Events for April 24

April 24, 1912

Irish novelist, historian and politician, Justin McCarthy, dies

Justin McCarthy (22 November 1830 – 24 April 1912) was an Irish nationalist, journalist, historian, novelist and politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1879 to 1900, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

April 24, 1913

Large supply of guns from Germany are landed at Larne for the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)

The Larne gun-running was a major gun smuggling operation organised in April 1914 in Ireland by Major Frederick H. Crawford and Captain Wilfrid Spender for the Ulster Unionist Council to equip the Ulster Volunteer Force.

April 24, 1596

Pacificatie of Ireland drawn

The “Pacification of Ireland,” which occurred during the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

April 24, 1906

William Joyce aka Lord Haw-Haw; born in Brooklyn, New York

William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born fascist and Nazi propaganda broadcaster during the Second World War. After moving from New York to Ireland and subsequently to England, Joyce became a member of Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF) from 1932, before finally moving to Germany at the outset of the war where he took German citizenship in 1940.