The Troubles in Tynan

This is a list of incidents of violence during The Troubles in Tynan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

Incidents in Tynan during the Troubles resulting in two or more fatalities:

1981
*21 January 1981 - Sir Norman Stronge (86), Ulster Unionist Party member, and former Speaker at Stormont, and his son, James Stronge (48), an off duty member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary reserve, both aristocratic Protestants, were shot dead by the Provisional Irish Republican Army at their mansion, Tynan Abbey, Tynan. [ [http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/ NI Conflict Archive on the Internet] ] A group of men in military style uniform forced their way into the abbey, a mansion in its own large grounds near the Border, sought out the father and son and shot them. They then placed bombs and incendiary devices and set the mansion alight. It was destroyed by the fire. Sir Norman Stronge, one of the oldest people killed during the troubles, had been Stormont MP for Mid-Armagh from 1938 to 1969 and Speaker of the House from 1945 until his retirement. James Stronge had taken over the Mid-Armagh seat in 1969 and held it until 1972. He had been a unionist member of the NI Assembly from 1973 to 1974. Both father and son were also members of Derryshaw Boyne Defenders Orange Lodge.The Provisional IRA said the Stronges had been chosen as "the symbols of hated unionism" and "as a direct reprisal for a whole series of loyalist assassinations and murder attacks". A man was extradited from County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland in 1984 to stand trial for the killings, but was acquitted in 1985. [McKittrick, D, Kelters, S, Feeney, B and Thornton, C. "Lost Lives". Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 1999 p849-850]

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