Nick Maxwell 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings. 1974 The Dublin and Monaghan bombings—the worst single day in the history of the Troubles—saw 26 killed and hundreds injured when three bombs exploded without warning in Dublin. Less than an hour later another no-warning car bomb ripped through Monaghan town centre, killing seven people. 17–18/1918 In an effort to … Read more
Thur 7.15pm Leixlip History Group, Leixlip Library. ‘Women voted early and in large numbers’—Irish women, the vote and the 1918 general election, Mary McAuliffe. Thurs 8pm Bray Cualann Historical Society, Royal Hotel. Printed in Bray: the history of the printing industry in Bray and County Wicklow. Adm. €5.
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