To renew a subscription please login first

THE ‘RED LIBRARY’ OF HENRIETTA STREET

Published in Issue 2 (March/April 2023), News, Volume 31

Content is protected. Please sign up or login to view content.

If you would like to take out a subscription to the magazine, you can do that by clicking here

On this Day

1922 An army convention held in the Mansion House, attended by 220 delegates representing 52 of the IRA’s 73 brigades, repudiated the authority of Dáil Éireann.
2000 Vladimir Putin, who had served as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for sixteen years, was elected president of Russia in succession to Boris Yeltsin.
1920 Alan Bell, a magistrate investigating funding of the republican movement, was shot dead by Michael Collins’s ‘squad’.
1932 Sir Horace Plunkett (78), pioneer of agricultural cooperation and first president of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society (1894), died.
1931 T.M. (Timothy) Healy, barrister, parliamentary correspondent of The Nation, Irish Party MP and governor-general of the Irish Free State (1922–8), died.
1856 William Ferguson Massey, prime minister of New Zealand (1912–25), born in Limavady, Co. Derry.