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Paul Ward from Crumlin was film as part of its centenary cel- team killed when its plane George V declared that the outlined the introduction of IRISH EXAMINER | February 1st, 2017
charged in Kilmainham Court, ebrations. President Hillery crashed after take off from final establishment of the Irish
with the murder of investiga- and producer Louis Marcus Munich. Jackie Blanchflower of Free State was anxiously await- free medical, institutional and
tive journalist Veronica attended and the film was Lame and Harry Gregg of ed throughout the world.
Guerin. watched by stars Eddie Keher, Coleraine are among the sur- specialist services for specified
Jimmy Smith, John Doyle and vivors. 1926 Nationalist MP for
The funeral took place in former Taoiseach Jack Lynch. Down Patrick O’Neill decided lower and middle-income
Dublin of Sean O’Siochain, 1968 Director Patrick to take his place in the
Director-General of the GAA 1992, Five people died fol- Moore welcomed the launch of Northern Parliament following groups.
from 1964-1979. lowing a gun attack by the UFF the Armagh Planetarium, support for the move at a 1969 American sailor Bill
on a bookmaker’s shop in which was opened to the pub- nationalist convention in
5 February Belfast. RUC Chief Constable lic. Castlewellan. Verity had nearly finished
1908 Three human skele- Hugh Annesley called it “mur-
tons were unearthed as work- der madnessâ€. Cardinal Daly 1979 The Irish Council 1934 Discussions on the building a replica of the boat in
ers excavated land for a road- said that there was no future Against Blood Sports demon- establishment of a new
way to the Malthouse of the for the IRA unless it renounced strated outside a coursing Volunteer Force resulted in an which St Brendan supposedly
Guinness Brewery. They were violence. meeting in Clonmel, County explosive debate in the Dail,
sent to Glasnevin Cemetery for Tipperary. However, book- during which events of the crossed the Atlantic. He planed
interment. 1996 The FAI appointed makers and punters continued Civil War are revisited. Deputy
1921 In Brighton, England, Mick McCarthy as the their business. Moylan, Fianna Fail TD for to make a similar attempt on
Mrs Parnell, widow of Charles Republic of Ireland’s soccer North Cork, rejecting a charge
Stewart Parnell, perhaps better team manager. He succeeded 1986 Students took to the by Deputy Dillon that it would the coming St Patrick’s Day.
known as Mrs Katherine Jack Charlton who resigned in streets of Dublin to protest at teach young men to be gun- 1983
O’Shea, died aged 76. December 1995. the closure of Carysfort men. As Charles
1934 Dublin Corporation Teacher Training College.
debated, and then noted, a let- 6 February They held a meeting outside 1942 The government Haughey’s leadership of Fianna
ter from the Secretary of the 1901 The Chief Secretary Leinster House. denied a British newspaper
Gaelic League asking it to for Ireland, Charles Wyndham, report that German seaplanes Fail came under threat, his sup-
endorse the League’s protest began a tour of the congested 1992 The Fianna Fail par- were landing in Irish waters
against the broadcasting of jazz districts of Connemara where liamentary party took less than before they attacked shipping, porters gathered at Leinster
from Free State stations, on the 70,000 people were trying to half an hour to elect Albert or that Ireland was refuelling
grounds that jazz was contrary eke out an existence. He then Reynolds as its new leader and German submarines. House in a show of strength.
to the spirit of Christianity and visited Gorumna, Lettermullen successor to Charles Haughey. 1989 The Irish
nationality. and Lettermore islands. At a press conference later, 1953 The text of the 1952
1947 There was a crisis 1905 Dublin Corporation, Reynolds said that he aimed to Health Bill was circulated. It Haemophilia Society met
within Irish industry as welcoming the collection of develop open government. His
Hammond Lane Foundry in paintings presented by Hugh ideal was an inclusive Ireland, opposition politicians at
Dublin closed with a loss of 200 Lane and other distinguished modern, progressive, enlight-
jobs, all due to suspension of artists, instructed the Finance ened and socially caring. Leinster House as part of its
coal and coke imports resulting Committee to make provision
from a shortage in Britain. for a permanent gallery - a con- 1996 Tuams’s most campaign to get State financial
1960 President de Valera dition of the gift - to house the famous musical ambassadors,
attended the Dublin premiere unique collection. The Saw Doctors, returned support for members who had
of Mise Eire in the Regal 1928 In gales reaching home to launch their third
Rooms cinema. Donall almost 80 mph, the Derry- album in their assault on the the AIDS virus.
O’Morain, chairman of Gael- Burtonpoint train crossed the British charts. 1997 Almost a year to the
Linn who produced the film, famous Owen Carrow
said it was a tribute to those Viaduct, which was 1,140 feet 7 February day after the Canary Wharf
“who took part in the national long. However, some of its 1900 In the House of
resurgence in the early part of wagons were detached as a pre- Commons, John Redmond bombing, the IRA dismissed
the centuryâ€. caution. moved an Irish Party amend-
1964 Three people died 1942 The Franciscans in ment condemning the war in any remaining hope of a new
and eight others were injured Galway were now the proud South Africa and calling for
as fire swept the Sancta Maria owners of a Madonna and recognition of the independ- ceasefire before the British
Hotel in Galway. Child painting by Giovanni ence of the Transvaal and the
1976 A campaign was Battista Salvi, one of Italy's Orange Free State. general election to be held in
launched on behalf of Yann most important artists. The 1903 Maud Gonne was to
Fouere of Cleggan, identity of the painting was dis- marry Major John MacBride, May. C
Connemara, a Breton who was covered when it was sent for who commanded the Irish
being held without trial in cleaning in Dublin. brigade on the side of the Boers In 1996, the FAI appointed Mick McCarthy as the Republic of Ireland’s
France. 1958 Dublin’s Liam in the Transvaal War. She con- soccer team manager
1985 The GAA launched a Whelan was one of the verted to the Catholic faith to
Manchester United football which her future husband
belonged.
1922 At the opening of the
British parliament, King
