14 November Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) chairman of Armagh District Council and part-time major in the UDR Charles Armstrong is killed in a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb explosion as he sat in his car outside the council's headquarters at the Palace Demense. userID: '', [25], South Armagh became the most heavily militarised area in Northern Ireland. const cookieExpiryInSeconds = 60 * 60 * 24 * 30; window.showSubscriberElements = true; const grantedBy = Object.keys(purchase).filter(function (key) { }; ","isAccessibleForFree":"True","isPartOf":{"@type":["CreativeWork","Product"],"name":"Independent.ie","productID":"independent.ie:showcase"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Independent.ie","item":"https://m.independent.ie/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Irish News","item":"https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/"}]} Many men in the area served in the Fourth Northern Division of the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence (191921) and, unlike most of the rest of the Northern Ireland IRA, on the republican side in the Irish Civil War (192223). vars.user.subscriptionFinishDate = subscriberCookie.subscriptionFinishDate || ''; There were no injuries on either side. if (cookieValue) { South Armagh IRA rocked as 'OC' is outed as a 'tout', It is not clear how the OC came to be exposed as an agent but he is believed to have been recruited by British Intelligence in the late 1980s or early 1990s. According to the victim's sister-in-law, who was present at the time of the incident, two masked men entered demanding money and fired two shots into the ceiling when Corrigan refused to hand over any cash. return cookieData; Robinson was a former member of the UDR. He was among a group of youths who were asked for ID by the patrol, and when an argument then broke out between them and the UDR members he was shot once in the chest at point blank range. } It is Pearse's message and it has not changed. 8 November Adrian Carroll, a 24-year-old. The truck bombs were sent to England by ferry. Since then the security forces travel by helicopter for security reasons.". item_group_code: "pfc_indo", He was eventually killed during an attack on the RUC barracks in Keady in November 1973. bundle: bundleValue, He was from Ashley Heights in the city and was a leading member of the Orange Order. He was on bail at the time of his death charged with having petrol bombs for use in rioting, and was prominent in, 27 August Wilfred McIlveen, a 37-year-old Protestant and former member of the UDR, is killed when a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb explodes under his car as he was leaving, 7 October Frederick Williamson, a 33-year-old member of the UDR from Orangefield Drive in the city, is killed along with 28-year-old prison officer Elizabeth Chambers from. Martin McGuinness, then deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, gave the main oration, while Conor Murphy, then Minister for Regional Development, introduced the families of the dead IRA members. $69,194 (2019) Property Taxes. The chief of staff and head of the IRA is Thomas "Slab" Murphy, a millionaire racketeer and smuggler from south Armagh who was instrumental in bringing about the 1994 ceasefire and then planning the London Docklands bombing which broke it. You'll receive access to exclusive information and early alerts about our documentaries and investigations. By the end of the 1970s, the IRA in most of Northern Ireland had been restructured into a cell system. He had just finished his last shift in the regiment when he was shot outside his home. }; const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'app_purchase'); "Orde visit seen as farewell to Army", by Phillp Bradfield. His Catholic girlfriend was driving behind him in her car when the explosion happened. $312,000 (2022) Assessed Value. } [6], South Armagh has a long Irish republican tradition. if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('print_monthly') > -1) { 18 April IPLO member Martin Corrigan from Railway Street in the city is shot dead by British Army soldiers at Kinnego, a few miles from Armagh. const cookieData = updateSubscriberCookie(event.detail.object); try { [13] Another noted IRA commander at that time was the commanding officer of the first battalion, Captain Michael McVerry. 26 October Joseph Wilson, a 53-year-old part-time member of the UDR is shot dead by a Provisional IRA gunman in the supermarket he worked at in the nationalist Shambles area of the city. [11], During the early 1970s, the brigade was mostly engaged in ambushes of British Army patrols. let flipPayConfig = { }; 24 February - Anne Marie Smyth, a 26-year-old Catholic mother of two from the Longstone estate in Armagh is murdered in east Belfast by the UVF after she attended what was meant to be a party in a loyalist area. The \u0026#039;OC\u0026#039; is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. "The fools, the fools, the fools, they have left us our Fenian dead. The second most senior IRA man in South Armagh is being 'protected' amid claims that he worked as an agent for British intelligence, according to usually reliable security sources. 'none' : 'registration'; } [49] IRA members in South Armagh ceased co-operating with the RIRA after the Omagh bombing. }); [10], However, the IRA campaign in the area did not begin in earnest until 1971. vars.article.userWall = ! The Sunday Independent has learned that the South Armagh 'OC' was outed as a 'tout' earlier this year and that shortly afterwards an IRA bodyguard team was sent from Belfast to ensure. } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('premium') > -1) { script.src = flipPayJsUrl; ","articleBody":"The second most senior IRA man in South Armagh is being \u0026#039;protected\u0026#039; amid claims that he worked as an agent for British intelligence, according to usually reliable security sources. Harnden was held to be in contempt of the Bloody Sunday tribunal for . Media. , South Armagh IRA is killed on active service during an attack on Keady barracks. document.body.addEventListener('fp_user_event', function (event) { }; According to Lost Lives, it is assumed that he was killed in retaliation for a UVF gun attack on a Catholic man in the city earlier that day. The South Armagh IRA. [53], Senior IRA figures in South Armagh, notably Thomas Murphy, are alleged to have been involved in large-scale smuggling across the Irish border and money-laundering. The man, who has the official title of officer commanding South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional IRA, is also a member of the Northern Command, which effectively ran the organisation from the early 1980s. Sources say that shortly before they were captured, the team was given orders by the \u0026#039;OC\u0026#039; not to carry any weapons when they were directed to a farm to collect their sniper rifle for an operation. 7 September 61-year-old Catholic RUC man John Wasson is shot dead by the INLA outside his Duke's Grove home in a nationalist area of the city. const gigyaID = getCookie('guid'); To republicans, it is 'God's Country', the only area in the six counties where the occupiers have successfully been resisted. [8], At the beginning of the Northern Ireland Troubles in August 1969, rioters, led by IRA men, attacked the RUC barracks in Crossmaglen, in retaliation for the attacks on Catholic/nationalist areas in Belfast in the Northern Ireland riots of August 1969. return 'epaper-access'; [37] A sustained machine gun attack against a helicopter was filmed by a Dublin television crew in March 1991 outside Crossmaglen Health Center. [19] This was the biggest single loss of life inflicted on the British Army in its deployment in Northern Ireland (Operation Banner). [39] By 1994, the only way for the British army to travel safely across South Armagh and some border areas of Tyrone and Fermanagh was on board troop-carrying Chinook helicopters.[40]. window.IMP.config = flipPayConfig; [16] While loyalist attacks on Catholics temporarily declined afterwards and many Protestants became more reluctant to help the UVF, the massacre caused considerable controversy in the republican movement. Inside the council chambers that night Charles Armstrong had called for councillors to stand for a minute's silence for Adrian Carroll, who had been shot dead six days earlier in the city. Let the message from south Armagh ring loud and clear to the occupation forces. } const domain = '.independent.ie'; When they arrived, they were surrounded by 16 SAS men, who ordered them to surrender. [4], As well as paramilitary activity, the South Armagh Brigade has also been widely accused of smuggling across the Irish border. (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': bodyAvailable = true; subscriptionStatus: 'Whitelist', }); The loyalties of many people in Northern Ireland's South Armagh are with the neighboring Irish republic. 16 April 1997 - A group of sixteen undercover SAS members restrained four IRA members, part of one of the two sniper teams which operated in South Armagh and gave them to the RUC, after tracking the IRA men to a farm complex. The British patrol manning the checkpoint returned fire. In an area with a population of 23,000, the British Army stationed around 3,000 troops in support of the RUC to contain an unknown number of paramilitaries. Neighborhood North of Turnpike Subdivision Pleasant Park. 2 . 3 March Herbert Burrows, a 37-year-old Protestant civilian, is killed when a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb which was attached to a door at his Alexander Road funeral parlour exploded, killing him instantly. This page was last edited on 13 July 2022, at 18:49. })(); Premium subscribers enjoy unlimited access to all articles. } A number of South Armagh IRA members were imprisoned by the end of the 1970s and took part in the blanket protest and dirty protest in pursuit of political status for IRA prisoners. When they arrived, they were surrounded by 16 SAS men, who ordered them to surrender. Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation. His killing happened one day before his 30th birthday. } Unlike other operations in which the SAS were involved, members of the sniper team were not killed. 27 August 1992 - An unsuccessful attack was launched by a sniper on a British Army patrol at Carran Road, Crossmaglen, County Armagh. If you have already submitted an application for the ERA Program, a regional provider will follow-up with you directly and provide guidance on . Toby Harnden has interviewed members . About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . const cookieData = getSubscriptionStatus(purchase); By the 1990s, the South Armagh Brigade was thought to consist of about 40 members,[1] roughly half of them living south of the border. South Armagh is a strange place for this Northern-born Protestant and Dublin resident, albeit one who was active in the Northern Ireland civil rights movement in the 1960s and is a proud Irish citizen. He was the only IPLO member to die while attacking state forces. }; const selectedRegional = localStorage.getItem('selectedRegionals'); return { mutations.forEach((mutation) => { The South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) operated during the Troubles in south County Armagh. const subscriberCookieStatus = getCookie(subscriberCookieName) || '{}'; He was the 267th RUC officer to die in the Troubles. Then, in January 1976, after a series of loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) attacks on Catholic civilians in the border areas (including the Reavey and O'Dowd killings the previous day), the group shot and killed ten Protestant workmen in the "Kingsmill massacre" near Bessbrook. if (vars.article.wallType === 'registration') { A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. . The workers' bus was stopped and the one Catholic worker taken aside before the others were killed. [46] The last major action of the brigade before the last IRA ceasefire was a mortar attack on Newtownhamilton RUC/Army barracks, on 12 July 1997. !gigyaID ? Sources say that shortly before they were captured, the team was given orders by the 'OC' not to carry any weapons when they were directed to a farm to collect their sniper rifle for an operation. These bases acted as information-gathering centres and also allowed the British Army to patrol South Armagh more securely. There were also frequent gun attacks on foot patrols. [28] By 1991, the RUC acknowledged that no mobile patrols had operated in South Armagh without Army support since 1975.[29]. By the time of the final IRA ceasefire in August 1997, the South Armagh IRA leadership was already heavily involved in fuel and cigarette smuggling and it is believed that the British struck a deal whereby the IRA leaders could continue to benefit from the illicit trade, so long as no further attacks on security forces or bomb attacks on commercial targets took place. 27 November 34-year-old former RUC member John Martin is shot dead by the Provisional IRA at his filling station on the Mall. return 'none'; 'false' : 'true'; McGinn, who laughed when he received his life sentence, died in December 2013 from a suspected heart attack in Monaghan town, aged 56. These squads were responsible for killing seven soldiers and two RUC members until the Caraher team was finally caught by the Special Air Service in April 1997. It was one of the few times the SAS didn't shoot members of an IRA 'active service unit' on armed operations. His father-in-law, Joseph Wilson, a member of the UDR, had been shot dead by the Provisional IRA a short distance away in 1976. } Men from the area also took part in IRA campaigns in the 1940 and 1950s. In a statement released by the IRA at the time they denied any role in it. subscriptionStartDate: '0000-00-00T00:00:00Z', 9 March James Hogg, a 23-year-old Protestant civilian and member of the Orange Order, was shot dead in what is thought to have been a sectarian revenge attack by the INLA. He is a close associate of the Provos' border boss Thomas 'Slab' Murphy, Gerry Adams and other figures in Sinn Fein. South Armagh IRA rocked as 'OC' is outed as a 'tout' - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk "I think we have to remember that in the vast majority of cases, the police and security forces acted with integrity, courage and professionalism." Theresa Villiers Se0samh Well-known member Joined Dec 8, 2011 Messages 15,782 Aug 8, 2016 #2 death or glory said: const eventType = event.detail.event_type; Wed 17 Sep 2014 11.51 EDT. 8 November 17-year-old Protestant Trevor Foster dies in a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb explosion meant for his father, a member of the UDR. He regarded as exceptions the East Tyrone IRA unit, led by Jim Lynagh who was killed in an SAS ambush during an IRA attack on Loughall RUC base in 1987, and the "tight as a drum" South Armagh . A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. 28 March In an identical attack to the one that killed Derek Monteith, 58-year-old RUC member George Starrett is shot dead in the kitchen of his home on the Newry Road by the Provisional IRA. Dates in bold indicate a death by a sniper. window.showSubscriberElements(); return; [27] However, the South Armagh Brigade continued to carry out varied and high-profile attacks in the same period. userID: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.user_id, subscriptionFinishDate: purchase.granted_by_purchase.finish_at, if (flipPayJsUrl) { vars.user.gigyaID = gigyaID || ''; October 21 2015 11:41 PM The mother of a young man who was beaten to death by a south Armagh IRA gang has demanded that Sinn Fin members stop "protecting" her son's killers. A key player in a vicious IRA sniper squad in south Armagh will be freed from prison under the Good Friday agreement within 16 months, despite yesterday receiving one of . McGinn, who laughed when he received his life sentence, died in December 2013 from a suspected heart attack in Monaghan town, aged 56. 20 December Austin Smith, a 44-year-old Catholic member of the UDR, is shot dead by the Provisional IRA as he returned to his home on the Windmill estate in a heavily nationalist part of the city. document.head.append(script); It was organised into two battalions, one around Jonesborough and another around Crossmaglen. [9] After the split in the IRA in that year, the South Armagh unit sided with the Provisional IRA rather than the Official IRA. vars.user.subscriptionStatus = subscriberCookie.subscriptionStatus || ''; South Armagh has long been the IRA stronghold and any defections would be a devastating blow to the leadership. The incident caused outrage among South Armagh residents, provided the IRA with many new recruits and created a hostile climate where local people were prepared to tolerate the killing of security force members. return 'premium-plus'; return key.indexOf('granted_by_') > -1; Murphy was lightly wounded and arrested by the RUC. Stock image. [31] The South Armagh Brigade also built the bombs that were used to wreck economic targets in London during the 1990s, specially hitting the financial district. Martin was from Knockamell Park in the city and was a neighbour of Charles Spence, who was had been shot dead by the IRA two weeks previously. Tweets & replies. 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