1992 The Maastricht Treaty, the foundation treaty of the European Union (EU), was signed by the then twelve member states of the European Communities. It was ratified by referendum in […]

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1840 The Treaty of Waitangi proclaimed British sovereignty over New Zealand. Designed to safeguard the interests of the Empire and to appease sections of the native Maori population who sought […]

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1992 Five Catholics were killed when UFF gunmen attacked a betting shop on the Ormeau Road, Belfast. Seven others were wounded. 1921 Katherine O’Shea Parnell (76), widow of Charles Stewart […]

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1922 John Butler Yeats (83), painter and father of W.B. Yeats and Jack B. Yeats, died. 1919 Éamon de Valera and two other prisoners escaped from Lincoln prison in a […]

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1922 Ulysses by James Joyce was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on the writer’s 40th birthday. 1939 Desmond O’Malley, Fianna Fáil TD and government minister in the 1970s and 1980s […]

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