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Matt Cosgrave – POLICING IN CYPRUS

Retired Superintendent Matt Cosgrave Interviewed 27 September 2021 POLICING IN CYPRUS Retired Superintendent Matt Cosgrave speaks to the Capturing Our History Oral History Project about his memories of his time and his career in An Garda Siochána, which began in 1959....

Catherine Clancy – POLICING IN CAMBODIA

Interviewed 25 October 2021   Catherine Clancy was the first woman to be appointed an assistant commissioner in An Garda Síochána on 10 September 2003. A native of Donegal, she joined AGS in 1975 and enjoyed steady promotion through the ranks. In 2008, she...

Brendan Walsh – LIFE AFTER CAMBODIA

Interviewed 7 July 2021 In the early 1990s, Garda Brendan Walsh, a native of Dublin spent a year in Cambodia, as part of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC). UNTAC, was set up to supervise the ceasefire, between Cambodia and Vietnam. The...

Brendan Walsh – A YEAR IN CAMBODIA

Interviewed 7 July 2021 In this piece of audio, Brendan Walsh, a native of Dublin reflects a year he spent in Cambodia in the early 1990s, as part of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC). UNTAC was set up to supervise the ceasefire, between...

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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