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It Happened
In Ireland On...
Ronnie McGinn Takes A Look At The Week In Irish History
6 December North on the agenda. Oswald Mosley, at Eyrecourt, them. Ballymena, James Currie, as
1914 Anti-enlistment 1981 Sixteen people, County Galway, was almost 1922 Republicans Rory they faced loyalist protesters.
leaflets were distributed at a completely destroyed by fire.
meeting held in Beresford including 11 British soldiers, No lives were lost due to the O’Connor, Liam Mellowes, 1997 An Taoiseach, Bertie
Place to protest the suppress- were killed in an INLA bomb timely action of a neighbor Ahern, had discussions at
ing of “seditious†papers in attack on the Droppin Well who was alerted by an excited Joseph McKelevey and Richard Castle Buildings with partici-
Dublin. Speakers included public house in Ballykelly, pony. pants in the Stormont talks. He
James Connolly and Madame County Derry. Barrett, prisoners in Mountjoy, became the first serving
Markievicz. Meanwhile John 1963 The last commercial Taoiseach to be welcomed at
Redmond urged enlistment at 1985 The funeral took voyage of the last passenger were executed as a reprisal for Belfast City Hall by the Lord
a meeting in Tuam. place of Dr Frederick Boland, steamship between Cork and Mayor.
1921 Agreement was distinguished Irish diplomat Merseyside marked the end of the killing of Sean Hales TD.
reached in the Treaty negotia- and former President of the an era. 1933 The Blueshirts were
tions creating an Irish Free United Nations.
State within the 1979 Charles Haughey banned by the Fianna Fail gov-
Commonwealth: an oath of 1991. Ireland’s biggest and was mobbed by Fianna Fail
allegiance was obligatory, most popular acts enthraled supporters as he left Leinster ernment. The Young Ireland
naval facilities at ports would the crowd at a concert at the House following his election as
be afforded to Britain and the Point Theatre, which raised leader of the party. Association was established as
State would service the public over £1 million for famine
debt. The Treaty upheld relief in Somalia. 1984 The most sophisticat- a branch of the United Ireland 9 December
Northern Ireland’s right to ed naval vessel ever built in
reject the jurisdiction of the 1999 Coney Island off the Ireland, the £25 million LE Organization. Shortly after the 1907 Dublin Corporation
Irish Free State and a three- coast of Sligo had electricity Eithne was commissioned at
man Boundary Commission switched on for the first time. the Haulbowline naval base. formation of Fine Gael some ruled as out of order a motion
would be set up. The one family in permanent The attendance included the
1938 The new 12 Four residence, the McGowans, and Minister for Defence, Patrick time ago, 15 to 20 deputies that the portrait of Queen
Vauxhall, the first 12 hp car to many part-time islanders, Cooney, and the Chief of Staff
be built in Ireland with the rejoiced. of the Defense Forces. appeared wearing blue shirts. Victoria be removed from the
chassis and body in one unit, 1942 The nationalist MP
came off the line at Dublin's 1997 President McAleese hall of the Mansion House to a
East Wall The car did 35 miles received communion during a for South Fermanagh, Cahir
to the gallon and a speed of 50 service in Christchurch less prominent position and be
mph. Cathedral where her bridge Healy, aged 65, was released
1945 The Irish sales man- building theme was praised by replaced by a person who ren-
ager for Lucas Ltd called for Archbishop Walton Empey. from Brixton Prison. He was
the suspension of import duties The Mayor of Warrington, the dered some service to the Irish
on car batteries as it was lead- British Ambassador and the arrested in July 1941 on suspi-
ing to an expanding black mar- Lord Mayor of Dublin also nation.
ket. attended. cion of being concerned in acts 1913 The first general con-
1951 Captain Colin O’Shea
of the Irish army jumping 1999 The Supreme Court prejudicial to public safety. ference dealing with the
team, riding Ballyneety, won set out new guidelines for com- 1959 The Republic’s first
the coveted ARCTE Perpetual pensation payments in deafness women’s suffrage movement
Challenge Trophy at the cases taken by members of the ban ghardai went on duty in
Mexican International Horse defense forces. The new guide- in Ireland opened in the
Show. lines, which were half of that College Street Garda Station. It
1968 Lady Goulding greet- put forward by the High Court, Rotunda under the auspices of
ed President de Valera at the saved the State millions of was expected that they would
opening of a new building for 7 December pounds. the non-militant, non-party
the Central Remedial Clinic at 1908
Clontarf, Dublin. Minister for Limerick 8 December deal with policing Christmas Irishwomen’s Suffrage
Health, Seim Flanagan, and 1906 The registration of
Minister for Industry and Corporation conferred the free- the Irish trademark ‘Deanta i n- crowds and the January sales in Federation.
Commerce, George Colley, Eirinn’ was completed. It was
also attend. dom of the city on Lord the first case of any country an effort to cut down on 1921 As strong support
1973 Tripartite talks getting a registered trademark
opened at Sunningdale with Dunraven in recognition of his applicable to every article of shoplifting and bag snatching. from the Hierarchy poured in
the government’s demand for manufacture or produce. 1962 Among the recipients
a Council of Ireland, law and £500 scholarship for technical 1915 The centenary of the for peace terms, there a were
order, and the status of the laying of the foundation of the of Jacobs Awards for Television
education and his many acts of Pro-Cathedral was celebrated joyous scenes as internment
in Dublin. In an eloquent ser- Excellence were actress Eileen
kindness to the county. mon, the Rev. Murphy SJ camps were cleared. Some
1917 Parish priest, Canon praised the nation’s forbear- Crowe, broadcaster Proinsias
ance of sufferings inflicted on shots were fired at trains in
Mac Aonghusa, Hilton
Fortune, told a meeting of County Down.
Edwards, Jack White, sports 1937 Two nationalist
Taghmon farmers that they
commentator MicheaI
would show a woeful lack of Westminster MPs issued an
O’Hehir and newsreader
patriotism and Christian chari- abstentionist manifesto. It was
Charles Mitchel.
ty if they were to export all 1977 The eighth of denounced by their colleagues
their corn to the strangers and December was still the tradi- at Stormont who argued that,
let their own go hungry. ultimately, it would involve the
1922 Sean Hales, pro- tional Christmas shopping day
surrender of nationalist seats.
with people from the country, 1948 Professor JW Bigger,
Treaty TD for Cork County,
converging on Dublin.
was shot dead in Dublin and speaking in the Senate on the
Children, who had the holy day
the deputy Speaker, Padraig Republic of Ireland Bill,
free, made the most of their
O’Mallie, was badly wounded. declared it “a tragic mistake.â€
1935 In a bad day for Irish time.
1980 The British Prime If it would take the gun out of
sport, New Zealand beat Minister, Margaret Thatcher, Irish politics he could almost be
Ireland 17-9 in a rugby match at and An Taoiseach, Charles induced to support it, but he
Lansdowne Road and in soccer Haughey, meeting at Dublin feared guns which had killed
the Netherlands beat the Free Castle, agreed to have studies for a republic might be turned
State 5-3 in Dalymount Park. against the North.
1942 Dublin Corporation undertaken covering new insti- 1952 The Minister for
revealed that negotiations were tutional structures, citizenship Industry and Commerce, Sean
taking place between the rights, security matters and Lemass, presided at the formal
municipal authority and the economic co-operation. establishment of the Irish
1996 Catholics attending
Dublin Transport Company Management Institute in the
mass in Harryville were sup-
for the provision of passenger Gresham Hotel, Dublin.
ported by Protestant clergy- 1968 The Northern Prime
shelters in the city.
1954 The home of Sir men and the Mayor of
Minister Captain Terence
