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June 12

Published in Event Listings

Tues 7pm
Tallaght Historical Society, County Library, The Square.
The love of the land: the importance of the potato, Seán Bagnall.
Tues 8pm
Skerries Historical Society, Keane’s Bus Bar.
Entertainment in independent Ireland: a Skerries perspective, Ger Dooley.

On this Day

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.