1930 Edna O’Brien, novelist, most famous for her first, The country girls (1960), born in Tuamgraney, Co. Clare, the daughter of a farmer.
1920 Canon Thomas Magner and a local man, Tadhg Crowley, were shot dead by an Auxiliary officer in Dunmanway, West Cork.
1994 John Bruton, leader of Fine Gael, was elected taoiseach in succession to Albert Reynolds.
1930 Edna O’Brien, novelist and short-story writer, was born at Tuamgraney, Co. Clare.
1917 The Bolsheviks under Lenin signed an armistice with Germany and the other Central Powers.
1993 The Downing Street Declaration, signed by Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and British Prime Minister John Major, reaffirmed Northern Ireland’s constitutional guarantee and aimed to foster agreement and reconciliation leading to a new political framework within Ireland.
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Personal Histories
Personal Histories is an initiative by History Ireland,
which aims to capture the individual histories of Irish
people both in Ireland and around the world. It is hoped
to build an extensive database reflecting Irish lives,
giving them a chance to be heard, remembered and to
add their voice to the historical record.
Click Here to go to the Personal Histories page
1920 Recruitment began, mainly from among demobilised British Army officers, into a new force—the ‘Auxiliary Division’—to augment the RIC.
1939 Michael Longley, poet, notable for ‘Gorse Fires’ (1991), ‘The Weather in Japan’ (2000) and ‘The Stairwell’ (2014), born in Belfast of English parents.
2004 Bob Tisdall (96), Olympic gold medal-winner in the 400m hurdles (Los Angeles, 1932) in a world record time of 51.7 seconds—which was not recognised under the rules at the time because he had hit a hurdle—died.
1866 The SS Great Eastern completed the laying of a transatlantic telegraph cable between Valentia Island, Co. Kerry, and Heart’s Content, Newfoundland.
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