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The Effects of War-Time Censorship on Historical Sources

A talk by Kevin O’Connor at the North Strand Bombing and the Emergency in Ireland seminar held at Dublin City Library & Archive on 29 May 2010.

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I would just like to point out that this wonderfully exciting topic of mine, censorship, and this long winded title behind it there’s the deaths of dozens of people and I say dozens because we don’t know how many died and we probably never will in the North Strand bombing.  So regardless of whatever tangent I might go off on or any air of levity that might come into it bear in mind that I’ve never lost sight of the fact that it’s a very serious issue.

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Hostile aircraft approaching Irish coast

A talk by Dr Michael Kennedy at the North Strand Bombing and the Emergency in Ireland seminar held at Dublin City Library & Archive on 29 May 2010.

Dr Michael Kennedy is the Executive Editor of the Royal Irish Academy’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series. He has published widely on Irish political, diplomatic and military history. 

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The Other German Bombings of Ireland

A talk by Eoin Bairéad at the North Strand Bombing and the Emergency in Ireland seminar held at Dublin City Library & Archive on 29 May 2010.

Eoin Bairéad has an M.A. in Local History in NUI Maynooth, and is the author of  The bombing of Dolphin’s Barn, Dublin, 1941 in the Maynooth Studies in Local History series, 2010.

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Images

Photograph of Civil Defence Fire Fighting Company

Photograph of the Civil Defence Fire Fighting Company, donated by Paddy Kelly

Civil Defence Fire Fighting Company
Photo 1

This is a copy of the original photo held in the Corp of Engineers BRS, Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare.  The original photograph is 110cm  x 17cm. See photo 1 for complete photograph. See Photo 2-4 for different sections of original photo in greater detail. Click on photos to enlarge.

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Personal Stories

Owens/Nolan Family Story

Story of Owens/Nolan Family contributed by Anna Fox

My mother Lillie Owens was 20 at the time of the North Strand Bombing. This is account of what took place that night from what I can remember my mam telling me. My mam Lillie Owens was visiting her friend Joan (I don’t recall her last name) who was married and had a baby girl. When the bomb went off my man left Joan’s house to run home to 8 Synnott Street to make sure her own family were safe. In the house at that time were my great grandparents Anna and John Nolan, their two daughters who were single  Margaret and Alice Nolan, my grandmother Kathleen Owens (nee Nolan), and her children Anna (17) Marie (5) and Pat (3).