Séamus Turlough McElwain (1 April 1960 – 26 April 1986 [1]) was a volunteer in the South Fermanagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) during The Troubles, who was killed by British special forces while preparing to ambush an army patrol.

On 13 December 1989 the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) attacked a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint complex manned by the King's Own Scottish Borderers (KOSB) near the Northern Ireland–Republic of Ireland border at Derryard townland, a few miles north of Rosslea, County Fermanagh.

Apr 28, 2021 · The IRA campaign in Fermanagh began the month after internment was introduced. The low level of loyalist paramilitary activity compared with neighbouring counties is examined.

This is a list of brigades of the Irish Republican Army, formed or active between 1916 and 1922, which were involved in activities undertaken by the Irish Republican Army. No.1 Batt. Enniskillen A. Boho B. Derrygonnelly C. Enniskillen D. Monea E. Rosinuremore. No.2 Batt.

The IRA is the biggest, most significant and best organized of the paramilitary groups operating in Ireland. (The organization is also known as the Provisional IRA, PIRA, the Provos, and, in...

Nov 8, 2024 · The Enniskillen bombing, one of the darkest days in Northern Ireland's Troubles, occurred on November 8, 1987, when the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a bomb during a...

Aug 12, 2017 · Eric Brown reads the names of some of those murdered by the IRA during the Troubles in the Co Fermanagh area. Three car bombs were detonated without warning in Claudy, 11 miles from Derry city,...

Apr 26, 2020 · Séamus Turlough McElwaine, a volunteer in the South Fermanagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA), is killed on April 26, 1986, by the Special Air Service (SAS) while on active duty with Seán Lynch, who is seriously injured in the shooting.

Jan 1, 2025 · An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) barracks on January 1, 1957, in one of the most famous incidents of the IRA’s Operation Harvest (Border campaign). Two IRA men are killed as they attack Brookeborough police station in County Fermanagh.

Seán Lynch MLA (Irish: Seán Ó Loingsigh; born 11 January 1954) is an Irish republican Sinn Féin politician and a former MLA for the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone. He was a former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) leader in the Maze Prison (known as Long Kesh by Irish republicans). [3]