Nick Maxwell

1971 Fifteen people, including the owner’s wife and fourteen-year-old daughter and a number of pensioners, were killed when a UVF bomb exploded at McGurk’s public house in North Queen Street, Belfast. 1971 In the first major atrocity of the Northern Ireland Troubles, fifteen people, including two children and three women, were killed when a no-warning … Read more

1921 The draft of the Articles of Agreement (Treaty), discussed at the London talks during October and November, was presented to the cabinet in Dublin and rejected. 1919 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (78), leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style, died. 1972 The Offences Against the State (Amendment) Bill was passed by Dáil Éireann by … Read more

1811 The Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in Ireland, better known as the Kildare Place Society, was founded to promote non-denominational schools throughout Ireland.

1901 Thomas Clarke Luby, co-founder of the Fenian movement and editor of the Irish People (1863–5), died in New York. 1955 Rosa Parks, the ‘first lady of civil rights’, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for resisting bus segregation by refusing to obey a bus driver’s order that she give up her seat in the ‘coloured’ … Read more

1920 General Tom Barry’s Cork No. 3 (West Cork) Brigade wiped out an eighteen-man Auxiliary patrol at Kilmichael, on the Macroom–Dunmanway road, Co. Cork. 1979 John Hume MEP was elected leader of the SDLP in succession to Gerry Fitt. 1990 Margaret Thatcher, Conservative prime minister of the UK since May 1979, resigned. She was succeeded … Read more