1969 Bernadette Devlin was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for her activities during the Battle of the Bogside 1989 Samuel (Barclay) Beckett, novelist, poet and playwright, notably of En attendant Godot (1953), and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1969), died. 1919 ‘Any attempt at [Ireland’s] secession will be fought with the same resolve ... Read more
