On this Day

July   5 1812 Frederick Edward Maning, adventurer and naturalised Maori, born in Johnville, Co. Dublin.   6 1939 Mary Peters, Olympic gold medal-winner in the pentathlon (Munich, 1972), born in Halewood, Lancashire.   5 1922 Cathal Brugha (47) was mortally wounded fighting on the republican side against Free State forces in Dublin’s O’Connell Street … Read more