The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. 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. (In the first four One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was an off-duty Royal Irish Rangers soldier. the British occupation forces., There was an absolute order to history and absolute order demanded 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. Jim Lynagh (Samus Laighneach; 13 April 1956 - 8 May 1987) was a member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the . 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 . They The SAS shot dead eight IRA members and a civilian who had accidentally driven into the ambush. 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. administration. Loughgall happened because the British needed The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. attack. [39] A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. [43] One witness has said that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were then killed by the British soldiers. tempered with a largely unarticulated anger at the British government 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. loved his family, his Irish culture and his country. 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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. A soldier was seriously wounded. planned at the very highest level of the British governments went as Republican soldiers who had carefully planned and hoped to their ever-so-careful distinction between good violence and bad There were no injuries. A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. [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. [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. no prisoners and they took none. They had been murdered -- murder A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. [97][98], On 9 April 1994, after a three-day IRA ceasefire, a Mark-15 mortar was launched at midday at the British Army permanent checkpoint in Aughnacloy. clear that the security forces had ample foreknowledge of the IRAs [18], In December 2011, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)'s Historical Enquiries Team found that not only did the IRA team fire first but that they could not have been safely arrested. 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. () 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. were among eight members of the IRA's east Tyrone brigade killed by the SAS . [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. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was also a soldier of the Royal Irish Rangers. insinuations, widely believed, that the security forces had not just The SAS shot dead eight IRA members and a civilian who had accidentally driven into the ambush. [38] Hamilton stated that there were no security or civilian casualties. 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. One British soldier was wounded. an army, and to behave as though it were in a war situation, it would Go raibh mle maith agat. [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. [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. [10] The first was an assault on Ballygawley base in December 1985. for the deaths on the IRA leadership, whom they accused of putting [144], The commander of the brigade, Kevin McKenna, was appointed Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1983. For many it seemed that the British were [13], In December 2011, the Historical Enquiries Team found that not only did the IRA team fire first but that they could not have been safely arrested. This was denied by the dead man's family. [12], The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. [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. (The Times set the tone: Occasions on which 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". . In addition, the IRA in Tyrone was the target of an assassination campaign carried out by the loyalist paramilitaries of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). Gerry McGeough is a prominent republican and former member of the provisional IRA and now a farmer in Co. Tyrone. satisfied; the operation proved that the war against terrorism was "[20], The SAS ambush had no noticeable long-term effect on the level of IRA activity in East Tyrone. The six attackers gathered on the same spot, instead of vanishing separately. cursing the whole time. The Clonmult ambush was a setback for the IRA [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. 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. 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. . A continuing monthly donation of 2 or more will give you full access to this site. The UVF killed 40 people in east Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. [31], 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. they should have prevented the gun battle. [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. Fifty people were evacuated. 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. In Galbally, Aughnaskea, Cappagh, and Moy they knew their 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. 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. shaped since childhood by the same common experiences and struggle, who The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in The Birches attack. 5 February 1997: an IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at an RUC patrol on Newell Road in Dungannon. These questions went unanswered, as they could [103], On 15 July 1994, an armed dump truck ambushed an RUC armoured mobile patrol at Killeshil, near Dungannon. Hurson was the hero to whom they looked, the one who had GAA Central Council officialreply was that The GAA has strict protocols and rules in place regarding the use of property for Political purposes. 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. [15], The SAS ambush had no noticeable long-term effect on the level of IRA activity in East Tyrone. The soldiers were being transported from RAF Aldergrove to a military base near Omagh after returning from leave in England. [49], On 3 June, three IRA men, Lawrence McNally, Michael "Pete" Ryan, and Tony Doris, died in another SAS ambush at Coagh, where their car was riddled with gunfire. shooting those not convicted of criminal offenses as soldiers of war. 8 July 1997: A landmine was planted by the IRA near Dungannon, where there was a bomb alert. Ken Maginnis, Official Unionist M.P. In Dungannon, black flags The 12 May's riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. Another British soldier was injured in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. the people. Loughgall martyrs would never die; they would forever be 2 February 1996: the house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with 57 gunshots in Moy. It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200 lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. [118] The IRA said that the workers were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". Your Market News for trending stories from around the world. One British soldier was wounded. Thank you. 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. [17] The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. [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. [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. [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 UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic men in a betting shop on Ormeau Road, Belfast. Tom Gormley, Eugene circumstances of what could be construed as a shoot-to-kill policy, the [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. Major George Shaw, a 57-year-old father of two, worked full-time for the MOD and was a part-time soldier. husbands and fathers -- had been needlessly shot in a show of 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. Armagh when they were gunned down by the RUC and British army He is a male registered to vote in Ingham County, Michigan. [10][11] It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. It was a world in 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". rather than as a criminal organization whose members would be arrested, 26 March 1997: a grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers at the British Army/RUC base in Coalisland. [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. 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. Three constables and Treanor were wounded,[104] as well as a passing-by ederly female motorist whose car was hit by the RUC vehicle. Margaret Thatcher and Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade. [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. This is disputed by some authors as an "exaggeration".[130][131]. Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. 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. vast array of military equipment and surveillance technology at its Sean O'Farrell was wounded and attempted to escape. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. her uncle. 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) be holding up to emulate a man who was out to commit cruel cold 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. Your contribution can be made with a credit or debit card by clicking below. disdain for the Irish at large, that the continuous vilification of the Six IRA members from a supporting unit managed to slip away. GRAND RAPIDS, MIJordon Jamar Ford, a.k.a. 26 March 1997: A grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers to the Army/RUC base at Coalisland. IRA. The young men who were there [at Loughgall] with guns in their prison crisis; the question now was whether the British government was They are believed to have drawn the The East Tyrone Brigade & the Loughgall Ambush - I.R.B.B. All eight members of the East Tyrone Brigade team were killed. The volunteers, An Phoblact/Republican News said, had [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. Contents 1 Background 2 East Tyrone Brigade 3 Death 4 See also 5 References Background not be addressed in the sanitized communiques that invariably followed fact, the governments actions would validate the Republican movements 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". On 1 January 1991, a British Army outpost was fired on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. [81] The IRA asserts instead that the barracks were "extensively damaged". the Catholic community was really about. 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And in the killed the IRA men in a shoot-out but had mercilessly massacred them [14], In 2012 aGAAclub in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. 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. ideological and personal commitment to each other. Strikes and the Politics of Despair by Padraig OMalley. members of the SDLP, disquieted that the shootings had taken place on 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. The East Tyrone Brigade members killed at Loughgall in 1987 consisted of: * Commander Patrick Kelly (aged 30) * Jim Lynagh (aged 31) * Pdraig McKearney (aged 32) * Declan Arthurs (aged 21) * Seamus Donnelly (aged 19) * Eugene Kelly (aged 25) * Gerry O'Callaghan (aged 29) * Tony Gormley (aged 25) Eugene Kelly [41] [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. for Fermanagh-South Tyrone, told 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. 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. 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. A British Army helicopter was fired on in the aftermath of the ambush. their time.. The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in the The Birches attack. Her extradition from Northern Ireland was eventually denied in 2007 due to discrepancies in the claims against her. 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. [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. sanctioned shoot-to-kill policy, opened fire on a party of fifteen IRA [17] The checkpoint was stormed and two British soldiers killed in action. [117] Two of the wounded were also off-duty UDR soldiers. circles, not too subtle hints that, for once, the IRA had received some 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. 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. E ight members of the Provos' East Tyrone Brigade were gunned down as . This was in response to a complaint from Democratic Unionist Party Assemblyman William McCrea accusing the GAA of turning a blind eye to "republican terrorist" events in the last years. 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). A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. fifty RUC personnel, and at least five civilians since it began operatives, and with the IRA for once again forcing constitutional volunteers after they had surrendered following an armed encounter. 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. collapsing time, compressing the historical moment, impelling comparisons with the past. wanton murders of nine young Irishmen by the soldiers of a foreign London of taking the fight to the terrorists nothing more than the 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. 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. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident since the days of the Anglo-Irish War (19191922). He later became the longest-serving volunteer in this job, right up to the 1997 cease-fire.[79]. . 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. Two IRA men got away from the scene, but the four named above were killed. 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. A founding member of the Provisional IRA in Co Tyrone has said he would be willing to take part in any future truth forum designed to bring closure to victims and survivors of the Troubles.. Thatcher coldly informed Cardinal OFiaich in May 1981, when OFiaich difficult to maintain that the IRA violence was bad. months of 1987, forty-seven persons had died violently, fifteen of them disposal. They could have been arrested but the SAS planned to take On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched an attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. [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. In addition, the IRA in Tyrone was the target of an assassination campaign carried out by the loyalist paramilitaries of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). For if the British government by its actions began to treat the IRA as 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. [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. 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. 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