New book chronicles life of Irish doctor who survived Nagasaki
Aidan MacCarthy went from west Cork to Dunkirk and later a Japanese POW
The Irish eyewitness to the atomic bomb at Nagasaki
Dr Aidan MacCarthy was in POW camp: ‘I thought we had arrived at Judgement Day’
Irish nun witnessed dropping of Hiroshima bomb in 1945
Julia Canny was just 2kms away from where the bomb dropped 69 years ago today
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