Nick Maxwell 1920 A year after the short-lived Limerick Soviet, workers took over Cleeve’s creamery in Knocklong after their wage demands were refused and they were locked out. They handed back control in less than a week. 1916 Britain and France concluded the secret Sykes–Picot Agreement that was to divide the Arab regions of the Ottoman Empire after … Read more
1734 Richard Cantillon, Kerry-born economist regarded as the first major economic ‘theorist’ and acclaimed author of Essai sur la nature du commerce en général (c. 1730), was murdered in his London home by his cook. 1974 In Northern Ireland, the Ulster Workers’ Strike, aimed at toppling the Northern Ireland Executive and destroying the Sunningdale Agreement, … Read more
Tues 7pm Tallaght Historical Society, County Library, The Square. Who said we are not Celts?, John Dolan. Tues 7.30pm Portlaoise Library 1919 and the War of Independence: a national and regional perspective, Richard McElligott. Tues 8pm Genealogical Society of Ireland, Dún Laoghaire Further Education Institute, Cumberland Street. Port collections: a history of Dublin port and … Read more
1919 Two RIC officers, Sgt Peter Wallace and Constable Michael Enright, were killed during the rescue of Seán Hogan by Dan Breen and Seán Treacy, both of whom were wounded, at Knocklong station, Co. Limerick. (See 100 Years Ago, p. 70.) 1914 Joe Louis, American heavyweight world boxing champion known as ‘the Brown Bomber’, born in … Read more
Mon 8.15pm Clontarf Historical Society, Resource Centre, St John the Baptist Church. GNR railway history and the importance of Clontarf railway station house, Siobhán Osgood. Adm. €5.