2009 Hugh Leonard, pseudonym of John Keyes Byrne, dramatist and writer, notably of Da (1973), died. 1997 Stephen Restorick (23) of the Royal Horse Artillery was shot dead by a […]

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1992 Albert Reynolds was elected leader of Fianna Fáil. 1922 At Clones railway station, Co. Monaghan, the IRA attacked a group of Ulster Special Constables travelling from Newtownards to Enniskillen. […]

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1932 The Army Comrades Association (ACA), latterly the National Guard or Blueshirts, was formed by Commandant Edward Cronin as a benevolent society for ex-members of the Free State Army. 1923 […]

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1971 Five men working for the BBC were killed when an IRA bomb, intended for the security forces, exploded as they made their way in a Land Rover to inspect […]

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1933 The eighth Dáil Éireann assembled: Eamon de Valera formed his second government, with a one-seat majority. 1929 James Connell, County Meath-born Fenian, Land Leaguer and writer of the British […]

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