1921 The Anglo-Irish Treaty—eighteen Articles of Agreement—was signed in London at 2.10am under threat from Lloyd George of ‘terrible and immediate war’.
1982 Sixteen people—including eleven British soldiers—were killed in an INLA attack on the Droppin’ Well public house in Ballykelly, Co. Derry.
1982 Seventeen people, including eleven British soldiers, were killed by an INLA bomb at the Droppin’ Well public house in Ballykelly, Co. Derry.
1922 Under the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921), Saorstat Éireann—the Irish Free State—came into existence.
1921 Eighteen ‘Articles of Agreement for a Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland’—the Anglo-Irish Treaty—was signed in Downing Street, London, at 2.10am.
1917 The French munitions ship Mont Blanc exploded in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the most powerful man-made explosion before the nuclear age; 1,639 were killed and over 9,000 injured.
1890After five days of discussion, the Irish Parliamentary Party split when Justin McCarthy walked out with 43 of the 73 MPs present.
1922 Saorstát Éireann—the Irish Free State—came into existence with W.T. Cosgrave as president of the Executive Council.
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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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1960 Sixty-nine people were killed and 189 others injured when police opened fire on a crowd of c. 5,000–7,000 protesting against pass laws outside the police station in the South African township of Sharpeville.
1920 An t-Athair Peadar Ó Laoghaire (81), scholar and author, notably of Mo scéal féin (1915), died.
1978 Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (66), jurist and president of Ireland (1974–6), died.
1961 Joseph Holloway, architect and theatrical enthusiast, born in Lower Camden Street, Dublin. Over a 50-year period Holloway attended every theatre performance in the city and kept a journal in which he wrote some 28 million words on Dublin’s theatre world.
1960 South African police opened fire on black protesters at Sharpeville, a black township near Johannesburg, killing 69 and injuring over 180.