The Belfast Telegraph reported that ‘dangerous’ animals at the zoo had been destroyed to protect the public in the event of bomb damage to their enclosures that may permit their escape. In all 33 animals were put down including a…
ByadminThe city continued to come to terms with the attack. The newspapers gave details of how people could get food, support and water.[1] The Northern Whig set out how people could unidentified dead at St Georges’ market in order to…
Byadmin17 April 1941 (Thursday) – Belfast 1941 Blitz Diary The Irish Times editorial on 17 April reported that: ‘Humanity knows no borders, no politics, no differences of religious belief. Yesterday for once the people of Ireland were united under the shadow…
ByadminThis morning I attended a ceremony to mark the 81st anniversary of the Belfast Blitz at mass grave to unidentified victims of the raids at Belfast City Cemetery. Between 7-8 April to 5-6 May 1941, the German air force launched…
ByadminThe second raid on Belfast took place on Easter Tuesday, 15 April 1941. Around two hundred Luftwaffe bombers attacked military and manufacturing targets in the city of Belfast. It is estimated that some 900 people died and 1,500 were injured…
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