Nick Maxwell 1916 The Ulster Unionist Council agreed to accept Lloyd George’s offer of the permanent exclusion of six north-eastern counties from Home Rule. 1964 The Rivonia Trial in South Africa, which had begun the previous October, concluded. Nelson Mandela and two of his co-accused were sentenced to life imprisonment. 1972 Twelve prominent Irish businessmen were amongst the … Read more
1979 John Wayne, Hollywood actor (72), died. The son of Clyde Robert Morrison (1884–1937), a drunken drugstore proprietor, he weighed in at an amazing 13lbs at birth. Born Marion Mitchell Morrison, Wayne made over 160 films, notably in collaboration with Irish-American director Seán Aloysius O’Feeney, a.k.a. John Ford, and Dublin-born Maureen O’Hara. Wayne himself could … Read more
Mon 8.15pm Clontarf Historical Society, Resource Centre, St John the Baptist Church. History of St Anne’s House and estate and the Guinness family connections, Joan Sharkey. Adm. €5.
1876 James McKnight (75), journalist and agrarian reformer, died. McKnight came to national prominence in 1847 as spokesman for the thousands of Presbyterian tenant farmers who flocked to join the Ulster Tenant Right League, which sought to give legal protection to the Ulster Custom. Regarded at the time as the leading Presbyterian layman, it was … Read more
Fri 1pm National Monuments and Buildings Record for Northern Ireland, Ulster Museum, Belfast. Clonboy Rath: the environmental story of an early medieval defensive enclosure, Jonathon Barkley.