May 6
Tues 8.30pm Kilmacanogue History Society, Glenview Hotel, Glen of the Downs. Do the Irish speak English?, Terry Dolan. Adm. ?3.
Nick Maxwell
May 01
Tues 1pm Irish Georgian Society,58 South William St., Dublin 2. Historic doors and staircases: their history and conservation, Peter Clarke. Adm. €15. Tues 8pm Kilmacanogue History Society, Glenview Hotel, Glen of the Downs, Delgany. The Irish showband phenomenon, Frank Darcy. Adm. €3.
June 30
1921 The brothers Richard (24) and Abraham Pearson (19) were executed by an IRA firing party on their farm at Coolacrease in the foothills of the Slieve Bloom Mountains. The pair had been court-martialled for firing on IRA Volunteers, who were cutting down trees on their land for the purpose of mounting a roadblock. 1690 … Read more
June 24
1921 Three British soldiers and two civilians were killed when the IRA detonated a mine in Adavoyle on the Louth/Armagh border under a train which was transporting King George’s cavalry escort, deployed in Belfast two days earlier, back to Dublin. Eighty horses were also killed. 1314 The Battle of Bannockburn, in which Robert Bruce crushed the … Read more
June 2
1964 Eddie McAteer was elected leader of the Nationalist Party at Stormont. In February 1965 the party assumed the role of official opposition in the Northern Ireland parliament. 1994 An RAF Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, in foggy conditions, resulting in the deaths of all 25 passengers and crew on board, including … Read more