1969 Bernadette Devlin was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for her activities during the Battle of the Bogside 1989 Samuel (Barclay) Beckett, novelist, poet and playwright, notably of En attendant […]
Read More →1985 The Progressive Democratic (PD) Party was founded by Desmond O’Malley. The first public meeting took place the following month. 1948 The Republic of Ireland Act repealed the External Relations […]
Read More →2004 Around £26.5 million was stolen from the headquarters of the Northern Bank, Belfast, allegedly by the IRA. It was the biggest bank robbery in Irish history. 1968 John Steinbeck […]
Read More →1985 All fifteen Ulster Unionist MPs resigned their seats in the House of Commons in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement. 1936 Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Flores, Buenos […]
Read More →1971 General Richard Mulcahy (85), revolutionary and politician, and founder-member of Fine Gael (1933), died. 1971 General Richard Mulcahy, second-in-command to Thomas Ashe in Easter Week 1916, chief-of-staff of the […]
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