Editing Monaghan (section)

===Twentieth century===
In February 1919 the first self-consciously proclaimed [[Soviet (council)|soviet]] in the United Kingdom was established at Monaghan Lunatic Asylum.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kostick |first=Conor |year=1996 |title=Revolution in Ireland: Popular Militancy, 1917–1923 |url=https://archive.org/details/revolutioninirel00kost |url-access=registration |location=London |publisher=[[Pluto Press]] |page=[https://archive.org/details/revolutioninirel00kost/page/70 70]|isbn=9780745311234 }}</ref> This led to the claim by [[Joseph Devlin]] in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom]] that "the only successfully conducted institutions in Ireland are the lunatic asylums".<ref>[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1919/feb/20/monaghan-lunatic-asylum Hansard] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090711231706/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1919/feb/20/monaghan-lunatic-asylum |date=11 July 2009 }}, 20 February 1919, accessed 18 July 2010</ref>

On 17 May 1974 an [[Ulster loyalism|Ulster loyalist]] [[car bomb]] exploded in the Friday evening rush hour, killing seven people.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dublinmonaghanbombings.org/may74.html |title=Justice for the Forgotten |website=www.dublinmonaghanbombings.org |access-date=1 December 2016 |archive-date=10 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510125747/http://www.dublinmonaghanbombings.org/may74.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It was detonated outside Greacen's public house on North Road in a car that had been stolen earlier that afternoon in [[Portadown]], [[Northern Ireland]]. The bomb killed Paddy Askin (44), Thomas Campbell (52), Thomas Croarkin (36), Archie Harper (73, died four days later), Jack Travers (28), Peggy White (45) and George Williamson (72).<ref>{{cite web |title=CAIN:Sutton Index of Deaths 1974 |url=https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1974.html |website=CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet) |access-date=14 August 2020 |archive-date=26 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190226121728/https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1974.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It also injured scores of civilians and caused extensive damage to the fabric of the town with North Road and Mill Street among the areas worst affected. This was one of the few car bombings in the Republic during [[The Troubles]], which were centred on [[Northern Ireland]]; three other bombs exploded on the same day in Dublin in what became known as the [[Dublin and Monaghan bombings]]. The Ulster loyalist paramilitary group [[Ulster Volunteer Force (1966)|Ulster Volunteer Force]] (UVF) claimed responsibility in 1993.

A monument in memory of the victims was unveiled by the eighth [[President of Ireland]] [[Mary McAleese]] on 17 May 2004, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the atrocity. The sandstone and metal column containing seven light wells bearing the names of each of the seven victims of the bombing was designed by Ciaran O'Cearnaigh and stands as a reminder of one of the darkest days in Ireland's modern history.