January 02

1971 Sixty-six died and over 200 were injured in a crush on an exit stairway at Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow, the worst British football disaster until the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. 1920 […]

December 18

1980 The first H-Block hunger strike for the return of political status ended following the intervention of Cardinal Ó Fiaich. 1919 In the House of Commons, Winston Churchill placed the […]

October 01

1971 Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act(1960) was invoked to prevent RTÉfrom reporting on the activities of illegal organisations. 1949 Mao Tse Tung proclaimed the birth of the People’s Republic […]

July 14

1819 Ellen Hanley (15), the celebrated ‘Colleen Bawn’, was murdered on the River Shannon by Stephen Sullivan, servant of her alleged husband, John Scanlan.

July 08

1819 Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, explorer who confirmed the deaths of Sir John Franklin and his crew of 129 in an attempt to chart and navigate the Northwest Passage (1845), born […]