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Omagh

/ əʊˈmɑː; ˈəʊmə /

noun

  1. a market town in Northern Ireland. Pop: 19 910 (2001)
  2. a district of W Northern Ireland, in Co Tyrone. Pop: 49 560 (2003 est). Area: 1130 sq km (436 sq miles)


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As late as 1998, a wicked bombing in Omagh caused 29 deaths, with 220 injured.

The people of Omagh destroyed their own dwellings so utterly that no roof was left to shelter the enemy from the rain and wind.

He received at Omagh, early on the sixteenth of April, letters which alarmed him.

On the fourteenth of April the King and his train proceeded to Omagh.

When at length the travellers reached Omagh, they found it in ruins.

Captain Cruickshank, of Omagh, also showed great coolness and valour on that occasion.

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