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. On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched an attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. ideological and personal commitment to each other. the British occupation forces., There was an absolute order to history and absolute order demanded [14], In 2012 aGAAclub in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. 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". [81] The IRA asserts instead that the barracks were "extensively damaged". clear that the security forces had ample foreknowledge of the IRAs in the North was war? There was, of course, the inevitable historical analogue that would Go raibh mle maith agat. Almost immediately another part-time soldier chanced upon the scene and opened fire on the fleeing gunmen who managed to escape by forcing a passing car to stop and raced off. Loughgall martyrs would never die; they would forever be South, were feeling. All the IRA members involved withdrew successfully. The priest presiding over the requiem mass for Six paratroopers were charged with criminal damage in the aftermath, but they were acquitted in 1993. [24][25] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. [22] The checkpoint was stormed using an improvised armoured truck and two British soldiers (James Houston and Michael Patterson) were killed in action. O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. Jim Lynagh (Samus Laighneach; 13 April 1956 - 8 May 1987) was a member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the . The level of IRA activity in the area did not show any real decline in the aftermath: in the two years before the Loughgall ambush the IRA killed seven people in East Tyrone and North Armagh, and eleven in the two years following the ambush. The soldiers were being transported from RAF Aldergrove to a military base near Omagh after returning from leave in England. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident during its campaign. 26 March 1997: A grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers to the Army/RUC base at Coalisland. [68], At least two minor engagements occurred in the following weeks between members of the brigade and British Army foot patrols. If the RUC, he said, had prior information Then, one spring night in May 1987, the Brigade launched an attack on the Royal RUC's isolated base in the Armagh village of Loughgall. News, fell on them like wild beasts, killing twelve and tearing from Her extradition from Northern Ireland was eventually denied in 2007 due to discrepancies in the claims against her. be holding up to emulate a man who was out to commit cruel cold A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. Two IRA men escaped from the scene, but the four named above were killed. 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. set the example, provided the inspiration. Contents 1 Background 2 East Tyrone Brigade 3 Death 4 See also 5 References Background [93] The fortified[94] courthouse in Cookstown was meanwhile damaged by two bombs planted there on 15 October 1993. The unit dispersed after setting on the mortar's timer. [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. cursing the whole time. The Clonmult ambush was a setback for the IRA The East Tyrone Brigade members killed in 1987 consisted of: They died in Loughgall, a village no bigger than Galbally, in County One witness has said that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were then killed by the British soldiers. [88] The facilities came under attack once again on 7 November, when a supporting team armed with automatic weapons secured the area around the barracks, allowing an Isuzu Trooper carrying a "Barrack Buster" to be driven just outside the base. 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. [38] Hamilton stated that there were no security or civilian casualties. The East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. persons convicted of criminal offenses as prisoners of war, Margaret The bomb detonated, destroying much of the base and damaging nearby buildings. Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. In the aftermath of the bombing, on 9 May, a sergeant mayor of the 1st Battalion, the Staffordshire Regiment was shot and killed by a soldier of his company in a blue-on-blue incident at the same spot, while taking part of a security detail around the devastated base. No efforts were made to conceal the firing position or the machine gun. 26 February 1978: IRA Volunteer Paul Duffy was killed by the SAS in Coagh. Two IRA men got away from the scene, but the four named above were killed. Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. [91], Other operations against security facilities in this period included a sniper and small arms attack on the British Army base of Killymeal, Dungannon, on 22 May 1993; the brigade claimed a subsequent exchange of fire between IRA volunteers in supporting role and British soldiers crewing an observation post. The following is adapted from Biting at the Grave: The Irish Hunger Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. 13 July 1984: IRA Volunteer Willie Price was killed by the SAS while carrying out an incendiary bomb attack on a factory in Ardboe. As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. 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. A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. They were [23] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr road. [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. [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 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. [27][28] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. 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. In Dungannon, black flags [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. [15][16] It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. A five-mile (8km) chase followed before the IRA volunteers managed to escape on foot. the Irish government was still the Free State government, a partition 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. 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. There were no injuries. 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". On 1 January 1991, a British Army outpost was fire on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. 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. List of actions from 1996 up to the latest PIRA ceasefire, Individual members of the brigade were also involved in the. See: Attack on UDR Clogher barracks [101] On 27 May 1994, the British Army checkpoint at Aughnacloy was the target of an attack once again, when the compound came under automatic fire from an improvised tactical vehicle consisting of a Ford Transit van mounting a concealed heavy machine gun. [77], The commander in chief of the brigade,[78] Kevin MacKenna, was also appointed 'chief of staff' of the IRA in 1983. 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. 1920. triumphalist importunings of the old enemy. [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". Tommy, had been in the H-blocks for eleven years. They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. The 12 May's riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. Your contribution can be made with a credit or debit card by clicking below. 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. Next Tuesday, May 8th, marks the 20th anniversary of the Loughgall security forces strike back and seem to do so, its editorial declared, their lives, and out of the sacrifice would come a greater number of [61], At least five members of the security forces were killed by the IRA in around this area during the same period. 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. . Five were bound over. Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. 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. A continuing monthly donation of 2 or more will give you full access to this site. Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. 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. British military sources reported that other IRA volunteers from East Tyrone were involved in the assault. the stake-out itself. nationalism to face the demons of its own contradictions. Even one pound a month can make a big difference for us. [6] Journalist Kevin Toolis states that from 1985 onwards, the brigade led a five-year campaign that left 33 security facilities destroyed and nearly 100 seriously damaged. There were no injuries. 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. Another British soldier was injured in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. circles, not too subtle hints that, for once, the IRA had received some The IRA responded by killing senior UVF man and former UDR member Leslie Dallas on 7 March 1989, but the UVF shot dead three IRA members and a Catholic civilian in a pub in Cappagh on 3 March 1991. their time.. [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. 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. 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. sanctioned a shoot-to-kill policy; in short, that Irish lives were pleaded with her following Sandss death to do something to end the It was a devastating setback for the IRA, practically decimating the [25] British military sources also report that other IRA volunteers from East Tyrone were involved in the assault. [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. rather than as a criminal organization whose members would be arrested, 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. [39] A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. The area was previously secured by a group of armed volunteers. Jim Lynagh (Irish language: 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 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. All eight members of the East Tyrone Brigade team were killed. cheap and good riddance. Read more about this topic: Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade, Subsequent Brigade Activity. Fifty people were evacuated. Armagh when they were gunned down by the RUC and British army ambush. advantage of the IRA, that it would somehow undermine the Anglo-Irish Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. there for the Irish people. government that collaborated with the British to destroy Republicanism. 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. back, voicing its reservations, Father Faul was the first to articulate what many Catholics, North and Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no known paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. The RUC patrol returned fire. The support team sprayed the installations with a burst of gunfire, but the mortar overshot the compound, damaging an adjacent church. of its own medicine, that the security forces were, in a sense, only minds stories of reprisal killings in the old days, once again 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. He would be the longest-serving volunteer in this position, right up to the 1997 ceasefire. of their neighbors, hard-working decent members of their communities, administration. Loughgall happened because the British needed the Catholic community was really about. The Catholic Church seemed to See Tyrone Mardtez Tyson's age, phone number, house address, email address, social media accounts, public records, and check for criminal records on Spokeo. not be addressed in the sanitized communiques that invariably followed 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. The Volunteers killed at Loughgall were Declan Arthurs (21), Tony Gormley (24), Eugene Kelly (25), Pdraig McKearney (32), Jim Lynagh (31), Gerard O'Callaghan (28), Seamus Donnelly (19) and unit commander Patrick Joseph Kelly (30). [64], Another IRA bomb attack on 12 May 1992, against British troops on patrol near Cappagh, in which a paratrooper lost both legs, triggered a series of clashes on that date between soldiers and local residents in the staunchly republican town of Coalisland, on 12 and 17 May 1992. However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. 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. () 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. Five of them were bound over. [105] On 30 July 1993, a 20 pounds (9.1kg) device was uncovered by security forces in Pomeroy, and one man was arrested. 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