Today in Irish History

[The Hud]

Very probably a typing error TH. I can't find any reference to a Freddie Gilroy.

I thought it might be a typing error rashers, This is a very interesting tread.


Bantam Weight Ireland Freddie Gilroy Bronze Medallist Melbourne 1956

[Rashers]

March 9

1771 - Birth in Dublin of Thomas Reynolds, United Irishman whose information enables authorities to arrest Leinster Committee in 1798

1825 - The Catholic Association is dissolved in accordance with the Unlawful Societies Act

1914 - Prime Minister Asquith offers a compromise on Home Rule - electors in the North could vote to be excluded from an independent Ireland for six years

1932 - Éamon de Valera is elected President of the Executive Council of Ireland

1973 - The people of Northern Ireland vote overwhelmingly to remain within the United Kingdom. In a referendum on the future of the province, 591,280 people or 57% of the electorate vote to retain links with the UK. A boycott by the Roman Catholic population means only 6,463 vote in favour of a united Ireland

1982 - Charles Haughey becomes Taoiseach for the second time

1995 - Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh make a historic visit to Northern Ireland. For the first time, the Queen meets with the Roman Catholic Primate of all Ireland, Cardinal Cahal Daly, as well as his Anglican counterpart, Archbishop Robin Eames

1995 - U.S. President Bill Clinton approves a visa for Irish nationalist leader Gerry Adams to enter the United States

1998 - Justice Brian Walsh, judge on the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, dies suddenly of a stroke. On his appointment in December of 1961, Justice Walsh becomes one of the youngest Irish Supreme Court judges. He serves for 29 years - the longest by a member of the country's highest court

1999 - The European Parliament calls for the legalisation of abortion in Ireland. The opinion, passes in Strasbourg by 321 votes to 122; it carries no legislative weight but provokes a storm of political controversy

1999 - A record price for land in the South East is set in Waterford when leading city developer Noel Frisby pays £725,000 an acre for land being sold off for Telecom Eireann.

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March 10

1478 - John De La Pole, the Duke of Suffolk, is appointed lieutenant of Ireland for 20 years on this date, but does not take office

1653 - Sir Phelim O'Neill is executed by Parliament forces in Dublin, after refusing to state that Charles I authorized the 1641 rebellion

1810 - Birth in Belfast of Sir Samuel Ferguson, Celtic scholar and a poet best known for his rendering of Irish legends in English verse

1883 - Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha, writer under the pseudonym 'An Seabhac' and promoter of the Irish language is born in Dingle, Co. Kerry

1888 - Birth in Dublin of William Joseph Shields, aka Barry Fitzgerald, actor

1894 - Ireland collects its first ever Triple Crown, defeating Wales in Belfast

1932 - IRA prisoners in the Free State are released

1945 - Birth of Donal Lunny, the founder of Planxty, the Bothy Band, and Moving Hearts

1966 - Death of Frank O'Connor, poet and novelist

1971 - Fighting erupts between Official and Provisional IRA in Belfast

1998 - After five wildly inaccurate missiles are fired with little warning at a police station in Armagh city, police accuse republicans of attempting mass murder. 100 people — many pensioners — are forced to flee their homes. Fortunately, no-one is killed or injured

2000 - Harland and Wolff’s last hope of saving the Belfast shipyard appear doomed after it is confirmed that Cunard’s £433 million contract to build the Queen Mary 2 has gone to French rivals

2002 - Former Circuit of Ireland rally champion Frank Meagher is killed in a driving accident in Co. Tipperary, between Cloneen and Mullinahone

2003 - The National Aquatic Centre opens in Abbotstown, Dublin. The water-park with its eight different fun rides and attractions is one of the most hi-tech in Europe and the pool complex is one of the most advanced Olympic standard facilities in the world

2003 - Tobacco manufacturers Gallaher announces a range of increases which sees the cost of several popular brands rise to nearly €6 for a packet of 20 cigarettes.

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March 11

1605 - A proclamation declares all persons in the realm to be free, natural and immediate subjects of the king and not subjects of any lord or chief

1812 - Composer William Vincent Wallace, best known for his opera, Maritana, is born in Co. Waterford

1858 - Irish revolutionary Thomas James Clarke is born of Irish parents on the Isle of Wight

1880 - On the last day of his tour of the United States, Parnell launches the Irish National Land League of the USA

1926 - Eamon de Valera resigns as head of Sinn Féin

1929 - Erskine B. Childers, diplomat, is born in Dublin

1951 -Ian Paisley co-founds the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster

1953 - Birth in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway of Mary Harney, politician, leader of the Progressive Democrats and Tánaiste

1954 - Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, Irish women's rights activist, is born

1964 - Shane Richie, actor and game-show host, is born Shane Roche to Irish parents in London

1974 - Brothers Kenneth and Keith Littlejohn break out of Mountjoy Prison. Jailed in 1973 for a £67,000 heist at a Dublin bank - the biggest to date in Irish history - during their trial they claim they are M16 spies working for the British Government against the IRA

1995 - Gerry Adams arrives in New York

2000 - Emigrant Francis O’Neill, an American police chief who carried a Chicago gangster’s bullet to the grave is honoured at the weekend in his native West Cork where Garda Commissioner Pat Byrne unveils a life-sized memorial sculpture

2001 - Over 1,300 people pack the Cathedral of the Assumption to pay their last respects to the former Archbishop of Tuam, Most Reverend Joseph Cunnane, at his funeral Mass

2001 - Mr. Tony Luff, founder of the Galway Swan Rescue, coordinates a rescue operation involving dozens of volunteers in Galway city to save the lives of over 60 of the famous Claddagh swans after yet another oil slick surrounds the birds - just a fortnight after four are killed in a previous spill

2002 - Limerick-born Michael Collins, author of The Keepers of Truth, is named as one of seven writers competing for the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2002, worth €100,000

2002 - Customs officers smash the biggest illegal oil laundering operation ever discovered in the State.The plant, near Dundalk, Co Louth, had the capacity to launder up to 300,000 litres of oil a week.

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March 12

1295 - Richard de Burgh is released by the council in parliament at Kilkenny

1685 - George Berkeley, philosopher, physicist, mathematician, Dean of Derry and Bishop of Cloyne, is born in Dysart Castle, Co. Kilkenny. The university town of Berkeley in California is named in his honour

1689 - James II lands at Kinsale and proceeds to Dublin

1832 - Birth of Capt. Charles Boycott, despised English estate manager in Ireland, from whose name the word 'boycott' is taken

1873 - Gladstone's Irish University Bill is defeated

1875 - After being barred as an undischarged felon from taking his seat as elected MP for Tipperary, John Mitchel is re-elected on this date. He dies eight days later

1798 - Having been betrayed by Thomas Reynolds, the Leinster Directory of United Irishmen leaders is arrested

1860 - Michael O'Hickey, professor of Irish and Irish-language campaigner, is born in Carrickbeg, Co. Waterford

1930 - Pat Taaffe, jockey and trainer, is born in Rathcoole, Co. Dublin

1944 - Britain bans all travel to and from Ireland in an effort to prevent news of Allied preparations for the invasion of France reaching the Germans

1974 - Billy Fox, MP for Co. Monaghan, is assassinated

2000 - National Tree Week ends with a mass planting of 5,000 trees at Corkagh Park in Clondalkin

2001 - Department of Agriculture vets are investigating another suspected case of foot and mouth in the North. Tests are carried out on a sheep taken from a farm in Augher to an abattoir in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, for slaughter.

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March 13

1784 - Reform Bill in Irish House of Commons

1791 - Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man (part 1) - a reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France and a major influence on Irish radicals - is published

1865 - Birth of Patrick Nally in Balla, Co Mayo. An athlete, he was a major inspiration in the founding the GAA in 1884 by Michael Cusack. The Nally stand in Croke Park is named after him

1922 - George Bernard Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh V" premieres in New York

1939 - At-Swim-Two-Birds, a highly experimental novel by Flann O'Brien, is published in London

1960 - Birth of Adam Clayton, bass player with U2

1973 - Birth of Ballybeg Prim, one of the greatest racing dogs of all time in Thurles, Co. Tipperary

1998 - Naval personnel question the crew of a British-registered flagship after a second day of intimidation of Irish trawlers off the South West coast

1999 - Over 250,000 people pack the streets around the River Liffey in Dublin to witness the largest fireworks display ever seen in Ireland
The event marks the start of a five-day festival to mark St Patrick's Day as well as the official launch of the Millennium celebrations

2000 -A multi million pound seizure of drugs in Holland results in the arrest of John Cunningham, one of Ireland’s most prolific career criminals

2001 - The Irish food industry is dealt a hammer blow as the United States and Canada ban Irish food imports, worth over £100 million a year, because of the foot and mouth scare

2003 - Taoiseach Bertie gives his strongest indication yet that the US will be able to use Shannon Airport regardless of UN backing for war in Iraq.

[MarkFillipos]

Today in Irish History

hey my people, im taking AP US History using the american pageant 13th edition textbook and our final is tomorrow and i need sum help on the Mason-Dixon Line and why did General Lee want to lead the Confederacy and not the Union??????????

[Rashers]

hey my people, im taking AP US History using the american pageant 13th edition textbook and our final is tomorrow and i need sum help on the Mason-Dixon Line and why did General Lee want to lead the Confederacy and not the Union??????????

Sorry Mark I can't help as I'm not very familiar with US history.

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March 21

1181 - John Cumin (or Comyn) is elected archbishop of Dublin and consecrated by the pope at Velletri on this date. He is the first Englishman to be appointed to an Irish see

1656 - Death of Bishop James Ussher. The Dublin-born cleric deduced from biblical studies the exact date of the Creation (October 23rd,4004 BCE), and the date of the end of the world: November 4, 1996. The Bishop had a cult following until then

1689 - Derry/Londonderry declares allegiance to William III

1763 - William James McNeven, physician, United Irishman and writer, is born in Aughrim, Co. Galway

1881 - The Peace Preservation Act, controlling possession and importation of arms, is enacted

1886 - Oscar Traynor, revolutionary, Fianna Fáil politician and Minister; football administrator, is born in Dublin

1970 - Dana (Rosemary Brown) wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with 'All Kinds of Everything'

1998 - Sonia O'Sullivan wins a gold medal in the World Cross-Country championships

2001 - Tests for foot-and-mouth disease are carried out on samples from sheep on a farm in Louth

2001 - Taoiseach Bertie Ahern strongly urges the release of the remaining Government funding to help complete the famine ship Jeanie Johnston

2001 - Hundreds of students gather outside Leinster House to protest the teacher's strike

2003 - The Government insists it is not a participant in the 50-member coalition of countries which the US says is providing support for the war on Iraq. The United States has published a list of 35 countries which make up its "coalition of the willing", but says another 15 members are providing back-up support and do not wish to be named.

2009 - Ireland beats Wales 17-15 in a dramatic win which gives Ireland their first Six Nations Rugby Grand since the country’s one and only triumph in 1948.

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April 1

1329 - From April onwards there are risings by the native Irish in various parts of Munster and Leinster, and reprisals against them. This will continue into 1330

1716 - The first Doggett Coat and Badge sculling race takes place on the Thames; one of the oldest sporting fixtures in the British sporting calendar, it is founded by Thomas Doggett, an Irish actor and theatre manager

1730 - Samuel Boyse, MP for Bannow, dies as a result of a duel at the age of 33

1776 - Irish-born Edward Hand is appointed a Brigadier General in the Continental Army

1839 - St. Clair Mulholland, Union Civil War General and Medal of Honor winner, is born in Lisburn, Co. Antrim

1848 - Augustus Saint-Gaudens, sculptor, is born in Dublin

1911 - The Titanic is launched in Belfast

1919 - DeValera is elected president of the first Dáil Éireann

1935 - Death of Francis Arthur Fahy from Kinvara, Co Galway, who wrote the ballad Galway Bay

1966 - Death of writer Brian O'Nolan, also known as Flann O'Brien and Myles na gCopaleen

1986 - US sub Nathaniel Green runs aground in the Irish Sea

1998 - The European Commission serves notice on the Government that Ireland faces prosecution in the European Court on charges of damaging the environment and failing to provide secure habitats for some of our most endangered bird species

1999 - One thousand people, the entire population of Belmullet in Co. Mayo, are evacuated from the town following a fire in a rubber factory

2000 - John Dennehy, Secretary General of the Department of Education and Science, makes academic history by being elected Chairman of the Education Committee of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for a three year period. He is the first Irish person to be appointed to this position

2001 - One of Irish television’s most familiar faces, Brendan O’Reilly, passes away. The 71 year old former television and radio broadcaster and commentator had been ill for a number of months

2001 - The Department of Agriculture orders the slaughter of all the remaining 15,000 or so sheep in the Cooley Peninsula, Co. Louth

2002 - Loyalist thugs posing as Glasgow Celtic supporters are hunted by police after a series of attacks in flashpoint north Belfast.

2003 - Veteran actress Pat Leahy, 66, collapses on the set of Fair City

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April 2

1871 - A census on this date shows the population of Ireland to be 5,412,377; only 285 Jews are recorded in the census

1902 - Premiere of Yeats' Cathleen ni Houlihan starring Maud Gonne

1914 - Cumann na mBan, Irish women's Republican movement, is founded

1970 - Several days of rioting following Easter rising commemorations end on this date

1972 - Radio na Gaeltachta goes on the air for the first time and is launched by Eamon De Valera

1973 - Special Powers Act replaced by Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act

1998 - Dissident republicans, aligned to the 32 County Sovereignty Committee and a Louth-based former IRA Quartermaster are said to be behind a massive explosives find in Dun Laoghaire

1998 - Mentally exhausted and following the advice of his doctor, Christy Moore announces in an open letter to fans that he is taking a year off from live performances

1999 - More than 170 staff at the biggest Dunnes Stores branch in the west of Ireland are suspended in a row over a worker facing dismissal because she sampled food at the delicatessen counter

2000 - Westlife make pop history with five consecutive British number one chart hits

2002 - Linda and Declan Fleming win the second largest individual jackpot in Lotto history - £5.26 million

2003 - Protestors against the war in Iraq clash with gardaí outside the Dáil.

2003 - Pat Leahy, star of Fair City for eleven years, dies of kidney failure

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April 3

1793 - Dionysius Lardner, scientific writer and lecturer, is born in Dublin

1798 - Writer John Banim, who was praised by Yeats as a writer who tried to "make one see life plainly," is born in Kilkenny

1807 - Maurice FitzGerald, MP for Co. Kerry, resigns as Commissioner of the Treasury (UK) over the issue of Catholic relief

1825 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Young Irelander, journalist and promoter of Canadian Federation, is born

1843 - Birth of James McCudden, WWI ace

1846 - Death of Michael Moran, aka Zozimus, balladeer and storyteller

1900 - Queen Victoria arrives at Kingstown for a three-day visit to Ireland

1946 - Birth of Ruari Quinn, former Labour leader

1951 - Birth of Michael Morris, jockey, winner of the 1977 Irish Grand National, trainer, and son of Lord Killanin

1998 - Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and British Prime Minister Tony Blair announce that with ''realistic negotiation'', agreement in the Northern Ireland peace process could be reached by Thursday's deadline

1998 - Witnesses for the new inquiry into Bloody Sunday launched on this date in Derry, will not be offered blanket immunity from prosecution, according to the presiding chairman of the tribunal

2000 - Thousands of gallons of diesel oil are pumped off a storm-stricken Dutch barge which ran aground on a sandbank in Bray Harbour, Co. Wicklow

2000 - At the Special Criminal Court, John Gilligan denies having any involvement in the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin

2001 - The Government agrees to a £2 million package to bail out the financially troubled Jeanie Johnston famine ship project

2001 - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson changes her mind about stepping down from the post on foot of a pledge that funding and staffing problems in her office will be addressed

2001 - It is announced that towns and villages within the current foot-and-mouth exclusion zone in Co. Louth have been barred from this year’s national tidy towns’ competition

2001 - Farm leaders from North and South meet in Dublin to pursue an agreed objective — the highest animal health status for all of Ireland.

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April 6

1830 - James Augustine Healy, the first black Roman Catholic bishop in America, was born to an Irish planter and a slave on a plantation near Macon, Georgia

1889 - Actor Barry Macollum is born

1926 - Birth in Armagh of Ian Paisley, clergyman and Unionist politician

1947 - Death of Henry Ford, automobile production pioneer and son of Irish immigrants

1954 - The Flags & Emblems Act legislates against interference with the Union Jack, effectively prohibiting display of the tricolor in Northern Ireland

1956 - Kerry GAA footballer Seanie Walsh is born

1964 - Birth of Nick Popplewell, former rugby international

1965 - Former international footballer Norman Whiteside is born

1982 - James Prior launches 'rolling devolution' for Northern Ireland

1998 - Hopes of an historic peace deal are put at "less than 50%" as the multi-party talks deadline looms

1998 - Telecom Eireann launches a commemorative 50 unit Call Card to mark the 25th anniversary of the University of Limerick

2000 - Gregory Peck receives an honorary Doctor of Literature from the National University of Ireland in recognition of his contribution to the art of film

2000 - British soldiers and police search the perimeter fence of Ebrington Army Base in Derry after a bomb explodes inside the base

2001 - The Government pledges to give the GAA £60 million over the next three years in return for their commitment to staging matches — including All Ireland semi finals — in the new National Stadium. This deal effectively undermines the argument to open up Croke Park for rugby and soccer matches

2001 -The Parades Commission agrees to allow an Apprentice Boys’ march along Belfast’s flashpoint Ormeau Road on Easter Monday

2002 - Galway man Richard Donovan becomes the first person in history to run a marathon at both the North and South Pole.

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April 7

1720 - The Declatory Act defines the right of the British Parliament to legislate for Ireland and denies the appellate jurisdiction of the Irish House of Lords

1801 - The trial of United Irishman, Napper Tandy, begins

1861 - A census shows the population to be 5,798,967. Only 393 Jews are recorded

1922 - Special Powers Act is introduced in Northern Ireland

1926 - Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose

1927 - The world’s first ever paid television broadcast takes place. An Irishman, Mr. A. Dolan was employed by the American Telephone and Telegraph company to provide a “short act of monologue and song”. Interestingly, the first professional artist to be seen on television in Britain, a year later, was Irish singer Peg O'Neil

1941 - A Luftwaffe bomb kills 13 people in Belfast. Ultimately, the city is devastated by air raids; 700 people are killed and 400 seriously injured in what becomes known as Belfast's Blitz. The British government appeals to De Valera for help and he authorizes fire brigades from Dublin, Dundalk, Drogheda and Dun Laoghaire to give assistance

1973 - Death of Archbishop of Dublin John Charles McQuaid

2000 - Four environmental protesters, including Diana Peuker, who had been jailed for their part in the Glen of the Downs protest in Co. Wicklow, are freed in the High Court

2001 - The longest running legal action in the history of the State ends when the Superwood Group of companies, which claimed £90 million compensation from three insurance companies, are awarded a total of £300,000

2003 - A member of the British army's 1st Battalion of the Irish Guards, Lance Corporal Ian Malone from Ballyfermot, Dublin, is killed in the battle for Basra in southern Iraq.

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April 8

1719 - Birth of Viscount Edmond Pery, speaker of the House of Commons from March 1771 to September 1785

1805 - Sir William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician and astronomer, is born in Dublin

1816 - Sir Frederick Burton, painter, is born in Corofin, Co. Clare

1835 - Jonah Barrington, the Irish Parliament's leading opponent of the Union with Britain and author of The Rise and Decline of the Irish Nation, dies

1861 - John George Adair evicts 244 tenants on his estate at Derryveagh, Co. Donegal

1867 - A. E. (George Russell), pivotal Irish Renaissance poet, painter, journalist and mystic, is born

1886 - Home Rule Bill introduced in English Parliament by Gladstone

1923 - Edward Mulhare is born in Co. Cork; he grew up to become an actor and starring roles include Capt. Daniel Gregg in the 1968 release of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1930 - Birth in Dublin of Frank Cluskey, politician and Labour Party leader from 1977-1981

1930 - Writer and critic John Jordan is born in Dublin

1933 - The Army Comrades' Association parades in blue shirts on this date

1951 - A census on this date shows the population of the Republic to be 2,960,593 and that of Northern Ireland is1,370,921

1960 - The Royal Showband is forced to change its name to the Waterford Showband for an appearance at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London because two members of the British royal family are in attendance

1981 - Death of Greta Bowen, artist known as "The Irish Grandma Moses"

1999 - The peace process is plunged into a new crisis after mainstream loyalist paramilitaries make it clear they have no intention of handing over weapons and the Sinn Fein's leadership brands the Hillsborough declaration "unacceptable"

1999 - The Department of Education unveils a new primary school curriculum which replaces the one of 1971

2002 - The IRA makes a second and substantial gesture of putting arms beyond use which is broadly welcomed by political leaders in Dublin, London and Belfast

2003 - U.S. president George W. Bush leaves Belfast at the end of a two-day summit attended by British Prime Minister, Tony Blair and Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern

2003 - Paul Muldoon wins the Pulitzer prize for poetry. The 51-year-old Belfast poet is awarded the prestigious prize for his work Moy Sand and Gravel.