Ambush at Drumnakilly

Ambush at Drumnakilly

Ambush at Drumnakilly is an Irish rebel song about an event in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland which occurred on August 30, 1988: three volunteers of the Provisional IRA (IRA), brothers Martin and Gerard Harte and Brian Mullin(Bard), were ambushed and killed by the Special Air Service (SAS).

The IRA members were setup in a carefully prepared ambush by the SAS, in which a member of the SAS posing as an off duty UDR man, pretended to be fixing a tyre of a coal lorry. The IRA unit drove up, armed with two AK-47 rifles and a revolver, and were ambushed as they approached by a dozen undercover soldiers, with others manning a heavy machine gun in a nearby derelict building.Lost Lives, 2007 Edition, ISBN 978-1-84018-504-1]

In total 236 shots were fired during the ambush, an inquest held failed to determine who had opened fire first in the ambush.

Author: Gerry Cunningham
Recorded by: The Irish Brigade

References

External links

* [http://www.triskelle.eu/lyrics/drumnakillyambush.php?index=080.010.020.040&rec=3 Story behind the song]
* [http://www.eliteukforces.info/special-air-service/ SAS]
* [http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/specfor/SAS.htm SAS Regiment]


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