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May 16

Published in Event Listings

Thur 7.15pm
Leixlip History Group, Leixlip Library.
History of horse-racing in Leixlip and environs, John Colgan.

Thur 8pm
Bray Cualann Historical Society, Royal Hotel.
The traders of Castle Street and Dublin Road, Bray, Mark Murphy & Brian White. Adm. €5.

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.