1921 In Belfast, 27 people were killed after a week of sectarian fighting. By the end of the year the death-toll in the city for the previous twelve months was 109.
1969 The Electoral Law Act (NI) reduced the voting age to eighteen and extended the local government franchise to all parliamentary electors.
1913 At a meeting in the Rotunda, Dublin, the Irish National Volunteers were established; 3,000 men immediately enrolled and Eoin MacNeill, co-founder of the Gaelic League (1893) and Professor of Irish at UCD, was elected commander.
1987 Canon James McDyer, social campaigner and community leader associated with Gleann Cholm Cille, Co. Donegal, died.
1987 Canon James McDyer (76), who pioneered successful co-operative enterprises in Glencolmcille, Co. Donegal (1951–71), died.
1972 Seán MacStiofáin, Provisional IRA chief-of-staff, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for membership of an illegal organisation.
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Personal Histories
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1931 Chuck Feeney, businessman and philanthropist who gave away his fortune of $8 billion over a 38-year period, including $1.3b to projects in the Republic of Ireland and $570m to projects in Northern Ireland, born to Irish-American parents in New Jersey.
1971 C.B. (Cyril Bentham) Falls, military correspondent of The Times (1939–53), historian and author notably of The history of the 36th (Ulster) Division (1922), based on his own experiences, died.
1970 St Enda’s, Rathfarnham, the bilingual school founded by Patrick Pearse in 1908, was presented to the nation as a Patrick Pearse Museum.
1918 A general strike against conscription, organised by the Labour movement and supported by Sinn Féin, the IPP and the Catholic hierarchy, paralysed the country.
1616 William Shakespeare (52), dramatist and poet, died.
1014 The Battle of Clontarf, near Dublin. Brian Boru, claimant to the high kingship of Ireland, and his Munster forces defeated an army of Leinster Norse, supported by their kinsmen from Northumbria, the Isle of Man and the Orkneys.
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