Category: Lectures

Dublin City Council Historian in Residence Dr. Mary Muldowney and historian Catherine Holmes tell the story of the bombing of North Strand on the night of 30/31 May 1941, an event that traumatised several generations and changed the shape of one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods.

Mary Muldowney’s talk gives the background to the tragedy and outline its aftermath, referring in particular to the memories and photographs featured on this website.

Catherine Holmes draws on firsthand accounts of the night of the bombing from the Dublin City Archives oral history project to illustrate the dreadful impact on the lives of those living and working in the North Strand area.

This special event to mark the 80th anniversary of the bombing was hosted by Charleville Mall Library on 31 May 2021.

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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.

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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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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