August 01

1960 Micheál Martin, TD for Cork South-Central since 1989, leader of Fianna Fáil since 2011, [and Taoiseach?] born in Turner’s Cross, Cork. 1980 Seventeen people were killed when the Dublin–Cork train left the rails and jackknifed at Buttevant Station, Co. Cork. 1819 Herman Melville, novelist, short-story writer and poet, author notably of Moby Dick (1851), born in ... Read more

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