The distress, like the devil, is in the details. And yet we owe it to those witnesses to let these details pass through the filters we use to keep the unbearable at bay
Omagh bombing: Victims of explosion on August 15, 1998, James Barker, Esther Gibson, Sean McGrath, Gareth Conway, and Elizabeth Rush, Veda Short, Alan Radford Fred White, Lorraine Wilson, Geraldine Breslin, Oran Doherty and Aidan Gallagher, Bryan White and Debra-Anne Cartwright. Photograph: Family Handout/PAgot off the bus in Omagh on the way back to Buncrana, he bought himself a whole cooked chicken.
over the last few weeks is too much. Its website carries the warning: “This page may contain matters that may cause considerable distress.” There is no “may” about it. . For it is only those particularities that transform body number 15 back into the funny kid eating the chicken, a boy called Oran that everybody loved.
Other things should never leave: Pauline Harte, perhaps because she was an art student, being puzzled by the colours of the fire in the car engine that had been blown on top of her – “I didn’t know it was a fire, because the fire has the colour yellow in it. I saw deep black, orange and red colours moving and it sounded as angry as it looked.” The rescuer who later told her “that he went home with my skin melted into his hands”.
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