Nick Maxwell 1922 The general election resulted in victory for supporters of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, with pro-Treatyites winning 58 seats as opposed to 36 seats for anti-Treatyites. 1920 In what became known as the ‘Listowel mutiny’, Constable Jeremiah Mee and a number of fellow officers refused orders to hand over Listowel RIC barracks to military control and accept … Read more
Sat 2.30pm Western Front Association (Dublin Branch), Lecture Theatre, NMI, Collins Barracks. Torpedoed! The sinking of the RMS Leinster, Philip Lecane. Adm. €3.
1920 RIC District Inspector Percival Lea-Wilson was shot dead by the IRA in Gorey, Co. Wexford. 1919 Captain John Alcock and Lt. Arthur Brown completed the first transatlantic flight when their Vickers Vimy biplane landed near Clifden, Co. Galway, after a 2,500km flight from St John’s, Newfoundland. 1920 Percival Lee-Wilson (33), RIC district inspector for … Read more
Thur 7.15pm Leixlip History Club, Leixlip Library. ‘Preaching rebellion to a lot of silly boys’—the Easter Rising through the eyes of Protestants in Dublin, Ian d’Alton.
1982 Argentinian troops surrendered to the British commander of land forces on the Falkland Islands. The surrender marked the end of a six-week conflict that cost the lives of 254 British and 750 Argentinians. 1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, American abolitionist and author of the highly influential Uncle Tom’s cabin (1852), born in Litchfield, Connecticut. 1690 … Read more