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The Main Guard in Clonmel will host the lecture at 8.15pm on Monday night
Dr Bob Jackson will show his documentary on Dr Aidan McCarthy, speak on the background to making it and address the audience at the lecture of Clonmel Historical and Archaeological Society, which will be held this Monday, March 20 in the Main Guard at 8.15pm.
Dr Aidan McCarthy, who served as a doctor with the RAF, was imprisoned by Japanese forces in Java after the fall of Singapore during World War II and survived shipwreck and almost four years of harsh captivity.
He was a prisoner at the Mitsubishi Steel and Irons works in Nagasaki on August 9 1945 when the atomic bomb exploded over the city.
He survived again to return home to County Cork with the samurai sword of the camp commander.
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