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Omagh 1998

  • Dec. 21st, 2007 at 7:19 AM
ailbhe 29y6m
A bomb! a bomb! and they turned and ran.
Mothers took their daughters by their tiny sticky hands,
Fathers scooped their sons up in their big strong arms,
And they ran towards the bomb
And they ran towards the bomb
And they ran
             towards
                     the bomb.

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[info]hfnuala wrote:
Dec. 21st, 2007 09:55 am (UTC)
God. the radio news this morning already made me cry about this.
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[info]ailbhe wrote:
Dec. 21st, 2007 12:58 pm (UTC)
Yes, me too.

30 people - local pop 28,000 - national pop 3.6m

Gosh, our numbers are *tiny*. But our percentages are large.
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[info]webhill wrote:
Dec. 21st, 2007 11:40 am (UTC)
what?
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[info]sam_t wrote:
Dec. 21st, 2007 11:56 am (UTC)
Try here.

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[info]sam_t wrote:
Dec. 21st, 2007 11:57 am (UTC)
And here, for why it's topical.
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[info]kalmn wrote:
Dec. 21st, 2007 06:12 pm (UTC)
oh, gods.

that's a very good poem about a very awful thing.
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[info]ailbhe wrote:
Dec. 21st, 2007 09:52 pm (UTC)
Reading the (admittedly short) list of the dead is heartbreaking. What were the family from Madrid doing there?
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[info]iuil wrote:
Dec. 21st, 2007 11:33 pm (UTC)
There was a school group from Madrid visiting Buncrana who'd gone on a day trip to Tyrone with some local kids tagging along, stopping off in Omagh for some shopping. Two of the Spanish children and one of their group leaders were killed along with 2 of the children from Buncrana :-(.
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[info]iuil wrote:
Dec. 21st, 2007 11:44 pm (UTC)
My error - one Spanish child and 3 children from Buncrana plus the Spanish group leader were killed.

Heartbreaking, sickening, unforgiveable. All in the name of "the cause" :-(.
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[info]pauamma wrote:
Dec. 21st, 2007 08:41 pm (UTC)
Thank you for posting that. (Is it yours? Google doesn't show any other hit than this entry)
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[info]ailbhe wrote:
Dec. 21st, 2007 09:51 pm (UTC)
Yes, it popped into my head while I was crying at the radio this morning.
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