On this day

[DFCRFB]

12th Feb 08

1848 - John Mitchel's newspaper United Irishman published
1944 - Volunteer Séamus 'Rocky' Burns died of gunshot wounds
1976 - Frank Stagg died on hunger strike in Wakefield Prison, England
1989 - Human rights lawyer Pat Finucane murdered

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1820 - The informer Leonard McNally died

[DFCRFB]

1895 - Seán Treacy born
1989 - Sinn Féin Councillor John Davey assassinated by UDA in collusion with British crown forces

[Jim]

14-2-1920

Ballytrain barracks Co Monaghan was taken by the IRA.

[mickyk200]

emm feast of st brigide of kildare and...the Tullaghmurray Lass sinks off the coast of Kilkeel

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1467 - Earl of Desmond beheaded
1782 - The Volunteers assembled in Dungannon

[Foyleview]

Very interesting thread. would be good if we could do this every day.

[DFCRFB]

it will be mate. if you know of anything that should be placed here, then do so please.

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1920 - Government of Ireland Bill introduced in British House of Commons
1942 - Barney Mellows died
2006 - Rioting erupted in Dublin at 'Love Ulster' sectarian march

[mickyk200]

2006 - Rioting erupted in Dublin at 'Love Ulster' sectarian march
yeroooo =]

[CelticWarrior]

I posted this message!:icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol:

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1915 - Scissors and Paste newspaper suppressed
1923 - Thomas Gibson executed by Free State forces

[Foyleview]

is there anything planned , comemoration wise for early may ? i was looking at a few dates , most of the 1916 leaders were executed in early may and of course may and august were big months for deaths of hungerstrikers.

[mickyk200]

is there anything planned , comemoration wise for early may ? i was looking at a few dates , most of the 1916 leaders were executed in early may and of course may and august were big months for deaths of hungerstrikers.
They usually commerate the Rising on Easter Sunday even though it differs every year.
It would make sense to me to do it in the 24th of April week...

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1921 - Six republican POWs executed by Free State in Cork; IRA kill six British soldiers afterwards
1988 - Brendan Moley died in accidental explosion

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1921 - Six republican POWs executed by Free State in Cork; IRA kill six British soldiers afterwards
1988 - Brendan Moley died in accidental explosion

[DFCRFB]

On this day...
1965 - Roger Casement's remains re-interred in Glasnevin Cemetery
1976 - Special Catagory Status ended
1981 - Hunger strike began in Long Kesh

[DFCRFB]

On this day...
1965 - Roger Casement's remains re-interred in Glasnevin Cemetery

[DFCRFB]

On this day...
1867 - Fenian Rising
1942 - George Plant executed by Free State

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1984 - Assistant Govenor of Long Kesh executed
1988 - IRA Volunteers Mairéad Farrell, Dan McCann and Seán Savage murdered by SAS in Gibraltar

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1954 - Bobby Sands born
1969 - Crown forces fired at in Crossmaglen

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1973 - Blue Kelly cut his way out of Long Kesh

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1924 - Free State army mutiny

[MarkyMark]

1994:The IRA defied tightened security to launch a third attack on Heathrow, firing five mortar shells over the perimeter fence which landed near Terminal Four but failed to explode.Later that night both Heathrow and Gatwick Airport were closed for 2 hours after coded telephoned bomb threats were received

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1798 - Leinster Executive of United Irish Army arrested
1923 - Seven POWs executed by Free State in Cork, Dublin, Mullingar and Wexford

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1979 - British Ambassador in Holland executed
1981 - Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara began hunger strike

[DFCRFB]

On this day...
1972 - Fall of Stormont parliament - British direct rule imposed

[MarkyMark]

On this day 25th March

1982: Three British soldiers were killed and five other people injured in an IRA gun attack on Crocus Street, off the Springfield Road in west Belfast. It is believed an M60 machine gun was used during the attack

[DFCRFB]

On this day...
1846 - Michael Davitt born
1920 - Black and Tans arrived in Ireland
1923 - Nire Valley meeting
2000 - David Trimble narrowly wins UUP leadership challenge

[MarkyMark]

On this day.....
1920: Resident Magistrate Alan Bell, from Banagher was killed. He was tasked by the British to track down Sinn Féin funds; he had successfully confiscated over £71,000 from Sinn Féin's HQ and, by investigating banks throughout the country, was set to seize much more. He was pulled from a tram in south Dublin and shot three times in the head by members of the IRA.

1922: Uniformed RIC or USC police assassinated 6 members of the Catholic McMahon family at their home in Belfast. A total of 60 people were killed in the city in March.

1922: 26 March, IRA leaders meet in an "Army Convention" and vote to repudiate the Treaty. They also reject the authority of the Dáil to accept the Treaty and set up their own 16 man "Army Executive", led by Liam Mellows and Rory O'Connor.

[mickyk200]

2006 - In Scotland, the prohibition of smoking in all substantially enclosed public places comes into force.

1964 - Martin Donnelly, Irish racecar driver born

[DFCRFB]

On this day...
1779 - First Volnteer Corps formed
1922 - Liam Lynch appointed Chief of Staff at IRA Convention
1981 - Announcement that Bobby Sands would contest Westminster elections
2007 - Sinn Féin and DUP announce May 8th return of devolved government

[mickyk200]

On this day...
1779 - First Volnteer Corps formed
1922 - Liam Lynch appointed Chief of Staff at IRA Convention
1981 - Announcement that Bobby Sands would contest Westminster elections
2007 - Sinn Féin and DUP announce May 8th return of devolved government
Dunloy where are you getting these?

[DFCRFB]

TOM news - troups out movement web page
http://www.troopsoutmovement.com/latestnews.htm

[DFCRFB]

On this day...
1922 - Banned IRA Convention held in Mansion House, Dublin

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On this day...
1603 – Aodh O'Neill submitted
1798 – Martial Law proclaimed; British Government Viceroy Lord Camden declares “The country is in a state of rebellion”
1979 - Shadow British northern secretary Airey Neave killed by car bomb

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1872 - Arthur Griffith born
1881 - Ladies Land League founded in Ireland
1920 - Terence MacSwiney elected Lord Mayor of Cork
1922 - Craig-Collins Pact

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On this day...

1922 - Powers transferred from Westminster to Irish Free State
1923 - Bernard Morris shot dead

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1973 - Republican organisations proscribed in the six counties
1987 - Volunteer Larry Marley shot dead by loyalists

[DFCRFB]

On this day...
1919 - Volunteer Bobby Byrnes died in rescue attempt
1987 - RUC prevented the funeral of Lawrence 'Larry' Marley to take place
2005 - Addressing the IRA, Gerry Adams said there is an alternative to armed struggle
2006 - Navan Fort announcement gives November 24th deadline for formation of power-sharing executive

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1798 - First meeting of Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland in Dublin
1916 - The Aud leaves Lubeck, Germany
1922 - IRA Convention
1981 - Bobby Sands elected MP

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1923 - IRA Chief of Staff Liam Lynch killed in action
1992 - City of London's Baltic Exchange bombed
1998 - Good Friday Agreement signed

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1923 - Six IRA POWs executed by Free State in Tuam

[kildare brigade]

were do you find all these dates

[mickyk200]

were do you find all these dates
http://www.troopsoutmovement.com/latestnews.htm

[mickyk200]

On this day...

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1829 - Catholic Emancipation granted
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1922 - Four Courts seized by republican forces

[DFCRFB]

On this day...
1848 - Tricolour unveiled by Confederate Club
1875 - Charles Stewart Parnell elected to Westminster

[kildare brigade]

On this day...

1940 - Tony D'Arcy died on hunger strike
1969 - Unity candidate Bernadette Devlin elected as MP for Mid-Ulster

[kildare brigade]

On this day...

1875 - Charles Stewart Parnell elected MP for Meath
1876 - Fenian prisoners escaped on the Catalpa from Freemantle, Australia
1916 - Proclamation of the Irish Republic prepared

[kildare brigade]

1875 - Charles Stewart Parnell elected to Westminster
1917 - Mansion House Conference
1940 - Seán MacNeela died on hunger strike
1946 - Seán McCaughey commenced hunger strike
1972 - British 'lord' Widgery published outrageous report on Bloody Sunday murders

[jamie9988]

1916 - Three Volunteers en route to meet Roger Casement died at Ballykissane, County Kerry
1916 - The Aud intercepted off coast of Kerry
1918 - Anti-conscription pledge signed

[bay]

go raibh maith agat.

I so appreciate these mini history lessons.

[MarkyMark]

April 22nd:

1920: The IRA burned 300-400 abandoned RIC barracks in rural areas and 22 income tax offices around the country during the second half of April

1921: An IRA unit took the Protestant congregation of Creggan, County Armagh, hostage as they arrived for church and ambushed the local B-Specials as they were arriving for the service with grenades and small arms. One constable was killed, another was wounded. The Protestant civilians were released unharmed.

1923: Free State troops surround Frank Aiken, Paidrag Quinn and Sean Quinn, the leaders of the Anti-Treaty forces in the Dundalk area, in a safe house in Castlebellingham. A firefight breaks out in which the two Quinns are wounded, Sean mortally and subsequently captured. In the confusion, Aiken manages to slip away

[kildare brigade]

On this day...

1014 - Brian Boru killed
1798 - Disarming of Kildare, Laoise, Offaly and Tipperary
1916 - Eoin MacNeill's countermanding order appeared in Sunday paper. Rising put on hold.

[JWRice]

Thanks to all who contribute. This is my favorite thread!!!!!

[mickyk200]

On this day...

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1913 - UVF gun-running in Larne
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1916 - Easter Rising began - Irish Republic declared
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1940 - Volunteer Seán Martin killed in accidental explosion
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1993 - City of London devastated in IRA bomb attack

[kildare brigade]

On this day...

1916 - Gunship Helga begins shelling Liberty Hall
1921 - Volunteer Thomas Traynor hanged in Dublin
1923 - Pat Mahony executed in Ennis by Free State

[kildare brigade]

On this day...

1929 - Austin Stack died
1953 - Maud Gonne died
1997 - Robert Hamill attacked by loyalist mob

[jamie9988]

Sierra Leone wins independence



Sierra Leone has become the latest West African state to win independence, after more than 150 years of British colonial rule.
The new nation was born at the stroke of midnight, when its green, white and blue flag was unfurled. A huge crowd, gathered at Brookfields Playground in Freetown to watch the historic moment, broke into tumultuous cheering.

Independence Day formally began as the Duke of Kent handed over royal instruments recognising Sierra Leone as an independent nation.

Sir Maurice Dorman, Governor since 1956, was then sworn in as Governor-General by Chief Justice Beoku Betts.

Messages of welcome to the new government, led by Prime Minister Sir Milton Margai, came from the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, and from the Queen.

Her Majesty is due to visit Sierra Leone during her tour of West Africa later in the year.

State of emergency

Independence festivities have been taking place all week, mainly centred on the harbour area of Freetown. Three days of public holiday have been declared, and the city is in party mood, with streets decorated with bunting and the new national colours everywhere.

But the build-up has been overshadowed by the state of emergency, declared ten days ago following a campaign of sabotage by the opposition All People's Congress Party (APC).

The party has been urging that independence should be postponed until free elections have been held.

The leader of the APC, Siaka Stevens, was arrested just over a week ago, along with his right-hand man, Wallace Johnston, and 16 other party members. They had been planning a general strike to coincide with the independence celebrations, and it was feared riots would break out if the strike went ahead.

The government in Freetown is insisting that elections will be held next year, as agreed under the terms of independence. Ministers say the arrests were made to protect those visiting the country for the ceremonies, and, they say, there is every intention to release those detained as soon as the ceremonies are over.

[MarkyMark]

1920: A joint patrol of RIC and Highland Light Infantry fired into an unarmed crowd in Miltown Malbay, who were celebrating the release of republican prisoners, killing three Volunteers and wounding nine others. The County Coroner found nine soldiers and policemen guilty of murder and served warrants on them, but no disciplinary action was taken

1921: IRA Volunteer Patrick Ronayne (b. 17 June 1897) of Greenhill, Mourneabbey, Mallow, Co. Cork was executed at Cork Military Detention Barracks for his involvement in the failed Mourneabbey Ambush, where eight of his Volunteer comrades were killed.

1921: A series of shootings took place in and around Dromore, County Tyrone. First, one RIC constable was killed and four Special Constables wounded in an IRA ambush near the town. The following day, an RIC officer shot a Catholic girl, Eileen Doherty. in the legs. Her brother, who was an IRA man, then sought out the Policeman and shot him dead

[mickyk200]

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1916 - Battle of Ashbourne
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1916 - The O'Rahily killed in action
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1921 - Four republican POWs executed by British forces in Cork

[jamie9988]

1916 - Surrender of main body of Easter Rebellion republicans

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1916 - Easter Rebellion: Boland's Bakery garrison surrendered
1923 - Frank Aiken announced IRA ceasefire
1970 - B Specials changed name to Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR)

[jamie9988]

1654 - Cromwell's 'To Hell or Connaught' order came into effect
1803 - James Clarence Mangan born
1992 - British army checkpoint at Newry train-bombed

[jamie9988]

1608 - Cahir O'Doherty's insurrection
1921 - Patrick Casey executed by British forces in Cork
1923 - Chris Quinn and William Shaughnessy executed by Free State in Ennis
1976 - Séamus Ludlow murdered

[jamie9988]

1916 - Pádraig Mac Piarais, Thomas J Clarke and Thomas MacDonagh executed by British forces

[kildare brigade]

On this day...

1906 - The newspaper Sinn Féin published
1916 - Edward Daly, Michael O'Hanrahan, Willie Pearse and Joseph Plunkett executed
2000 - The first 'blanketman' Kieran Nugent died

[jamie9988]

1808 - Sarah Cullen died
1916 - John MacBride executed
1981 - Bobby Sands died

[jamie9988]

1882 - Invincibles assassinated British Chief Secretary and Under Secretary in Phoenix Park
1907 - Belfast Docks Strike

[jamie9988]

1865 - John MacBride born
1960 - John Duffy accidentally shot dead

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1567 - Battle of Farsetmore
1916 - Eamonn Ceannt, Con Colbert, Seán Heuston and Michael Malin executed
1921 - Lappinduff Ambush
1987 - Eight IRA Volunteers and one civilian killed in SAS ambush at Loughgall
1994 - Roseanne Mallon murdered
1997 - Robert Hamill died from injuries inflicted by loyalist mob
2007 - Devolution restored to the six counties

[DFCRFB]

1916 - Thomas Kent executed
1916 - James Connolly's last statement
1923 - Twenty-two women POWs escaped from Mountjoy Jail

[jamie9988]

1318 - Battle of Dysert O'Dea
1988 - Terry McDaid murdered by unionist paramilitaries in collusion with the FRU's Margaret Walshaw
1998 - Sinn Féin voted to accept the Good Friday Agreement

[jamie9988]

1745 - Battle of Fontenoy
1917 - Joe McGuinness deemed elected in Longford by-election
1946 - Seán McCaughey died on hunger strike in Portlaoise Prison

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1916 - James Connolly and Seán Mac Diarmada executed
1981 - Francis Hughes died on hunger strike

[jamie9988]

1848 - John Mitchel arrested
1919 - Seán Hogan rescued from train at Knocklong
1939 - Volunteer Christy Bird accidentally shot dead
1986 - Peadar O'Donnell died

[jamie9988]

1974 - Loyalist groups launched strike against power-sharing government

[mickyk200]

1974 - Loyalist groups launched strike against power-sharing government
emm...possiblity in 2008..?

[mozil]

On this day...

1916 - Roger Casement arrainged on treason charges
1918 - German Plot arrests of Sinn Féin leadership
1923 - Niall Boyle Plunkett killed by Free State soldiers
1977 - British army's Captain Robert Nairac executed by IRA

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1169 - Anglo-Norman invasion force landed in Ireland
1826 - United Irish leader Joseph Holt died
1926 - Fianna Fáil founded

[jamie9988]

1921 - Daniel O'Brien shot dead by British forces in Cork
1974 - British intelligence forces bombed Dublin and Monaghan

[jamie9988]

1798 - National Directory of United Irishmen set date for rebellion
1923 - Nine republicans exiled by Free State authorities

[kildare brigade]

On this day...

1798 - Commander-in-Chief of United Irish forces, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, wounded and captured
1910 - 'Eva' of the Nation died

[MarkyMark]

1955 - Sinn Fein wins 152,310 votes in the 6 counties
1972 - The so called "Official IRA" announces a ceasefire
1985 - Sinn Fein wins 11.4% of the vote in the 6 counties

[jamie9988]

1867 - Fenian expeditionary ship Erin's Hope reached Ireland

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1798 - Brothers John and Henry Sheares arrested
1798 - Father Coigley tried for treason
1981 - Republican Hunger Strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara died
1994 - IRA Volunteer Martin Doherty murdered by unionist paramilitaries at Widow Scallans pub, Dublin

[jamie9988]

1917 - IRA Executive statement on election and re-organising
1998 - Irish electorate voted in favour of the Good Friday Agreement

[jamie9988]

1798 - United Irish Rising began

[jamie9988]

1315 - Edward Bruce landed in Ireland
1798 - Twenty-four United Irishmen shot at Carnew, County Wicklow
1912 - An Barr Buadh ended publication
1921 - IRA attacked and burnt Custom House with heavy losses
1922 - Collins - de Valera election pact announced
1991 - Eddie Fullerton murdered

[mickyk200]

1798 - Father Murphy's men take Camolin Yeomanry at the Harrow. Lieutenant Bookey killed.
1868 - Fenian Michael Barrett, wrongly convicted for the Clerkenwell explosion, became the last man to be publicly hanged in England
1919 - Ireland's case presented to the Paris Peace Conference

[mickyk200]

1798 - Battle of Three Rock Mountain
1850 - Cromwell left Ireland
1896 - Irish Socialist Republican Party founded

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1798 - Wexford captured by United Irishmen
1906 - Michael Davitt died
1915 - Workers' Republic published
1972 - Special 'Criminal Court' established in Dublin

[jamie9988]

1798 - United Irishmen suffer defeat at Kilcock, County Kildare
1944 - Charles O'Hare died in prison

[DFCRFB]

1916 - First appeal for funds by Irish National Aid Association
1974 - Hunger Striker Michael Gaughan killed by Parkhurst Prison authorities
1991 - Undercover British forces murdered IRA Volunteers Tony Doris, Lawrence McNally and Pete Ryan in shoot-to-kill operation

[kildare brigade]

On this day...

1798 - Order issued for United Irish Army to rise in Ulster

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1534 - Silken Thomas declared war on England
1648 - Owen Roe O'Neill declared war on Parliamentary forces
1795 - Cave Hill Compact
1966 - First victim of recent conflict, John Patrick Scullion, murdered by UVF
1981 - Kevin Agnew and Kieran Doherty elected to Leinster House

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1920 - County Council elections
1954 - Gough Barracks raided for guns

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1798 - Henry Munro executed
1864 - William Smith O'Brien died
1917 - POWs released in England
1921 - 500 Thompson machine guns for IRA seized by US Customs
1922 - General Election results returned 36 Sinn Féin candidates

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1921 - John and Patrick Watters shot dead by Auxilliaries
1937 - Volunteer Peter McCarthy shot dead by Garda Special Branch
1974 - IRA bomb exploded at British Houses of Parliament

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1922 - Majority of IRA favoured return to war against British forces, minority continued Four Courts occupation
1994 - Six Catholics murdered by UVF at the Heights Bar (O'Tooles pub) Loughinisland, County Down

[Seán1798]

Battle of Vinegar Hill 1798

Requiem for the Croppies

The pockets of our greatcoats full of barley...
No kitchens on the run, no striking camp...
We moved quick and sudden in our own country.
The priest lay behind ditches with the tramp.
A people hardly marching... on the hike...
We found new tactics happening each day:
We'd cut through reins and rider with the pike
And stampede cattle into infantry,
Then retreat through hedges where cavalry must be thrown.
Until... on Vinegar Hill... the final conclave.
Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon.
The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave.
They buried us without shroud or coffin
And in August... the barley grew up out of our grave.

Seamus Heaney


http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/images/survey_specific/fullsize/15603203_1.jpg

The windmill.

[on_remand]

vinegar hill?

that film was on rte the other nite!. a big load of s.h.i.t.e.

it had fvck all to do we the battle. i stayed up late and all just to see it. lol.

[Seán1798]

vinegar hill?

that film was on rte the other nite!. a big load of s.h.i.t.e.

it had fvck all to do we the battle. i stayed up late and all just to see it. lol.

I didn't even kno there was a film of that name, I just checked IMdB it sure sounds like you wasted good sleeping time lol They should make a film of the United Irish rising I don't think there are any, never saw one at any rate.

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1848 - Irish Felon published
1918 - Revolt of republican prisoners in Belfast Jail
1936 - Fianna Fáil government banned IRA

[MickCollins4ever]

The scholar and writer Douglas Hyde (1860-1949) led the Irish language revival and was president of Ireland from 1938 to 1945.
In 1893 he played the leading role in the foundation of the Gaelic League and then served as its president until 1915.
Just a lilltle thing to remember him, so here's one of my favs:

Colum-Cille’s Farewell To Ireland
Alas for the voyage, O High King of Heaven,
Enjoined upon me,
For that I on the red plain of bloody Cooldrevin
Was present to see.

How happy the son is of Dima; no sorrow
For him is designed,
He is having, this hour, round his own hill in Durrow,
The wish of his mind.

The sounds of the winds in the elms, like strings of
A harp being played,
The note of a blackbird that claps with the wings of
Delight in the shade.

With him in Ros-Grencha the cattle are lowing
At earliest dawn,
On the brink of the summer the pigeons are cooing
And doves in the lawn.

Three things am I leaving behind me, the very
Most dear that I know,
Tir-Leedach I’m leaving, and Durrow and Derry;
Alas, I must go!

Yet my visit and feasting with Comgall have eased me
At Cainneach’s right hand,
And all but thy government, Eiré, have pleased me,
Thou waterful land.

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1844 - John Boyle O'Reilly born
1917 - Bernard MacMakin died of ill-health following imprisonment after Easter Rising
1957 - Death of nurse Elizabeth O'Farrell

[jamie9988]

1915 - Nationality published
2000 - IICD inspected IRA weapons dump

[jamie9988]

1846 - Charles Stewart Parnell born
1866 - John Boyle O'Reilly tried
1970 - Battle of St. Matthews in Belfast

[jamie9988]

1915 - Jeramiah O'Donovan Rossa, founder of the IRB, died
1916 - Roger Casement sentenced to death
1921 - Thirteen POWs escaped from Sligo Jail

[jamie9988]

1920 - Connaught Rangers Mutiny quashed
1922 - Surrender of republican garrison in Four Courts

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1690 - Battle of the Boyne
1867 - Thomas Francis Meagher drowned
1893 - Gaelic League founded

[mickyk200]

On this day...

1690 - Battle of the Boyne

Thought that was the 12th....

[freedom_fighter]

Thought that was the 12th....

As a consequence of the adoption of the Gregorian calendar ("New Style" dating), the battle is now commemorated on July 12 each year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Boyne

[Vox Illuminati]

Thought that was the 12th....

Na the Orangies were near a fortnight late for the battle. Must have got rerouted.

[jamie9988]

1914 - Successful Howth gun-running operation commenced in Dublin with the Kelpie leaving for Hamburg
1958 - Aloysius Hand killed by B Specials

[MickCollins4ever]

Tomás de Barra (Tom Barry), Killorglin, County Kerry, July 1, 1897 - Cork,July 2, 1980

A gallant freedom fighter and a true hero. May he rest in peace. Eireann go bragh.

(And a special greeting for my friend Micky!)

[mickyk200]

Tomás de Barra (Tom Barry), Killorglin, County Kerry, July 1, 1897 - Cork,July 2, 1980

A gallant freedom fighter and a true hero. May he rest in peace. Eireann go bragh.

His anniversary today, the day after his birthday

(And a special greeting for my friend Micky!)
Aw I feel loved :)

[MickCollins4ever]

Aw I feel loved :)

:icon_laugh: Ah, me and my soft spot for irishmen... :icon_laugh::icon_laugh:

[Young Irelander]

Oglach Patrick Teer Annerversaire today comrades, check the rememberence forum for more information on his life.

[theirishlondonerz]

Thats a preety important day in irish history, and would like to learn about the battle of Boyne, and Thomas Francis Meagher. Good thread:eusa_clap:

[jamie9988]

1740 - Henry Grattan born
1798 - Father John Murphy hanged
1970 - Falls Road curfew; SAS sent to Belfast

[jamie9988]

1763 - Arthur O'Commor born
1943 - Volunteer Jackie Griffith shot dead

[jamie9988]

1605 - Aodh Rua O Domhnaill died
1798 - End of rebellion in County Wexford
1922 - Cathal Brugha died
1975 - Internment ended

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1798 - Oliver Bond tried
1958 - James Crossan killed by RUC
2000 - Cowardly multi-murderer Michael Stone released from Long Kesh

[DFCRFB]

On this day...

1927 - Fianna Fáil deputies entered Leinster House
1970 - Crossmaglen booby-trap killed two members of British crown forces
2001 - 'Columbia 3' arrested