Irish History on the Day that's in it
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
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3 July 1779: The Irish Brigade in the service of France helped to capture the Caribbean island of Grenada on this day. They were part of...
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2 July 1863: The Irish Brigade of the Army of the Potomac fought at Gettysburg on this day. In one of the most famous incidents of the Am...
Sunday, 1 July 2012
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1 July 1937: A General Election was held in the Irish Free State on this day. There was also a Plebiscite at which a new Irish Constitut...
Saturday, 30 June 2012
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29 June 1915: The death of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, Fenian, on this day. He was born at Roscarbery County Cork in 1831 to a family of t...
Thursday, 28 June 2012
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28 June 1691: At the 2nd Siege of Athlone Sgt. Custume led a small band of Volunteers that successfully tore down the attempted ‘plankin...
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
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27 June 1846: Charles Stewart Parnell was born into a Protestant aristocratic and land-owning family at Avondale, Co. Wicklow on this da...
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
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26 June 1932: The Eucharistic Congress culminated on this day when over 300,00 people attended the Pontifical High Mass in the Phoenix P...
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