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May 15

Published in Event Listings

Wed 7pm
DLR County Council Spring of Heritage, Marlay Park, Rathfarnham.
The foundation of St Michael’s Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, Tom Conlon.

Wed 8pm
Dún Laoghaire Borough Historical Society, Royal Marine Hotel.
Living in Harbour House during the Emergency, Russell Kane. Adm. €3.

On this Day

1969 Robert Briscoe (75), Dáil deputy for 38 years and the first Jewish lord mayor of Dublin (1956), died.
1914 The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Ireland sank on the St Lawrence River after colliding with the Norwegian collier SS Storstad; 1,012 passengers and crew died.
1972 The Official IRA ordered a cessation of hostilities following the killing, four days earlier, of Ranger William Best while visiting his family.
1660 Charles II entered London, marking the restoration of the monarchy. He had been proclaimed king of Ireland on 14 May.
1917 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th president of the United States (1961–3), born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the second of nine children of businessman Joe Kennedy and philanthropist/socialite Rose Fitzgerald.