Ireland's Secret War: Dan Bryan, G2 and the Lost Tapes That Reveal the Hunt for Ireland's Nazi Spies by Marc McMenamin

Author:Marc McMenamin [McMenamin, Marc]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi, pdf
Tags: History, Military, World War II, World, Europe, Great Britain, General, Ireland
ISBN: 9780717192892
Google: 99hpEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Gill
Published: 2022-04-14T20:38:07+00:00

Members of the Dáil desire to be directly associated with the expression of sympathy already tendered by the government on behalf of the nation to the great number of our citizens [1,584] who have been so cruelly bereaved by the recent bombing. Although a complete survey has not yet been possible, the latest report which I have received is that 27 persons were killed outright or subsequently died; 45 were wounded or received other serious bodily injury and are still in hospital; 25 houses were completely destroyed and 300 so damaged as to be unfit for habitation, leaving many hundreds of our people homeless. It has been for all our citizens an occasion of profound sorrow in which the members of this House have fully shared. [Members rose in their places.] The Dáil will also desire to be associated with the expression of sincere thanks which has gone out from the government and from our whole community to the several voluntary organisations the devoted exertions of whose members helped to confine the extent of the disaster and have mitigated the sufferings of those affected by it. As I have already informed the public, a protest has been made to the German government. The Dáil will not expect me, at the moment, to say more on this.

The same day de Valera attended the funerals of 12 of those killed, who were buried by Dublin Corporation at a public funeral held at the Church of St Laurence O’Toole, Seville Place. Archbishop McQuaid led the mourners in prayer as the city tried to come to terms with the tragic events.

Thoughts in government turned to the reasons for the bombing. Speculation was rife that perhaps it was another case of a lost aircraft, but there were also whisperings of something more sinister. Was it a warning to Dublin to stick to its policy of neutrality? After all, there had been reports of Ireland’s favourable attitude towards the Allies. De Valera instructed the Irish Ambassador in Berlin, William Warnock, to make a firm protest to the German authorities. The German government did accept responsibility and offered to pay compensation. Warnock later told Joseph Walshe at the Department of External Affairs that the Germans had assured him that the bombing was accidental:

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