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Dublin gunpowder disaster
The Dublin gunpowder disaster was a devastating explosion that took place on the quays of Dublin on March 11, 1597. The explosion demolished as many as forty houses, and left dozens of others badly damaged. The disaster claimed the lives of 126 people, as well as inflicting countless injuries.〔S J Connolly, Contested Island, pg 282〕
The accidental explosion is the worst disaster of the kind to have occurred in Ireland. In the long run, however, the disaster provided the impetus for the rapid expansion of Dublin in the early 17th Century and beyond, with the rebuilding efforts laying the foundation of the new city centre.
== The explosion of March 11 ==
In the early afternoon on the Friday of 11 March, a consignment of gunpowder barrels was being unloaded by crane from a lighter moored at the dock. Shortly after one o'clock, as the wooden crane was shifting four barrels of gunpowder towards the quay, catastrophe struck. 140 barrels of gunpowder that had been resting on the river side were engulfed by a massive explosion, transforming a tranquil spring day by the riverside into a scene of devastation. The crane and crane house, which were sited by the barrels, were torn asunder, but the force of the blast was felt far across the city. Nearby, many houses owned by Merchant families facing the river Liffey were consumed by the blast, some of them collapsing, others badly defaced. Such was the force of the blast that some buildings in the suburbs of the city were damaged as debris rained down across Dublin. Unsurprisingly, the dozens of riverside labourers who were unlucky enough to be working in the area had no chance of survival: body parts were found scattered hundreds of yards from the crater left by the explosion.
The contemporaneous Gaelic chronicle known as the Annals of the Four Masters describes the disaster:
:...a spark of fire got into the powder; but from whence that spark proceeded, whether from the heavens or from the earth beneath, is not known; howbeit, the barrels burst into one blazing flame and rapid conflagration, which raised into the air, from their solid foundations and supporting posts, the stone mansions and wooden houses of the street, so that the long beam, the enormous stone, and the man in his corporal shape, were sent whirling into the air over the town by the explosion of this powerful powder; and it is impossible to enumerate, reckon, or describe the number of honourable persons, of tradesmen of every class, of women and maidens, and of the sons of gentlemen, who had come from all parts of Ireland to be educated in the city, that were destroyed.〔Annals of the Four Masters, pg 2014〕
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