Nick Maxwell 1971 Sixty-six died and over 200 were injured in a crush on an exit stairway at Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow, the worst British football disaster until the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. 1920 Recruitment began of former British soldiers as reinforcements to the RIC under the command of Major-General H.H. Tudor; later dubbed the ‘Black-and-Tans’, they arrived in … Read more
Mon 7.30pm Lecale & Downe Historical Society, Down County Museum, The Mall, Downpatrick. Mary Ward—microscopist, writer, astronomer, Francis Bailey.
BY AODHÁN CREALEY JANUARY 06/1834 Richard Martin (79), landowner and politician, died. Residing in Dangan House, some four miles upstream on the Corrib from Galway city, Martin, who sat in both the Irish House of Commons and the British House of Commons, was the owner of the largest estate in Ireland, some 200,000 acres. Renowned … Read more
Mon 7.45pm Donaghadee Historical Society, Methodist Church Hall, Moat Street. A photographic perspective of County Down, Mike Hartwell.
Handwritten news was exchanged across Europe in what was a lucrative and powerful network. By Eoin Hahessy Irish research has found an entirely lost news environment in the Medici papers at Florence’s State Archives. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries early modern Europe communicated by handwritten newsletters, many of which had been forgotten until now. … Read more