June 24

1921 Three British soldiers and two civilians were killed when the IRA detonated a mine in Adavoyle on the Louth/Armagh border under a train which was transporting King George’s cavalry escort, deployed in Belfast two days earlier, back to Dublin. Eighty horses were also killed. 1314 The Battle of Bannockburn, in which Robert Bruce crushed the ... Read more

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