History

John Boyd Dunlop Scottish inventor of the pneumatic rubber tire died.
John Boyd Dunlop Scottish inventor of the pneumatic rubber tire died. Born into a farming family in Dreghorn in Ayrshire, John Boyd Dunlop was a veterinary surgeon by profession, having qualified at Edinburgh Veterinary College (now part of Edinburgh University ) when he was only 19. He worked as a vet in Edinburgh for n …

Thomas Ashe dies in the Mater Hospital in Dublin from the combined effects of a hunger strike and forced feeding at Mountjoy Jail. The following famous and much repeated Sean O’Casey quote You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea... you cannot co
Thomas Ashe dies in the Mater Hospital in Dublin from the combined effects of a hunger strike and forced feeding at Mountjoy Jail. The following famous and much repeated Sean O’Casey quote You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea... you cannot co …

Birth of Jack Lynch, Taoiseach, in Co. Cork
Birth of Jack Lynch, Taoiseach, in Co. Cork …

Francis Ledwidge, died
Francis Ledwidge, died Death of poet Francis Ledwidge, from Slane, Co. Meath, who is killed by a stray shell at Ypres during World War I …

The Irish Convention
The Irish Convention The Irish Convention was an assembly which sat in Dublin, Ireland from July 1917 until March 1918 to address the Irish question and other constitutional problems relating to an early enactment of self-government for Ireland, to debate its wider future, discuss and come to an understanding on recommendations as to the best manner and means this goal could be achieved. …

Éamon de Valera wins election to Parliament
Éamon de Valera wins election to Parliament On 10 July 1917, he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Clare (the constituency which he represented until 1959) in a by-election caused by the death of the previous incumbent Willie Redmond, brother of the Irish Party leader John Redmond,who had died fighting in World War I. …

Parliament voted by a majority of, 330 to give votes to women over, 30 for the first time.
Parliament voted by a majority of, 330 to give votes to women over, 30 for the first time. …

Birth of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th US president, in Brookline, Mass
Birth of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th US president, in Brookline, Mass …

Dennis Day, of Irish parents, is born in New York, NY
Dennis Day, of Irish parents, is born in New York, NY …

A new military viceroy, General French, acts on mistaken information that Sinn Féin is implicated in a pro-German plot and has most of the leaders arrested
A new military viceroy, General French, acts on mistaken information that Sinn Féin is implicated in a pro-German plot and has most of the leaders arrested …