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May 17

Published in Event Listings

Thur 7.15pm
Leixlip History Group, Leixlip Library.
‘Women voted early and in large numbers’—Irish women, the vote and the 1918 general election, Mary McAuliffe.
Thurs 8pm
Bray Cualann Historical Society, Royal Hotel.
Printed in Bray: the history of the printing industry in Bray and County Wicklow. Adm. €5.

On this Day

1968 In what became known as the ‘rivers of blood’ speech, Enoch Powell MP strongly criticised mass immigration, especially Commonwealth immigration to the UK, and the then proposed Race Relations Act.
1954 Michael Manning (25), a carter from Groody, Limerick city, was hanged in Mountjoy Jail for the murder of an elderly nurse. He was the last person to be judicially executed in the Republic of Ireland. The last judicial execution in Northern Ireland took place seven years later, in December 1961, when Robert McGladdery (26) from Newry was hanged for the murder of a local woman.
1912 Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker (65), author, notably of Dracula (1897), died.
1954 Michael Manning (25), a carter from Limerick, was hanged in Mountjoy prison for the murder of an elderly nurse. He was the last man to be judicially executed in the Republic of Ireland.