1920 Kevin Barry (18), IRA Volunteer, was hanged in Mountjoy Jail for his role in an attack on a British army unit in September 1919 in which three soldiers were killed.James Daly (22) of C Company, 1st Battalion, Connaught Rangers, and a member of the IRB, quartered in Jullundur, Punjab, was executed by firing squad for mutiny in June of that year.
1884 The Gaelic Athletic Association, ‘for the preservation and cultivation of the national pastimes of Ireland’, was founded at a meeting in Thurles, Co. Tipperary. At least four of the seven men who attended were Fenians.
1872 John Francis Maguire (57), founder of the Cork Examiner (1841), died.
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Personal Histories
Personal Histories is an initiative by History Ireland,
which aims to capture the individual histories of Irish
people both in Ireland and around the world. It is hoped
to build an extensive database reflecting Irish lives,
giving them a chance to be heard, remembered and to
add their voice to the historical record.
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