On August 9, 1945 Nagasaki was destroyed when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city.
Thirty-five thousand people were immediately killed.
The dead included 23,200–28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.
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A clarification on Tom Brodie’s leaving the Irish Dominicans
The text below also appears under the post 'More thoughts on the late Tom Brodie, former Dominican’, published on Wednesday, April 8. ...
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In the current edition of the Irish Catholic David Quin writes about the controversy happening between US Catholic politicians and the US hi...
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Former Dominican priest Tom Tom Brodie Brodie died in a nursing home in Galway yesterday. He had been ailing for some time. He was born in C...
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The story below is from The Irish Times of yesterday. The article is written by Arthur Beesley. On face value this is a shocking story and i...
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