Ireland's Deadliest Day

Ireland's deadliest day, May 17th 1974 came at the hands of the UVF, Ulster volunteer force, a radical protestant loyalist paramilitary group from Northern Ireland. The Ulster Volunteer Force set off four car bombs that exploded without warning, bringing destruction to Dublin and Monaghan and killing 33 people including a woman that was nine months pregnant. the youngest of the dead was only five months old and the oldest was an 80-year-old veteran of World War One. Two of the victims were foreigners Antonio Magliocco, an Italian man, and Simone Chetrit, a French Jewish woman whose family had survived the holocaust. In addition to these deaths, there were approximately 258 people who were injured in the explosions.