Bombings

Michael McKenna

  JOHNO'BRIEN (INTERVIEWER): It is 1st June 2021 and I am speaking with retired Superintendent Michael McKenna, 17132 H. Today we are particularly speaking about the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, but in Michael's case the Dublin bombings on 17th May 1974 and his...
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John Mulligan – That’s the Way it was

John Mulligan ‘That's the Way it was Interviewed  in 2021 John Mulligan is a retired Superintendent in An Garda Síóchána. In this piece of audio, John reflects on the aftermath of the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings in May 1974, which he personally experienced while...

John Mulligan – DUBLIN BOMBING 1972

Interviewed  in 2021 John Mulligan is a retired Superintendent in An Garda Síóchána. In this piece of audio, John notes that he had previously been present during the December 1972 bombing at Eden Quay and Sackville Place (near Marlborough Street). He refers to...

John O’Brien – Dublin Bombing 1972

Interviewed in 2020 by John Greene of C103FM John O'Brien from Ballinhassig in Cork joined the Gardaí in 1968. On retiring almost 40 years later in 2006, he had reached the rank of Detective Chief Superintendent. He had also been Head of the National Office for...

Mary Molloy – ‘THE LITTLE PAITIENT … WAS NO LONGER WITH US’

  Interviewed on 12 October 2021 On 17th May 1974, Mary Molloy was a nurse attached to the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin where she worked in the orthopaedic section. This is the day of the infamous Dublin and Monaghan bombings where a total of 34 lives were lost. In...
Photograph of John O'Brien

John O’Brien – Interview 4 January 2022

  John O’Brien from Ballinhassig in Cork joined the Gardaí in 1968. On retiring almost 40 years later in 2006, he had reached the rank of Detective Chief Superintendent. He had also been Head of the National Office for Interpol and Europol. This recording was...

Dublin & Monaghan Bombings 1974

The Dublin and Monaghan bombings of 17th May 1974 were a series of coordinated bombings by Loyalist paramilitaries in counties Dublin and Monaghan, which killed thirty-three civilians and an unborn child.  The Loyalist UVF, claimed responsibly for the bombings in...

Michael McKenna ‘DEBRIS FROM THE BOMB’

Interviewed on 1 June 2021   Retired Superintendent Michael McKenna was recorded on 1st June 2021 for the RGSMA Oral History Project. As part of that interview, Michael recalled his personal memories of the Dublin bombings of May 1974, during which he was on duty...

John Mulligan – ‘THAT’S THE JOB’

Interviewed  in 2021 John Mulligan is a retired Superintendent in An Garda Síóchána. In this piece of audio, John reflects on the aftermath of the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings in May 1974, which he personally experienced while on duty with An Garda Síochána....

Michael McKenna – ‘FLAMES’

Interviewed on 1 June 2021  Retired Superintendent Michael McKenna was recorded on 1st June 2021 for the GSRMA Oral History Project. As part of that interview, Michael recalled his personal memories of the Dublin bombings of May 1974, during which he was on duty...

John Mulligan – ANNA MASSEY

Interviewed  in 2021 John Mulligan is a retired Superintendent in An Garda Síóchána. In this piece of audio, he remembers the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings of 17th May 1974. In this piece of audio, John Mulligan explains that the remains of the bodies were so...

John Mulligan – ‘A BAG FULL OF SHRAPNEL’

Interviewed  in 2021 John Mulligan is a retired Superintendent in An Garda Síóchána. In this piece of audio, he remembers the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings of 17th May 1974. He recalls being charged with taking a body to the morgue and also recalls being handed a...
Photograph of John Mulligan

John Mulligan – ‘ABSOLUTE CHAOS’

Interviewed  in 2021   John Mulligan is a retired Superintendent in An Garda Síóchána. This piece of audio was taken from an interview undertaken in 2021 and as a result of the Covid-19 Pandemic, recorded through the Zoom platform. Here, John Mulligan...
Photograph of John O'Brien taking names

John O’Brien – BOMBINGS

Interviewed in 2020 by John Greene of C103FM John O'Brien from Ballinhassig in Cork joined the Gardaí in 1968. On retiring almost 40 years later in 2006, he had reached the rank of Detective Chief Superintendent. He had also been Head of the National Office for...

Matt Givens – ‘BADLY TRAUMATISED’

Interviewed on 19 April 2021 In this piece of audio, recorded with former Garda Matt Givens on 19th April 2021, Matt recalls his personal experience of being on duty in Dublin on 17 May 1974, the day of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings.  The Dublin and...
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Joe Sullivan – ‘THE BOMB WENT OFF’

Interviewed on 9 June 2021   Joe Sullivan is a native of Longford who joined An Garda Síochána in March 1967. He retired as a Superintendent. Joe spent many years working in the Cavan and Monaghan area and was there in Killeshandra in May 1974 when when he...

Joe Sullivan – BOMB IN MONAGHAN TOWN 1974

Interviewed on 9 June 2021 Joe Sullivan is a native of Longford who joined An Garda Síochána in March 1967. He retired as a Superintendent. Joe spent many years working in the Cavan and Monaghan area and was there in Killeshandra in May 1974 when when he heard in the...

Mary Molloy ‘SMOKE AND DUST’

Interviewed on 12 October 2021   On 17th May 1974, Mary Molly was a nurse attached to the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin where she worked in the orthopaedic section. This is the day of the infamous Dublin and Monaghan bombings where a total of 34 lives were lost. In...

Michael McKenna

  JOHNO'BRIEN (INTERVIEWER): It is 1st June 2021 and I am speaking with retired Superintendent Michael McKenna, 17132 H. Today we are particularly speaking about the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, but in Michael's case the Dublin bombings on 17th May 1974 and his...

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John Mulligan – That’s the Way it was

John Mulligan ‘That's the Way it was Interviewed  in 2021 John Mulligan is a retired Superintendent in An Garda Síóchána. In this piece of audio, John reflects on the aftermath of the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings in May 1974, which he personally experienced while...

read more

John Mulligan – DUBLIN BOMBING 1972

Interviewed  in 2021 John Mulligan is a retired Superintendent in An Garda Síóchána. In this piece of audio, John notes that he had previously been present during the December 1972 bombing at Eden Quay and Sackville Place (near Marlborough Street). He refers to...

read more

John O’Brien – Dublin Bombing 1972

Interviewed in 2020 by John Greene of C103FM John O'Brien from Ballinhassig in Cork joined the Gardaí in 1968. On retiring almost 40 years later in 2006, he had reached the rank of Detective Chief Superintendent. He had also been Head of the National Office for...

read more

John O’Brien – Interview 4 January 2022

  John O’Brien from Ballinhassig in Cork joined the Gardaí in 1968. On retiring almost 40 years later in 2006, he had reached the rank of Detective Chief Superintendent. He had also been Head of the National Office for Interpol and Europol. This recording was...

read more

Dublin & Monaghan Bombings 1974

The Dublin and Monaghan bombings of 17th May 1974 were a series of coordinated bombings by Loyalist paramilitaries in counties Dublin and Monaghan, which killed thirty-three civilians and an unborn child.  The Loyalist UVF, claimed responsibly for the bombings in...

read more

Michael McKenna ‘DEBRIS FROM THE BOMB’

Interviewed on 1 June 2021   Retired Superintendent Michael McKenna was recorded on 1st June 2021 for the RGSMA Oral History Project. As part of that interview, Michael recalled his personal memories of the Dublin bombings of May 1974, during which he was on duty...

read more

John Mulligan – ‘THAT’S THE JOB’

Interviewed  in 2021 John Mulligan is a retired Superintendent in An Garda Síóchána. In this piece of audio, John reflects on the aftermath of the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings in May 1974, which he personally experienced while on duty with An Garda Síochána....

read more

Michael McKenna – ‘FLAMES’

Interviewed on 1 June 2021  Retired Superintendent Michael McKenna was recorded on 1st June 2021 for the GSRMA Oral History Project. As part of that interview, Michael recalled his personal memories of the Dublin bombings of May 1974, during which he was on duty...

read more

John Mulligan – ANNA MASSEY

Interviewed  in 2021 John Mulligan is a retired Superintendent in An Garda Síóchána. In this piece of audio, he remembers the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings of 17th May 1974. In this piece of audio, John Mulligan explains that the remains of the bodies were so...

read more

John Mulligan – ‘A BAG FULL OF SHRAPNEL’

Interviewed  in 2021 John Mulligan is a retired Superintendent in An Garda Síóchána. In this piece of audio, he remembers the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings of 17th May 1974. He recalls being charged with taking a body to the morgue and also recalls being handed a...

read more

John Mulligan – ‘ABSOLUTE CHAOS’

Interviewed  in 2021   John Mulligan is a retired Superintendent in An Garda Síóchána. This piece of audio was taken from an interview undertaken in 2021 and as a result of the Covid-19 Pandemic, recorded through the Zoom platform. Here, John Mulligan...

read more

John O’Brien – BOMBINGS

Interviewed in 2020 by John Greene of C103FM John O'Brien from Ballinhassig in Cork joined the Gardaí in 1968. On retiring almost 40 years later in 2006, he had reached the rank of Detective Chief Superintendent. He had also been Head of the National Office for...

read more

Matt Givens – ‘BADLY TRAUMATISED’

Interviewed on 19 April 2021 In this piece of audio, recorded with former Garda Matt Givens on 19th April 2021, Matt recalls his personal experience of being on duty in Dublin on 17 May 1974, the day of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings.  The Dublin and...

read more

Joe Sullivan – ‘THE BOMB WENT OFF’

Interviewed on 9 June 2021   Joe Sullivan is a native of Longford who joined An Garda Síochána in March 1967. He retired as a Superintendent. Joe spent many years working in the Cavan and Monaghan area and was there in Killeshandra in May 1974 when when he...

read more

Joe Sullivan – BOMB IN MONAGHAN TOWN 1974

Interviewed on 9 June 2021 Joe Sullivan is a native of Longford who joined An Garda Síochána in March 1967. He retired as a Superintendent. Joe spent many years working in the Cavan and Monaghan area and was there in Killeshandra in May 1974 when when he heard in the...

read more

Mary Molloy ‘SMOKE AND DUST’

Interviewed on 12 October 2021   On 17th May 1974, Mary Molly was a nurse attached to the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin where she worked in the orthopaedic section. This is the day of the infamous Dublin and Monaghan bombings where a total of 34 lives were lost. In...

read more

Matt Given ‘FIRST ON THE SCENE’

Interviewed on 19 April 2021  In this piece of audio, recorded with former Garda Matt Givens on 19th April 2021, Matt recalls his experience of being on duty in Dublin on 17 May 1974, the day of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings.  The Dublin and Monaghan...

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