Five Sinn Fin cumainn, and 90% of the East Tyrone Brigade, left in the move. Sean O'Farrell was wounded and attempted to escape. Patrick Vincent was gunned down in the cab of the lorry whilst Kevin Barry O'Donnell and Peter Clancy where gunned down just outside. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. [79] An RUC report confirms that a bomb exploded close to a combined RUC-British Army patrol in the area. He would later serve as a member of Fianna Fil during the 1930s. 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. We are an unruly people, and if there is an opportunity to be unruly again we will take it, but it will not be violence, he says. The standout example is the SAS shooting of eight East Tyrone IRA members whilst the IRA attacked Loughgall RUC station in 1987. [120] The IRA said that the workers were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. Tommy's older brother Sean was killed in May 1974 when a bomb he was planting at a petrol station outside Dungannon exploded prematurely. 'United Ireland? Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. 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. Neither republican sees a great prospect of a united Ireland after Brexit. The New IRA claimed responsibility for a potentially lethal bomb discovered under the car of a police officer at a golf club in east Belfast in June 2019. The operation. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. In 1988 he had been caught in possession of a 1,000lb bomb and sentenced to 16 years in prison. "It was never going to be delivered by the normal means, by the Irish themselves, but it could come about through the break-up of the so-called United Kingdom," he says as he sits in an armchair in his living room, in front of shelves of history books that reflect his past studies at Trinity College Dublin and his background in teaching. In October 1990, two more IRA men, Dessie Grew and Michael McGaughey were shot dead near Loughgall by undercover soldiers. The IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled-down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. [95] The fortified[96] courthouse in Cookstown was meanwhile damaged by two bombs planted there on 15 October 1993. A NEW REPORT by Relatives for Justice into a British Army SAS ambush in 1992 that left four Tyrone IRA Volunteers dead says the men were killed in "a premeditated and pre-planned" attack when they could have been arrested instead. A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. [73], The brigade was the first to use the Mark-15 Barrack-Buster mortar in an attack on 5 December 1992 against the RUC station in Ballygawley. Video: Simon Carswell. [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. One soldier was seriously wounded. Taken: April 5th, 2017. 15 March 1974: Patrick McDonald (21) and Kevin Murray (27), both. They were active in some of the bloodiest campaigns of the Troubles, and for three of them much of that activity took place along the Border. This page was last edited on 2 February 2023, at 19:23. 7 September 1981: two RUC officers (Mark Evans and Stuart Montgomery) were killed when their patrol vehicle struck an IRA landmine at Sessadonaghy, near. IRA veterans Brexit feature - pix Colm Lynagh and Tommy McKearneyFormer republican prisoner Colm Lynagh (left) and former Provisional IRA hunger striker Tommy McKearney in Monaghan Town. IRA member Liam Ryan and local man . Why would article 50 change that? says McKearney. [51], Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. Death made heroes of the Loughgall eight. 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. Fresh claims about the meeting have. 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). The escape of former IRA chief of staff Seamus Twomey, Tyrone man Kevin Mallon and JB O'Hagan from north Armagh, caused a country-wide sensation and considerable embarrassment to the Dublin. He has vivid childhood memories of seeing the Moy Bridge and the road to his grandmothers home in Monaghan lying in the Blackwater River after being blown up the night before by B Specials members of the Ulster Special Constabulary quasi-military reserve. There were no injuries. McKearney argues that cross-Border economics has operated in a beggar-thy-neighbour way: Newry has over the years benefited at the expense of Dundalk, and vice versa, depending on currency fluctuations. 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". [61], At least five members of the security forces were killed by the IRA in around this area during the same period. [12], The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. [58] 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. After breaking from Sinn Fin he stood as an independent republican in the 2007 elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly. The oldest child in a Catholic family of five, Kelly was born in the largely Protestant town of Carrickfergus. Elsewhere, the East Tyrone IRA lost eighteen members to SAS ambushes between 1987 and 1992. 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. 10 February 1997: a horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. All eight members of the East Tyrone Brigade team were killed. McGeough is a supporter of the peace process and now president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Co Tyrone. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident during its campaign. He is now president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Co Tyrone. I dont see any bloodshed coming from our side. [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. There is very, very little appetite among republican circles in the North for a resumption of any armed campaign. 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. The ambush that left Tyrone Volunteers Kevin Barry O'Donnell, Patrick Vincent, Sen O'Farrell and Peter . . [51], The Fintona RUC/Army base damaged by mortar fire, 27 December 1993, 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,[52] while a soldier was injured by a bomb near Augher. [20][21] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. . Six IRA members from a supporting unit managed to escape. 5 February 1997: An IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at a British patrol on Newell Road in Dungannon. CAIN lists Boyd as a Protestant civilian. 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. Toggle navigation. British military sources reported that other IRA volunteers from East Tyrone were involved in the assault. Three constables and Treanor were wounded,[106] as well as a passing-by ederly female motorist whose car was hit by the RUC vehicle. His elder brother, a civilian contractor to the Ministry of Defence, had died in a South Armagh Brigade[64] mortar attack one year before, while working inside an Army base near Keady, County Armagh.[65]. A member of an IRA unit who survived a deadly SAS ambush at Loughgall which claimed the lives of eight republicans has broken his silence for the first time on the 30th anniversary. [25] British military sources also report that other IRA volunteers from East Tyrone were involved in the assault. Eight members of the IRA's so-called 'East Tyrone brigade' were shot dead by the SAS in a fierce gun battle at Loughgall on 8 May 1987. [107][108], There were also a number of roadside bomb and mortar attacks thwarted by the security forces in east and south Tyrone in this period. 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 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. There were no casualties. [43] One witness has said that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were then killed by the British soldiers. Three other RUC officers who were in the building fled through a back door. Major George Shaw, a 57-year-old father of two, worked full-time for the MOD and was a part-time soldier. The bomb detonated, destroying much of the base and damaging nearby buildings. Her extradition from Northern Ireland was refused in 2007. 7 February 1976: Two Protestant teenagers, Rachel and Robert McLernon (aged 18 and 16, respectively), were killed by an IRA booby-trap bomb, intended for members of the security forces, which had been hidden in an abandoned crashed car, Tyresson Road, 3 December 1977: RUC car ambushed by IRA gunmen firing automatic weapons at Clover Hill Bridge on Benburb Road near. It is hugely insulting, Lynagh says as he picks nicotine gum from a wrapper. This is the infrastructure that the European Union has created, and concentrating on a customs post in Aughnacloy is taking us off the core argument.. Nevertheless, IRA activities continued in parts of Down, Fermanagh, north and mid-Armagh by August 1994. A soldier was seriously wounded. He does not see republican militarism rising up again over a post-Brexit hardening of the Border or a customs presence on country Border roads, although he does believe that it would hit an atavistic nerve among people who have grown accustomed to freedom of movement across the Border. Since June 2016, when the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, there has been much speculation about the risk to the Northern peace process. The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. Ed Moloney. [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). 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". 25 Feb/23. The former IRA volunteer served 18 years in the Maze prison for the murder of a UVF man in Belfast in February 1976. It was the biggest single loss of life for the republican movement during the conflict. [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 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. [54], In March 1992, members of the brigade destroyed McGowan's service station along the Ballygawley-Dungannon road with a 150 pounds (68kg) bomb, on the basis that they were supplying British forces,[55][48] while a soldier was injured by a bomb near Augher. The IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. 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 British soldier was injured in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. Talk of a united Ireland is all guff, according to another. One RUC officer was injured. Lynagh, a fellow republican, served eight years, from 1982 to 1990, in Portlaoise Prison over a charge related to the killing of a nightclub bouncer in Monaghan in 1981. [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. He later became the longest-serving volunteer in this job, right up to the 1997 cease-fire.[79]. Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no known paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. 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. 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. fechar. One British soldier was wounded. The peace process is dead if you cant throw up the old monster of potential violence, he says. ], In 2012 a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. 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. [31] An Phoblacht claims that the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. Simon Carswell. [127] On 11 January 1993 a former sergeant of the B-Specials (Matthew Boyd)[128] was shot dead while driving his car along Donaghmore Road, Dungannon, County Tyrone. [134]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. An IRA volunteer was arrested, while two other members of the IRA made good their escape. The British are sending a plausibly deniable mixed message. Fifty people were evacuated. Dates highlighted in bold indicate three or more fatalities. They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. [32][33] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, across the border. [50] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen. He also wrote the best-selling book "The IRA - A Secret History". Her extradition from Northern Ireland was eventually denied in 2007 due to discrepancies in the claims against her. One British soldier was wounded. This is disputed by some authors as an "exaggeration".[132][133]. The embarrassment is that a customs man might arrive and show that there is a Border.. The group were also responsible for the . [117][115] A second soldier, Sergeant Dean Oliver, died in a fratricide incident in Fivemiletown on 9 May 1992, in the aftermath of an IRA bomb attack in the area, as mentioned above.[61][118]. In December 1973 he is badly injured in a premature bomb . [49], On 3 June 1991, 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. 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. An Phoblacht claimed the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. I dont see it has changed any bit since then, he says. Unionist opposition to a united Ireland is, as he sees it, considerably stronger than nationalist opposition to staying within the UK if treated equally. [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. According to them, a second 264 pounds (120kg) device was defused in the follow-up operation. 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. [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 SAS shot dead eight IRA members and a civilian who had accidentally driven into the ambush. You might have someone taking a potshot sometime, but if you are talking about a serious insurgency or a serious campaign, anything that remotely emulates the Provisional IRAs campaign, it is not going to happen. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was an off-duty Royal Irish Rangers soldier. On these two occasions the stations were destroyed, and, in the first case, two of the occupants killed. This was denied by the dead man's family. [65][66][67] Six paratroopers were charged with criminal damage in the aftermath, but were acquitted in 1993. The UVF killed 40 people in east Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. [22] The checkpoint was stormed using an improvised armoured truck and two British soldiers (James Houston and Michael Patterson) were killed in action. 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. Lynagh is irked by the way political parties in the Brexit debate are portraying people in the Border counties as lawless Irish, similar to the people of Pakistans tribal areas, with a pathological predisposition to violence who will rush out and go to war again because they cant stand the sight of customs posts. The soldiers were being transported from RAF Aldergrove to a military base near Omagh after returning from leave in England. Six IRA members from a supporting unit managed to slip away. [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. The genie is out of the bottle, so you are not going to put it back in again, and at this point in time we are in the uneasy calm before the potential storm. [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. All the IRA members involved withdrew successfully. Instead Lynagh, McKearney and the other six IRA activists - Gerard O'Callaghan, 29, Tony Gormley, 25, Eugene Kelly, 25, Patrick Kelly, 30, Seamus Donnelly, 19, and Declan Arthurs, 21 - were shot. e The Troubles The Coagh Ambush was a controversial incident that took place on 3 June 1991, when a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit from the East Tyrone Brigade was ambushed by the Special Air Service (SAS) in the village of Coagh, County Tyrone. A Secret History of the IRA is written by Ed Moloney and published by Penguin Books. I dont think we are going to see that again.. [9] The theory involved creating "no-go zones" that the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) did not control and gradually expanding them. The support team sprayed the installations with a burst of gunfire, but the mortar overshot the compound, damaging an adjacent church. The soldiers were being transported from RAF Aldergrove to a military base near Omagh after returning from leave in England. Although logically it makes more sense for Sinn Fin to start an armed campaign, that is not going to happen no chance, he says. [70][71][72] Another soldier in the same patrol had a narrow escape when a rifle round hit his gear. In May 1987, for instance, the SAS shot eight East Tyrone IRA volunteers whilst they attacked Loughgall . [17] The checkpoint was stormed and two British soldiers killed in action. Former IRA gunrunner John Crawley says he used to meet Martin McGuinness in the 1980s in the Botanic Gardens in Dublin to discuss operations. [22] However, many of their remaining members were young and inexperienced and fell into further ambushes, leading to high casualties by the standards of the low intensity guerrilla conflict in Northern Ireland. The device exploded while he was driving on Carrydarragh road, near Moneymore, County Londonderry, on 31 May 1993, just a few miles from Cookstown. But as a community willing to return to armed conflict, there just isnt an appetite for that., Lynagh adds, There is a vested interest in hyping up the political impact and the scare tactics that it is going to open a hornets nest of dissident activity against British rule. 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The. 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. Next to the living-room window, with its panoramic views of the farmland and gorse-filled hedgerows of this part of the Border, is an imposing portrait that shows the tradition of agrarian agitation McGeough hails from. A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. Another brother, Kevin, and Tommy's uncle John, neither of whom was in the IRA, were killed by loyalist paramilitaries from the Ulster Volunteer Force in an attack on the family's butcher's shop, in Moy, in January 1992. [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. 26 February 1978: IRA Volunteer Paul Duffy was killed by the SAS in Coagh. 10 February 1997: A horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. The reality of it is that after 25 years of armed conflict there is less possibility of an armed campaign of any significance. [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 six attackers gathered on the same spot, instead of vanishing separately. Interviewees suggest the vast countryside made rural IRA units particularly dangerous. There may be little bits here and there, or attempts here and there, but nothing significant.. Jim Lynagh, member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), one of twelve children, is born on the Tully Estate, a housing estate in the townland of Killygowan on the southern edge of Monaghan, County Monaghan, on April 13, 1956.. Lynagh joins the Provisional Irish Republican Army in the early 1970s. According to them, the explosion was heard from Augher to Fivemiletown, and there was a number of British casualties. I dont see that., It is going to be very embarrassing for a lot of Irish political parties that almost pretended that partition was going. [39] A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. Wheres the insurrectionary energy going to come from? The East Tyrone IRA saw its activities decline by the 1990s following repeated SAS ambushes. Two more McKearney brothers died in the Troubles. Both Lost Lives and the Sutton Index of Deaths (at CAIN) list him as a civilian. 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