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September 12-15

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Fri-Sun

26th Desmond Greaves Annual School, Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street.
Ideology of remembrance: Ireland & the First World War, Brian Hanley & Michael Quinn; Good Friday Agreement, Anne Cadwallader, Tom McGurk & Declan Kearney; Politics & the physical force tradition in Ireland, Tommy McKearney, Eoin Ó Murchú & Mícheál Mac Donncha; Imperialism & the national Q in Ireland, John Foster, Kevin McCorry & Patricia McKenna; Unionism & the way forward, Peter Shirlow, Linda Ervine & Owen Bennet.
Enquiries: Frank Keoghan, 25 Shanowen Crescent, Dublin 9, +353 (0)1 8423076, +353 (0)87 2308330, post@greavesschool.com.

On this Day

July 27

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.

September 12-15

Personal Histories

On this Day

July 27