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October 11

Published in Event Listings

Thur 6.30pm

Western Front Association (Antrim and Down branch), PRONI, Belfast.
The London Irish during the Great War, Stephen Sandford.

Thur 8pm

Kilmacud Stillorgan Local History Society, Glenalbyn Sports Club.
Some history of Dún Laoghaire harbour, Cormac Lowth. Adm. €3.

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.