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November 17

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2001 The GAA voted to abolish its controversial Rule 21, which had prevented members of the British Army and the PSNI from playing their games.
2001 The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) dropped Rule 21, which barred members of the British security forces from participation in their games.
1994 Taoiseach Albert Reynolds was forced to resign over the Brendan Smyth extradition case and the appointment of Harry Whelehan to the presidency of the High Court.
1974 Erskine Hamilton Childers (68), president of the Republic of Ireland since 25 June 1973, died suddenly.
1970 The bank strike in the Republic of Ireland, which began on 30 April, ended.
1922 Four ‘Irregulars’, James Fisher, Peter Cassidy, John F. Gaffney and Richard Twohig, were executed at Kilmainham gaol, Dublin, the first of 77 Republicans executed by the Free State authorities during the Civil War (1922–3).
1917 Auguste Rodin (77), French sculptor, notably of ‘The Kiss’ (1889) and ‘Le Penseur/The Thinker’ (1902), died.

On this Day

2011 The last British troops pulled out of South Armagh. During the period 1970–97, the IRA killed 165 members of the British security forces in the area.
1870 (Robert) Erskine Childers, Sinn Féin politician and author of The riddle of the sands (1903), born in London but raised at the maternal home, Glendalough House, Co. Wicklow, along with his cousin, Robert Childers Barton (1881–1975)
1970 The Catholic hierarchy lifted the ban on Catholics attending Trinity College, Dublin.
1919 William Martin Murphy (75), founder of Independent Newspapers and leader of the Employers’ Federation during the lockout of 1913–14, died.
1970 The Irish Catholic hierarchy lifted its ban on Catholics attending Trinity College, Dublin.
1876 The Battle of Little Big Horn, Montana, USA. Of Custer’s 604-strong 7th Cavalry, some 128 were of Irish birth, representing 29 of the 32 counties. Half of the 215 men who died with him that day were Irish.