1919 The Paris Peace Conference, better known as the Versailles Peace Conference, at which the victorious Allied Powers set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers, began. 1979 Leo […]
Read More →1971 Official Sinn Féin voted to end their abstentionist policy from Dáil Éireann, Stormont and Westminster. 1820 Anne Brontë, novelist, the youngest of the literary sisters, author notably of Agnes […]
Read More →1922 Michael Collins, as chairman of the Provisional Government of Southern Ireland, formally accepted the transfer of power from the British authorities at Dublin Castle. 1822 Thomas Clarke Luby, revolutionary, […]
Read More →1872 John King (33), Tyrone-born soldier and the only survivor of the four men of the Burke and Wills expedition (1860–1), the first to cross Australia from south to north, […]
Read More →1922 At a meeting of members elected to sit in the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, attended by 60 pro-Treaty TDs and four Unionist MPs (Dublin University) but boycotted […]
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