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October 25

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1920 Terence MacSwiney (41), lord mayor of Cork, died after 74 days of hunger strike in Brixton Prison, London.
2002 Richard Harris (72), actor and Oscar nominee for This sporting life (1963) and The field (1990), died.
1968 The New University of Ulster in Coleraine, Co. Derry, Ireland’s first new university in over 50 years, officially opened.
1960 Harry Ferguson, mechanic, inventor and the first man to build and fly his own aeroplane in Ireland (1909), died.
1925 Darrell Figgis, nationalist, politician and writer, died by suicide.

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1968 In what became known as the ‘rivers of blood’ speech, Enoch Powell MP strongly criticised mass immigration, especially Commonwealth immigration to the UK, and the then proposed Race Relations Act.
1954 Michael Manning (25), a carter from Groody, Limerick city, was hanged in Mountjoy Jail for the murder of an elderly nurse. He was the last person to be judicially executed in the Republic of Ireland. The last judicial execution in Northern Ireland took place seven years later, in December 1961, when Robert McGladdery (26) from Newry was hanged for the murder of a local woman.
1912 Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker (65), author, notably of Dracula (1897), died.
1954 Michael Manning (25), a carter from Limerick, was hanged in Mountjoy prison for the murder of an elderly nurse. He was the last man to be judicially executed in the Republic of Ireland.