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🗓️ 13 June 2016
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The Irish Free State remained neutral in World War II. Nevertheless the country and its people still faced attack. In 1941 the Nazis bombed the North Strand in Dublin. However the most lethal explosion took place in a remote corner of Donegal killing 19 people. An eyewitness recalled a "tremendous explosion shook the heavens and a brilliant blinding flash of light illuminated the countryside lighting up mountains many miles to the rear" Hear the forgotten story of this and the other casualties of World War II bombs in Ireland in this episode.
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0:48.2 | podcasts. Shortly after 10 o'clock in the evening on May the 10th, 1943, a tremendous explosion |
1:00.5 | shook the heavens and a brilliant blinding flash of light illuminated the countryside, lighting up mountains many miles to the rear. |
1:08.0 | So goes an eyewitness account from a World War II explosion, but it's not from a great battlefield such as the beaches |
1:15.8 | of D-Day or the like. Nor does it relate to the only German bombing of Ireland during |
1:21.1 | World War II when Dublin and the surrounding counties were attacked |
1:25.0 | in 1941. |
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1:32.3 | of Bellimanus County Dunney Gaul, an explosion |
1:35.1 | that inflicted horrific losses on a rural community. However, we need to retrace our steps |
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1:45.8 | photograph forgotten for decades. |
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