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Remembering the Victims of the Omagh Bombing

category national | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis author Friday August 15, 2008 12:03author by Mark C - 1 of Indymedia.ieauthor email mark at poetry dot ie Report this post to the editors

10 Years On - Remembering the Victims of the Omagh Bombing 15th August 1998

My wife was pregnant with twins this time last year and it got me thinking about Avril Monaghan, the woman who died, pregnant with twins, in the Omagh bombing. This is a short piece that I wrote at the time, remembering that tragic day in general, and those hugely unfortunate twins in particular. I'm sharing it here to commerorate these people on the tenth anniversary of their deaths.

Two Who Almost Were

You two then were like our two now
When the big bang banged
But you two now are like our two then
Because the big bang banged
And what did you know of it?
Or what did you care for it?
The cause, I mean –
Not the big bang that banged.

The result for those committed
Can not be considered worth it.
That big bang that banged
For an Ireland that has never been –
Unlike you two who always will be – united.

- Mark Conroy.

Related Link: http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/omagh/dead.html

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Everyone remembers, some try to conveniently forget     Jed    Sat Aug 16, 2008 01:00 
   Omagh should be remembered for ever.     jim    Sat Aug 16, 2008 10:45 
   Remembrance and forgetting     sepao    Sat Aug 16, 2008 11:46 
   moral relativism     Solomon    Sat Aug 16, 2008 17:01 
   manipulation     The quiet American    Sat Aug 16, 2008 23:13 
   RIP in dignity.     Madam K    Sun Aug 17, 2008 14:09 
   Omagh Remembrance     Jeff    Sun Aug 17, 2008 22:06 


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