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The Border campaign (12 December 1956 – 26 February 1962) was a guerrilla warfare campaign (codenamed Operation Harvest) carried out by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) against targets in Northern Ireland, with the aim of overthrowing British rule there and creating a united Ireland. [1]
12 December – The Irish Republican Army launches its Border Campaign [1] with the bombing of a BBC relay transmitter in County Londonderry, burning of a courthouse in Magherafelt by a unit led by 18-year-old Seamus Costello [1] and of an Ulster Special Constabulary post near Newry and blowing up of a half-built British Army barracks at Enniskillen.
Border Campaign may refer to: Pancho Villa Expedition, a 1916–17 U.S. operation in Mexico; Border campaign (Irish Republican Army) or Operation Harvest, a 1956–62 guerrilla war in Northern Ireland; 1960–61 campaign at the China–Burma border, after the Chinese Civil War
List of IRA ambushes of the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) List of Provisional IRA ambushes (1970–1998) The following articles include ambushes by other Irish Republican Army organisations: Northern campaign (Irish Republican Army) (1942–1944) Border campaign (Irish Republican Army) (1956–1962)
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is a name used by various resistance organisations in Ireland throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Organisations by this name have been dedicated to anti-imperialism through Irish republicanism , the belief that all of Ireland should be an independent republic free from British colonial rule.
Kelly joined the IRA in the early 1950s when he was 18 and took part in the Border Campaign of 1956–62, but was arrested in December 1956 and was imprisoned until 1963. . He was a member of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association in 1967–69 which led on to sectarian riots in Belfa
At the age of 16 he joined Sinn Féin and the Irish Republican Army. Within a year, he was commanding an active service unit in south County Londonderry during the Border Campaign, where his leadership skills and burning down of the courthouse in Magherafelt earned him the nickname of "the Boy General". [1]
In 1956, the IRA embarked on another armed campaign against partition, known as the Border Campaign. McKee was again arrested and interned for the duration of the campaign. He was released in 1962. [5] Upon release, he became Officer Commanding (OC) of the IRA's Belfast Brigade. [5]