History

Sean Keating, painter, is born in Limerick
Sean Keating, painter, is born in Limerick …

Kathleen Behan, née Kearney, Mother of All the Behans and folk singer is born in Dublin
Kathleen Behan, née Kearney, Mother of All the Behans and folk singer is born in Dublin …

Birth in Castlebar of singer Margaret Burke Sheridan
Birth in Castlebar of singer Margaret Burke Sheridan …

Birth in Belfast of Sean McEntee, Fianna Fail politician
Birth in Belfast of Sean McEntee, Fianna Fail politician …

Raymond Chandler, born
Raymond Chandler, born Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, “Blackmailers Don’t Shoot”, was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. …

John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, born
John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, born John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith, KT, GCVO, GBE, CB, TD, PC (20 July 1889 – 16 June 1971), was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom. …

National Portrait Gallery for Scotland, opened
National Portrait Gallery for Scotland, opened The Scottish National Portrait Gallery is an art museum on Queen Street, Edinburgh. The gallery holds the national collections of portraits, all of which are of, but not necessarily by, Scots. It also holds the Scottish National Photography Collection. …

Last official bare knuckle title fight
Last official bare knuckle title fight Jack Kilrain is perhaps best known for challenging champion John L. Sullivan in 1889 in the last world heavyweight championship prizefight decided with bare knuckles under London Prize Ring rules in history. …

Helen Waddell, Irish scholar, translator and novelist, is born in Tokyo
Helen Waddell, Irish scholar, translator and novelist, is born in Tokyo …

Patrick McGilligan, pro-Treaty nationalist and politician, is born in Coleraine, Co. Derry-Londonderry
Patrick McGilligan, pro-Treaty nationalist and politician, is born in Coleraine, Co. Derry-Londonderry …