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    The East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan Brigade was one of the most active republican...
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    The Belfast Brigade of the Provisional IRA was the largest of the organisation's brigades, based in the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The nucleus...
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    The South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) operated during the Troubles in south County Armagh. It was organised into two...
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  • vehicle. Provisional Irish Republican Army campaign 1969–1997 Provisional IRA South Armagh Brigade Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade Provisional IRA Belfast...
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  • Thomas Murphy, chief of staff Brian Arthurs, Commander, Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade Bernard Fox, a former hunger striker (on 24 September 2006...
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  • Jim Lynagh (category Provisional Irish Republican Army members)
    April 1956 – 8 May 1987) was a member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), from Monaghan Town in the Republic of Ireland...
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  • to 40 members from the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade attacked the isolated 6 UDR Deanery base in Clogher, County Tyrone with machine gun and RPG...
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    Coagh ambush (category Provisional Irish Republican Army actions)
    resulted in the deaths of all three IRA men involved. In May 1987, an eight-man unit of the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade was ambushed and shot dead by...
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    Ambush at Drumnakilly (category Provisional Irish Republican Army actions)
    30 August 1988 a three-man active service unit from the Provisional IRA's East Tyrone Brigade consisting of brothers Gerard (29 years old) and Martin...
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    The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA), officially known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann) and informally...
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  • Declan Arthurs (category Provisional Irish Republican Army members)
    – 8 May 1987) was a Northern Irish Volunteer in the Provisional IRA's (IRA), East Tyrone Brigade in the mid-1980s. He was killed in the Loughgall ambush...
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  • From 1969 until 1997, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) conducted an armed paramilitary campaign primarily in Northern Ireland and England, aimed...
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  • 1993 Fivemiletown ambush (category 20th century in County Tyrone)
    the Provisional Irish Republican Army's (IRA) East Tyrone Brigade ambushed a two-men unmarked mobile patrol of the RUC in Fivemiletown, County Tyrone. Two...
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  • Pádraig McKearney (category Provisional Irish Republican Army members)
    the beginning of 1984 he rejoined IRA activity in his native East Tyrone with the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade. He advocated the commencement of...
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  • figure in the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade. A series of tit-for-tat shootings began between the Mid-Ulster Brigade and the Provisional IRA, with Catholic...
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  • Attack on Ballygawley barracks (category Provisional Irish Republican Army actions)
    1985, Patrick Kelly became leader of the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade. He, along with East Tyrone Brigade members Jim Lynagh and Pádraig McKearney...
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  • volunteers of the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade as they attempted to attack an RUC station in Loughgall, County Armagh. All eight IRA volunteers, along...
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  • truck South Armagh Brigade East Tyrone Brigade List of attacks on British aircraft during The Troubles Barrack buster Provisional IRA arms importation List...
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    Kieran Fleming (category Provisional Irish Republican Army members)
    north a year. This approach was espoused by the militant Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade led by Padraig McKearney and Jim Lynagh, who wanted an escalation...
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  • 1990 British Army Gazelle shootdown (category The Troubles in County Tyrone)
    On 11 February 1990, an active service unit of the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade shot down a British Army Gazelle helicopter (serial number ZB687)...
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  • March 1957 – 8 May 1987), was an Irish commander of the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army during the mid-1980s until his death...
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  • mistaken for an IRA member. 9 October 1990 - Dessie Grew (37) and Martin McCaughey (23), both members of the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade, were shot...
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  • Dessie Grew (category Provisional Irish Republican Army members)
    – 9 October 1990) was a volunteer in the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). Grew was killed by undercover Special Air...
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    Winter's House nearby. On 8 May 1987, eight members of the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade launched a bomb and gun attack on the village's Royal Ulster...
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  • This is a chronology of activities by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), from 1992 to 1999. 1 January 1992: incendiary devices severely damaged...
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  • The Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland was very active in the country during the Troubles (1969–1998). The country was seen as a safe haven for...
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    Killeeshil ambush (category 20th century in County Tyrone)
    intercepted by a tipper lorry driven by a Provisional IRA active service unit from the East Tyrone Brigade and riddled with automatic rifle fire while...
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    Loughgall ambush (category Provisional IRA bombings in Northern Ireland)
    single incident during the Troubles. The IRA's East Tyrone Brigade was active mainly in eastern County Tyrone and neighbouring parts of County Armagh....
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  • split in the Provisional IRA by dissident members, who rejected the IRA's ceasefire that year. Like the Provisional IRA before it, the Real IRA saw itself...
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  • Brian Keenan (Irish republican) (category Provisional Irish Republican Army members)
    Keenan won support from the South Derry Brigade, East Tyrone Brigade and South Armagh Brigade, with one IRA member saying "Keenan was really the John...
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