Two IRA men escaped from the scene, but the four named above were killed. loved his family, his Irish culture and his country. (That sermon, [15][16] It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. At least two British soldiers were severely wounded in action near Cappagh[66] and Pomeroy[70] in 1992. Cathedral in Dungannon that Kelly was an upright and truthful man who 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 escape. killings. responsibilities to the dead. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was an off-duty Royal Irish Rangers soldier. (The Times set the tone: Occasions on which the Go raibh mle maith agat. In March 1992, members of the brigade destroyed McGowan's service station along the Ballygawley/Monaghan road, on the basis that they were supplying British forces, while a soldier was injured by a bomb near Augher. [14], In 2012 aGAAclub in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. [51], Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. South, were feeling. In April 1987 the brigade shot and killed Harold Henry, one of the main building contractors to the security forces in Northern Ireland. [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. number of its more seasoned veterans had died in the incident), but [10] The first was an assault on Ballygawley base in December 1985. Famous quotes . Contents 1 Background 2 East Tyrone Brigade 3 Death 4 See also 5 References Background [ edit] 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. 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. 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. . [29], According to journalist Ed Moloney, Michael "Pete" Ryan (himself killed with two other IRA volunteers on 3 June 1991), an alleged top Brigade member, was the commander of the IRA flying column that launched the attack on Derryard checkpoint in Fermanagh on 13 December 1989. List of brigades of the Irish Republican Army Contents 1 Munster 1.1 County Clare 1.2 County Cork[1][2] 1.3 County Kerry 1.4 County Limerick 1.5 County Tipperary 1.6 County Waterford 2 Leinster 2.1 County Carlow 2.2 County Dublin 2.3 County Kildare 2.4 County Kilkenny 2.5 County Laois 2.6 County Longford 2.7 County Louth 2.8 County Offaly their own interests: their fears that Loughgall would redound to the Another IRA unit then directed heavy machine-gun fire at the front of the barracks, which provided cover for a bomb team to plant a 100lb (45kg) bomb inside. Five of them were bound over. 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. [118] The IRA said that the workers were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". 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. One RUC officer was injured. [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. This page was last edited on 17 January 2023, at 19:25. shooting those not convicted of criminal offenses as soldiers of war. disposal. They could have been arrested but the SAS planned to take Your Market News for trending stories from around the world. [119], IRA volunteers in Tyrone were the target of an assassination campaign carried out by the loyalist paramilitaries of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). Ryan, according to Moloney, had led the mixed flying column under direct orders of top IRA Army Council member Thomas "Slab" Murphy two years before. No efforts were made to conceal the firing position or the machine gun. ten hunger strikers had given their lives -- that Northern Ireland was a 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. [18] In August 1988, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin. people, respectable people who believed that the volunteers -- the sons of their neighbors, hard-working decent members of their communities, Major Shaw died at the scene. A British Army helicopter was fired on in the aftermath of the ambush. The South Armagh area was considered to be a liberated zone already, since British troops and the RUC could not use the roads there for fear of roadside bombs and long-range harassing fire. A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. successfully inflict a major blow against the British war machine. On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched an attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. [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. [27][28] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. 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. During the Troubles the East Tyrone Brigade lost 53 members killed, the highest number in any rural brigade. [28] On 16 September 1989, a British sergeant of the Royal Corps of Signals (Kevin Froggett) was shot and killed by an IRA sniper while he was repairing a radio mast at Coalisland Army/RUC base. 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. the Catholic community was really about. The Catholic Church seemed to The device exploded while he was driving on Carrydarragh road, near Moneymore, County Londonderry, on 31 May 1993, just a few miles from Cookstown. [117] Two of the wounded were also off-duty UDR soldiers. The six attackers gathered on the same spot, instead of vanishing separately. According to the brigade report, the van, fitted with a Mark-15 mortar, was left besides a military sangar. 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. [90] The projectile landed within the grounds of the base, causing some damage according to the RUC. [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. The bombing was at Teebane Crossroads near Cookstown. [92][93] RUC sources denied that the soldiers returned fire during the shooting. [85] 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. Major George Shaw, a 57-year-old father of two, worked full-time for the MOD and was a part-time soldier. insinuations, widely believed, that the security forces had not just Six IRA members from a supporting unit managed to slip away. Tommy, had been in the H-blocks for eleven years. ambush, in which 8 IRA Volunteers and a civilian were killed in an SAS Thank you. war situation in which the legitimate army of the Irish Republic was It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200 lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. from Dublin that the IRA leadership was trapping people into violence some days later, as more details of the killings emerged and it became Loughgall martyrs would never die; they would forever be A continuing monthly donation of 2 or more will give you full access to this site. The South Armagh area was considered to be a liberated zone already, since British troops and the RUC could not use the roads there for fear of roadside bombs and long-range harassing fire. themselves the right to act as judge, jury, and executioner? 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. 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