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film · Saturday 10 October 2026 · Various 
How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story - Screenings
At Monaghan Peace Campus · Plantation Road, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan H18 RP20
At Monaghan Peace Campus · Plantation Road, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan H18 RP20
Monaghan Peace Campus screens “How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story” during Project Children Legacy Week, running from Saturday, 10 October to Wednesday, 14 October 2026. The 2016 documentary, directed by Des Henderson and narrated by Liam Neeson, with a contribution from Bill Clinton, tells the story of the charity founded by NYPD officer Denis Mulcahy in 1975, which brought more than 23,000 Catholic and Protestant children out of the Troubles for summer stays with American host families.
The 90-minute film follows Mulcahy and Project Children participants through one-on-one interviews and vintage footage, tracing the programme from its start in 1975 through four decades of summer placements that gave children from both sides of the conflict a break from checkpoints, bomb scares and segregated streets. Screenings run as part of the wider Legacy Week programme at the Peace Campus, alongside a cultural showcase, a colour guard parade and the launch of a new Project Children book, so the documentary is one strand of a bigger commemoration rather than a standalone cinema release. It plays in the Peace Campus’s own screening and performance space rather than a commercial cinema, free of charge, and works well alongside the museum’s own Project Children material for anyone wanting the fuller story before or after watching.
The Peace Campus is on Plantation Road in Monaghan town, about two minutes’ walk from the bus station and close to the Armagh Road. Bus Éireann services connect Monaghan to Dublin, Belfast, Cavan and Dundalk, and the campus has its own visitor parking.
The Peace Campus is a short walk from Monaghan town centre and the county museum’s own galleries. There is more to see in Monaghan and across Co. Monaghan, including the border towns where Project Children families and volunteers were first recruited in the 1970s.
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