July 25

1918 Cork-born Major Edward ‘Mick’ Mannock (31), one of the most celebrated fighter pilots of the RFC (Royal Flying Corps), with 73 credited enemy ‘kills’ in fourteen months, was shot down and killed by enemy fire. 1917 The Irish Convention, an attempt to secure a final settlement to the Home Rule question, met at Trinity ... Read more

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