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- CSV Media NI
- People in story:Ìý
- Fr Seamus Clenaghan
- Location of story:Ìý
- Belfast, N Ireland, Malta
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A6766301
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 07 November 2005
This story is taken from an interview with Fr Seamus Clenaghan, and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions. The interview and transcription was by Bruce Logan.
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The Incidents of the bomb at St Peters [the Catholic cathedral in West Belfast].
St Peters has Twin Towers. Judging from the angle, [the bomb] must have come through the 2 spires and landed 10 yards or so ...
Right in front. And it didn’t exploded
We were in Malta [on holiday after the war]…
There was a Church, and a German bomb went right through the Dome. It bounced 3 times ...
People were in for Mass. No-one had been injured apart from their nerves.
A replica of the bomb that came through is still there.
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