The Troubles in Rosslea
Encyclopedia
The Troubles in Roslea recounts incidents during, and the effects of, The Troubles
in Roslea, County Fermanagh
, Northern Ireland
.
Incidents in Roslea during the Troubles resulting in two or more fatalities:
1972
1973
1977
1979
1980
1986
1989
1994
The Troubles
The Troubles was a period of ethno-political conflict in Northern Ireland which spilled over at various times into England, the Republic of Ireland, and mainland Europe. The duration of the Troubles is conventionally dated from the late 1960s and considered by many to have ended with the Belfast...
in Roslea, County Fermanagh
County Fermanagh
Fermanagh District Council is the only one of the 26 district councils in Northern Ireland that contains all of the county it is named after. The district council also contains a small section of County Tyrone in the Dromore and Kilskeery road areas....
, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...
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Incidents in Roslea during the Troubles resulting in two or more fatalities:
1972
- 2 June 1972 - Victor Husband (23) and Brian Robertson (23), both members of the British ArmyBritish ArmyThe British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
, were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican ArmyProvisional Irish Republican ArmyThe Provisional Irish Republican Army is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation whose aim was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a socialist republic within a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion...
land mine attack on their foot patrol, near Roslea.
1973
- 10 May 1973 - Anthony Ahern (18), a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer, from County Cork, was killed in a premature explosion while preparing land mine, near Roslea.
1977
- 12 May 1977 - Douglas Deering (53), a civilian, was shot at his shop in Roslea by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
1979
- 17 July 1979 - Sylvia Crowe (31), a civilian, was killed by a remote controlled bomb hidden in parked lorry during an attack on an Ulster Defence Regiment mobile patrol.
- 15 October 1979 - Herbert Kernaghan (36), an off duty member of the Ulster Defence Regiment, was shot dead, by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, while making deliveries to a school.
1980
- 11 February 1980 - Joseph Rose (21) and Winston Howe (35), both members of the Royal Ulster ConstabularyRoyal Ulster ConstabularyThe Royal Ulster Constabulary was the name of the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2000. Following the awarding of the George Cross in 2000, it was subsequently known as the Royal Ulster Constabulary GC. It was founded on 1 June 1922 out of the Royal Irish Constabulary...
, were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican ArmyProvisional Irish Republican ArmyThe Provisional Irish Republican Army is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation whose aim was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a socialist republic within a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion...
land mine attack on their mobile patrol on Lisnaskea Road, near Roslea. - 23 September 1980 - Ernest Johnston (36), an off duty reservist in the Royal Ulster Constabulary, was shot while driving into the laneway of his home, by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
1986
- 26 April 1986 - Seamus McElwaine (26), a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer from Knockacullion, near Scotstown, County Monaghan, was shot dead by the SAS. Sinn FéinSinn FéinSinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...
politician Sean LynchSean Lynch (politician)Seán Lynch MLA is an Irish republican Sinn Féin politician and a current MLA for the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone. Lynch was a former Provisional Irish Republican Army leader in the Maze Prison...
was also seriously wounded in the incident. In January 1993 an inquest jury returned a verdict that McElwaine had been unlawfully killed. The jury ruled the soldiers had opened fire without giving McElwaine a chance to surrender, and that he was actually shot dead five minutes after being wounded. The Director of Public Prosecutions requested a full report on the inquest from the RUC, but nobody has been prosecuted for McElwaine's death. - 08 July 1986 - John McVitty (46), an off duty member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, was shot at his farm, Drumady, near Roslea, by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
1989
- 13 December 1989 - Michael Paterson (21) and James Houston (23), both members of the British ArmyBritish ArmyThe British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
, were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican ArmyProvisional Irish Republican ArmyThe Provisional Irish Republican Army is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation whose aim was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a socialist republic within a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion...
gun, grenade and bomb attack on the permanent British Army Vehicle Check Point at DerryardAttack on Derryard checkpointThe attack on Derryard checkpoint was a raid carried out on 13 December 1989 by a Provisional Irish Republican Army unit against a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint manned by soldiers of the King's Own Scottish Borderers . It occurred near the Northern Ireland–Republic of Ireland border at...
, near Roslea.
1994
- 17 July 1994 - Caroline Moreland (34), found shot, Clogh, near Roslea, by the Provisional Irish Republican Army. She was a suspected informer.