October 25
1920 Terence MacSwiney (41), lord mayor of Cork, died after 74 days of hunger strike in Brixton Prison, London. 2002 Richard Harris (72), actor and Oscar nominee for This sporting life (1963) and The field (1990), died. 1968 The New University of Ulster in Coleraine, Co. Derry, Ireland’s first new university in over 50 years, … Read more