![]() 24 July 1941: Bombs fell on Dundalk, causing only minor damage and no casualties.1 June 1941: Arklow was bombed by the Luftwaffe, with no casualties.: the most fatal attack occurred when four German bombs fell on North Dublin in the North Strand area, killing 28 people.3 January 1941: Dublin was again hit by the German Luftwaffe, with bombs falling on Donore Terrace in the South Circular Road area with 20 people injured, but no loss of life.In Meath, five bombs fell at Duleek and three at Julianstown, without casualties In Carlow, a house in Knockroe was destroyed, killing three people and injuring two others In Kildare three high explosive, as well as many incendiary, bombs fell in the Curragh area two sea mines were dropped by parachute near Enniskerry in Wicklow Ballymurrin in Wexford saw three German bombs fall without casualties and in Dublin, German bombs hit Terenure, two falling at Rathdown Park, with another two at Fortfield Road and Lavarna Grove, with injuries but no loss of life. 1–2 January 1941: bombs fell in Counties Meath, Carlow, Kildare, Wicklow, Wexford and Dublin.A third bomb fell about half an hour later near Carrickmacross in County Monaghan, slightly injuring one person. 20 December 1940: At approximately 7:30 in the evening, two bombs fell on Glasthule near Dún Laoghaire (the first at the junction of Rosmeen Park and Summerhill Road and the second between Rosmeen Park and Rosmeen Gardens), injuring three people.In 1943, the German government paid £9000 in compensation. ![]() One bomb hit the Shelbourne Co-operative Creamery in Campile killing three people. 26 August 1940: Five German bombs were dropped on County Wexford in a daylight raid.Timeline of German bombings of the Irish state ĭespite its neutrality, Ireland experienced several bombing raids: German area bombings aimed at the United Kingdom were reduced after the launch of Operation Barbarossa in late June 1941. As part of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland was at war, but the independent state of Ireland was neutral. By May 1941, the German Air Force had bombed numerous British cities, as well as Belfast in Northern Ireland, during " The Blitz". By July 1940, after Germany's military conquests of Poland, Denmark and Norway ( Unternehmen Weserübung), as well as Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands and France ( Westfeldzug), Britain stood alone, with its Commonwealth and Empire against Nazi Germany. However, the first bombing of the Republic of Ireland had taken place several months earlier, on 26 August 1940, when the German Luftwaffe bombed Campile, County Wexford, killing three people.Īt the start of World War II, Ireland declared its neutrality and proclaimed "The Emergency". Later that year, on, four German bombs fell in north Dublin, one damaging Áras an Uachtaráin but with the greatest impact in the North Strand area, killing 28 people. A number of people were injured, but no one was killed in these bombings. This was followed, early on the following morning of 3 January 1941, by further German bombing of houses on Donore Terrace in the South Circular Road area of south Dublin. The first bombing of Dublin in World War II occurred early on the morning of 2 January 1941, when German bombs were dropped on the Terenure area of south Dublin.
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