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.
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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.
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