Qualla: Omagh https://qualla.com/omagh en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Omagh https://qualla.com/omagh Omagh: Introduction https://qualla.com/omagh/ On a Saturday afternoon in August 1998, the streets of Omagh were full of back-to-school shoppers, mothers with prams, Spanish exchange students on a day trip, and families just going about ordinary Saturday business. At 3:10 that afternoon, a car bomb planted by the Real Irish Republican Army detonated in the town centre. Twenty-nine people were killed - fourteen women, one of them carrying twins, nine children, and five men. Hundreds more were wounded. It remains the single worst atrocity of the Troubles, and it happened in a town that had, until that moment, been known mostly for its rivers and its quiet.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/y/omagh-wp/gcdy-omagh-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Omagh: Where Three Rivers Meet https://qualla.com/omagh/ The name comes from the Irish An Ómaigh, meaning the virgin plain - a tract of open ground in a country where open ground was rare. The Drumragh and the Camowen flow down out of the surrounding hills and join here to form the Strule, and the town grew up around that meeting of wa...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/y/omagh-wp/gcdy-omagh-where-three-rivers-meet.mp3 0:06 2 full Omagh: Capital of Tyrone https://qualla.com/omagh/ In 1768, Omagh replaced Dungannon as the county town of Tyrone, and the trappings of administration followed. The railways arrived in stages - Londonderry in 1852, Enniskillen in 1854, Belfast by 1861 - turning the town into a junction. St Lucia Barracks were completed in 1881, t...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/y/omagh-wp/gcdy-omagh-capital-of-tyrone.mp3 0:06 3 full Omagh: The Fifteenth of August https://qualla.com/omagh/ The bomb that day was meant for the courthouse. The warnings called in beforehand were inaccurate, and police, trying to clear the area they were told to clear, inadvertently moved shoppers toward the actual device. The car was parked on Market Street outside Kells's drapery shop...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/y/omagh-wp/gcdy-omagh-the-fifteenth-of-august.mp3 0:06 4 full Omagh: After the Bomb https://qualla.com/omagh/ The world expected Omagh to break. It did not. The funerals went on for days, attended by leaders from London, Dublin, Belfast, and Washington. Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern came; so did Bill and Hillary Clinton. The town buried its dead together - Catholic and Protestant, Irish an...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/y/omagh-wp/gcdy-omagh-after-the-bomb.mp3 0:06 5 full Omagh: Sperrins and Sons of Omagh https://qualla.com/omagh/ Beyond the centre, the town spreads into townlands with names that catch the ear - Conywarren, an old word for a rabbit warren, Killyclogher, Lisanelly, Mullaghmore. The Ulster American Folk Park sits just outside town, built around the cottage where Thomas Mellon was born in 181...

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