Were you affected by IRA bombings?

[gmc]

Originally Posted by mikeinie

In this case however, it is (or was) not so much about differences in religion as it was about the struggle for home rule.

Or reclaiming independence? In part it was also about who should rule a king by divine right or the people albeit through a monarch whose powers were curbed. A despotic catholic king using the irish and later the highlanders irish or a foreign one what a choice to have to make.

I think I would have been a leveller in the civil war but where does that put you later on?

[oscar]

Originally Posted by buttercup

Yes i have been 'directly' affected by the bombings and not some cousin twice removed or friend of my sisters aunt.
I'd prefer not to talk about it but have absolutely no objection to your thread

Very sorry to hear that Cupcake

[oscar]

I lived a few miles away when the Brighton bomb went off. My house shook and I remember the strangest of booms with the after shock boom. We ran out into the road and pretty much guessed it was the IRA as it was the Conservative Party conference and Margaret Thatcher and the Cabinet were staying in Brighton at the Grand Hotel.
My first husband was already out on another shout and I heard later that he had been summoned down to The Grand. We didn't have mobile phones in those days so I didn't know what was going on with him. He was an expert in chemical and electrical fires and one of the first on the scene.
We all got in our cars and raced down there but couldn't get further than the Prommenade due to emergency services. It was pitch black but I remember the screaming, the smoke and a horrible smell that seemed to linger for days. People were shouting that Thatcher was dead but all I could think and worry about was secondry bombs going off once the emergency services had gone in.

[G-man]

Ditto BC's reply for myself. Not to the point where I, obviously, cannot reply, but there are physical and mental scars that still exist.

[oscar]

Originally Posted by G-man

Ditto BC's reply for myself. Not to the point where I, obviously, cannot reply, but there are physical and mental scars that still exist.

I'm sorry to hear that. Many Many were affected but some assume that in time we forget. We certainly don't. The Hyde park bomb was particually distressing for me for my own reasons.