Connie Green

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article or section includes a list of references or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations.
You can improve this article by introducing more precise citations.

Connie Green was a member of the dissident Irish republican paramilitary group Saor Uladh. He was shot while carrying out a raid on an Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) barracks at Rosslea in County Fermanagh.

Green was originally from Derry and had been a commando in the British Army. After returning home to Ireland he became involved with Irish republicanism and joined a small splinter group, Saor Uladh, founded by Liam Kelly and Phil O'Donnell. Kelly had been court-martialed from the Irish Republican Army in 1951 for insubordination and then went on to form the new paramilitary group. Saor Uladh was most active in Kellys home ground of East Tyrone. The group targeted Customs posts and security force installations, their principle objective being the removal of the border and the reunification of Ireland.

On the morning of 25 November 1955, Green was the lieutenant ^[1] that led the raid at Roslea, blowing up part of the building and storming the ground floor rooms opening fire as they entered. In the exchange that followed, Green was shot and seriously injured. He was ferried away from Rosslea across the border to a farmhouse near Tydavnet in north County Monaghan. He died the following morning from his injuries and was buried in a nearby cemetery.