1982 Corporal punishment was banned in schools in the Republic of Ireland. 1969 Charles Bewley, lawyer and diplomat, first Irish minister to the Holy See (1929) and to Berlin (1933–9), […]
Read More →1984 Ann Lovett (15) died while giving birth near a Marian grotto in Granard, Co. Longford. 1953 The Princess Victoria, an early roll-on–roll-off ferry, en route from Stranraer to Larne, […]
Read More →1820 Edward Bransfield from Ballinacurra, Middleton, Co. Cork, commander of the English merchant vessel Williams, made the first sighting of the mainland of Antarctica—Trinity Peninsula, the northernmost point of the […]
Read More →1970 Gerard Sweetman (61), Fine Gael politician and Minister for Finance (1954–7), was killed in a car crash in County Kildare. 1939 W. B. Yeats, poet, died at Roquebrune, France. […]
Read More →1942 Six weeks after the US entered the Second World War, the first US soldiers came ashore at Belfast’s Dufferin Quay. By May 1942 some 37,000 US servicemen were stationed […]
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