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Personal Histories
Personal Histories is an initiative by History Ireland,
which aims to capture the individual histories of Irish
people both in Ireland and around the world. It is hoped
to build an extensive database reflecting Irish lives,
giving them a chance to be heard, remembered and to
add their voice to the historical record.
Click Here to go to the Personal Histories page
1917 The White Star liner Laurentic, carrying 479 passengers (mostly British Army personnel) and a secret cargo of gold bullion, struck German mines a few miles off Lough Swilly and sank within an hour; 354 lives were lost.
1627 Robert Boyle, natural philosopher, was born in Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford, the son of Richard Boyle, the ‘Great Earl of Cork’. In his Brief Lives John Aubrey quaintly noted that Ireland’s greatest scientist was ‘nursed by an Irish nurse, after the Irish manner, where they put the child in a pendulous satchel—instead of a cradle—with a slit for the child’s head to peep out’.
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