Nick Maxwell 1876 James McKnight (75), journalist and agrarian reformer, died. McKnight came to national prominence in 1847 as spokesman for the thousands of Presbyterian tenant farmers who flocked to join the Ulster Tenant Right League, which sought to give legal protection to the Ulster Custom. Regarded at the time as the leading Presbyterian layman, it was … Read more
Fri 1pm National Monuments and Buildings Record for Northern Ireland, Ulster Museum, Belfast. Clonboy Rath: the environmental story of an early medieval defensive enclosure, Jonathon Barkley.
1921 Patrick Maher and Ned Foley were executed for the killing of two policemen during the rescue of Seán Hogan at Knocklong railway station in May 1919. They were the last to be executed prior to the Truce. 1970 Dr Owen Sheehy-Skeffington (61), humanist and academic, died. 1917 The start of the Battle of Messines … Read more
Sat–Sun History Festival of Ireland, Huntington Castle, Clonegal, Co. Carlow. History Ireland Hedge Schools: History and imagination, Kevin Whelan, Stephen Rea, Eoin Colfer, Grace Dyas. Show bands, beat bands & ballads: youth culture of the ’60s & ’70s, Carole Holohan, Donal Fallon, John Ryan (ex-Granny’s Intentions), Niall Toner.
1861 Patrick Bronte (84), clergyman, poet and social campaigner, died. By the time he reached his mid-70s, Bronte was a lonely widower in failing health, who had lost most of his family—first his wife, Maria, followed four years later by his daughters Maria (11) and Elizabeth (10), and then, over just an eight-month period, his son … Read more