February 03

Harry Boland and Michael Collins engineer Eamon de Valeras escape from Lincoln Jail in England

February 3, 1919

Robert Noonan, author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, dies

February 3, 1911

Lady Jane Wilde (Spiranza), poet, nationalist and the mother of Oscar, dies in London

February 3, 1896

Irish Land League organizer Michael Davitt is arrested again in Dublin

February 3, 1881

Prime Minister William Pitt resigns over royal veto on Catholic emancipation

February 3, 1801

Lord Netterville, indicted for the murder of Michael Walsh, is acquitted by his Parlimentary Peers

February 3, 1744