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August 30

Published in Event Listings

Sat 3pm Bray Cualann Historical Society, Bray Library, Eglinton Road. The Week That Was in Bray: 23 August–31 August 1914, James Scannell.

Sat 3pm
History Ireland Hedge School, Electric Picnic, Stradbally, Co. Laois.
Show bands, beat bands & ballads: youth culture of the ’60s, Carole Holohan, John Ryan (ex-Granny’s Intentions), Niall Toner, Donal Fallon.

Sat 3pm
History Ireland Hedge School, Electric Picnic, Stradbally, Co. Laois.
World War I: a Great War or a good war?, Kevin Myers, Ed Madigan, John Gibney, Brian Hanley.

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 30

Personal Histories

On this Day

July 27