Poppy Day Bomb Memories Fade as Ulster Town Awaits Obama
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Edith Wilson remembers the last time Enniskillen, the Northern Irish town hosting next week’s Group of Eight summit, swarmed with police.
It was November 1987, when an Irish Republican Army bomb killed 11 people commemorating Britain’s war dead on Remembrance Day in an attack that became known as the Poppy Day Massacre and a symbol of the worst of Northern Ireland’s civil conflict. Twenty-six years on, the town is now preparing to host the two-day meeting of world leaders, including President Barack Obama.