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November 17

Published in Event Listings

Thur 1pm

Museum of Archaeology & History, Kildare Street.
The Fortress Prison: the archaeology of Victorian Spike Island, Co. Cork, Barra Ó Donnabháin.

Thur 8pm

Bray Cualann Historical Society, Royal Hotel, Bray.
The railways of Ireland’s east coast, Tom Ferris. Adm. €5.

Thur 8pm

Greystones Archaeological & Historical Society, Holy Rosary Centre.
Family stories of 1916, Colin McNamee.

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.