Nick Maxwell Tues 8pm Dublin Port Company & Bullock Harbour Preservation Association, Dalkey Castle and Heritage Centre. Hugh Leonard walk, Danielle Keyes-Byrne. Tues 8pm Kilmacanogue History Society, Glenview Hotel, Glen of the Downs. Irish bank notes—an inside story, Louis O’Byrne. Adm. €3.
1970 Taoiseach Jack Lynch dismissed from cabinet Minister for Finance Charles J. Haughey and Minister for Agriculture Neil Blaney. Minister for Local Government Kevin Boland resigned in sympathy with his two colleagues. 1882 Whilst strolling in Dublin’s Phoenix Park, Chief Secretary Lord Frederick Cavendish and his under-secretary, Thomas Burke, were set upon by a six-man … Read more
1821 Napoleon Bonaparte (51), outstanding military leader and emperor of the French (1804–14), died from cancer as a prisoner of the British on the island of St Helena. 1980 The Iranian Embassy siege in London ended after five days when the SAS stormed the building, killing all but one of the six members of an … Read more
1972 Richard Moore (10) was blinded by a British Army rubber bullet in Derry. He subsequently founded Children in Crossfire (1996), a charity that aims to eradicate poverty and help children in war zones. 1921 In an incident known as ‘the Smashing of the Van’, IRA volunteers made an unsuccessful attempt to free Brigadier Frank … Read more
1921 The Government of Ireland Act (1920) came into effect, creating the jurisdictions of Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland. 1469 Machiavelli, Renaissance writer, playwright and poet, author notably of The Prince (1513), born in Florence. 1968 The ‘May ’68’ civil unrest in France began with a series of student protests against capitalism, consumerism, American imperialism … Read more