1971 In an interview with the BBC, Taoiseach Jack Lynch stated that the constitutional claim by the Republic to jurisdiction over the six counties of Northern Ireland was fundamental and […]
Read More →1920 Nancy Astor, Unionist (now Conservative) MP, became the first woman to speak in Britain’s House of Commons. 1969 General election in Northern Ireland. Unionists won 36 seats, of which […]
Read More →1916 The British Military Service Act introduced conscription, initially for single men aged 18–41, with various exemptions. An attempt over two years later to extend it to Ireland was dropped […]
Read More →1816 John O’Mahoney, founder of American Fenianism and scholar who translated Geoffrey Keating’s Foras feasa ar Éirinn, born in Kilbeheny, Co. Limerick. 1923 Senator Oliver St John Gogarty escaped capture […]
Read More →1719 Spranger Barry, an actor who rivalled Garrick on the London stage, described as ‘the wonder and darling of every audience’, born in Skinner’s Row (Christ Church Place), Dublin. 1975 […]
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