Dublin/Monaghan Bombings 1974

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HISTORY

RECENT NEWS

ONLINE RESOURCES

RECOMMENDED READING

HISTORY

THIRTY YEARS ON AND JUSTICE STILL NOT DONE

THIRTY YEARS ON AND JUSTICE STILL DENIED

At 5:30 PM on Friday May 17th 1974, as the evening and after-work crowds moved through rush hour streets, three no-warning car bombs exploded in Dublin. Ninety minutes later, another massive no-warning car bomb exploded 75 miles away, just south of the border in Monaghan town.

In all thirty-four people, including an entire family and one full-term unborn child, were killed. It was, and still remains, the single greatest loss of life during the Troubles.... more

RECENT NEWS

Eyewitness testimony

Within days of the bombings, many eyewitnesses came forward with information that in most cases was recorded but not followed up on. Many eyewitnesses have recently reported during the re-opened Coroner's Inquiry that they were not ever asked to view mug shots despite giving detailed physical descriptions of the suspects.

Free State Report on bombings to be published (Irish Times, April 4, 2007)

British spooks 'colluded with loyalists' (BBC, November 12, 2006)

Evidence found of British collusion in bombings (Irish Examiner, November 7, 2006)

Witness reports - Reopened Inquest (The Irish Emigrant, May 17, 2004)

RUC denied bomb van was in city (Irish Independent, May 15, 2004)

Witnesses saw cars used in bombings (Irish Independent, May 12, 2004)

Bomber Argued with Witness (Irish Independent, May 11, 2004)

Bus driver saw bomber park explosives car (Irish Independent, May 6, 2004)

Man Spotted Filming In Dublin Two Days Before Bombings (Irish Times, May 5, 2004)

Witness never called to identify 1974 bomb blasts suspect (Irish Independent, May 05, 2004)

Witnesses 'not given chance to ID bomb blast suspects' (Irish Independent, April 30, 2004)

Witness: Special Branch allowed Brit soldier with false plates to leave (Irish Voice, April 8, 2004)

Stoppage that brought Sunningdale Agreement, the North to its knees (Irish News, May 15, 2004)

Horror of the bombings continues for the bereaved and injured (Irish News, May 14, 2004)

British 'Irresponsibility' Led To 30 Years Of Tragedy (Derry Journal, May 14 2004)

Dublin Bombs: Two further explosives failed to go off (Irish Independent, May 14, 2004)

Grieving father begs inquest for truth (Irish Independent, April 29, 2004)

Families tell court about last hours of bombing victims (Irish Independent, April 28, 2004)

Bombing Inquest Re-opens (BBC News, April 27, 2004)

Cabinet bypassed over bombings (Irish Independent, March 3, 2004)

Free State officer told of 'British link' to 1974 bombing (Irish Times, February 19, 2004)

Collusion on Bombings ‘Probable’: Former U.S. Ambassador (Irish Voice, February 8, 2004)

Loyalist bombers 'helped by British' (The Guardian, December 10, 2003)

Bombings report 'pulls no punches' (The Irish Examiner, December 10, 2003)

A Trust Betrayed - The Case for a Public Inquiry (Justice for the Forgotten, May 2003)

The Truth Trickles Out (Magill, September 2002)

The UK Government, Sovereign Immunity, Pinochet and the Dublin & Monaghan Bombings (PFC - Sunday Tribune, April 22, 2002)

"Sovereign immunity" defense planned if British government sued (Sunday Tribune, April 2002)

The SAS, their early days in Ireland and the Wilson plot (Flame, Spring 1999 - Seán Mac Mathúna)

British Military Intelligence - The double edged sword (April 1999, Don Mullan)

ONLINE RESOURCES

Barron Report
Final Report on the Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings, presented March 3, 2004. Full text available at:
http://www.irlgov.ie/oireachtas/Committees-29th-Dáil/jcjedwr-debates/BarronReportFinal.pdf ().

CAIN Web Services Key Events - Dublin and Monaghan Bombings

Excerpt from IN DUBIOUS BATTLE - The Dublin bombings 1972-1974 J. Bowyer Bell (CAIN Web Service)

Justice For The Forgotten http://www.dublinmonaghanbombings.org

RECOMMENDED READING

Bell, J. Bowyer. (1996) In Dubious Battle: The Dublin and Monaghan Bombings 1972-1974. Dublin: Poolbeg Press Ltd.

Bruce, Steve. (1992), The Red Hand: Protestant Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fisk, Robert. (1975), The Point of No Return: the strike which broke the British in Ulster. London: Andre Deutsch.

Mullan, Don (2000), The Dublin and Monahgan Bombings. Dublin: Wolfhound Press.

Tiernan, Joe. (2002) The Dublin and Monaghan bombings and the murder triangle. Dublin: (Published by Author).



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