Omagh 1998

[ailbhe]

A bomb! a bomb! and they turned and ran.
Mothers took their daughters by their tiny sticky hands,
Fathers scooped their sons up in their big strong arms,
And they ran towards the bomb
And they ran towards the bomb
And they ran
             towards
                     the bomb.

Comments

[hfnuala.livejournal.com]

God. the radio news this morning already made me cry about this.

[ailbhe]

Yes, me too.

30 people - local pop 28,000 - national pop 3.6m

Gosh, our numbers are *tiny*. But our percentages are large.

[webhill.livejournal.com]

what?

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

Try here.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

And here, for why it's topical.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

oh, gods.

that's a very good poem about a very awful thing.

[ailbhe]

Reading the (admittedly short) list of the dead is heartbreaking. What were the family from Madrid doing there?

[iuil.livejournal.com]

There was a school group from Madrid visiting Buncrana who'd gone on a day trip to Tyrone with some local kids tagging along, stopping off in Omagh for some shopping. Two of the Spanish children and one of their group leaders were killed along with 2 of the children from Buncrana :-(.

[iuil.livejournal.com]

My error - one Spanish child and 3 children from Buncrana plus the Spanish group leader were killed.

Heartbreaking, sickening, unforgiveable. All in the name of "the cause" :-(.

[pauamma]

Thank you for posting that. (Is it yours? Google doesn't show any other hit than this entry)

[ailbhe]

Yes, it popped into my head while I was crying at the radio this morning.

[redshira.livejournal.com]

So I just read this again after you linked to it in the comments to your post about Linnea's question, and I cried, and I showed it to my sister, who did the face she does when something is strong and scary.