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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

1901 Thomas Clarke Luby, co-founder of the Fenian movement and editor of the Irish People (1863–5), died in New York.
1955 Rosa Parks, the ‘first lady of civil rights’, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for resisting bus segregation by refusing to obey a bus driver’s order that she give up her seat in the ‘coloured’ section to a white passenger after the ‘white’ section was filled.
1972 A bus driver and bus conductor were killed and over 100 others were injured when two UVF bombs exploded in Dublin city centre. Fine Gael consequently dropped their opposition to Fianna Fáil’s Offences Against the State (Amendment) Bill, then being debated in Dáil Éireann.