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2002 John B. Keane, Irish Playwright

2000 Joey Dunlop, Irish Celebrity

2000 Frank Patterson, Irish tenor, dies at 61

1999 Lord Killanin, Irish Journalist

1998 Twenty nine murdered by Irish terrorists in Omagh, Northern Ireland

1996 Henry Diamond, Irish Nationalist MP, dies at 87

1996 Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter)

1995 Rory Gallagher, Irish rock guitarist (See Here), dies at 47

1994 Irish government of Reynolds resigns

1994 Irish government announces end of a 20-year broadcasting ban on IRA

1993 British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination

1992 Francis Bacon, Irish/British abstract painter, dies at 82

1992 Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3

1992 William JF "Bill" Naughton, Irish/Brit playwright (Alfie), dies at 81

1991 Sean O'Faolain, [J Whelan], Irish writer (Nest of Simple), dies at 91

1991 Irish Lesbians and Gays march in St. Patrick Day parade

1991 Members of Irish Gay and Lesbian Organization march in New York City parade

1990 Tomas O'Fiach, [Tomas Seamus Fee], Irish cardinal-archbishop, dies

1990 John S. Bell, Irish Physicist

1989 Samuel Beckett, Irish/French writer (Molloy, Nobel 1969), dies at 83

1988 Peter Langan, Irish restaurateur (Langans London), dies in fire

1988 Sean MacBride, Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83

1987 11 die as a bomb planted by Irish Republican Army explodes

1987 John Huston, US/Irish actor and director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81

1986 In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce

1986 Seamus McElwaine, Irish IRA-terrorist, killed at 25

1986 U.S. submarine Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea

1984 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Smirnoff Ladies Irish Golf Open

1984 Denis Johnston, Irish Dramatist

1983 Rebecca West, Irish Author

1983 Samantha Mumba, Irish Musician

1982 11 soldiers and 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland

1982 Patrick J G McGee, Irish actor (Barry Lyndon), dies at 60

1982 Patrick Magee, Irish actor (Clockwork Orange, King Lear), dies at 58

1982 Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks

1982 Neil Fitzgerald, Irish actor (Bride of Frankenstein), dies at 90

1981 Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-month hunger strike

1981 Bobby Sands, Irish IRA-terrorist, dies after hunger strike

1980 Robbie Keane, Irish Athlete

1977 Fianna Fail-party wins Irish elections

1977 Ronan Keating, born in Bayside Dublin, Ireland, Irish singer for Boyzone

1976 Dominic Monaghan, Irish Actor

1976 Shane Lynch, born in Dublin, Ireland, Irish singer, Boyzone

1976 Colin Farrell, Irish Actor

1976 Stephen Gately, born in Dublin, Ireland, Irish singer, Boyzone

1975 Eamon de Valera, Irish president (1937..59), dies at 92

1974 Irish Republican Socialist Party forms

1974 Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21

1974 Keith Duffy, born in Dublin, Ireland, Irish singer, Boyzone

1974 Kate O'Brien, Irish writer (Pray for the Wanderer), dies at 76

1974 Andrea Corr, Irish Musician

1973 Caroline Corr, Irish Musician

1972 Stephen O'Connor, Irish amateur snooker champ 1990

1972 Mikey Graham, born in Dublin, Ireland, Irish singer, Boyzone

1972 John Lennon's political "Sometime in New York City" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the World" "Attica State" and "Luck of the Irish"

1972 Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single

1972 BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings

1972 Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK

1972 Stuart Townsend, Irish Actor

1972 Padraic Colum, Irish poet/writer/founder (Irish Review), dies at 90

1971 Kenny Cunningham, Irish Athlete

1971 Dylan Moran, Irish Comedian

1968 Unicorn by The Irish Rovers hits #7

1967 Patrick Kavanagh, Irish screenwriterr (Great Hunger), dies

1966 Jack Lynch becomes Irish premier

1965 Fiachna O'Braonain, Irish pop guitarist, Hothouse Flowers-Don't Go

1965 Eddie Irvine, Irish Celebrity

1964 Liam O'Maonlai, Irish vocalist/pianist, Hothouse Flowers-I'm Sorry

1964 Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (Playboy of Western World), dies at 84

1964 Brendan Behan, Irish writer/poet, dies at 41

1963 Andrew Browne, Irish/British Admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II), dies at 80

1963 Kevin Shields, Irish Musician

1963 Graham Norton, Irish Celebrity

1961 Walter Swimburn, Irish jockey, Derby 1981

1960 Bono, Irish Musician

1959 Gavin Friday, [Fionan Hanvey], Irish singer, Virgin Prunes

1959 John Sykes, Irish hard rock guitarist, Thin Lizzy-Blue Murder

1959 Eric Blore, actor (Abie's Irish Rose, Love Happy), dies at 70

1958 Michael Flatley, born in Chicago, Illinois, Irish choreographer, Lord of Dance

1958 Fiona Shaw, Irish Actress

1957 Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn-Fein leaders

1957 Joyce Cary, Irish Novelist

1957 Amanda Burton, Irish Actress

1956 Peter O'Toole, Irish pop bassist, Hothouse Flowers-People

1955 Leo Barnes, Irish saxophonist, Hothouse Flowers-I'm Sorry, Don't Go

1955 Michael Chekhov, actor (Rhapsody, Abie's Irish Rose), dies at 64

1954 Sammy McIlroy, Irish soccer star

1952 Gary Moore, Irish rock guitarist, Skid Row-Oh Pretty Woman

1952 Joey Dunlop, Irish Celebrity

1951 Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer (Palo Verde), dies at 66

1951 Bertie Ahern, Irish Politician

1951 Mary McAleese, born in Irish Statesman

1951 Scott Gorham, Irish hard rock guitarist, Thin Lizzy-21 Guns

1950 James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold), dies at 68

1950 George Bernard Shaw, Irish author (Pygmalion), dies at 94

1950 Chris De Burgh, [Davidson], Argent/Irish rock vocalist, Lady in Red

1950 Sara Allgood, Irish actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase), dies at 56

1950 Dick Spring, Irish Politician

1950 Martin McGuinness, Irish Politician

1949 Robert Lynd [YY], Irish writer/critic (News Chronicle), dies at 70

1949 Alex "Hurricane" Higgins, Irish snooker player, 2X world-champ

1948 State of Eire (formerly Irish Free State) declares its independence

1948 Gerry Adams, Irish Politician

1947 Jim Walsh, Irish Politician

1947 Forrest Reid, Irish author/critic (Young Tom, Apostate), dies at 71

1946 George Best, Irish Athlete

1946 Peter Sutherland, CEO, Allied Irish Banks

1945 John McCormack, Irish singer (Irish national anthem/folk songs), dies

1945 Alan Dukes, Irish president (Fine Gael

1945 Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, North Irish peace activist, Nobel 1976

1944 David Trimble, Irish Politician

1940 Maeve Binchy, Irish Novelist

1940 Johnny Giles, Irish Soldier

1939 William Butler Yeats, Irish poet (Nobel), dies in France at 73

1938 Terry "5 Wigs" Wogan, British talk show host, Irish Days

1938 Terry Wogan, Irish Entertainer

1938 John Sheil, Northern Irish High Court judge

1937 2nd Irish constitution goes into effect; Irish Free State renamed Erie

1937 Ireland adopts constitution (Irish Free State becomes Eire)

1937 Irish premier Eamon de Valera wins elections

1937 John Hume, Irish Politician

1936 William FA Ellison, Irish clergyman/astronomer, dies at 72

1935 Keith J Roberts, England, writer, Irish Encounter, Ladies from Hell

1935 Ruby Murray, Irish pop singer, Softly Softly

1933 John Joly, Irish Scientist

1932 Lady Gregory, Irish Dramatist

1932 Albert Reynolds, Irish Politician

1931 Malachy McCourt, Irish Actor

1931 Frank Harris, Irish Author

1931 Stephen Birmingham, Hartford, author, Real Lace: America's Irish Rich

1931 Timothy Healy, Irish Politician

1931 John Atkinson, Irish Judge

1930 1st Irish Sweepstake run

1930 Jennifer P Johnston, Irish author, Fool's sanctuary

1929 Irish McCalla, Pawnee City, Nebraska, actress, Sheena Queen of Jungle

1929 66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes

1929 Val Doonican, Irish singer/entertainer

1928 John B. Keane, Irish Playwright

1928 John S. Bell, Irish Physicist

1927 Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green

1927 John Dillon, Irish nationalist/British Lower house leader, dies at 75

1927 Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State VP, assassinated

1926 Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose

1926 Frank Carson, Irish Comedian

1925 Charles Haughey, Irish president, 1979-81, 82, 87-92

1924 Victor Herbert, Irish/US composer, Kiss in Dark

1924 Victor Herbert, Irish/US cellist/ composer and conductor, dies at 65

1924 Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/writer, dies at 71

1924 Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/author, dies at 71

1923 Irish Free state joins League of Nations

1923 Eamon de Valera arrested in Irish Free State

1923 Herbert Trench, Irish Poet

1922 1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation

1922 King George V proclaims Irish Free state

1922 Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State

1922 William T. Cosgrave replaces Irish premier Collins

1922 Michael Collins, Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush

1922 Arthur Griffith, Irish nationalist/president (Sinn Fein), dies

1922 "Abie's Irish Rose" 1st of over 2,500 performances

1922 Irish author Liam O'Flaherty and others occupy Rotunda in Dublin

1922 Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier

1922 Ernest Shackleton, Irish Explorer

1920 British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law

1918 John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St. Paul, dies at 80

1918 Joe English, Irish/Flemish signaler (WW I), dies at 36

1918 Margo, singer, Golden Irish Favorites

1917 Dennis Day, Irish tenor/comedian, Jack Benny Show, Danny Boy

1917 Conor Cruise O'Brien, Irish Politician

1916 Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), executed 51

1916 Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin

1916 Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins

1914 Irish home rule bill receive Royal assent

1914 Lord Killanin, Irish Journalist

1914 British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule

1913 Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer (Ball Screw), dies

1913 Edward Dowden, Irish Critic

1913 House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill

1912 Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/writer (Dracula), dies

1912 Christopher Casson, Irish actor, Zardoz, Educating Rita

1911 Flann O'Brien, Irish Writer

1911 George J Stoney, Irish physicist, dies at 85

1909 Roddy Doyle, irish Novelist

1909 John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37

1909 John Synge, Irish Poet

1908 Henry Diamond, Irish Nationalist MP

1907 August Saint-Gaudens, Irish/US sculptor (Mrs Henry Adams), dies at 59

1907 William Howard Russell, Irish Journalist

1906 Phil Regan, singer, My Wild Irish Rose

1904 Patrick Kavanagh, Irish Poet

1904 J. M. Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish National Theater Society

1904 Frederick Boland, Irish diplomat/president, U.N. General Assembly

1901 Denis Johnston, Irish Dramatist

1901 Cecil H King, Irish/British daily newspaper publisher, Daily Mirror

1900 Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris at 46

1900 Piet de Law captures Lt-colonel Spragges Irish Yeomanry

1900 John Power, Irish baronet/whiskey manufacturer, dies in battle

1898 Thomas Bracken, Irish Poet

1897 Kate O'Brien, Irish writer, Without My Cloak

1897 Irish Music Festival 1st held (Dublin)

1895 Robert Graves, Irish Novelist

1891 Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party leader, dies at 45

1891 Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish Politician

1891 Michael Chekhov, Russia, actor, Abie's Irish Rose, Rhapsody

1890 Dion Boucicault, Irish/US actor and playwright (Octoroon), dies at 67

1890 John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish Poet

1889 William Allingham, Irish poet (Day and Night Songs), dies at 68

1887 Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine, 1945-48

1885 Thomas Andrews, Irish physicist/chemist (ozone), dies at 71

1885 Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer, Caranchos de la Florida

1884 John McCormack, Irish/US singer, Irish folksongs

1883 Andrew Browne, Irish/British Admiral, WW II

1882 Joe English, Irish/Flemish signaler, WW I

1882 James Stephens, Irish poet, Crock of Gold

1881 Padraic Colum, Irish poet and novelist /poet, Collected Poems

1880 William T. Cosgrave, president Irish Free state

1879 Isaac Butt, Irish Politician

1879 Robert Lynd, Irish writer/critic, Pleasures of Ignorance

1878 Lord Dunsany, [Edward JMD Plunkett], Irish sci-fi writer, Time and Gods

1878 Paul Cullen, Irish Clergyman

1875 John Mitchel, Irish Journalist

1874 Ernest Shackleton, Irish Explorer

1872 Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist, founder of Sinn Fein

1871 John Synge, Irish Poet

1870 Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Quebec

1870 Jem Mace and defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champ Joe Coburn, it lasts 1 hr and 17 minutes, and neither is struck by a punch

1868 Michael Barrett, Irish nationalist, last British public execution

1868 Constance Gore-booth Markiewicy, Irish patriot/playwright/MP

1866 Irish Fenians raid Pigeon Hill, Quebec

1866 Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to U.S. forces

1866 Renegade Irish Fenians invade Ft. Erie, Ontario from U.S.

1866 Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder Disciples of Christ, dies at 77

1865 Maude Gonne, Irish nationalist, Irish Joan of Arc

1865 William Rowan Hamilton, Irish Mathematician

1865 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32

1865 Herbert Trench, Irish Poet

1864 George Boole, Irish Mathematician

1864 Roger David Casement, Irish nationalist, Easter uprising 1916

1864 William F. A. Ellison, Irish clergyman/director, Armagh Observatory

1863 Francis P Kenrick, Irish/US archbishop of Baltimore, dies at 65

1863 Battle of Irish Bend, Louisiana (Ft. Bisland)

1857 John Joly, Irish Scientist

1855 Timothy Healy, Irish Politician

1854 Edward Carson, 1st Baron Carson, lawyer/leader, Irish Unionist Party

1852 Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish organist/composer

1852 Lady Gregory, Irish Dramatist

1851 John Dillon, Irish nationalist/British Lower house member

1849 Countess of Blessington, Irish Novelist

1849 Maria Edgeworth, Irish Novelist

1847 Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/author, Dracula

1847 Alice Sophia Stopford Green, Ireland, proponent of Irish independence

1847 Daniel O'Connell, Irish Politician

1846 Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party-Lower house member

1846 Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish Politician

1844 John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish Poet

1844 John Atkinson, Irish Judge

1843 British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy

1843 Edward Dowden, Irish Critic

1843 Thomas Bracken, Irish Poet

1840 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer, Irish Land League

1840 Robert S. Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer

1839 2 day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as "Big Wind"

1838 John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St. Paul

1837 John Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54

1830 Justin M'Carthy, Ireland, Irish politician/novelist, Miss Misanthrope

1826 George J Stoney, Irish physicist

1822 Dion Boucicault, Irish/Us actor and playwright, Rip van Winkle

1821 William Howard Russell, Irish Journalist

1821 William Allingham, Irish poet, Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland

1817 John Philpot Curran, Irish Public Servant

1816 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish Playwright

1816 Richard Sheridan, Irish Playwright

1815 John Mitchel, Irish Journalist

1814 Aubrey de Vere, Irish writer, Victorian Observer

1813 Isaac Butt, Irish Politician

1812 Edmund Malone, Irish Editor

1812 Andrew Cherry, Irish Dramatist

1810 1st Irish magazine in U.S., Shamrock, is published

1806 James Smith, Irish/US attorney/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 87

1806 Daniel Maclise, Irish painter

1805 William Rowan Hamilton, Irish Mathematician

1805 Arthur Murphy, Irish Writer

1803 Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist, executed

1803 Matthew Thornton, Irish/US physician/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 88

1803 Paul Cullen, Irish Clergyman

1798 Theobald W. Tone, Irish nationalist, dies

1798 Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer/Dublin mayor

1798 British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara

1798 Thomas Crofton Croker, Irish story teller, Fairy legends

1797 Francis P Kenrick, Irish/US archbishop of Baltimore

1793 Francis Danby, Irish painter

1789 Countess of Blessington, Irish Novelist

1788 Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder, Disciples of Christ

1787 John Burke, Irish genealogist, Burke's Peerage

1779 Thomas Moore, Irish Poet

1776 Daniel O'Connell, Irish Politician

1774 Oliver Goldsmith, Irish poet (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at 17

1768 Laurence Sterne, Irish Novelist

1768 Laurence Stern, Irish Clergyman

1767 Maria Edgeworth, Irish Novelist

1763 Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish nationalist

1763 Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot

1762 Andrew Cherry, Irish Dramatist

1755 George Barrington, Irish Celebrity

1751 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish Playwright

1751 Richard Sheridan, Irish Playwright

1750 John Philpot Curran, Irish Public Servant

1741 Edmund Malone, Irish Editor

1727 Arthur Murphy, Irish Writer

1722 Charles Leslie, Irish controversialist, dies

1713 Laurence Stern, Irish Clergyman

1707 George Farquhar, Irish Dramatist

1656 James Ussher, Irish bible scholar/anglican archbishop, dies at 76

1634 Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein

1603 Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish

1599 Earl van Essex and Irish rebel Tyrone signs treaty

1541 Irish parliament selects Henry VIII as king of Ireland

1171 Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies

615 Columbanus, Irish monastery founder/poet/saint (Poenitentiale), dies



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