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After the successful attack in Newry, the IRA carried out a further nine mortar attacks in 1985. [11] On 4 September, an RUC training centre in Enniskillen was attacked; 30 cadets narrowly escaped death due to poor intelligence-gathering by the IRA unit responsible. The cadets were expected to be in bed sleeping, but were instead eating ...
Eamon Collins (1954-1999), became an informant in the late 1980s and was stabbed to death at his home in Northern Ireland; Colombia Three (Niall Connolly, James Monaghan, Martin McCauley) Eddie Copeland; Marion Coyle (born 1954), took part in the kidnapping of Dr. Tiede Herrema
25 August: an IRA member (Eamon Bradley) was shot dead by the British Army after leaving a pub on Racecourse Road, Derry. [33] 27 August: a former UDR soldier (Wilfred McIlveen) was killed by a booby-trap bomb under his car in Milford, County Armagh. [33] 28 August: 24 buses were firebombed by the IRA at the Ulsterbus depot in County Armagh. [40]
The sniper attack on a checkpoint at Newry killed Constable Brian Woods and was officially reported in an IRA South Down Brigade statement, [34] but a high-profile IRA member from Dromintee, identified by Toby Harnden as a South Armagh Brigade volunteer known as "The Surgeon", was identified by the author as the mastermind behind the shooting. [35]
The Flying Column’s first album “Folk Music Time in Ireland” was released in 1970 and they were among the earliest Belfast bands to issue a record. The songs on this LP were: Henry Joy, Come to the Bower, The Banks of the Ohio, The Boston Burglar, The Dying Rebel, Tom Williams, Belfast City, James Connolly, Whiskey in the Jar, When I Was ...
John Eamon McClelland (6 June 1951 - 6 November 2022) was a firefighter and later Deacon from Newry, Northern Ireland who served in the fire service from 1968 until his retirement in 2002 and was acting Chief Fire Officer of Northern Ireland Fire Brigade from 1996 to 2002. He also served as President of St. John's Ambulance and as the chair of ...
A public statement headed "Irish Republican Publicity Bureau" signed "B Ó Ruairc, Rúnaí [Secretary]" identifying the firing party as "Volunteers of Óglaigh na hÉireann-the Irish Republican Army", and two accompanying photos were published in Saoirse Irish Freedom. [19]
Because no Irish stamps were designed prior to 1929, the first Irish stamps issued by the Provisional Government of Ireland were the then-current British definitive postage stamps bearing a portrait of George V that were overprinted Rialtas Sealadaċ na hÉireann 1922 (translates as Provisional Government of Ireland 1922) and issued on 17 ...