June 08
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.
Nick Maxwell
June 07
1921 Patrick Maher and Ned Foley were executed for the killing of two policemen during the rescue of Seán Hogan at Knocklong railway station in May 1919. They were the last to be executed prior to the Truce. 1970 Dr Owen Sheehy-Skeffington (61), humanist and academic, died. 1917 The start of the Battle of Messines … Read more
June 7
Sat–Sun History Festival of Ireland, Huntington Castle, Clonegal, Co. Carlow. History Ireland Hedge Schools: History and imagination, Kevin Whelan, Stephen Rea, Eoin Colfer, Grace Dyas. Show bands, beat bands & ballads: youth culture of the ’60s & ’70s, Carole Holohan, Donal Fallon, John Ryan (ex-Granny’s Intentions), Niall Toner.
June 6
1861 Patrick Bronte (84), clergyman, poet and social campaigner, died. By the time he reached his mid-70s, Bronte was a lonely widower in failing health, who had lost most of his family—first his wife, Maria, followed four years later by his daughters Maria (11) and Elizabeth (10), and then, over just an eight-month period, his son … Read more
June 05
2002 Alex Maskey (50) became the first Sinn Féin lord mayor of Belfast. 1981 It was reported that five men in California were suffering from a rare form of pneumonia that was found in patients with weakened immune systems—the first recognised cases of AIDS, which was to kill over 30 million worldwide. 1920 Cornelius Ryan, war … Read more