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This is taken from an interview of Molly Lonergan, Lucy Gordon, Kathleen O’Hare. the interviewer was David Reid, and the transcription was by Bruce Logan.
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You’d listen to the radio, it was very important, so you’d know what was going on. When Coventry was bombed, it was terrible. I think it was before Belfast.
I was in the South of Ireland, we could hear the planes pass overhead. We were
saying prayers, hoping they weren’t going to Belfast. But they were. And my mother-in-law, she was a Midwife, and she was a Nurse. She helped an awful lot and laid out the bodies. There was an awful lot of people was killed around the waterworks, because they thought the waterworks was the harbour. They bombed along there, and there were an awful lot of people killed. It was a terrible time. I wasn’t here at the time, but I heard about it.

[During an air raid, Belfast people] went up the Andersonstown Hills, up there. When I came here first I lived with my Mother-in-law and they had a table, a shelter in the living room. Like this table. It was there for a good while. Everyone got their shelters.

Every time you heard. I used to feel sorry for the German people too, when they would bomb the whole city like Dresden and those places.
[Dresden -] They were a whole city, there was so many killed during the war.

I had a sister in Birmingham and another sister was a Nurse in England, worked in London and her hospital was bombed. We’d read the paper every morning before we’d let Mother see it in case her hospital was on the paper. And it was bombed, and a friend of hers was killed. And then they were evacuated to a place called Barnett outside of London, out there for a while.
Another sister went to Birmingham, she worked in a Small arms factory and made arms for the war.

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