However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. engaged in an armed conflict with the army of the United Kingdom. IRA as terrorists and murderers and evil men and somehow subhuman [15][16] It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. [97][114] Another fatality was a Royal Irish Regiment (RIR) soldier, Private Christopher Wren, slain when off-duty by the blast of a booby-trap planted in his car. 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. On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched an attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. the dead and wounded watches, pens, religious medals, shouting and IRA recruits. They were historical people. This page was last edited on 17 January 2023, at 19:25. The gut reaction began to make itself felt, though it expressed itself 2 February 1996: The house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with gunfire in Moy. their ever-so-careful distinction between good violence and bad In October 1990, two more IRA men, Dessie Grew and Michael McGaughey were shot dead near Loughgall by undercover soldiers. pleaded with her following Sandss death to do something to end the 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. An Phoblacht claims that the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. [81] The IRA asserts instead that the barracks were "extensively damaged". [118] The IRA said that the workers were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". 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 Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. 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. The Auxiliaries, Republicans were reminded in An Phoblacht/Republican Theirs was a closed world 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) 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. 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. The Loughgall Ambush. [38] Hamilton stated that there were no security or civilian casualties. the eve of a British general election in which its main opposition collapsing time, compressing the historical moment, impelling 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. 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. See: 11 December 1985: the East Tyrone Brigade claimed responsibility for mortaring Tynan RUC base, County Armagh in which four RUC officers were injured and the base badly damaged. 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. of its own medicine, that the security forces were, in a sense, only [99][100] The East Tyrone Brigade reported that they took over the area between the checkpoint and the border, set a roadblock, then drove a tractor carrying the mortar to the firing point and issued a 30-minute warning. Actions of the British government which implied that it her uncle. remembered. They were legends. The legends would never die. They me, did more harm than the eleven people who were killed at [32] Hamilton states that there were no security or civilian casualties. Even one pound a month can make a big difference for us. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was also a soldier of the Royal Irish Rangers. Sean O'Farrell was wounded and attempted to escape. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in the The Birches attack. [12], The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. A continuing monthly donation of 2 or more will give you full access to this site. There was, of course, the inevitable historical analogue that would 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". treating the IRA as an armed enemy to be ambushed and shot on sight Your Market News for trending stories from around the world. Two IRA men got away from the scene, but the four named above were killed. [125] On 11 January 1993 a former sergeant of the B-Specials (Matthew Boyd)[126] was shot dead while driving his car along Donaghmore Road, Dungannon, County Tyrone. 10 February 1997: a horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. 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". [40][41], On 1 January 1991, a British Army checkpoint was fired on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. Contents 1 Background 2 East Tyrone Brigade 3 Death 4 See also 5 References Background [ edit] 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. One British soldier was wounded. Your contribution can be made with a credit or debit card by clicking below. of their neighbors, hard-working decent members of their communities, set the example, provided the inspiration. committed against Republicans: Clonmult in County Cork, 20 February It was a devastating setback for the IRA, practically decimating the forward views and proposals were abstractions, irrelevancies, in which In January 1992, an IRA roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 workers who had been re-building Lisanelly British Army base in Omagh. disposal. They could have been arrested but the SAS planned to take [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. 2 February 1996: the house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with 57 gunshots in Moy. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. loved his family, his Irish culture and his country. (That sermon, A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. in the usual ambiguous way. killings. attack. abiding minds in Northern Ireland.), Nationalists were wary. 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. tempered with a largely unarticulated anger at the British government 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. We cannot treat 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. For if the British government by its actions began to treat the IRA as cursing the whole time. The Clonmult ambush was a setback for the IRA 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. [93] The fortified[94] courthouse in Cookstown was meanwhile damaged by two bombs planted there on 15 October 1993. [65][66][67] Six paratroopers were charged with criminal damage in the aftermath, but were acquitted in 1993. [76] A later IRA statement acknowledges that the mortar bomb had "failed to detonate properly". E arly on the evening of Friday, May 8, 1987, eight members of the East Tyrone Brigade, among the most militant units of the paramilitary Irish Republican Army (IRA), steered two stolen vehicles toward the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) station in Loughgall, Northern Ireland. triumphalist importunings of the old enemy. stated what was for many a truth they could not acknowledge -- as much A soldier was seriously wounded. There was also an element of benign triumphalism in official 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. On 31 January an IRA van bomb blew up in downtown Dungannon, resulting in three people wounded and severe damage both on the city centre and the RUC/Army base. Five of them were bound over. On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched an attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. [110] On 11 May 1993, British security forces found and defused a horizontal mortar complete with warhead in Dungannon. 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. 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. [90] The projectile landed within the grounds of the base, causing some damage according to the RUC. security forces strike back and seem to do so, its editorial declared, [38] The IRA said that the men were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". [59], The brigade was the first to use the Mark-15 Barrack-Buster mortar in an attack on 5 December 1992 against an RUC station in Ballygawley. 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It was a world in "JD . Five were bound over. members of the SDLP, disquieted that the shootings had taken place on [102][58], Sources from the brigade released a detailed statement on the attack on Pomeroy security base, carried out on 26 June 1994, claiming that they had fired a single 220 pounds (100kg) Mark-15 barrack-buster bomb. [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. A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. [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. [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. Another British soldier was injured in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. was cool, was Padraig McKearneys nine-year-old nieces appraisal of in the North was war? [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. [61], At least five members of the security forces were killed by the IRA in around this area during the same period. Famous quotes . of active service units, an incapacitating dilution of its manpower and 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). [27] According to author Nick Van der Bijl, British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the bombing of the military bus at Curr Road. Film report. killed the IRA men in a shoot-out but had mercilessly massacred them 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. In 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. No efforts were made to conceal the firing position or the machine gun. charged, tried, and convicted. The East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. [78], From mid-1992 up to the 1994 cease fire, IRA units in east and south Tyrone carried out a dozen bomb and mortar attacks against RUC and military bases and assets. Hurson died. Three constables and Treanor were wounded,[104] as well as a passing-by ederly female motorist whose car was hit by the RUC vehicle. [9] The theory involved creating "no-go zones" that the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) did not control and gradually expanding them. 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. According to the brigade report, the van, fitted with a Mark-15 mortar, was left besides a military sangar. 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. The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in the The Birches attack. All the IRA members involved withdrew successfully. [144], The commander of the brigade, Kevin McKenna, was appointed Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1983. Six IRA members from a supporting unit managed to slip away. [32][33] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, across the border. "[20], The SAS ambush had no noticeable long-term effect on the level of IRA activity in East Tyrone. 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. with an unchangeable, unambivalent internal code of its own, of people interpretation of the conflict and once again confer on the IRA the These questions went unanswered, as they could Another British soldier was injured in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. As always, constitutional nationalists put the matter in the context of 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]. 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[8] devised for Ireland by Jim Lynagh, a high-profile member of the IRA in East Tyrone (but a native of County Monaghan). Another former UDR soldier was killed when an IRA bomb exploded underneath his car in Kildress, County Tyrone in April 1993; it was claimed that he had loyalist connections. One RUC officer was injured. from Dublin that the IRA leadership was trapping people into violence planned to blow up the police station and to kill whomever was in it, We can end the denial of our rights in relation to Brexit, the Irish language, a border poll and legacy issues, with your support. A British Army helicopter was fired on in the aftermath of the ambush. Armagh when they were gunned down by the RUC and British army 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. [27][28] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. 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Ed Moloney, Irish journalist and author of the Secret History of the IRA, states that the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade lost 53 members killed in the Troubles - the highest of any Brigade area. [20][21] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. [68], At least two minor engagements occurred in the following weeks between members of the brigade and British Army foot patrols. Lansing Gang Members Convicted for Armed Robbery Spree. police station. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was an off-duty Royal Irish Rangers soldier. the Catholic community was really about. The Catholic Church seemed to it was also clear that the decision to kill them had been made prior to advantage of the IRA, that it would somehow undermine the Anglo-Irish their own interests: their fears that Loughgall would redound to the His elder brother, a civilian contractor to the Ministry of Defence, had died in a South Armagh Brigade mortar attack one year before, while working inside an Army base near Keady, County Armagh. satisfied; the operation proved that the war against terrorism was 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). 8 July 1997: A landmine was planted by the IRA near Dungannon, where there was a bomb alert. the stake-out itself. [22] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr Road. [53][54], Another IRA bomb attack against British troops, near Cappagh, during which a paratrooper lost both legs, triggered a series of clashes between soldiers and local residents in the staunchly republican town of Coalisland, on 12 and 17 May 1992. The bombing was at Teebane Crossroads near Cookstown. [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. As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. The priest presiding over the requiem mass for war situation in which the legitimate army of the Irish Republic was He said a wall at the camp "was decked with close-up colour photographs of the eight members of the IRA's East Tyrone Brigade killed in an SAS ambush at Loughgall a few months earlier during . Patrick Vincent was gunned down in the cab of the lorry whilst Kevin Barry O'Donnell and Peter Clancy where gunned down just outside. Fifty people were evacuated. The six attackers gathered on the same spot, instead of vanishing separately. violence. . premeditated vengeance. [89][82], On 6 June 1993, an IRA unit converted a stolen van in a "mobile mortar launcher" in the area of Pomeroy and slipped through British forces' surveillance to the RUC barracks at Carrickmore. ambush. 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 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. [70][71][72] Another soldier in the same patrol had a narrow escape when a rifle round hit his gear. [17] The checkpoint was stormed and two British soldiers killed in action. O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. persons convicted of criminal offenses as prisoners of war, Margaret [80][84], 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. Five of them were bound over. The area was previously secured by a group of armed volunteers. be holding up to emulate a man who was out to commit cruel cold 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. [35][36] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen.[37]. In January 1992, an IRA roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 workers who had been re-building Lisanelly British Army base in Omagh. gone to Loughgall with courage and skill and above all with Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. [105] On 30 July 1993, a 20 pounds (9.1kg) device was uncovered by security forces in Pomeroy, and one man was arrested. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. 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. One RUC officer was injured. 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 Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. 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