76th Anniversary of the Ballymanus Mine Disaster, 10th May 1943
It is 76 years since 19 men, including my mother’s uncle, were killed by a mine washed up at Mullaghduff / Ballymanus in the Rosses. Here is a post on…
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Poem on Ballymanus Mine Disaster, 1943
On May 10th, 1943, a stray mine washed ashore in the Rosses of Donegal. What happened next is recounted in this Irish Times piece on a memorial unveiled in 1999:…
Séamus Sweeney 