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ST JOHN’S CHURCH, JOHN STREET, KILKENNY

Published in Gems of Architecture, Issue 6 (November/December 2022), Volume 30

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On this Day

1869 Birth of Sir Edwin Lutyens, acclaimed British architect, whose works in Ireland include the Irish National War Memorial Gardens in Islandbridge, Dublin.
1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott (43) died in Antarctica whilst returning from his expedition to the South Pole.
1859 The first edition of The Irish Times, Ireland’s first daily penny newspaper, appeared.
1793 Charlotte Brooke (c. 52), poet and translator, notably of Reliques of Irish poetry (1789), a collection of Ulster songs and poems in their original Irish forms along with her own translations, died. A daughter of the writer Henry Brooke (c. 1703–83), she was an ancestor of Lord Brookeborough, prime minister of Northern Ireland (1943–63).
1973 The last US serviceman departed from Vietnam. The Vietnam War claimed the lives of 58,281 US servicemen.