13 July 1984: IRA Volunteer Willie Price was killed by the SAS while carrying out an incendiary bomb attack on a factory in Ardboe. [115][64] Among them there were Constable Andrew Beacom and Reserve Constable Ernest Smith, the two RUC members ambushed and shot dead while driving a civilian type vehicle in Fivemiletown's main street on 12 December 1993. The soldiers were being transported from RAF Aldergrove to a military base near Omagh after returning from leave in England. 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. Simon Carswell. [112] On 11 May 1993, British security forces found and defused a horizontal mortar complete with warhead in Dungannon. [23] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr road. A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. G Bill Gannon George Gilmore The British Army claimed that the mortar round exploded in a bog just outside the perimeter fence, while the IRA unit said that the bomb landed in the grounds of the barracks. He considers threats of a return of the British army to Border towns like Aughnacloy as a cheap shot and the recent pantomime of mock Border checkpoints and anti-Brexit protesters dressing up in customs-officer uniforms as the hysterical interpretation of what may happen. [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. They brought peanuts and fed the squirrels, he says.. They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. The embarrassment is that a customs man might arrive and show that there is a Border.. 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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. 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). They were killed as they approached the station with. A five-mile (8km) chase followed before the IRA volunteers managed to escape on foot. Stephen Fuller (d. 1984), a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence and fought with Anti-Treaty forces during the Irish Civil War (1922-23). No casualties were reported. I dont see it has changed any bit since then, he says. [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. I dont think we are going to see that again.. He recalls the EEC No signs that accompanied Brits Out graffiti around Monaghan when he was growing, up in the 1970s. 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. There were no casualties. In 1985 and 1986, the East Tyrone Brigade carried out two attacks on RUC bases in their operational area, described by author Mark Urban as "spectaculars". We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. The bombing was at Teebane Crossroads near Cookstown. 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. The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. 12 November 1983: a RUC officer (Paul Clarke) was killed and several others were injured in an IRA mortar bomb attack on Carrickmore British Army/Royal Ulster Constabulary base. This is the story of the war in the fields, towns and villages of East Tyrone, as told by the people who fought it. 10 February 1997: A horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. 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. [38] The IRA said that the men were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". ], In 2012 a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. [103] 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. [26], 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. [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. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. 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 . 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. The bomb detonated, destroying much of the base and damaging nearby buildings. [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. O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. There were four members of the Provisionals from East Tyrone searching my house, and they . Toggle navigation. [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 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. [88][89], The RUC security base at Caledon became the target of the "Barrack Busters" twice. Leading `Real IRA' member is shot dead in Ballymurphy. It is hugely insulting, Lynagh says as he picks nicotine gum from a wrapper. [10][11] It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident since the days of the Anglo-Irish War (19191922). The device exploded while he was driving on Carrydarragh road, near Moneymore, County Londonderry, on 31 May 1993, just a few miles from Cookstown. [91][84], 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. The former IRA volunteer served 18 years in the Maze prison for the murder of a UVF man in Belfast in February 1976. All eight members of the East Tyrone Brigade team were killed. 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.. [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. Former IRA gunrunner John Crawley says he used to meet Martin McGuinness in the 1980s in the Botanic Gardens in Dublin to discuss operations. 2 February 1996: The house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with gunfire in Moy. [39] A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. The peace process is dead if you cant throw up the old monster of potential violence, he says. While Brexit raises uncertainty around how the UK manages trade across a frontier running through those former battlefields, McKearney and Lynagh believe that the climate and conditions the anti-Catholic discrimination and economic inequality that ignited the Troubles no longer exist. [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. [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. Other attendees were. List of aircraft of the Malaysian Armed Forces, List of actions from 1996 up to the latest PIRA ceasefire, Individual members of the brigade were also involved in the. The cops and the security services have been so on top of the armed republican groups that have been operating in the wake of the Provisional IRA. 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. 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. This is disputed by some authors as an "exaggeration".[132][133]. 26 January 1987: a senior UDR officer was killed outside his home on Coalisland Road, Dungannon. 2 February 1996: the house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with 57 gunshots in Moy. The heavy projectile landed at the rear of the small base without exploding, forcing the evacuation of Coronation Park housing state. Stephen Fuller (d. 1984), a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence and fought with Anti-Treaty forces during the Irish Civil War (1922-23). There were no casualties. IRA member Liam Ryan and local man . [104][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. 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]. [18] In August 1988, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin. Tusk has said that the EU will seek "flexible and creative solutions" to avoid a hard Border. [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. 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. 8 July 1997: A landmine was planted by the IRA near Dungannon, where there was a bomb alert. 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. The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. [22] 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. Another British soldier was injured in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. Dates highlighted in bold indicate three or more fatalities. 26 March 1997: a grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers at the British Army/RUC base in Coalisland. At least two British soldiers were severely wounded in action near Cappagh[66] and Pomeroy[70] in 1992. East Tyrone IRA members Pete Ryan, Lawrence McNally and Tony Doris were shot dead in the village of Coagh in June 1991 in an operation believed to involve the SAS. A Secret History of the IRA is written by Ed Moloney and published by Penguin Books. [79] An RUC report confirms that a bomb exploded close to a combined RUC-British Army patrol in the area. An IRA volunteer was arrested, while two other members of the IRA made good their escape. [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. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. According to them, the explosion was heard from Augher to Fivemiletown, and there was a number of British casualties. [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 loyalist gang operating in east Tyrone at the time used several weapons between 1988 to 1994, including R18837. [125][126] The IRA retaliated on 5 August 1991 by shooting and killing a former UDR soldier leaving his workplace along Altmore Road, Cappagh. Neither republican sees a great prospect of a united Ireland after Brexit. [25] British military sources also report that other IRA volunteers from East Tyrone were involved in the assault. [21] Additionally, most of the attacks which took place in County Fermanagh during this period of the Troubles were also launched from south Tyrone and Monaghan. However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. 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. [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. [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. They dont throw away remarks like that.. [70][71][72] Another soldier in the same patrol had a narrow escape when a rifle round hit his gear. Quinn was then a senior member of the IRA's East Tyrone brigade. The lifelong Irish republican even suggests that it could as easily be argued that breaking from the European Union and joining forces with the UK would make better economic sense for the country. [38] Hamilton stated that there were no security or civilian casualties. According to them, a second 264 pounds (120kg) device was defused in the follow-up operation. McGeough sees the Troubles as ostensibly a failure, but the UK government does not want a return to those days any more than anybody on our side does. [10] The first was an assault on Ballygawley base in December 1985. [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. 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. 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. [50] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen. But they wanted to form a rival force that could have wrecked all peace hopes, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. These are among the surprising views expressed by a number of former hard men of republicanism, interviewed by The Irish Times for their unique insights into the thorny issues of Brexit and Northern Irelands future. May has said that the British do not want a return to the Border of old. They are saying to us: if you want to go down that road we are not going to step in your way. I think its all guff.. G. Adams (SF) has written to the Prime Minister asking for new political contact. They are saying to us: if you want to go down that road we are not going to step in your way. What would it achieve? McIntyre says in his home, on an estate in Drogheda, Co Louth. [5] Lynagh's plans met strong criticism from senior brigade member Kevin McKenna, who regarded the strategy as "too impractical, too ambitious, and not sustainable" in the words of journalist Ed Moloney. A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. The IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled-down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. One RUC officer was injured. Why would article 50 change that? says McKearney. The British are sending a plausibly deniable mixed message, he says. [92] The projectile landed within the grounds of the base, causing some damage according to the RUC. The fear that a hard Border along the UK's only land frontier with the EU could stir tensions in Northern Ireland has focused minds not only in Belfast, Derry and Dublin but also in London and Brussels. [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 standout example is the SAS shooting of eight East Tyrone IRA members whilst the IRA attacked Loughgall RUC station in 1987. 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. There were no injuries. I dont see any bloodshed coming from our side. [129] A former UDR soldier (David Martin) was killed when an IRA bomb exploded underneath his car in Kildress, County Tyrone on 25 April 1993; it was claimed that he had loyalist connections. It is of his great-grandfather Henry McGeough, a member of the Ribbonmen, the 19th-century society of often violent Catholic rebels. It is going to be very embarrassing for a lot of Irish political parties that almost pretended that partition was going. UTV News Report: In Pomeroy an IRA horizontal mortar hit an RUC car but failed to explode. Anthony McIntyre, an IRA man turned writer and historian who is another supporter of the peace process but critic of Sinn Fin, fails to see how a hard Brexit would fuel any new armed campaign, given that it was not the Border that brought the Provisional IRA into existence but the response in Belfast and Derry to the British armys behaviour when it came to the North. 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. Lynagh and McKearney were the driving force behind most IRA murders in Tyrone and many others in the neighbouring counties for at least a decade prior to the Loughgall incident. [19][unreliable source? 5 July 1997: In Coalisland, a female RUC officer from. [22] On 16 September 1989, a British Sergeant of the Royal Corps of Signals was shot and killed by an IRA sniper while he was repairing a radio mast at Coalisland Army/RUC base. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. Death made heroes of the Loughgall eight. Not far from that Border town is the home of Gerry McGeough, a former IRA man who calls himself a traditional republican rather than a dissident. [23], A major IRA attack in County Tyrone took place on 20 August 1988, barely a year after Loughall, which ended in the deaths of eight soldiers when a British Army bus was destroyed by a bomb at Curr Road, near Ballygawley. 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. The reality of it is that after 25 years of armed conflict there is less possibility of an armed campaign of any significance. [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. 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). Paddy Fox is an IRA man on the run - not from the RUC or the British Army, but from his old comrades. [120] The IRA said that the workers were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". east tyrone brigade members. A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. A soldier was seriously wounded. Five of them were bound over. "[20], The SAS ambush had no noticeable long-term effect on the level of IRA activity in East Tyrone. The East Tyrone IRA saw its activities decline by the 1990s following repeated SAS ambushes. [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. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident during the . Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. It was the biggest single loss of life for the republican movement during the conflict. See: Attack on UDR Clogher barracks Maybe a lot of huff and puff but nothing is going to get blown down.. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! The fourth was imprisoned for offences that included attempted murder. From the Sunday Tribune. 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. He thinks it would be silly of the British to build a hard Border again and potentially stir up those tensions. [81] The facilities targeted by "Barrack Buster" mortars included the above-mentioned Ballygawley barracks, a British Army border outpost at Aughnacloy,[82] the RUC barracks at Clogher[83] and Beragh,[82] both resulting in massive damage but no fatalities; two attacks on the RUC base in Caledon, which was also hit by gunfire in the second attack,[83][84] and the RUC compounds at Dungannon,[85] Fintona,[83] Carrickmore,[83] and Pomeroy. 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. Interviewees suggest the vast countryside made rural IRA units particularly dangerous. [65][66][67] Six paratroopers were charged with criminal damage in the aftermath, but were acquitted in 1993. [92], An explosive device fired at the RUC barracks in Dungannon on 9 July 1993, that according to the IRA was a Mark-15 mortar bomb,[85] prompted the evacuation of a nearby housing state. Five Sinn Fin cumainn, and 90% of the East Tyrone Brigade, left in the move. 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