Campile bombing

[(RIP) Bin Ridin]

Hi,

I took a few snaps of the Campile bombing monument and knowing my elderly neighbout was from Kilmokea, I sent him one of same.

Interesting reply:

"Hi .. Theo here

Thanks for the picture. I presume that I had told you that I was out sailing off Dunmore East on that Sunday morning of the bombing. I was alone in a 12ft sailing boat when the 'planes flew very low over me. It was only afterwards that I knew what they had been doing."

Not the most beautiful monument, apparently a collaboration between an Irish and and German sculptor = curate's egg.

Hmm.

 

[Jockser]

Not the most beautiful monument, apparently a collaboration between an Irish and and German sculptor = curate's egg.

 

[(RIP) Bin Ridin]

"A contemporary sculpture of rare Italian marble has been created for the
garden by Co Wexford artist Ciaran O’Brien and his German partner Anika
Lintermann.

The piece was commissioned by local developers who acquired the site of the
old Co-op in 2008 for a housing and retail project."

http://ireland.world-countries.net/archives/44357

 

[Jockser]

The piece was commissioned by local developers who acquired the site of the
old Co-op in 2008 for a housing and retail project."

I wonder how that's going for them

 

[GerryC]

Hi,

I took a few snaps of the Campile bombing monument ..................

Very interesting - must check it out

 

[GSDGS]

No oil painting

. . . . and why might that be ?
why not somewhat more scenic or beautiful ?

 

[GerryC]

. . . . and why might that be ?
why not somewhat more scenic or beautiful ?

The destination - is it the thing
Or the joys the trip might bring
To see or not to see
Beauty so subjectively
On journeys motorbiking

 

[frank1200]

. . . . and why might that be ?
why not somewhat more scenic or beautiful ?

did you ever hear of fhe boyne photographic rally

 

[shuck raider]

Eye-witness account of the Campile bombing from a local guy who was in the ARP:

"I saw about six bombers travel due west up Thomas Street. I recognised them as German by the engine sounds. Shortly after the planes had gone due west a number of military vehicles raced up Thomas Street going in the direction of the planes. The news broke afterwards that Campile was bombed and that the Co-Operative Dairy factory was flattened with 10 deaths and one man killed in his field. The local reason for this bombing was that the Co-Op were supplying butter and other such foodstuffs to England through Belfast, whilst the German reason was that the planes became separate from the main group and were jettisoning their bombs over an uninhabited area."

The same guy had quite a sense of humour. Here's his account of an emergency drill:

"The procedure was to notify our command centre that a bombing raid had taken place in our area. Our "casualty list" included six dead and one who supposedly lost a leg. The alert eventually came and we were supposed to alert the fire services, the ambulance service, the local hospital and the police to maintain order. We had to use public telephones and the guy delegated to carry this out ran out of pennies after phoning the ambulance so didn't notify the fire service, hospital or police. On the way to the scene of the "carnage" the ambulance had a front tyre blow out, so one of the lads borrowed a bicycle and went off to get a replacement wheel and jack from the station. In the meantime Martin was lying in his house with one leg supposedly blown off. When the ambulance filled with nurses eventually arrived they found a note pinned to the kitchen cabinet which read, "Bled to death. Gone to the Pub".

 

[Ravenbyrne]

Sure what would you know about art

 

[GerryC]

Sure what would you know about art

F - all about - art