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The SAS describes its attitude to the use of lethal force as Big boys games, big boys rules. Anyone caught with a gun or bomb can expect to be shot. In Big Boys Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA Mark Urban meticulously explores the security forces covert operations in Northern Ireland: from the mid-1970s, when they were stepped up, to the Loughall ambush in 1987, in which eight IRA Provisionals were killed. While charting the successes and failures of special operations during the troubles, Urban reveals the unenviable dilemmas faced by intelligence chiefs engaged in a daily struggle against one of the worlds most sophisticated terrorist organisations.
This is a book that needed to be written and which fulfils the essentials of any Ulster story; it expands understanding beyond fragmented jingoism and newspaper headlines. John Stalker, Sunday Times
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Dana, Leah and David
| 1969 | |
| August | British Army is sent to Northern Ireland by Harold Wilsons government after RUC lose control of nationalist rioting and loyalist backlash. |
| 1970 | |
| October | Hunt Report criticizes RUC handling of previous years riots. |
| 1971 | |
| August | Disastrous policy of internment of terrorist suspects starts. |
| 1972 | |
| January | Thirteen civil rights demonstrators are shot dead by members of Parachute Regiment in Bloody Sunday. |
| June | Partly to atone for internment, special category status is granted to paramilitary prisoners. |
| 1974 | |
| 14 April | First member of 14 Intelligence Company, Captain Anthony Pollen, is killed on active service. |
| 1975 | |
| February | Labour Secretary of State Merlyn Rees engineers short-lived ceasefire with IRA. |
| August | Three members of Miami Showband are killed by UVF loyalist terrorists. |
| 1976 | Under Chief Constable Kenneth Newman, and the new policy of Police Primacy, the RUC begins to take overall responsibility for security in Northern Ireland. |
| January | First SAS troop of twelve men is deployed in Ulster. |
| March | Special category status for paramilitary prisoners ends. IRA member Sean McKenna is arrested after alleged abduction by SAS from Republic of Ireland. |
| April | Peter Cleary is killed by SAS near Forkill. |
| May | First republican protest in the H-Blocks of the Maze prison begins. |
| Eight armed SAS men are arrested by Gardai after accidentally entering the Republic. | |
| 1977 | Major General Dick Trant is appointed CLF. |
| May | Captain Robert Nairac is captured and killed by IRA. |
| July | IRA man Seamus Harvey is shot dead by SAS in Culderry. |
| December | INLA member Colm McNutt is killed by 14 Company lance-corporal in Londonderry. |
| Corporal Paul Harman of 14 Company is killed by IRA in Belfast. | |
| 1978 | |
| January | Bessbrook SAS Squadrons area of deployment is extended from south Armagh to the whole of Northern Ireland. |
| February | Two IRA men are ambushed by SAS near Ardboe; one, Paul Duffy, is shot dead. |
| April | Republican dirty protest begins at the Maze prison. |
| 20 June | Three IRA men and one Protestant bystander are killed by SAS and RUC special forces in Ballysillan postal depot incident. |
| September | Protestant James Taylor is mistakenly shot by SAS soldiers. |
| 24 November | IRA member Patrick Duffy is shot dead by SAS at arms cache in Londonderry. |
| 1979 | |
| February | Major General James Glover is appointed as Commander Land Forces. |
| March | IRA starts terrorist campaign on the Continent with the killing of the British ambassador to the Netherlands. |
| 30 March | Airey Neave is killed in Westminster by an INLA car bomb. |
| 27 August | Eighteen soldiers are killed by IRA bombs at Warrenpoint. On the same day Lord Mountbatten and three others are blown up by a bomb on board their boat near Mullaghmore. |
| October | Maurice Oldfield, former chief of SIS (MI6), is appointed Security Co-ordinator in Northern Ireland. |
| 1980 | |
| Summer | Maurice Oldfield is removed from post (dies in March 1981). |
| September | SAS apprehend two IRA members from Dungannon at an arms cache in Tyrone. |
| 27 October | H-Block republican prisoners begin their hunger strike (suspended on 18 December). |
| Autumn | James Glover is succeeded as CLF by Major General Charles Huxtable. |
| 1981 | |
| January | Jim Lynaghs IRA gang murder Sir Norman Stronge and his son at Tynan Abbey. |
| 14 March | Seamus McElwaine and three other IRA members are captured by SAS near Rosslea. |
| 5 May | Bobby Sands, MP for Fermanagh and S. Tyrone, dies of starvation in the Maze. |
| 28 May | 14 Company officer shoots two armed IRA men dead and wounds another in Londonderry. |
| 3 October | Hunger strike is called off, after eight IRA and three INLA members have died. |
| November | Christopher Black, to become most celebrated of the supergrasses, is arrested. |
| 1982 | |
| August | IRA member Raymond Gilmour turns supergrass, severely compromising IRA organization in Londonderry. |
| 27 October | Three IRA men are killed by police firearms squad near Lurgan, in the first of three incidents leading to the Stalker inquiry. |
| 24 November | Michael Tighe shot dead by police undercover unit near Lurgan. |
| 12 December | Unarmed INLA members Roddy Carroll and Seamus Robinson are shot dead by HMSU member Constable Robinson . |
| 1983 | |
| February | One INLA member Liam McMonagle is shot dead, and another (Liam Duffy) wounded, by plain-clothes soldier in Londonderry. |
| August | Thirty-five of thirty-nine charged are found guilty on Blacks evidence. |
| 25 September | H-Block prisoners stage an escape from the Maze; sixteen are recaptured, but twenty-two remain at large. |
| October | Republican informer Robert Lean holds press conference causing severe embarrassment to RUC about their handling of supergrasses. |
| 4 December | SAS shoot dead two IRA members in ambush near Coalisland , the first such fatalities for five years. |
| 1984 | |
| 14 March | Assassination attempt in Belfast by UFF gunmen seriously injures Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams. |
| 24 May | John Stalker, Deputy Chief Constable of Manchester, is appointed to the shoot-to-kill inquiry. |
| September | Douglas Hurd succeeds as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. |
| 19 October | SAS ambush IRA team at Tamnamore as they prepare to kill a UDR officer: IRA gang escape, and bystander Frederick Jackson is accidentally killed by SAS. |
| 1 December | SAS soldiers are involved in gunbattle with IRA at Drumrush Lodge, near Kesh, resulting in the deaths of an SAS soldier and IRA man. |
| 6 December | Two IRA men are killed by SAS in ambush at Gransha hospital, Londonderry. |
| 1985 | |
| 23 February | Three IRA members are shot dead by SAS soldiers at Strabane. |
| 28 February | IRA mortar attack on Newry police station kills nine RUC officers. |
| November | Anglo-Irish Agreement between Westminster and Dublin is signed. |
| December | IRAs Tyrone Brigade continues its campaign against isolated police stations at Ballygawley, Castlederg and Carrickmore. |
| 1986 | |
| 18 February | Francis Bradley is shot dead by SAS while recovering weapon from arms cache in Toomebridge. |
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