February 27
1937 Charlie Donnelly (27), poet and left-wing activist, was killed fighting on the Republican side on the final day of the Battle of Jarama.
Nick Maxwell
The appliance of science: STI (science, technology & innovation) and economic development
IN THIS BUSY DECADE OF COMMEMORATIONS, LITTLE OR NO ATTENTION HAS BEEN PAID TO ONE SIGNIFICANT AREA OF IRISH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL LIFE By Dermot O’Doherty In the hope-filled days of the mid-1960s, the Irish government—in cooperation with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD, a key partner in many seminal policy reports and … Read more
January 19
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
Bite-sized History
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
January 04
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