1997 In the British general election, the Labour Party, under Tony Blair, secured a landslide victory, winning 418 seats. 1171 Diarmaid MacMurrough (c. 61), king of Leinster and key instigator of the Norman invasion of Ireland, died in Ferns ‘without a will, without penance, without unction, as his evil deeds deserved’, according to the Four ... Read more
