Nick Maxwell Let’s hear it for John Bruton, whose recent pronouncements (negative) on the 1916 Rising and (positive) on the enactment (subsequently suspended) of Home Rule on 18 September 1914 have stimulated a lively and long-overdue public debate on the nature of the Irish Revolution, its relationship to the First World War and the origins of the … Read more
November 4 Tues 8.30pm Kilmacanogue History Society, Glenview Hotel, Glen of the Downs, Delgany, Co. Wicklow. Wicklow’s Irish ANZACS, Jeff Kildea. Adm. ?3. 5 Wed 6.30pm Old Dublin Society, Dublin City Library and Archive conference room, 138–144 Pearse St. Swift and Dublin: controversial dean, patriot Drapier and inventor of micro-credit, Brendan Twomey. 5 Wed 8pm … Read more
1919 IRA Lt. Martin Savage was killed during a failed attempt to assassinate the viceroy, Lord French, in Ashtown, Co. Dublin. 1974 Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh was inaugurated as the fifth president of Ireland. 1972 NASA’s Apollo program, which began in 1968, during which twelve men walked on the moon, concluded with the safe return of … Read more
1971 John Barnhill (65), a Unionist senator in the Stormont parliament and businessman, was shot dead by the Official IRA at his home near Strabane, Co. Tyrone. 2000 With just five more weeks in office, US President Bill Clinton landed in Dublin on his third visit to Ireland. From there he proceeded to an open-air … Read more
1920 Martial law was proclaimed in counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Tipperary. 1998 John Hume, leader of the SDLP, and David Trimble, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1974 Four Protestant clergymen met with Provisional IRA leaders in Feakle, Co. Clare. Over a week later, the IRA declared a … Read more