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August 20

Published in Event Listings

Tues 5.30pm
Irish Family History Centre, CHQ Building, 1 Custom House Quay, Dublin 1.
Keeping the past present, Jonny Dillon.
education@irishfamilyhistorycentre.com

Tues 7pm
Ballinamore Library, Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim.
The placenames of County Leitrim, Mary Bohan.

Tues 7pm
Old Dublin Society, Dalkey Library, Castle Street.
Fell down, knocked down, and slipped in, James Scannell.
dalkeylib@dlrcoco.ie

Tues 7.30pm
Inver Heritage Group, old graveyard, Inver Village, Co. Donegal.
Historical talk on the old Inver graveyard.

Tues 8pm
Rathmichael Historical Society, Rathmichael School, Stonebridge Road, Shankill.
The castle and medieval town and later city of Kilkenny, Ben Murtagh. Adm. €5.

On this Day

July 27

1920 Recruitment began, mainly from among demobilised British Army officers, into a new force—the ‘Auxiliary Division’—to augment the RIC.
1939 Michael Longley, poet, notable for ‘Gorse Fires’ (1991), ‘The Weather in Japan’ (2000) and ‘The Stairwell’ (2014), born in Belfast of English parents.
2004 Bob Tisdall (96), Olympic gold medal-winner in the 400m hurdles (Los Angeles, 1932) in a world record time of 51.7 seconds—which was not recognised under the rules at the time because he had hit a hurdle—died.
1866 The SS Great Eastern completed the laying of a transatlantic telegraph cable between Valentia Island, Co. Kerry, and Heart’s Content, Newfoundland.

August 20

Personal Histories

On this Day

July 27