1984 Ann Lovett (15) died while giving birth near a Marian grotto in Granard, Co. Longford. 1953 The Princess Victoria, an early roll-on–roll-off ferry, en route from Stranraer to Larne, sank in hurricane-force conditions off Belfast Lough, with the loss of 133 lives. It was Ireland’s worst peacetime maritime disaster. 1917 Germany announced unrestricted submarine ... Read more
