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Brookeborough 1957
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| Culzie | Date: Wednesday, 2012-01-11, 9:05 PM | Message # 1 |
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| Shortly after teatime on New Year's Day 1957,Sergeant Kenneth Cordner was about to play the ace of clubes to win yet another game of pontoon,when he heard the unmistakable whine of a lorry making its way down the street outside. Everyone in the room tensed. In an instant Cordner dropped the cards and ran down the stairs to take a closer look. His worst fears were confirmed. As he opened the door of the rural police station,a fusillade of gunfire splattered the front of the building. It was the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
He slammed the door shut,but swung it so hard the latch failed to secure and the door remained open. By the time Cordner was halfway up the stairs again,shouting a warning to his fellow officers,the battle had already commenced. Outside,an IRA flying column was frantically mounting what was supposed to be a suprise attack,but it was all about to go dreadfully wrong,with tragic consequences?
The plan had been to drive into the mainly Protestant village of Brookeborough,Co Fermanagh,a few miles inside the N.I. border,position the lorry just past the small police station and,using the vehicle as cover,mount a landmine and grenade attack,which hopefully would result in the quick surrender of the police officers inside?
A few minutes before the lorry, a quarry dump truck.pulled into the village,two local boys, Stanley Thompson and Ernest Duff,were still playing in the street. It was just before seven o'clock and the light had long gone,but the boys were determined to enjoy as much of their holidays as possible. The youngsters got the shock of their lives when two men wearing khaki-coloured army tunics jumped from the vehicle and ordered them home.
The men were IRA lookouts and the attack which was about to take place was part of the IRA's Operation Harvest
Ulster Protestants consider themselves to be a separate nation. This nation they call Ulster
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| RSAUB | Date: Sunday, 2012-01-15, 0:15 AM | Message # 2 |
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| Have you any more information on this attack? (very interesting reading so far).
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| Jonathan | Date: Sunday, 2012-01-15, 7:06 PM | Message # 3 |
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| Have indeed. Heres another few lines
Brookeborough Police Station,with its mock gothic doors and diamond-shaped iron and glass windows,gave more the impression of being an English country cottage,rather than the bolt-hole of the men who were ready to resist the firepower of the IRA with equally lethal force. The man driving the lorry was Vincent Conlon from neighbourin Co Monaghan. Positioned in the back of the truck,manning a tripod-mounted Bren gun,was Sean South from Limerick,a 28 year-old clerk who had left his native city a few weeks previously. Next to South was Paddy O'Regan,whose job was to thread the belt-fed magazine through South's deadly weapon. Both men were ready for business and their eyes were firmly trained on the assult team whose job it was to plant a mine at the front of the barracks
The second his IRA collegues were safely out of firing range,South opened up as Sgt Cordner twisted open the door latch. The policeman's split-second appearance at the door went unnoticed as South and O'Regan continuously pounded the building.As members of the assult team prepared a mine the rest deluged the building with machine gun fire.The IRA knew that the RUC personnel would probably occupy the upper floor of the station and decided to concentrate their fire on that part of the building.
Inside the RUC officers who had been forced to hit the deck at the first hail of bullets were frantically returning fire and wondering what other defensive action to take when Sgt Cordner switched on the light in the front upstairs room which housed the Armoury. A fusillade of shots from the IRA men below sent a shower of broken glass across the room as Cordner knocked off the light and slid along the floor to where a Sten gun was bracketed into a wall. In a instant,he released the weapon from its mounting and prepared it for use by inserting a magazine. Bravely,Cordner made his way very slowly towards the window to where he hoped to assess the danger he and his men faced. IRA grenades aimed at the upper windows bounced off the iron casements and exploded in the street below.. As yet unable to size up the opposition,the sergeant glanced out the window. He spotted a large red open-topped lorry with armed men on its platform as well as in the street. The RUC man leaned forward and emptied the entire contents of his gun's magazine before jumping back inside. Below,Garland and Dave O'Connell returned the fire, As Cordner struggled to replace his spent magazine Sean Garland realising that they were not likey to achieve what they had been looking for decided to call off the raid. But as Garland and others made their way to the rear of the lorry,Sgt Cordner stepped towards the window for a second look. With his Sten gun on fully automatic he fired one continuous burst of 25 rounds at the IRA.
Feargal O'Hanlon,a 20 year-old draughtsman who worked for the council of his native Monaghan Town,slumped to the ground,badly hurt by two wounds to his legs. Sean Garland,the flying column leader,was also hit a number ot times in his back and leg. As the bullets from Cordner's Sten continued to reign down on the IRA. Every bullet fired by Sgt Cordner hit either the lorry or an IRA man. Sean South, who lay slumped over his machine gun look finished and his Bren gun partner had been hit twice.
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| Jonathan | Date: Sunday, 2012-01-15, 9:07 PM | Message # 4 |
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| Diagram of the attack on the police station. Sgt Cordner's position at the window on the left. There were 14 ira involved in the attack. There were 3 or else 4 policemen in the station.
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| RSAUB | Date: Sunday, 2012-01-15, 11:05 PM | Message # 5 |
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| Very interesting indeed a good example of the Irish attacking Ulster.
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| Jonathan | Date: Monday, 2012-01-16, 4:19 PM | Message # 6 |
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| Yeah if any proof was needed as to where the aggression was coming from this was it. I don't know of any attacks by loyalist/UVF units on Garda Police Stations. There were no incursioms across the border into Eire by armed men from Ulster. Yet they sell themselves as being like innocent bystanders and that the aggression came from the Protestant unionist people in Ulster. The lie was told and naive people fell for it.
If you noticed I put a couple of questions marks in the first post. The assertion by the writer (Hugh Jordan) that they wanted 'the quick surrender of the police indside' is laughable,given that they had set mines to blow the station up and raked it with continous gunfire. Also a few murder attempts had already been made on RUC men. Not sure but there might have been one or two already murdered by the ira.
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| Guilherme | Date: Tuesday, 2023-09-19, 1:02 PM | Message # 7 |
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| @Jonathan: The Troubles were a complex conflict with many different causes. However, two of the main causes were the division between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland and the British government's decision to partition Ireland in 1921.
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| 786cosmetics | Date: Wednesday, 2023-10-04, 6:09 AM | Message # 8 |
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| Yes, if anyone needed proof of the source of aggression, this incident made it clear. To my knowledge, there haven't been any attacks by loyalist/UVF units on Garda Police Stations or incursions into Eire by armed men from Ulster. Yet, they portray themselves as innocent bystanders, blaming the aggression on the Protestant unionist people in Ulster. This falsehood was propagated, and unfortunately, some people believed it.
In my initial statement, I included a few question marks to highlight uncertainties. The claim by the writer, Hugh Jordan, that they aimed for 'the quick surrender of the police inside,' is quite amusing given their actions of setting mines and continuously firing at the station. Additionally, there had already been murder attempts on RUC men, and I believe there may have been one or two RUC men murdered by the IRA at that point. Checkout best sheet mask in pakistan
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| brendag | Date: Monday, 2023-10-30, 1:16 PM | Message # 9 |
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| farare | Date: Monday, 2023-12-25, 4:31 AM | Message # 10 |
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| Brookeborough, a small town in Northern Ireland, holds a spacebar clicker significant place in the annals of history, particularly in the year 1957. This pivotal period marked a juncture where political, social, and economic forces converged, shaping the trajectory of the region and leaving an indelible impact.
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