Events for November 06

November 6, 1929

The Gaelic League announces expulsion for anyone who attends foreign jazz dances

1929 The Gaelic League bans ‘foreign dances’ and the ‘Down with Jazz’ campaign begins. We are a nation given to bans and boycotts. The latter expression, famously, has its origins in the Land War of the early 1880s.

November 6, 1649

Owen Roe ONeill - Catholic military leader against Cromwell - dies

Charles Graves was a notable Irish mathematician, academic, and clergyman.

November 6, 1979

Bagpiper John Wilson dies, Willowdale, Ontario

John Wilson, Scottish born who emigrated to Toronto, Canada in the late 1940s at the prompting of George R. Duncan.

November 6, 1628

Founding of the Irish College in Rome.

Among its former students was St Oliver Plunkett, who attended in the late 17th century