Dr. Aidan MacCarthy, from Co Cork, survived after the US dropped a nuclear bomb, codenamed Fat Man, over the city of Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945. MacCarthy, a University College Cork-trained ...

Few Irish people will live a more remarkable life than Dr Aidan MacCarthy. The Castletownbere, Co Cork, native, who served as a doctor with the British royal air force (RAF), witnessed an atomic ...

It has already been the subject of a film documentary but then RAF doctor Aidan MacCarthy led such a life less ordinary that it’s hardly surprising that it has now been chronicled in book form.

THE amazing story of Dr Aidan MacCarthy, the West Cork medic who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in August 1945, has once again captured the imagination. Dr MacCarthy, a graduate of ...

Dr. Aidan MacCarthy, the focus of this cracking documentary, puts his survival down to his Irish Catholic upbringing… and luck. He puts an emphasis on luck. Either way, the man was blessed.

Cork-born Dr Aidan MacCarthy joined the RAF and not only survived Dunkirk and twice having ships he was sailing on torpedoed but, after being transferred to the Far East and captured by the ...