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Irish Army deserters and the morality of neutrality.

Published in Hedge School Recordings, The Emergency

Venue: National Library of Ireland,

Date and time: 7.30pm Wednesday 16 May

Brian Girvin (Uni. of Glasgow), Michael Kennedy (RIA, Documents of Irish Foreign Policy), Geoff Roberts (UCC) and Eunan O’Halpin (TCD).

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On this Day

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.