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Matt Cosgrave – POLICING IN CYPRUS
Retired Superintendent Matt Cosgrave Interviewed 27 September 2021 POLICING IN CYPRUS Retired...
Catherine Clancy – POLICING IN CAMBODIA
Interviewed 25 October 2021 Catherine Clancy was the first woman to be appointed an...
Brendan Walsh – LIFE AFTER CAMBODIA
Interviewed 7 July 2021 In the early 1990s, Garda Brendan Walsh, a native of Dublin spent a year...
Brendan Walsh – A YEAR IN CAMBODIA
Interviewed 7 July 2021 In this piece of audio, Brendan Walsh, a native of Dublin reflects a year...
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...
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...
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...