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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: People from Omagh, Omagh bombing, Brian Friel, Charles Beattie, Sam Neill, Linda Martin, Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, Benedict Kiely, Omagh Town F.C., Lee Mulhern, Omagh District Council, Jimmy Kennedy, Omagh St. Enda's, Gerard McSorley, Junior McBrine, Ulster American Folk Park, John Gorman, Christian Brothers Grammar School, Omagh, Justin McMahon, Dermot McCaffrey, Whitey McDonald, David Bates, Healy Park, Sheelagh Murnaghan, Tyrone County Hospital, Peter V. E. McClintock, Pat Sharkey, Omagh College of Further Education, Strule Arts Centre, John White, Killyclogher, Dunbreen Rovers, William McCreery, Sharon Owens, Alice Milligan, Ulster Herald, Fabian Monds, Arty McGlynn, Omagh Academy, Omagh United F.C., Q101.2, Drumragh Integrated College, St Lucia Barracks, Omagh, James McBrine, George Maguire, Tyrone Constitution, St Julian's Road. Excerpt: The Omagh bombing was a car bomb attack carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA), a splinter group of former Provisional Irish Republican Army members opposed to the Belfast Agreement, on Saturday 15 August 1998, in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Twenty-nine people died as a result of the attack and approximately 220 people were injured. The attack was described by the BBC as "Northern Ireland's worst single terrorist atrocity" and by the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, as an "appalling act of savagery and evil." Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness condemned the attack and the RIRA itself. The victims included people from many different backgrounds: Protestants, Catholics, a Mormon teenager, five other teenagers, six children, a woman pregnant with twins, two Spanish tourists, and other tourists on a day trip from the Republic of Ireland. The nature of the bombing created a strong international and local outcry against...
