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November 19

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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 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.