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#OTD in Irish History | 21 May:
#OTD in Irish History | 21 May:
1639 – Lord Deputy Thomas Wentworth imposes the Black Oath of loyalty to Charles I on all Ulster Scots over the age of 16.
1745 – Count Daniel O’Connell, a soldier in French and British services, is born in Derrynane, Co Kerry.
1799 – Bill of Union (later the Act of Union) introduced in Irish House of Commons.
1862 – Death of actor, John Drew. Born in Templeogue, Co Dublin, his family emigrated…
#OTD in 1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland for Ireland on the anniversary of Charles Lindbergh’s famous flight. She lands near Derry and becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
#OTD in 1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland for Ireland on the anniversary of Charles Lindbergh’s famous flight. She lands near Derry and becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Five years to the day that American aviator Charles Lindbergh became the first pilot to accomplish a solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, female aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first pilot to repeat the feat, landing her plane in Ireland after flying across the North Atlantic. Earhart traveled over 2,000 miles from Newfoundland in just under 15 hours.
Unlike Charles Lindbergh,…
#OTD in Irish History | 20 May:
#OTD in Irish History | 20 May:
1311 – The war of the O’Briens of Thomond escalates as the Norman-Irish become involved on both sides: the de Burghs support Dermot O’Brien and Richard de Clare supports Donough O’Brien. There is a pitched battle at Bunratty on this date, with heavy losses on both sides; de Burgh and others are imprisoned.
1648 – Truce between the confederates and Inchiquin; its adherents are excommunicated by…
#OTD in 1769 – Just ten years after Guinness is first brewed in St. James Gate, Dublin, the beautiful magic brew is first exported from Ireland. Six and a half barrels left for England.
#OTD in 1769 – Just ten years after Guinness is first brewed in St. James Gate, Dublin, the beautiful magic brew is first exported from Ireland. Six and a half barrels left for England.
Guinness is an Irish dry stout that originates in the brewery of Arthur Guinness (1725–1803) at St. James’s Gate brewery in the capital city of Dublin. Guinness, produced by the Diageo beverages company, is one of the most successful beer brands worldwide. It is brewed in almost 50 countries and is available in over 120. Annual sales total of Guinness in 2011 was 850 million litres (220,000,000…
#OTD in 1947 – Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer, Paul Brady, is born in Belfast.
#OTD in 1947 – Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer, Paul Brady, is born in Belfast.
Paul Brady, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist is one of Ireland’s most enduringly popular artists.
Born in Belfast and raised in Strabane, Co Tyrone, he was interested in a wide variety of music from an early age. A Fifties child, his first sounds the Swing, Jazz, Show tunes of his parents generation. Then 50’s Rock ‘n Roll, 60’s pop and Motown, Blues, R’nB and Country and Western.…
#OTD in Irish History | 19 May:
#OTD in Irish History | 19 May:
1660 – An Act by the British Parliament forbids the export of Irish wool.
1710 – John Forster is unanimously elected Speaker of the House of Commons, replacing Alan Brodrick.
1769 – Just ten years after Guinness is first brewed in St. James Gate, Dublin, the beautiful magic brew is first exported from Ireland. Six and a half barrels left for England.
1798 – Lord Edward Fitzgerald, a leader of the…
#OTD in 1896 – The City and Suburban Ground, now known as Croke Park, hosts a football match for the first time. The teams are a combination of Irish and Scots women versus England. The combines team beats England 3–2.
#OTD in 1896 – The City and Suburban Ground, now known as Croke Park, hosts a football match for the first time. The teams are a combination of Irish and Scots women versus England. The combines team beats England 3–2.
One of the very first blows for women’s sport in Ireland was struck in 1896, when international women’s football came to the City and Suburban Grounds at Jones’s Road, Dublin: Croke Park occupies the site these days.
The main impetus for the game came from Britain. Women’s football was particularly strong in Scotland and in some of the bastions of England’s industrial revolution. Among the great…
#OTD in Irish History | 18 May:
#OTD in Irish History | 18 May:
1401 – John de Stanley is told that he is to be replaced as lieutenant by Thomas of Lancaster (duke of Clarence and second son of Henry IV), who is 12 or 13 years old. Lancaster’s deputy, Sir Stephen le Scrope, will effectively govern Ireland for the next few years.
1613 – James I’s Irish parliament opens in Dublin.
1798 – The 2nd Earl of Kingston is tried amid great pomp by the Irish House of…
#OTD in Irish History | 25 May:
#OTD in Irish History | 25 May:
1315 – Edward Bruce (brother of Robert Bruce, king of Scots), having been invited by some Gaelic chiefs, leads an expedition to Ireland with the aim of conquering it, creating a kingdom of Ireland and driving out the Norman-Irish settlers. He lands at Larne on this date and is proclaimed king of Ireland.
1705 – On this date, May Eustace Sherlock, gentleman, petitions the Commons for relief from…
#OTD in Irish History | 24 May:
#OTD in Irish History | 24 May:
1487 – Lambert Simnel (aged 10), the Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is brought to Ireland. It is claimed that he is Edward, Earl of Warwick (Clarence’s son), but in fact, he is a baker’s son – the real Warwick is a prisoner in the Tower of London and will be executed in 1499. Most of the Anglo-Irish believe that Simnel’s claim is genuine and support him (exceptions are the Butlers,…
#OTD in Irish History | 23 May:
#OTD in Irish History | 23 May:
1561 – The first court of High Commission, a group of officials and Protestant clergy, is set up to enforce the Reformation in Ireland.
1754 – Birth of Dr. William Drennan in Belfast; physician, poet, educationalist political radical and one of the chief architects of the Society of United Irishmen. Drennan’s poetic output included some powerful and moving pieces. He is chiefly remembered today…
#OTD in Irish History | 22 May:
#OTD in Irish History | 22 May:
1748 – Birth of landscape painter, Thomas Roberts in Co Waterford.
1805 – Michael Doheny, poet and Young Irelander, is born near Fethard, Co Tipperary.
1849 – Novelist, Maria Edgeworth, dies in Mostrim, Co Longford. She is laid to rest in a vault at Edgeworthstown Church. Even though in her late seventies, she worked strenuously for the relief of the stricken peasants at the height of An Gorta…
Potato bed remnants in Mayo, Ireland from 1845–52
Potato bed remnants in Mayo, Ireland from 1845–52
Land holdings were so small and of such poor quality that families could support themselves only through the planting of potatoes. To know why so many Irish families subsisted on such small plots of land, one must re-examine the ‘Penal Laws’ which were introduced in 1690 after the Catholic supporters of James II were defeated by the Protestant forces of William of Orange. These were laws that…
#OTD in 1948 – Death of Lily O'Brennan, sister-in-law of Eamonn Ceannt. She was one of Cumann na mBan members who joined the garrison at Marrowbone Lane on Easter Sunday.
#OTD in 1948 – Death of Lily O’Brennan, sister-in-law of Eamonn Ceannt. She was one of Cumann na mBan members who joined the garrison at Marrowbone Lane on Easter Sunday.
Lily O’Brennan, sister of Áine Ceannt, was born in Dublin in 1878. She was a writer and playwright and joined Cumann na mBan upon its inception; she was a member of the Inghinidhe Branch. During the Rising she served with the Marrowbone Lane garrison. She was arrested and held in Kilmainham Gaol and was released on 8 May, the day of her brother-in-law, Éamon Ceannt’s execution in the gaol. She…
#OTD in 1848 – At Grosse Île, Canada, 40 immigrant vessels wait to unload.
#OTD in 1848 – At Grosse Île, Canada, 40 immigrant vessels wait to unload.
The island of Grosse Île lies 30 miles downstream of Quebec City in the St. Lawrence River. Once a quarantine station for ships bringing immigrants to the Canadas from Europe, mid-nineteenth-century outbreaks of cholera and typhus led to several thousand Irish deaths aboard ships in quarantine and on Grosse Île itself. This trauma has lived on in the Irish diaspora’s memorialisation of the island…
#OTD in 1948 – Death of writer and playwright and member of Cumann na mBan, Lily O’Brennan.
#OTD in 1948 – Death of writer and playwright and member of Cumann na mBan, Lily O’Brennan.
Lily O’Brennan, sister of Áine Ceannt, was born in Dublin in 1878. She was a writer and playwright and joined Cumann na mBan upon its inception; she was a member of the Inghinidhe Branch. During the Rising she served with the Marrowbone Lane garrison. She was arrested and held in Kilmainham Gaol and was released on 8 May, the day of her brother-in-law, Éamonn Ceannt’s execution in the gaol. She…
#OTD in 1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion | The Battle of Three Rocks | Rebels capture Enniscorthy and Wexford town.
#OTD in 1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion | The Battle of Three Rocks | Rebels capture Enniscorthy and Wexford town.
Rebellion continues with victory for Irish forces in Wexford. At Three Rocks, just outside Wexford town, 70 English militia are killed in a carefully planned ambush by Irish forces. In response to this and other action, English troops abandon Wexford town. At this stage, almost all of Wexford is in the hands of Irish forces.
A letter written at this time to a Mr. Addington by Dr. Butson, Dean of…
#OTD in Irish History | 30 May:
#OTD in Irish History | 30 May:
1630 – Birth of Charles Stuart who will become Charles II of Great Britain and Ireland.
1784 – Belfast’s first Catholic church, St. Mary’s, opens for public worship.
1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: The Battle of Three Rocks – Rebels capture Enniscorthy and Wexford town.
1807 – During the election for Co Wexford, two of the candidates, William Congreve Alcock and John Colclough, fight a duel in…
Ireland 1847
Asenath Nicholson “When I stood in the burying-ground, I saw the brown silken hair of a young girl, waving gently through a little cleft of stones, that lay loosely upon her young breast. They had not room to put her beneath the surface, but slightly, and a little green grass was pulled and spread over, and then covered with stones. I never shall forget it.” Taken from The Truth Behind The Irish…
#OTD in 1205 – King John makes Hugh de Lacy Earl of Ulster.
#OTD in 1205 – King John makes Hugh de Lacy Earl of Ulster.
King John of England appoints Hugh de Lacy, a leading figure in the Norman invasion of Ireland in the 12th century, as the 1st Earl of Ulster on 29 May 1205.
Circa 1189 de Lacy is appointed Viceroy of Ireland, a position previously held by his father, Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath. He is replaced in 1190 by Guillaume le Petil. He is later reappointed to serve as viceroy from 1205 to 1210.
In…
#OTD in 1972 – The Official IRA announced a ceasefire. This marked the end of the Official IRA’s military campaign.
#OTD in 1972 – The Official IRA announced a ceasefire. This marked the end of the Official IRA’s military campaign.
The official wing of the IRA in Northern Ireland announced a ceasefire, reserving the right of self-defence against attacks by the British Army and sectarian groups. However the Provisional IRA dismissed the truce as having “little effect” on the situation.
The Northern Ireland Secretary, William Whitelaw, welcomed the move and a spokesperson said it was “a step in the right direction”.
A…
#OTD in Irish History | 29 May:
#OTD in Irish History | 29 May:
1205 – King John makes Hugh de Lacy Earl of Ulster.
1660 – English Restoration | Charles II is restored to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland. The Restoration of the English monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
1666 – The Act of Uniformity confirms Guy…
A collection of mugshots of serious criminal offenders including a number of American Civil War veterans who were incarcerated at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin, Ireland, taken in November 1866.
Source: New York Public Library.
