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This 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…

The 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…

On the evening of Easter Tuesday, 15 April 1941, over 150 German bombers left their bases in northern occupied France. They were heading for Belfast. At 10:40 pm during the night of the 15 April, the air raid sirens sounded.…

On the eve of the most devasting raid on Belfast during its Blitz, Belfast was unprepared. Belfast had few air-raid shelters. The city was built on a geology of sleech which had a high water table and made digging deep…

The schemes for the evacuation of children from the city were finally getting underway. An avert for ‘Evacuation of Children’ in the Northern Whig set out the plans. Children of school age could go unaccompanied but those under school aged…