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June 27

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1951 Mary McAleese, barrister, journalist, academic and president of Ireland (1997–2011), born in Ardoyne, Belfast, the eldest of nine children.
1970 After serious sectarian clashes in the north of the city that afternoon, which left three Protestants dead, the Provisional IRA, in action for the first time, engaged in a five-hour gun battle with loyalists in the Short Strand area. Three men, two Protestant and one Catholic, died.
1939 Kathleen Clarke (Caitlín Bean Uí Chléirigh), widow of executed Easter Rising leader Tom Clarke, was elected lord mayor of Dublin.
1970 The Provisional IRA were in action for the first time, mortally wounding four Protestants and losing one of their own members in a gun battle in the Short Strand area of Belfast.
1951 Mary McAleese, barrister, journalist, academic and current president of Ireland (since 1997), born in Ardoyne, Belfast, the eldest of nine children.
1846 Charles Stewart Parnell, nationalist leader, was born.

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1922 Ulysses by James Joyce was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on the writer’s 40th birthday.
1939 Desmond O’Malley, Fianna Fáil TD and government minister in the 1970s and 1980s and first leader of the Progressive Democrats (1985–93), born in Limerick.
1969 Boris Karloff (81), stage name of William Henry Pratt, an English actor best known for his roles in horror films (notably playing Frankenstein’s monster), died.
1947 Thousands lined the route of labour leader Jim Larkin’s funeral from St Mary’s Church, Haddington Road, to Glasnevin Cemetery.
1943 The Battle of Stalingrad, perhaps the bloodiest engagement in the history of human warfare (up to two million were killed), ended with a German surrender.
1922 James Joyce’s Ulysses was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach.
1918 Patrick Donnelly (IPP) defeated Dr Patrick McCartan (Sinn Féin) in the Armagh South by-election.
1882 James Joyce, poet, novelist and playwright, was born at 41 Brighton Square, Dublin.