Nick Maxwell

1869 Birth of Sir Edwin Lutyens, acclaimed British architect, whose works in Ireland include the Irish National War Memorial Gardens in Islandbridge, Dublin. 1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott (43) died in Antarctica whilst returning from his expedition to the South Pole. 1859 The first edition of The Irish Times, Ireland’s first daily penny newspaper, appeared. … Read more

1820 Sir William Howard Russell, one of the first modern war correspondents, whose coverage included the Crimean War and the American Civil War, born in Tallaght, Dublin. 1969 Death of Dwight D. ‘Ike’ Eisenhower (78), American army general, supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during the Second World War and 34th (Republican) president … Read more

1972 Eight people, seven of them young girls, died when fire destroyed the offices of Noyek’s timber merchants in Parnell Street, Dublin. 1972 Eight people, seven of them young girls, died when fire destroyed the offices of Noyek’s timber merchants in Parnell Street, Dublin. 1968 Yuri Gagarin (34), Russian pilot and cosmonaut who was the … Read more

1922 An army convention held in the Mansion House, attended by 220 delegates representing 52 of the IRA’s 73 brigades, repudiated the authority of Dáil Éireann. 2000 Vladimir Putin, who had served as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for sixteen years, was elected president of Russia in succession to Boris Yeltsin. 1920 Alan Bell, a magistrate investigating … Read more

1981 The government and Dáil Éireann condemned the decision of the IRFU to send an Irish national rugby team to South Africa. 1957 The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community (EEC). 1996 Mary Lavin, short-story writer (notably of ‘Tales from Bective Bridge’) and novelist, died. 1987 Lord Justice Gibson, of the Northern Ireland … Read more