1984 Following a meeting in London with Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher rejected the three options of the New Ireland Forum in her notorious ‘Out! Out! Out!’ speech.
1924 Cardinal Michael Logue, archbishop of Armagh and primate of all-Ireland since 1887, died.
1918 Brendan Corish, leader of the Labour Party (1960–77) and Minister for Health and Minister for Social Welfare in the National Coalition (1973–7), born in Wexford.
1916 Fr Michael O’Hickey (55), Professor of Irish at Maynooth College (1896–1909), died.
1913 The Citizen Army, also referred to as the Irish Citizen Army, was founded by James Connolly on the suggestion of the Ulster Protestant nationalist J. R. ‘Jock’ White. Connolly led 210 Citizen Army men and women in the 1916 Rising, of whom eleven were killed in action.
1798 Theobald Wolfe Tone (35), ‘the father of Irish republicanism’, died in prison from a self-inflicted wound.
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1920 General Tom Barry’s Cork No. 3 (West Cork) Brigade wiped out an eighteen-man Auxiliary patrol at Kilmichael, on the Macroom–Dunmanway road, Co. Cork.
1979 John Hume MEP was elected leader of the SDLP in succession to Gerry Fitt.
1990 Margaret Thatcher, Conservative prime minister of the UK since May 1979, resigned. She was succeeded by John Major.
1979 John Hume succeeded Gerry Fitt as leader of the SDLP, a position he held until 2001.
1905 The Sinn Féin movement—the name famously coined by Máire Butler, a cousin of Irish unionist leader Sir Edward Carson—was launched by Arthur Griffith with the aim of re-establishing the independence of Ireland by withdrawing from the Westminster parliament and setting up a government in Dublin.
1863 First edition of the Fenian newspaper the Irish People. Circulating chiefly in Dublin, it was suppressed by the authorities in September 1865.
1977 Following a strike (from 3 August) at the Ferenka steel cord factory in County Limerick, the plant was closed with the loss of 1,400 jobs.