[Its] not about what are their economic interests. 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. [35][36] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen.[37]. [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. 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In April 1987 the brigade shot and killed Harold Henry, one of the main building contractors to the security forces in Northern Ireland. Simon Carswell. He believes that Brexit will instead encourage various shades of dissenting republicans to engage politically and that there is a chance of a postsectarian debate among unionists, republicans and nationalists, north and south, about what is in the best economic and sovereign interests for both parts of the island. 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. 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. 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. 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. [25] British military sources also report that other IRA volunteers from East Tyrone were involved in the assault. [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. 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.. The Tyrone republican believes that Sinn Fin is wrong to propose a special status for Northern Ireland within the European Union. [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. The device exploded while he was driving on Carrydarragh road, near Moneymore, County Londonderry, on 31 May 1993, just a few miles from Cookstown. 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I know from the old days there were very few people willing to do the business of fighting. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was an off-duty Royal Irish Rangers soldier. 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. 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 rural Brigade area. Ed Moloney. The bomb detonated, destroying much of the base and damaging nearby buildings. [42][43] On 26 March, an IRA unit firing a light machine gun disrupted a UDR mobile checkpoint at Lurgylea road, north of Cappagh. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. According to them, the explosion was heard from Augher to Fivemiletown, and there was a number of British casualties. The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in the The Birches attack. The fourth was imprisoned for offences that included attempted murder. [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. Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no known paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. Her extradition from Northern Ireland was refused in 2007. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Talk of a united Ireland is all guff, according to another. [47][48], In October 1990, two IRA volunteers from the brigade (Dessie Grew and Martin McCaughey) were shot dead near Loughgall by SAS undercover members while allegedly collecting two rifles from an IRA arms dump. He would later serve as a member of Fianna Fil during the 1930s. [10][11] It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. However, he was brought up in . But the reality is that it is going to be more and more obvious. [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. Fifty people were evacuated. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. Video: Simon Carswell. [87] On 30 April, a heavy horizontal mortar was fired at an RUC patrol vehicle near Ballygawley roundabout; the round missed its target and hit a wall. [44] Some republican sources[45] claim that a listening device was found in the roof of OFarrells house during repairs in 2008, exposing that the British intelligence had a forehand knowledge of the IRA operation at Coalisland and could have arrested them before the attack. 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. The IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. The next day the IRA threatened any contractor who took on repair of the station. 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. [50] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen. [79] An RUC report confirms that a bomb exploded close to a combined RUC-British Army patrol in the area. I dont think we are going to see that again.. The RUC patrol returned fire. The embarrassment is that a customs man might arrive and show that there is a Border.. The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. What have they achieved? In October 1990, two more IRA men, Dessie Grew and Michael McGaughey were shot dead near Loughgall by undercover soldiers. Sean O'Farrell was wounded and attempted to escape. It is hugely insulting, Lynagh says as he picks nicotine gum from a wrapper. IRA veterans Brexit feature - pix Gerry McGeough Former Provisional IRA volunteer Gerry McGeough, who served time in prison for the attempted murder of a UDR man in 1981, on his farm near Dungannon, Co Tyrone. [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. 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". CAIN lists Boyd as a Protestant civilian. One British soldier was wounded. [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. The area was previously secured by a group of armed volunteers. McIntyre sees the argument that unionists would be better off economically in a united Ireland within the EU than they would in a post-Brexit UK as a crass case of economic reductionism. Even a few customs posts stopping HGVs crossing the Border would not change that, McKearney says. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident during the . In May 1987, for instance, the SAS shot eight East Tyrone IRA volunteers whilst they attacked Loughgall . [123] The IRA alleged that Dallas was a senior UVF member[124] but this was denied by his family, the police, and the UVF. Sniper Assault Kills A British Soldier in Belfast", "Thousands join peace protest in Greysteel", "Geograph:: Cookstown Courthouse Kenneth Allen", "Lords Chamber - Wednesday 8 June 1994 - Hansard - UK Parliament", "3 RUC Officers Wounded in Tyrone Ambush", "Sinn Fein politician caught in IRA gunfire | The Independent | The Independent", "Armed guard at hospital bed of IRA suspect", "Off-duty soldier killed by IRA booby-trap bomb: Car attack follows", "CAIN: Peter Heathwood Collection of Television Programmes - Search Page", "The road to violence. On 3 September 2012 prominent Real IRA member Alan Ryan was shot dead in Dublin. An inquest into their deaths. 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. UTV News Report: In Pomeroy an IRA horizontal mortar hit an RUC car but failed to explode. Leading `Real IRA' member is shot dead in Ballymurphy. [61], At least five members of the security forces were killed by the IRA in around this area during the same period. 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. Lynagh refers to the high proportion of social-welfare recipients in Monaghan, the county's "low-wage and no-wage economy" and his work distributing charity food to families. [5] The first was an assault on Ballygawley barracks. [34] On 3 June, three IRA men, Lawrence McNally, Michael Ryan and Tony Doris, died in another SAS ambush at Coagh, where their car was riddled with gunfire. Taken: April 5th, 2017. GAA Central Council official reply was that "The GAA has strict protocols and rules in place regarding the use of property for Political purposes. The operation. 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. The Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA, or rIRA) was a republican militant group that operated during and after the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The Irish . We have been neglected, McKearney says, citing patchy broadband in parts of Co Monaghan as an example. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! 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. There may be little bits here and there, or attempts here and there, but nothing significant.. 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. All the IRA members involved withdrew successfully. A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. G. Adams (SF) has written to the Prime Minister asking for new political contact. [12] [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. Six attackers gathered on the same spot afterwards. 8 July 1997: A landmine was planted by the IRA near Dungannon, leading to a bomb alert. One soldier was seriously wounded. Six IRA members from a supporting unit managed to slip away. In December 1973 he is badly injured in a premature bomb . [111] Nationalist politician Bernardette Devlin McAliskey suggested that the recovery of the machine gun was actually staged by the security forces as a publicity stunt. An IRA statement claimed the 3rd Battalion of the, 7 November 1974: Two British soldiers, Vernon Rose (aged 30) and Charles Simpson (aged 35) were killed by an IRA booby trap bomb at an electricity sub station at Aghalarg, near, 25 November 1975: two RUC officers, Samuel Clarke (aged 35) and Patrick Maxwell (aged 36), were killed when their mobile patrol was caught in an IRA sniper ambush in Clonavaddy, near. . The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. The 12 May's riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. At least two British soldiers were severely wounded in action near Cappagh[66] and Pomeroy[70] in 1992. [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. No efforts were made to conceal the firing position or the machine gun. This is disputed by some authors as an "exaggeration".[132][133]. The support team sprayed the installations with a burst of gunfire, but the mortar overshot the compound, damaging an adjacent church. 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". [110] The RUC claim that the machine gun stolen in Coalisland and other arms were recovered from a farmhouse near Cappagh on 29 May 1992. 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. [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. This is not a land of milk and honey under the European Union. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The SAS shot dead eight IRA members and a civilian who had accidentally driven into the ambush. Three of the four are convicted killers or have served time in relation to a killing. Dates highlighted in bold indicate three or more fatalities. 26 January 1987: a senior UDR officer was killed outside his home on Coalisland Road, Dungannon. All eight members of the East Tyrone Brigade team were killed. Euroscepticism had a long history in the area, he says, before Ireland went into the EU. [20][21] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. Wheres the insurrectionary energy going to come from? In initial papers filed last week both the British prime minister, Theresa May, and the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, referred to their desire to protect the peace process. G Bill Gannon George Gilmore . They could kill many British security force. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. It was the biggest single loss of life for the republican movement during the conflict. [82][86], A brigade statement claims that late on the evening of 26 April 1993, a "variation" of the Mark-15 was fired at a British Army position on an open field near the river Fury, a few miles east of Clogher. He would later serve as a member of Fianna Fil during the 1930s. [17] The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. 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. According to the brigade report, the van, fitted with a Mark-15 mortar, was left besides a military sangar. [39] On 31 January an IRA van bomb blew up in downtown Dungannon, resulting in three people wounded and severe damage[40] both on the city centre and the RUC/Army base. [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. [130] The latter attack led to loyalist allegations that the IRA was killing Protestant land-owners in Tyrone and Fermanagh[131] 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. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was also a soldier of the Royal Irish Rangers. [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. No casualties were reported. 'United Ireland? [112] On 11 May 1993, British security forces found and defused a horizontal mortar complete with warhead in Dungannon. A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. 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. He voted for Brexit in the hope that it would lead to a united Ireland through the disintegration of the UK. [32] Hamilton states that there were no security or civilian casualties. [65][66][67] Six paratroopers were charged with criminal damage in the aftermath, but were acquitted in 1993. [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. There were no injuries. 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. He also wrote the best-selling book "The IRA - A Secret History". They are saying to us: if you want to go down that road we are not going to step in your way. CAIN Listing of Programmes for the Year: 1997 UTV News, 9 July 1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Provisional_IRA_East_Tyrone_Brigade&oldid=1137091264, Provisional Irish Republican Army Brigades, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles lacking reliable references from October 2015, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, 14 September 1971: a British soldier (John Rudman, aged 21) was shot dead while on mobile patrol, Edendork, near. After breaking from Sinn Fin he stood as an independent republican in the 2007 elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly. [105], On 15 July 1994, an armed dump truck ambushed an RUC armoured mobile patrol at Killeshil, near Dungannon. Brexit may prove a catalyst for a much earlier withdrawal, he says, as he knows Protestants who are soft Irish nationalists and farmers who do not want to lose EU subsidies. [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. Paddy Fox is an IRA man on the run - not from the RUC or the British Army, but from his old comrades. 2 February 1996: The house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with gunfire in Moy. In January 1992, an IRA roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 workers who had been re-building Lisanelly British Army base in Omagh. [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. That was not to do with economics. 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. Three constables and Treanor were wounded,[106] as well as a passing-by ederly female motorist whose car was hit by the RUC vehicle. This was the last action by the Brigade before. Unionist opposition to a united Ireland is, as he sees it, considerably stronger than nationalist opposition to staying within the UK if treated equally. 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. But these four veterans of the Provisional IRAs armed campaign, who are all now critics of Sinn Fin policy, do not think that Brexit will derail the peace process. [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. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident during its campaign. He was arrested in 1988 for crossing the Dutch-German border with AK-47 rifles in the boot of his car and charged with attacks on British soldiers based in Germany. 26 February 1978: IRA Volunteer Paul Duffy was killed by the SAS in Coagh. Other attendees were. [17] The checkpoint was stormed and two British soldiers killed in action. [78], On 30 March 1993, one of the brigade units claimed they thwarted a British undercover operation by detonating an explosive device in the Glen, between Loughmacrory and Mountfield, near the spot where the British personnel were hidden. As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. Toggle navigation. [38] Hamilton stated that there were no security or civilian casualties. [88][89], The RUC security base at Caledon became the target of the "Barrack Busters" twice. east tyrone brigade members. 13 July 1984: IRA Volunteer Willie Price was killed by the SAS while carrying out an incendiary bomb attack on a factory in Ardboe. 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 On 1 January 1991, a British Army outpost was fired on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. He later became the longest-serving volunteer in this job, right up to the 1997 cease-fire.[79]. Elsewhere, the East Tyrone IRA lost eighteen members to SAS ambushes between 1987 and 1992. Meanwhile, in an interview in the Sunday Tribune [added link], Brian Arthurs has revealed that he was one of a number of former senior Provisional IRA members in Tyrone who, along with Sinn Fin party members, left Sinn Fin two years ago. 26 March 1997: a grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers at the British Army/RUC base in Coalisland. [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. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. "They should be pushing instead for a united Ireland, that the day the UK leaves Europe is the same day they leave Ireland," he says. Along with Lynagh and McKearney, the IRA gang included Gerard O'Callaghan, 29, Tony Gormley, 25, Eugene Kelly, 25, Patrick Kelly, 30, Seamus Donnelly, 19, and Declan Arthurs, 21. The New Irish Republican Army, or New IRA, . One British soldier was wounded. 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. He was arrested on the night of the count by the PSNI for the attempted murder of a part-time UDR soldier in 1981. [121], IRA volunteers in Tyrone were the target of an assassination campaign carried out by the loyalist paramilitaries of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). [24][25] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. There were four members of the Provisionals from East Tyrone searching my house, and they . 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. He was sentenced to 20 years in 2011 but was released after two years, under the Belfast Agreement. [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 heavy projectile landed at the rear of the small base without exploding, forcing the evacuation of Coronation Park housing state. 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. British troops manning the outpost returned fire. A five-mile (8km) chase followed before the IRA volunteers managed to escape on foot. 26 March 1997: A grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers to the Army/RUC base at Coalisland. The British are sending a plausibly deniable mixed message, he says. McKearney, one of the 1980 IRA hunger strikers who went without food for 53 days, sits in his Co Monaghan kitchen next to Colm Lynagh, sipping coffee and eating biscuits, reflecting on the unknown period with Brexit ahead. 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. In July of 2005, The Sunday Times reported that Adams was replaced by Brian Arthurs, a former commander of the Provisional IRA's East Tyrone Brigade. A primed Mk-12 horizontal mortar was defused near Clogher on 9 April 1992 by British Army technicians,[109] while a trailer carrying a 'barrack buster' was recovered by security forces and also defused in the same area on 16 January 1994. May has said that the British do not want a return to the Border of old. 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