Claudy Bombing

On the 31st July 1972 Sinn Fein/IRA with the aid of priests exploded bombs in Claudy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The Claudy bombing became known as Bloody Monday. The first to die was little Kathryn Eakin who was just eight year old. She was killed when the first bomb exploded outside McElhinney's Pub at Main Street at 10.15am. Kathryn was struck by shrapnel as she helped out at her father's grocery shop. Read the names of the other victims of the Sinn Fein/IRA bomb. Read how the priest help and supported these murders. Joseph McCluskey 39 yrs Catholic Civilian Kathryn Eakin 9 yr old child Protestant Civilian David Miller 60 yrs Protestant Civilian James McLelland 65 yrs Protestant Civilian William Temple 16 yrs old Protestant Civilian Elizabeth McElhinney 59 yrs Catholic Civilain Rose McLaughlin 51 yrs Patrick Connolly Arthur Hone A poem was wrote for Little Kathryn Eakin which you can read below - Poet James Simmons writing of the bombing in Claudy which killed nine people including Elizabeth McElhinney The Sperrins surround it, the Faughan flows by, at each end of Main Street the hills and the sky, the small town of Claudy at ease in the sun, last July in the morning, a new day begun, How peaceful and pretty if the moment could stop, McElhinney is straightening things in his shop, and his wife is outside serving petrol, and then a girl takesa cloth to a big window pane. And McCloskey is taking the weight off his feet, and McClelland and Miller are sweeping ...

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