Omagh

  • The Omagh Bombing

    The Omagh bombing, which took place on August 15, 1998, stands as the deadliest single atrocity of the decades-long sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles. Just four months after the historic signing of the Good Friday Agreement, a car bomb exploded in the busy centre of Omagh, County Tyrone, in an attack…

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  • Just to make it clear for all non-Irish, it is Saint Patrick’s Day or St. Patrick’s Day. Not Paddy’s Day, St Pat’s Day, St Paddy’s Day, etc. These are just some impressions of St. Patrick’s Day celebrations during World War II. Above is a photograph of St Patrick’s Day in Brooklyn, 1943. St. Patrick was…

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