June 16
Sat 2.30pm Western Front Association (Dublin Branch), Lecture Theatre, NMI, Collins Barracks. Torpedoed! The sinking of the RMS Leinster, Philip Lecane. Adm. €3.
Nick Maxwell
June 15
1920 RIC District Inspector Percival Lea-Wilson was shot dead by the IRA in Gorey, Co. Wexford. 1919 Captain John Alcock and Lt. Arthur Brown completed the first transatlantic flight when their Vickers Vimy biplane landed near Clifden, Co. Galway, after a 2,500km flight from St John’s, Newfoundland. 1920 Percival Lee-Wilson (33), RIC district inspector for … Read more
June 15
Thur 7.15pm Leixlip History Club, Leixlip Library. ‘Preaching rebellion to a lot of silly boys’—the Easter Rising through the eyes of Protestants in Dublin, Ian d’Alton.
June 14
1982 Argentinian troops surrendered to the British commander of land forces on the Falkland Islands. The surrender marked the end of a six-week conflict that cost the lives of 254 British and 750 Argentinians. 1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, American abolitionist and author of the highly influential Uncle Tom’s cabin (1852), born in Litchfield, Connecticut. 1690 … Read more
June 14
Thur 6.30pm Antrim and Down Branch Western Front Association, PRONI. Campbell College, Belfast, and the Great War, Tom Thorpe.