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This story is taken from an interview with Fr Seamus Clenaghan, and has been added to the site with their permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions. The interview and transcription was by Bruce Logan.
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There was that McSorley family, sort of relations of ours. Dr McSorley, he was attached to the Mater Hospital, and he was down there attending to people. And this was the Easter Tuesday. And the city was bombed very badly that night. Also, the Antrim Rd area, which I鈥檝e mentioned. Now, he lived up the Antrim Rd, and his wife and some other lady were in the house together, and they got under the steel air-raid shelter. It was just a table. They got under there because there was something going on round the back. And they got a direct hit, and the house just collapsed on top of them. And he kept ringing up every so often just to find out if they were all right. And he got no word. And he thought, 鈥渨ell, I鈥檇 better go and see鈥�. And he arrived up in the middle of the night, there was no house there. And there was ARP people round about, and he says 鈥渕y wife should be in there鈥� and they started, and they dug her out some time later in the morning. She lived for years after that. She survived. Heavy tables, heavy legs to it, and so 鈥�

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