On This Day in Irish History
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On This Day in Irish History
On This Day in Irish History 1 February 1177 – With a small contingent of knights and footmen, Norman knight John de Courcy invaded Eastern Ulster, seizing the town of […]
On This Day in Irish History: August
On This Day in Irish History 2 August 1649 – Royalist forces were defeated outside Dublin by the English Parliamentary Army in The Battle of Rathmines, paving the way for […]
On This Day in Irish History / Coming Next Month: August
On This Day in Irish History 1 July 1681 – St. Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh, was hung at Tyburn, after being found guilty of high treason “for promoting the […]
On This Day in Irish History: June
On This Day in Irish History 7 June, 1899 – Birth in Dublin of Elizabeth Bowen, novelist and short-story writer, best known for her novel The Last September. 8 June […]
