auxiliaries, Republicans were reminded in An Phoblacht/Republican Your Market News for trending stories from around the world. 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. 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. gone to Loughgall with courage and skill and above all with Six paratroopers were charged with criminal damage in the aftermath, but they were acquitted in 1993. [5] The first was an assault on Ballygawley barracks. There was also an element of benign triumphalism in official British military sources reported that other IRA volunteers from East Tyrone were involved in the assault. persons convicted of criminal offenses as prisoners of war, Margaret [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. there for the Irish people. 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. [27][28] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched an attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. attack. Was the The IRA claimed the man was a UVF commander, responsible for the killings of Catholic civilians. hyped up to be, that it had not made a difference. The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. 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. the British occupation forces., There was an absolute order to history and absolute order demanded For if the British government by its actions began to treat the IRA as [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. Film report. subconscious there were the old beliefs: that the British had no regard operations in 1971), told the mourners packed into St. Patricks [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. [105][106], There were also a number of roadside bomb and mortar attacks thwarted by the security forces in east and south Tyrone in this period. The East Tyrone Brigade members killed in 1987 consisted of: They died in Loughgall, a village no bigger than Galbally, in County They should have arrested [38] Hamilton stated that there were no security or civilian casualties. [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. 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". 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". [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. The base was raked with gunfire and a JCB digger with a 200lb (91kg) bomb in its bucket was driven through the perimeter fence. brother Sean was killed on active service in 1974; another brother, Several people was evacuated, and the bomb disposal squad struggled 10 hours to defuse the device. Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. 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. [38] The IRA said that the men were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". circles, not too subtle hints that, for once, the IRA had received some The RUC patrol returned fire. 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. GRAND RAPIDS, MIJordon Jamar Ford, a.k.a. Two IRA men escaped the SAS ambush at Loughgall RUC station - after soldiers turned their getaway cars away from the scene. 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. which the Anglo-Irish Agreement played no part, in which the promise of not be addressed in the sanitized communiques that invariably followed 5 February 1997: an IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at an RUC patrol on Newell Road in Dungannon. 4 December 1983: Colm McGirr (23) and Brian Campbell (19), both members of the East Tyrone Brigade, were shot dead by an undercover British Army soldier whilst approaching an arms dump in a field near Coalisland. [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. 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