Today in Irish History

[Rashers]

February 22

1772 - On the first occasion of his attendance after the death of his only child (a daughter), Thomas Eyre, MP for Fore, dies in the House of Commons - 'suddenly taken with an apoplectic fit and dropt down dead in his place'

1797 -The last invasion of England: Small French force commanded by Irishman William Tate lands in Wales

1832 - The first burial takes place at Glasnevin Cemetery

1886 - At Ulster Hall in Belfast, Lord Randolph Churchill gives his destructive speech which includes the incendiary comment, "Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right." The speech instills fear of rule by Roman Catholics in Dublin and incites militant loyalists

1893 - Peadar O'Donnell, novelist, editor of the newspaper An Phoblacht (The Republic) and social reformer, is born in Co. Donegal

1900 - Birth in Cork of short story writer Sean O'Faolain

1921 - Cecil King, painter, is born in Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow

1972 - IRA bomb kills six at Aldershot barracks in Surrey, including five women and a Roman Catholic army priest; 19 people are injured and one of these victims dies later

1995 - Death at the age of 76 of Dublin man Johnny Carey, soccer international, and one of Manchester United’s great captains

1998 - Republicans take to the streets in the first of a series of demonstrations in protest at Sinn Féin's suspension from the Northern Ireland peace talks

1998 - Opposition parties are claiming the Government may have breached the Constitution by allowing planes carrying US troops to refuel at Shannon Airport over recent weeks

1998 - Neil Jordan, director of The Butcher Boy, is awarded a Silver Bear for best director at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival

1998 - Cross-border cooperation between the Irish Marine Emergency Services and the Northern Ireland Coastguard is put to the test as emergency teams from the Ambulance Service, the RUC, Irish Marine Emergency Service, the Coastal Rescue Teams and others join forces for a spectacular drill on Carlingford Lough

1998 - Criminal and security sources confirm that the man believed to have masterminded the Omagh bomb massacre has escaped the country on a false Irish passport

1999 - Labour Party TD Pat Upton dies of a massive heart attack

2001 - Authorities begin placing a massive security cordon on sea and airports and along the 300-mile border with Northern Ireland in a determined bid to prevent animals infected with foot and mouth disease from entering the country

2001 - President Mary McAleese launches the Manchester Irish Festival and a website to provide a record of Irish family histories

2001 - The British Government unveils a £12 million aid package for victims of the Troubles in Northern Ireland

2002 - A unique record of the life and times of Irish emigrant families throughout the world is launched by President Mary McAleese in Manchester. This first ever social history of emigrant activity will be set down by descendants and will detail the difficulties, frustrations and ultimate successes of ancestors in their adopted lands.

[Mykidsmom]

^5 rashers...amazing stuff..

im totally flabbergast that
1832 - The first burial takes place at Glasnevin Cemetery

id always imagined that cemetery was much much older.

[Rashers]

im totally flabbergast that
1832 - The first burial takes place at Glasnevin Cemetery

Shane the guide showed us the first burial plot last week. It was a boy of 8 from Francis St who died of consumption.

From the Glasnevin website:

Glasnevin Cemetery, the largest cemetery in Ireland, first opened its gates in 1832 after a series of events prompted Daniel O'Connell to establish a place where people of all religions could bury their dead with dignity. It was initially named Prospect Cemetery.

The land was consecrated by Monsignor Yore in September 1831 and five months later, Michael Carey of Francis Street in Dublin was the first person to be buried there. Glasnevin Cemetery, as we know it now, has grown from its original nine to over one hundred and twenty acres. Over one million men and women are laid to rest there.

[Rashers]

February 23

1317 - Bruce's army marches south and reaches Castleknock, within sight of Dublin. The mayor of Dublin has imprisoned the Earl of Ulster, who is suspected of being sympathetic to Bruce. The citizens of Dublin destroy some of the northern and western suburbs, to prevent Bruce from using them as a base - to the later inconvenience of the administration, as many of the buildings it uses as law courts etc. are obliterated

1649 - Giovanni Battista Rinuccini returns to Rome. Originally from Rome, he takes his doctorate in law at the University of Pisa. During the next decade he wins distinction at the ecclesiastical courts in Rome and is made Archbishop of Fermo in 1625. In 1645, Pope Innocent X sends him to Kilkenny - then the capital of Ireland - to support the Catholics with arms, money and diplomacy. His determined support of the militant anti-English faction is doomed to failure, but gains him fame and infamy in Anglo-Irish history

1713 - Nicola Hamilton, widow of Tristram Beresford MP, dies on her 47th birthday. On the day of her death, she gave a party to celebrate her 48th birthday; one of those present was the priest who had christened her. He pointed out that it was in fact her 47th birthday - she had been born in 1666, not 1665 as she had always supposed. On hearing this she turned deathly pale; she sent for her children, told them the whole story, and died later that day. The Black Mark of Lord Tyrone

1935 - Thomas Murphy, a playwright best known for his portrayal of the people in the working class rural town of Tuam, is born

1943 - Thirty -five people die in a fire at St Joseph's Orphanage, Co. Cavan

1944 - Children's allowances are introduced in the Free State

1948 - Death of John Robert Gregg, Irish inventor of the Gregg shorthand system

1965 - Roger Casement's body is returned from England to be re-interred at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin

1998 - The Sinn Féin leadership takes to the stage at a Belfast hotel rally as fears grow that the party may not re-turn to the peace talks

2000 - According to a report released by the National Roads Authority, nearly half of Irish motorists never wear a seatbelt. Men are the worst offenders, with two-thirds admitting they do not strap themselves in

2001 - Measures to prevent livestock with foot and mouth disease entering Ireland are tightened as Britain halts all internal livestock movements amid fears that the outbreak there is spreading

2001 - A major recruitment drive for the Police Service of Northern Ireland goes ahead despite the refusal of the SDLP and Sinn Féin to support the new force

2002 - It is announced that Guinness is testing a new system that will slash the waiting time for a pint of the black stuff to 30 seconds. In an effort to combat declining sales in recent years, Guinness is hoping to appeal to people not prepared to wait the 1 minute 59 seconds for the traditional pint to be poured

2003 - Daniel Day-Lewis is named Best Actor for his role in Martin Scorsese’s epic Gangs of New York, the only prize which the film takes at the British version of the Oscars.

[Rashers]

February 24

1582 - Pope Gregory XIII announces the new Gregorian calendar, replacing the Julian calendar

1692 - The Treaty of Limerick is ratified by William of Orange

1780 - A British Act opens colonial trade to Irish goods

1797 - Birth in Dublin of writer, artist, musician and songwriter, Samuel Lover. To him is attributed the romantic proposal "Come live in my heart and pay no rent"

1841 - John Philip Holland, inventor and developer of the modern submarine, born in Co. Clare

1850 - Paul Cullen is consecrated Catholic archbishop of Armagh and primate of Ireland

1852 - George Moore, novelist, playwright and critic, is born in Ballyglass, Co. Mayo

1920 - Dublin Metropolitan District is placed under a curfew from midnight to 5 a.m.

1948 - Birth of Dermot Earley, Roscommon Gaelic footballer and GAA administrator, in Castlebar, Co. Mayo

2000 - The Government calls for a full public inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane

2000 - The North’s precarious peace process moves closer towards meltdown as Sinn Féin threatens to end their role as mediators with the IRA on decommissioning and warns of dissident republicans launching a renewed campaign of violence

2000 - A portrait of Queen Elizabeth II stolen from Edinburgh University by three inebriated Trinity College students is returned

2002 - The Catholic Church and Government clash over next week's abortion referendum as a poll highlights confusion among voters. While bishops support the Government campaign for a Yes vote on the substantive issue of abortion, they question the future protection of the morning-after pill

2003 - Iarnród Éireann announces that it will not proceed with its plan to charge commuters for parking at three DART stations in Dublin.

[Rashers]

February 25

1570 - Elizabeth I is excommunicated by Pope Pious V

1852 - Death of Thomas Moore, popular poet and editor of Irish Melodies

1891 - Edward "Ned" Daly, one of the leaders of the Easter Rising, is born in Limerick

1928 - Death of William O’Brien, architect of agrarian land reform

1934 - Ireland’s first ever World Cup match takes place in Dublin. The Irish draw with Belgium 4-4

1937 - The Imperial Airways flying boat Cambria is delivered to Shannon to begin the first trans Atlantic air service

1947 - The worst snow blizzard in living memory hits Ireland

1951 - Neil Jordan, writer and film director, is born

1952 - Joey Dunlop, motorcycle racer, is born in Armoy, Co. Antrim

1991 - Birmingham Six on verge of freedom. An announcement by the Director of Public Prosecution, Alan Green, says their convictions can no longer be considered safe and satisfactory. Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William Power and John Walker were all jailed in 1975 for an IRA attack on two pubs in Birmingham in November 1974 in which 21 people died

1998 - Security is stepped up in both Belfast and Derry amid fears the cities are targeted for a new wave of bombing attacks

2000 - The faltering peace process in the North suffer a double body blow with a bomb blast at an army base in Derry and a threat by the Progressive Unionists to withdraw support for the Good Friday Agreement

2001 - British supermarket chains draw up contingency plans to source supplies of fresh meat in Ireland if the ban on livestock transport is not lifted

2001 - It is announced that the birthplace of Daniel O’Connell, the Liberator, is for sale. The historic property at Carhan just outside Caherciveen, where O’Connell was born on August 6, 1775, is being put on the market by his descendants, a local family of O’Connells

2003 - The number of Catholics worldwide has exceeded one billion for the first time, according to figures released by the Vatican

2003 - North American Airlines and Miami Airlines, both charter troop carriers for the US military, end stopovers at Shannon because of recent security breaches

2003 - The Minister for Justice Michael McDowell and the Northern Secretary Paul Murphy hold two hours of talks in Dublin. The talks centre on cross border co-operation and anti terrorist measures.

[boxman]

Great stuff Jim, I look forward to this every morning

[silver spoon]

February 22

1772 - On the first occasion of his attendance after the death of his only child (a daughter), Thomas Eyre, MP for Fore, dies in the House of Commons - 'suddenly taken with an apoplectic fit and dropt down dead in his place'

1797 -The last invasion of England: Small French force commanded by Irishman William Tate lands in Wales

1832 - The first burial takes place at Glasnevin Cemetery

1886 - At Ulster Hall in Belfast, Lord Randolph Churchill gives his destructive speech which includes the incendiary comment, "Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right." The speech instills fear of rule by Roman Catholics in Dublin and incites militant loyalists

1893 - Peadar O'Donnell, novelist, editor of the newspaper An Phoblacht (The Republic) and social reformer, is born in Co. Donegal

1900 - Birth in Cork of short story writer Sean O'Faolain

1921 - Cecil King, painter, is born in Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow

1972 - IRA bomb kills six at Aldershot barracks in Surrey, including five women and a Roman Catholic army priest; 19 people are injured and one of these victims dies later

1995 - Death at the age of 76 of Dublin man Johnny Carey, soccer international, and one of Manchester United’s great captains

1998 - Republicans take to the streets in the first of a series of demonstrations in protest at Sinn Féin's suspension from the Northern Ireland peace talks

1998 - Opposition parties are claiming the Government may have breached the Constitution by allowing planes carrying US troops to refuel at Shannon Airport over recent weeks

1998 - Neil Jordan, director of The Butcher Boy, is awarded a Silver Bear for best director at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival

1998 - Cross-border cooperation between the Irish Marine Emergency Services and the Northern Ireland Coastguard is put to the test as emergency teams from the Ambulance Service, the RUC, Irish Marine Emergency Service, the Coastal Rescue Teams and others join forces for a spectacular drill on Carlingford Lough

1998 - Criminal and security sources confirm that the man believed to have masterminded the Omagh bomb massacre has escaped the country on a false Irish passport

1999 - Labour Party TD Pat Upton dies of a massive heart attack

2001 - Authorities begin placing a massive security cordon on sea and airports and along the 300-mile border with Northern Ireland in a determined bid to prevent animals infected with foot and mouth disease from entering the country

2001 - President Mary McAleese launches the Manchester Irish Festival and a website to provide a record of Irish family histories

2001 - The British Government unveils a £12 million aid package for victims of the Troubles in Northern Ireland

2002 - A unique record of the life and times of Irish emigrant families throughout the world is launched by President Mary McAleese in Manchester. This first ever social history of emigrant activity will be set down by descendants and will detail the difficulties, frustrations and ultimate successes of ancestors in their adopted lands.

only 12 million to vivtims of the troubles, a drop in the ocean, I feel.

Rashers where did we bury our dead prior to Glasnevin /

[Rashers]

only 12 million to vivtims of the troubles, a drop in the ocean, I feel.

Rashers where did we bury our dead prior to Glasnevin /

I think we buried them in the local churchyard -- mine are mainly in a line of churchyards from Drumcondra to Skerries. The 12 million is a pittance. I'm still hoping to receive something as I was a victim of one of their loyalist bombs in Sackville Place.

[Rashers]

February 26

February 26

1797 - The Bank of Ireland suspends gold payments

1854 - William Smith O'Brien, leader of the 1848 rebellion, is pardoned

1962 - Due to "lack of support", the Irish Republican Army ends what it calls "The Campaign of Resistance to British Occupation"; which is also known as the 'Border Campaign'

1978 - Film critic Ciaran Carty hails the Irish language film Poitín for its deromanticization of the west

1983 -Irishman Pat Jennings becomes the first footballer to play in 1,000 Football League matches

1998 - During talks at Downing Street, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern launches a bid to persuade British Prime Minister Tony Blair to sign up to an Anglo-Irish paper which would lay out the details of a final Northern Ireland peace settlement

1998 - An army recruitment programme to bolster the defence forces with 500 new members is officially launched with a commitment made to keep staffing levels at 11,500 by the end of 1998

1999 - During talks in Bonn, the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and British Prime Minister Tony Blair agree to push for implementation of the Good Friday peace deal by the March 10 deadline

2001 - The Government imposes a temporary ban on the country’s 120 livestock marts as the devastating foot and mouth disease spreads in Britain. Strict procedures are also implemented in airports around Ireland to keep the disease out of the country

2001 - Blizzards, gale force winds and driving hail sweep the country, leaving many householders without electricity or heat.

[Red Biddy]

2002 - A unique record of the life and times of Irish emigrant families throughout the world is launched by President Mary McAleese in Manchester. This first ever social history of emigrant activity will be set down by descendants and will detail the difficulties, frustrations and ultimate successes of ancestors in their adopted lands.

She never contacted me ha ha

[Rashers]

2002 - A unique record of the life and times of Irish emigrant families throughout the world is launched by President Mary McAleese in Manchester. This first ever social history of emigrant activity will be set down by descendants and will detail the difficulties, frustrations and ultimate successes of ancestors in their adopted lands.

She never contacted me ha ha

She has a lamp lit permanently in a window of Aras an Uachtarain to guide home those who left our shores... just follow the glow.

[Rashers]

February 27

1495 - Garret More Fitzgerald, Eighth Earl of Kildare, is arrested in Dublin by Sir Edward Poynings, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

1760 - François Thurot holds the castle and the town of Carrickfergus until this date

1792 - The Irish House of Commons is partly destroyed by fire

1841 - William Bruce, Sr., the last surviving member of the Ulster Volunteer convention of 1783, a group that fostered efforts towards reform, dies

1907 - Coslett Quin, clergyman, scholar and linguist, is born in Derriaghy, Co. Antrim

1975 - Scotland Yard announces that the man who shot dead a police officer in London on February 26 had been staying in a flat used as a "bomb factory" by the Provisional IRA

1997 - After a contentious court battle contesting the referendum, the new divorce law in the Republic is enacted

1998 - A recruitment programme to bolster the defence forces with 500 new members officially launched with a commitment made to keep staffing levels at 11,500 by the end of 1998

2000 - President Mary McAleese and former Taoiseach Charles Haughey are among the many people to pay tribute at the funeral of North Kerry Fianna Fáil TD and former minister, Tom McEllistrim

2001 - In an effort to help prevent the spread of hoof and mouth disease, the Six Nations match between Wales and Ireland is cancelled and the Government has asked the Irish racing industry not to participate in the Cheltenham racing festival this year. All horseracing, including point to point events, and all greyhound meets are also cancelled until further notice

2001 - Blizzard conditions bring parts of Leinster to a standstill; all flights are cancelled at Dublin Airport and many roads are left impassable after heavy falls of snow

2002 - Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visits University College Cork where he is confronted by more than 400 angry students protesting his presence

2003 - The funeral of former chief justice and government minister Tom O’Higgins takes place at St Patrick’s Church in Monkstown, Dublin

2003 - The European Commission confirms that new cars cost, on average, are 10% more in Ireland than the lowest pre-tax prices recommended by manufacturers in other eurozone markets.

[Rashers]

February 28

1713 - Henry Pyne, MP for Dungarvan, aged about 24 and the father of three children, is killed in a duel with Theophilus Biddulph at Chelsea Fields, London; Biddulph will later be convicted of manslaughter

1790 - The Northern Whig Club is founded in Belfast

1799 - William Dargan, railway engineer and philanthropist, is born in Carlow

1830 - Whitley Stokes, jurist and Celtic scholar, is born in Dublin

1884 - Seán MacDiarmada, revolutionary, is born in Kiltycolgher, Co. Leitrim

1929 - Poet John Montague, best known for his volume, The Rough Field, is born

1933 - Birth of Noel Cantwell, captain of Manchester United and Irish international

1938 - Alice Taylor, writer, is born near Newmarket, Co. Cork

1944 - John O'Shea, journalist, charity worker and founder of GOAL, is born in Limerick

1955 - Premiere of Sean O’Casey’s play The Bishop’s Bonfire in Dublin

1961 - Birth in Clones, Co. Monaghan of Barry McGuigan, "the Clones Cyclone", world featherweight boxing champion (WBA) 1985-86

1973 - General election in the Republic leads to a Fine Gael-Labour coalition government; Liam Cosgrave becomes Taoiseach

1998 - Death of one of TV's best-loved comedy stars, Dermot Morgan, who played Father Ted in the hit Channel 4 show

1999 - Sinn Feín supporters rally in Belfast to urge an end to unionists delaying the establishment of a power-sharing executive

2001 - Economic disaster is threatened after the first case of foot and mouth disease for 60 years is confirmed in Meigh, South Armagh

2001 - Dublin Zoo and Fota Island in Cork are closed as a preventive measure designed to protect any animals that may be susceptible to foot and mouth disease

2002 - U2 and Enya lead the Irish victory celebrations at the Grammys in Los Angeles. Bono's boys scoop the best rock album title for All That You Can't Leave Behind, best rock performance by a duo or group with vocal for Elevation, and best pop performance by a duo or group for Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of. Donegal singer/songwriter Enya wins best new age album for A Day Without Rain

2003 - Soldiers add razor wire to Shannon Airport’s perimeter fences as the army and gardaí brace for trouble at anti-war protest

2003 - Bono is made a knight of the French Legion - France’s highest award.

[Camouflage]

February 28


2003 - Soldiers add razor wire to Shannon Airport’s perimeter fences as the army and gardaí brace for trouble at anti-war protest

The Irish government aiding and abetting our (America's) phony war on terror and violations of civil rights.