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Ballindrait Mill

Murlough, Co. Donegal By Jon Sass Near the summit of Croaghan Hill, Murlough, Co. Donegal, are the remains of possibly the most advanced windmill in Ireland. It was built in […]

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Darkest Dublin: The story of the Church Street disaster and a pictorial account of the slums of Dublin in 1913
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July 24

1750 John Philpot Curran, lawyer and politician and father of the nationalist heroine Sarah Curran (1782–1808), born in Newmarket, Co. Cork.
1914 The Buckingham Palace Conference, a last-minute attempt to break the impasse between nationalists and unionists over Home Rule, ended in failure after four days.

Ballindrait Mill

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July 24