This article comprises a revised version of "Men that came in with the sea‟ which appeared in History Ireland in 2008. The torpedoing of the Blue Star Line‟s 15,000-ton luxury liner Arandora Star off Bloody Foreland, Donegal on 2 July 1940 is one of the hidden histories of Second World War Ireland. Though the sinking was reported in the local press in Mayo and Donegal, where it is still remembered, it never made it into the national consciousness due to wartime censorship.
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