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To hell or to Kimmage’: planning outcomes of the 1913 Church Street disaster

Published in Hedge School Recordings

National Library, Kildare Street, Tuesday 21 Jan 7pm

Panel: Ellen Rowley, Ruth McManus, Mary Daly and Chris Corlett with Tommy Graham

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.