Qualla: Ahakista https://qualla.com/ahakista en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/j/ahakista-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ahakista https://qualla.com/ahakista Ahakista: Introduction https://qualla.com/ahakista/ Photo credit Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0. Each year on the morning of 23 June, a small crowd gathers in a garden in Ahakista and waits for the sun. At 08:00 the light strikes the face of a bronze sundial, and 329 people are remembered - the passengers and crew of Air India Flight 182, killed when a bomb tore apart their Boeing 747 in the sky high above this stretch of County Cork on 23 June 1985. The garden sits beside the harbour of a wooded village on the Sheep's Head peninsula, halfway between Durrus and Kilcrohane. Ahakista is small. It has two pubs, a sandy beach, and a deep harbour. It is also where the families of the dead first came to throw wreaths into the sea.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/j/ahakista-wp/gc1j-ahakista-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ahakista: The Memorial Garden https://qualla.com/ahakista/ Photo credit Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Air India Memorial Garden was officially opened on 23 June 1986, exactly one year after the bombing. Cork County Council purchased the site after relatives of the victims, having flown from India and Canada in the days following the disaster, came to the nearest point of land...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/j/ahakista-wp/gc1j-ahakista-the-memorial-garden.mp3 0:06 2 full Ahakista: What Happened Above the Sea https://qualla.com/ahakista/ Photo credit Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0. Air India Flight 182 was operating Montreal to London to Delhi to Bombay when it disappeared from radar at 07:14 GMT. The bomb had been placed in checked luggage by members of a Sikh extremist group seeking revenge for the Indian Army's 1984 storming of the Golden Temple at Amrit...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/j/ahakista-wp/gc1j-ahakista-what-happened-above-the-sea.mp3 0:06 3 full Ahakista: Why Ahakista https://qualla.com/ahakista/ Photo credit Andrew Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0. The wreckage and remains fell into the sea on a stretch of Atlantic that ships from Cork could reach faster than anywhere else. Bodies recovered in the days after the bombing were brought ashore and taken to Cork Regional Hospital. When the families arrived from across the world,...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/j/ahakista-wp/gc1j-ahakista-why-ahakista.mp3 0:06 4 full Ahakista: The Village Around the Garden https://qualla.com/ahakista/ Photo credit Andy Stephenson, CC BY-SA 2.0. Ahakista's life has continued around the memorial without being defined by it. The village's deep, sheltered harbour hosts the Ahakista Regatta each August bank holiday weekend, fishing boats and pleasure craft side by side. There are two pubs with beer gardens - one of them loca...

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