January 17

1971 Official Sinn Féin voted to end their abstentionist policy from Dáil Éireann, Stormont and Westminster. 1820 Anne Brontë, novelist, the youngest of the literary sisters, author notably of Agnes Grey (1847) and The tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), born in Thornton, Yorkshire. 1992 Eight workers were killed when the IRA detonated a 500lb roadside bomb as ... Read more

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