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#OTD in 1967 – A local parish priest voiced his extreme opposition to the appearance of Jayne Mansfield at the Mount Brandon Hotel in Tralee, and the concert was duly cancelled. Two months later, she was killed in a car accident.

Jayne Mansfield landed in Ireland after her screen career had been on the slide for some time when she signed up for a one-night stand in the Mount Brandon Hotel. She was to be paid the princely sum of £1,000 for 35 minutes of cabaret. The booking immediately divided the council, with Councillor Michael O’Regan thundering: ‘This is not a proper person we should have entertaining here. The lady…

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#actress #Co. Kerry #Councillor Michael O&039;Regan #Gay Byrne #Jayne Mansfield #Mount Brandon Hotel #Tralee

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#OTD in 1916 – Pádraig Pearse read out the Proclamation of Independence after his men had seized the GPO.

At four minutes past noon on Easter Monday, Pearse, read the Proclamation. It signified the start of the Easter Rising. POBLACHT NA h-EIREANN THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND Irishmen and Irishwomen: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag…

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#1916 Easter Rising #Dublin #Eamonn Ceannt #England #General Post Office #GPO #Ireland #Irish Republic #James Connolly #Joseph Plunkett #Padraig Pearse #PEOPLE OF IRELAND #Pobhlacht na hÉireann #Proclamation of Independence #Provisional Government #Sean Mad Diarmada #Tómas MacDonagh. P.H. Pearse #Thomas J. Clarke

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#OTD in 1916 – Approximately 1,000 copies of The Proclamation of the Irish Republic are printed in Liberty Hall in a print office set up by James Connolly.

The proclamation would be read by Pádraig Pearse outside the General Post Office on Sackville Street (now called O’Connell Street) on Monday 24th April. The proclamation was printed secretly on an old and poorly maintained Wharfedale Stop Cylinder Press in the printing office that had been set up by James Connolly in the basement in the original Liberty Hall in Beresford Place, Dublin. All seven…

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#1000 copies #1916 Easter Rising #Beresford Place #Dublin #Eamonn Ceannt #Easter Monday #Easter Sunday #Eoin MacNeil #Irish History #Irish Volunteers Chief of Staff #James Connolly #Joseph Plunkett #Liberty Hall #O&039;Connell St #Padraig Pearse #Poblacht na hÉireann #Sackville St #Sean MacDermott #The Proclamation of the Irish Republic #Thomas Clarke #Thomas MacDonagh

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#OTD in 1014 – Battle of Clontarf | The Dublin Norse and the king of Leinster, with Viking allies from overseas, are defeated by Brian Boru’s army at Clontarf.

The bounds between Irish Legend and Irish Myth has often been blurred, especially as the retelling of heroic deeds has been passed on through generations. Brian Boru was no legend although his life deeds were legendary. He was very much a real man and was in fact the last great High King of Ireland and perhaps the greatest military leader the country has ever known. Brian Boru was born Brian Mac…

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#Ard Rí #Armagh #Battle of Clontarf #Brian Boru #Cashel #Chapel Royal Sculpture #Clontarf #Dublin #Dublin Castle #High King Brian Boru #Killaloe #Leinster #Maelmordha #St. Patrick&039;s Cathedral #Uí Néill

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#OTD in Irish History | 23 April:

1014 – Battle of Clontarf: The Dublin Norse and the king of Leinster, with Viking allies from overseas, are defeated by Brian Boru’s army at Clontarf. Brian, now an old man, is killed. This thwarts the potential domination of Ireland by the Norse, but they are well established in the coastal towns, and will continue to have a major influence. Máel Sechnaill succeeds Brian as high king. 1357 –…

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#irelandinspires #irishhistory #OTD #23 April #Battle of Clontarf #Bernadette Devlin McAliskey #Castle Roche #Co. Louth #Copter View Photography #History #History of Ireland #Ireland #Irish History #Irish War of Independence #Shamrock Rovers #Today in Irish History

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#OTD in 1969 – Bernadette Devlin, a newly elected MP, made a controversial maiden speech in the House of Commons.

I understand that in making my maiden speech on the day of my arrival in Parliament and in making it on a controversial issue I flaunt the unwritten traditions of the House, but I think that the situation of my people merits the flaunting of such traditions. I remind the hon. Member for Londonderry (Mr. Chichester-Clark) that I, too, was in the Bogside area on the night that he was there. As the…

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#22nd Birthday #Bernadette Devlin #Bernadette Devlin McAliskey #British House of Commons #Controversial Speech #MP

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#OTD in 1916 – Eoin MacNeill's last minute bid to call off the Easter Rising.

The letter penned on Easter Saturday, 22 April 1916, by Irish Volunteers chief Eoin MacNeill, dispatched to rebel leaders in an effort to call off the planned revolution. “Volunteers completely deceived. All orders for to-morrow Sunday are entirely cancelled,” says the note signed by MacNeill on what is now a tatty piece of paper, embossed with an address at Rathfarnham, Dublin. It was as a…

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#1916 Easter Rising #Countermand Order #Dublin #Eoin MacNeill #Irish Volunteers chief #Proclamation of Independence #Rathfarnham #Sunday Independent

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#OTD in 1875 – Birth of Michael Joseph O’Rahilly in Ballylongford, Co Kerry.

Michael Joseph O’Rahilly was born in Ballylongford, Co Kerry in 1875. He was a republican and a language enthusiast, a member of An Coiste Gnótha, the Gaelic League’s governing body. He was well-travelled, spending at least a decade in the United States and in Europe. He was a reasonably wealthy man; the Weekly Irish Times reported after the Easter Rising that O’Rahilly ‘enjoyed a private income…

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#OTD in Irish History | 22 April:

1365 – Lionel returns to England, leaving Ormond as his deputy. 1671 – An English Navigation Act prohibits direct importation of sugar, tobacco and other produce from the colonies to Ireland; act expires in 1681 but is renewed in 1685 and extended in 1696. 1717 – John Marshall, a successful attorney and father of Robert Marshall, a future MP for Clonmel and an executor of Hester Vanhomrigh…

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#irelandinspires #irishhistory #OTD #1916 Easter Rising #22 April #Co. Tyrone #Daniel O&039;Connell #Dungannon #Hill of the O&039;Neill #History #History of Ireland #Ireland #Irish Civil War #Irish History #Sinéad O&039;Connor #Today in Irish History

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#OTD in 1994 – Northern Ireland Lord Chief Justice, Sir Brian Hutton, quashed the conviction of Paul Hill for the murder of a former British soldier in 1974. Hutton declared that the conviction was 'unsafe and unsatisfactory'.

An appeals court overturned a 19-year-old murder conviction against Paul Hill, who spent nearly 15 years in prison for two IRA attacks that he insisted he never committed. The decision was the latest rebuke to the British police for mishandling high-profile terrorist cases in which innocent people have gone to jail. The court ruled that Mr. Hill should be cleared in the abduction and murder of…

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#Belfast #Birmingham Six #Brian Shaw #British Justice #Courtney Kennedy #Gerry Conlon #Guildford Four #IRA murder charges #Northern Ireland #Paul Hill

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#OTD in 1916 – Sir Roger Casement arrived in Tralee Bay, Co Kerry on board a German U-boat.

From 1915 Kerry was central to plans for the Rising. In autumn of that year Austin Stack, the leader of the Volunteers in Kerry and a member of the IRB was informed by Pádraig Pearse of the plans for the Rising. Arrangements were being made for an arms shipment from Germany to arrive in Tralee Bay on Easter Sunday 23 April 1916. Stack and the Kerry Volunteers were to receive and distribute the…

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#1916 Easter Rising #Ardfert #Austin Stack #Banna Strand #Co. Kerry #IRB #McKenna&039;s Fort #Padraig Pearse #Roger Casement #Sir Roger Casement #Tralee #U-Boat

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#OTD in 1916 – The first casualties of the Easter Rising were on Good Friday in Co Kerry.

Three Volunteers, Con Keating, Charlie Monahan and Donal Sheehan, drowned when their car plunged off a pier into the sea while they were on the way to Cahirciveen in order to set up radio communications with Sir Roger Casement and the German arms ship the Aud. Five men set off from Dublin by train to Killarney, Charlie Monaghan, Donal Sheehan, Con Keating, Dennis Daly and Colm O’Lochlainn.…

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#1916 Easter Rising #Aud #Charlie Monahan #Co. Kerry #Con Keating #Donal Sheehan #History of Ireland #IRA #Ireland #Irish History #Irish Volunteers #Killorglin #killorglinarchives.com #RIC #Sir Roger Casement

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Éirí Amach Ná Cásca 1916 | The Birth of a Nation!

The Easter Rising took place in April 1916 in Dublin and is one of the pivotal events in modern Irish History. At the end of the Easter Rising, fourteen men identified as leaders were executed at Kilmainham Gaol. To some, these men were traitors, to others they became heroes. It was the first major armed uprising against the British empire in the 20th century and was marked 100 years later as the…

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#1916 Easter Rising #Éamon Ceannt #Éirí Amach na Cásca 1916 – The Birth of a Nation! #Cornelius "Con" Colbert #EyeCandy #General Post Office #James Connolly #Joseph Mary Plunkett #Major John MacBride #Michael Mallin #O&039;Connell Street #Padraig Pearse #Poblacht na hÉireann #Proclamation #Sean Heuston #Sir Roger Casement #Thomas J. Clarke #Thomas MacDonagh #William "Willie" Pearse

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#OTD in Irish History | 21 April:

1738 – A Mr Lorimer, receiver of Sir Arthur Acheson (MP for Mullingar), is killed in a duel. 1816 – Birth of author of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë, daughter of an Irish father and eldest of the three Brontë Sisters. 1871 – Birth of Labour leader and Irish nationalist, John Fitzpatrick, in Athlone, Co Westmeath. 1874 – Birth of mechanical engineer, designer of cars and tanks, Walter Wilson, in…

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#irelandinspires #irishhistory #OTD #1916 Easter Rising #21 April #Aran Islands #Aud #Banna Strand #Belfast #Co. Galway #Co. Kerry #Co. Tipperary #History #History of Ireland #Inis Mór #Ireland #Irish Civil War #Irish History #Irish War of Independence #Rock of Cashel #Roger Casement #Today in Irish History

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#OTD in 1995 – Father Ted was broadcast for the first time.

A television programme offers to interview Father Ted Crilly. However Ted goes to extreme lengths to ensure the other members of the clergy on the island don’t interrupt his moment in the spotlight. Meanwhile Craggy Island hosts Fun Land, a fun fair to which Dougal is desperate to go. Ted takes the film crew to the fair, leading to a massive mess.

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#Craggy Island #Dougal #Father Jack #Father Ted #Ireland #Mrs Doyle #TV Series

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#OTD in 1912 – Death of Bram Stoker, the Dublin born writer who created Dracula.

Death of novelist Bram Stoker, author of Dracula which was first published in 1897. Born in Dublin, Stoker was bed-ridden for much of his childhood, but lived a relatively healthy life during his adulthood. Educated at Trinity College, he moved to London in 1878 and married actress Florence Balcombe. Dracula received some praise on its publication. It was not until the movie Dracula, starring…

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#Bela Lugosi #Bram Stoker #Creator #Dracula #Dublin #Florence Balcombe #Golders Green Crematorium #Ireland #London #Trinity College #Writer

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#OTD in 1608 – Sir Thomas Phillipps was granted a license by James I to the Old Bushmills distillery in Co Antrim, which is thought to date from at least 1276 – the oldest distillery in the world.

Uisce beatha is the name for whiskey in the Irish language. The word “whiskey” itself is simply an anglicised version of this phrase, stemming from a mispronunciation of the word uisce. This may in turn have influenced the Modern Irish word fuisce (“whiskey”). The phrase uisce beatha, literally “water of life”, was the name given by Irish monks of the early Middle Ages to distilled alcohol. It is…

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#aqua vitae #Bushmills #Bushmills Whiskey #Co. Antrim #Diageo #King James I #landowner and Governor #Latin #Old Bushmills Distillery #Sir Thomas Phillips #Uisce Beatha #Water of Life