1960 Down, captained by Kieran Mussen, became the first team from Northern Ireland to win the Sam Maguire Cup in Gaelic football when they defeated Kerry 2-10 to 0-8. 1917 Thomas Ashe, teacher and revolutionary, died in Mountjoy Jail as a result of force-feeding.Thomas Ashe (32) died in Mountjoy Prison after being forcibly fed whilst … Read more
1798 Bartholomew Teeling, United Irishman and aide-de-camp to General Jean Joseph Humbert, who was captured after the surrender of the French at Ballinamuck, Co. Longford, was hanged at Arbour Hill barracks, Dublin.
1869 Mary Mallon, also known as ‘Typhoid Mary’, who is believed to have infected over 50 people (three of whom died) over the course of her career as a cook in New York, born in Cookstown, Co. Tyrone. 1937 Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, disaster. Ten ‘tattie-hokers’ (potato-pickers) from Achill Island, Co. Mayo, were burned to death when … Read more
1920 Five RIC officers and a Black and Tan were killed in an IRA ambush at Rineen, Co. Clare. The towns of Ennistymon, Lahinch and Miltown Malbay were later attacked in reprisal and at least five civilians were killed. 1970 Charles J. Haughey, Captain James Kelly, Albert Luykx and John Kelly were charged in the … Read more
1866 H.G. (Herbert George) Wells, the father of science fiction and four times Nobel Prize for Literature nominee, born in Kent. 1832 Sir Walter Scott (61), historical novelist, playwright, poet and antiquary, died from cholera. When Scott made his first and only visit to Ireland, a month-long stay in the summer of 1825, he was … Read more