Nick Maxwell 1870 Charles Dickens (58), regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, died. 1969 During his brief official visit to Ireland, General Charles de Gaulle hosted a reception in Áras an Uachtaráin for members of the McCartan Clan from County Down—descendants, like himself, of a McCartan who had fled to France in the wake of … Read more
1972 BEA Flight 548, en route from London Heathrow to Brussels, crashed near Staines, Middlesex, soon after take-off, killing all 118 people on board, including twelve leading Irish businessmen. 1922 An IRA convention at the Mansion House, Dublin, concluded with a split on the issue of immediate resumption of an IRA offensive against the British … Read more
1922 In reprisal for the killings of Catholics in south Armagh, the IRA attacked a number of Presbyterian farmhouses in the townlands of Altanaveigh and Lisdrumliska. Six people were killed and a number of others badly wounded. 1972 Five men were arrested during a bungled break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate … Read more
1922 The general election resulted in victory for supporters of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, with pro-Treatyites winning 58 seats as opposed to 36 seats for anti-Treatyites. 1920 In what became known as the ‘Listowel mutiny’, Constable Jeremiah Mee and a number of fellow officers refused orders to hand over Listowel RIC barracks to military control and accept … Read more
Sat 2.30pm Western Front Association (Dublin Branch), Lecture Theatre, NMI, Collins Barracks. Torpedoed! The sinking of the RMS Leinster, Philip Lecane. Adm. €3.