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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

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.