Nick Maxwell 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.
1820 Florence Nightingale, social reformer and founder of modern nursing, born in Florence, Italy. 1712 Building commenced on the library of Trinity College, Dublin, designed by Thomas Burgh, at a cost of £15,000. 1916 James Connolly (47) and Seán MacDiarmada (33) executed. Prime Minister H.H. Asquith arrived in Ireland (until 18th). 1916 James Connolly and Seán … Read more
Thur 7.30pm CNational Maritime Museum of Ireland, Haig Terrace, Dún Laoghaire. Working conditions of seamen in 1916, David Snook.
1971 Seán Lemass (71), revolutionary, founding member of Fianna Fáil and taoiseach (1959–66), died. 1917 Belfast-born Dr David Walker (80), surgeon, naturalist and photographer on Captain F.L. McClintock’s expedition to the Arctic (1857–9) which discovered the remains of Sir John Franklin and his crew, died in Portland, Oregon. Though barely twenty years old at the … Read more