Nick Maxwell

1798 Bartholomew Teeling, United Irishman and aide-de-camp to General Jean Joseph Humbert, who was captured after the surrender of the French at Ballinamuck, Co. Longford, was hanged at Arbour Hill barracks, Dublin.

1869 Mary Mallon, also known as ‘Typhoid Mary’, who is believed to have infected over 50 people (three of whom died) over the course of her career as a cook in New York, born in Cookstown, Co. Tyrone. 1937 Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, disaster. Ten ‘tattie-hokers’ (potato-pickers) from Achill Island, Co. Mayo, were burned to death when … Read more

1920 Five RIC officers and a Black and Tan were killed in an IRA ambush at Rineen, Co. Clare. The towns of Ennistymon, Lahinch and Miltown Malbay were later attacked in reprisal and at least five civilians were killed. 1970 Charles J. Haughey, Captain James Kelly, Albert Luykx and John Kelly were charged in the … Read more

1866 H.G. (Herbert George) Wells, the father of science fiction and four times Nobel Prize for Literature nominee, born in Kent. 1832 Sir Walter Scott (61), historical novelist, playwright, poet and antiquary, died from cholera. When Scott made his first and only visit to Ireland, a month-long stay in the summer of 1825, he was … Read more

1920 Two RIC officers were shot dead in a public house in Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, after which the RIC and Black and Tans rampaged through the town, burning business premises and houses. Two suspected republicans were bayoneted to death. 1920 Three British soldiers from the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, including Pte Harold Washington (15), were … Read more