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October 17

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1971 The Sunday Times alleged that brainwashing techniques were used on internees at Hollywood police barracks, Belfast.
1860 Roderic O’Conor, member of the Paul Gauguin-led Pont Aven circle of painters in Brittany in the 1890s and widely regarded as Ireland’s greatest Impressionist painter, was born in Milton, Co. Roscommon, the son of Roderick O’Conor JP, soon to be high sheriff.

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1968 In what became known as the ‘rivers of blood’ speech, Enoch Powell MP strongly criticised mass immigration, especially Commonwealth immigration to the UK, and the then proposed Race Relations Act.
1954 Michael Manning (25), a carter from Groody, Limerick city, was hanged in Mountjoy Jail for the murder of an elderly nurse. He was the last person to be judicially executed in the Republic of Ireland. The last judicial execution in Northern Ireland took place seven years later, in December 1961, when Robert McGladdery (26) from Newry was hanged for the murder of a local woman.
1912 Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker (65), author, notably of Dracula (1897), died.
1954 Michael Manning (25), a carter from Limerick, was hanged in Mountjoy prison for the murder of an elderly nurse. He was the last man to be judicially executed in the Republic of Ireland.