Nick Maxwell 1919 Sinn Féin members returned in the general election of December 1918 convened in the Mansion House to establish Dáil Éireann, the first parliament in Dublin since 1800. A Declaration of Independence and a ‘Message to the Free World’ were issued and a Constitution adopted. 1919 A local IRA unit led by Séamus Robinson, Dan … Read more
By Tony Canavan Big award for Titanic Belfast Titanic Belfast was recently named Europe’s leading visitor attraction at the World Travel Awards, beating Paris’s Eiffel Tower, Barcelona’s La Sagrada Familia, Athens’s Acropolis, London’s Buckingham Palace, the Portuguese Ribeira do Porto and the Roman Colosseum to win the prestigious award. The Belfast attraction even beat Dublin’s … Read more
1960 Albert Camus (46), Algeria-born French philosopher, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature (1957), died in a car crash. 1969 A People’s Democracy civil rights march from Belfast to Derry was violently attacked by loyalists and local members of the B Special Constabulary at Burntollet Bridge, near Claudy, Co. Derry, as an … Read more
EXHIBITION AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND, KILDARE STREET By Fiona Reilly Radiant butterflies collected by Roger Casement in present-day Colombia greet visitors on entering a new exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street. Through the use of diverse and skilfully made objects collected and donated by Casement, museum letters and registers and … Read more
1871 The Irish Church Act (1869), whereby the Church of Ireland ceased to exist ‘as an establishment’, came into law. 1892 Ellis Island, the US government’s busiest immigrant inspection station for over 60 years, officially opened. One can only speculate as to how Annie Moore (17) from Cobh, Co. Cork, came to be the first … Read more