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August 23

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1170 Richard fitzGilbert de Clare, lord of Strigoil, better known as ‘Strongbow’, landed in Waterford with a force of c. 1,200, including 200 knights.
1170 Richard Fitz Gilbert, earl of Pembroke, also known as Richard de Clare and Strongbow, Norman adventurer, landed at Passage, Co. Waterford. Two days later he took Waterford with a force of 200 knights and c. 1,000 others.
1972 Lord Killanin became the first Irishman to be elected president of the International Olympics Commission.

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1922 Ulysses by James Joyce was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on the writer’s 40th birthday.
1939 Desmond O’Malley, Fianna Fáil TD and government minister in the 1970s and 1980s and first leader of the Progressive Democrats (1985–93), born in Limerick.
1969 Boris Karloff (81), stage name of William Henry Pratt, an English actor best known for his roles in horror films (notably playing Frankenstein’s monster), died.
1947 Thousands lined the route of labour leader Jim Larkin’s funeral from St Mary’s Church, Haddington Road, to Glasnevin Cemetery.
1943 The Battle of Stalingrad, perhaps the bloodiest engagement in the history of human warfare (up to two million were killed), ended with a German surrender.
1922 James Joyce’s Ulysses was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach.
1918 Patrick Donnelly (IPP) defeated Dr Patrick McCartan (Sinn Féin) in the Armagh South by-election.
1882 James Joyce, poet, novelist and playwright, was born at 41 Brighton Square, Dublin.