The names of almost 1,000 people who died during the Belfast Blitz are to be commemorated with a new memorial in the city’s Cathedral Quarter.

Edwina Sandys had seen this before: the 250-pound bronze statue of a bare-breasted woman on a translucent acrylic cross being installed in the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine.

The Dockside Raid was comparatively small, a test of Belfast’s defences; the Easter Tuesday Raid was immense, with 200 ...