1919 Mark Sykes (39), diplomat and co-author of the Sykes–Picot Pact, which carved out the post-First World War Ottoman Empire between Britain and France, died in Paris, a victim of the Spanish ’flu pandemic.
1886 ‘I decided some time ago that if Gladstone went for Home Rule, the Orange Card was the one to play. Please God it may turn out the ace of trumps and not the two’—Lord Randolph Churchill in a letter to Lord Justice Fitzgibbon, a fortnight after W. E. Gladstone had formed his third administration, with a Home Rule bill high on the agenda.
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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.
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