After the Bomb: Mountbatten's Tragedy and a Twin Brother's Act of Devotion ; Book of the Week
Daily Mail › September 04, 2009
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FROM A CLEAR BLUE SKY: SURVIVING THE MOUNTBATTEN BOMB BY TIMOTHY KNATCHBULL (Hutchinson Pounds 20) ON MONDAY August 27, 1979, the IRA used a remotecontrol device to detonate a bomb aboard a boat near Mullaghmore in County Sligo. They killed an old man, an old woman, two teenage boys and a dog, did these brave freedom-fighters.
'I don't glorify death,' one supporter later reflected with a charmless mixture of machismo and humbug, 'but I had personal pride in what happened because it was a military operation and they took him out.' 'Him' was Viscount Mountbatten, 79, who every year spent his August holidays with his family at Classiebawn Castle. Never mind that in Burma and India Mountbatten had sought to make peace with nationalists and helped dismantle the British imperialism he represented; never mind that he was on holiday not in the 'occupied' north but in the Republic; never mind that he was a private citizen some years into retirement.See the full content of this document
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After the Bomb: Mountbatten's Tragedy and a Twin Brother's Act of Devotion ; Book of the Week
He was an English toff, and a symbol of imperialism, so that was that. To those watching the boat from their binoculars on the clifftop the presence of multiple civilians, including teenage children, was no impediment to setting off a bomb.
Those deaths would be an 'unfortunate' or 'regrettable' by- product of what their leaders admitted was no more than a bloody pub...See the full content of this document
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