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May 03

Published in Event Listings

Wed 7.30pm
Remembering the Future: the Decade of Anniversaries, Bridewell, Magherafelt.
The world upside down: revolutionary Ireland and Europe, Shaun Harkin.
See www.midulstercouncil.org.

Wed 7.30pm
Remembering the Future: the Decade of Anniversaries, Ranfurly House, Dungannon.
‘The dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone’: partition and the birth of Northern Ireland, Éamon Phoenix. See www.midulstercouncil.org.

Wed 7.30pm
Remembering the Future: the Decade of Anniversaries, Ranfurly House, Dungannon.
Decade of anniversaries panel discussion, Éamon Phoenix. See www.midulstercouncil.org.

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.