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  • Jan 1st

    1801

    The Act of Union came into effect.

    1818

    The White House was officially re-opened after repairs to damage caused during the War of 1812.

    1871

    The Church of Ireland was disestablished under the Irish Church Act.

    1889

    Surgeon John Crimmin of the Bombay Medical Department earned a VC at Lweka, Burma in the Karen-Ni Expedition. He tended the wounded under fire and in his spare time joined in the fighting. Johnny was a Dub. He died in 1945.

    Meanwhile, back in Donegal…

    Patrick McGill was born near Glenties. He served in the London Irish Rifles in the Great War, about which he wrote poetry and novels, including The Great Push, The Red Horizon and [/I]Soldier Songs from the Great Push[/I]. He died in 1963.

    Lament From the trenches

    I wish the sea was not so wide that that parts me from my love;
    I wish the things men do below were known to God above!

    I wish that I were back again in the glens of Donegal,
    They’d call me a coward if I return and a hero if I fall.

    Is it better to be a living coward, or thrice a hero dead?
    It’s better to go to sleep. M’lad, the Colour-Sergeant said.

    Patrick McGill


    The first two verses of the above poem feature on a stone in the Island of Ireland Peace Park on Messines Ridge.

    1912

    Kim Philby was born. He spied for the Soviets on the UK.

    1915

    The U-24 sank the battleship HMS Formidable off Massachucetts.

    1919

    The favourite author of all conspiracy theorists was born. J D Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye was born.

    1941

    The Germans bombed many parts of the East Coast over the next 3 days.

    1996

    A 7.7 earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi caused a tsunami that killed 8 people.

    2002

    Euro currency was introduced in most of the EU. Cunning Kerry teenagers were quick off the mark reproducing the “unforgeable” notes by means of scanner and printer. They spent €1500 worth in Kerry nightclubs before being caught. No prosecutions followed, to the relief of the Kerry publicans, since all the gang members were under 18.
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    • Jan 2nd

      1602

      The Spanish army of Don Juan de l’Aguila formally surrendered Kinsale to Mountjoy.

      1794

      William Buckley, a Tipperary-born French Royalist soldier was executed by guillotine in Angers, France.

      1920

      Recruitment began for the Black and Tans.

      2000

      Patrick O'Brian died in a Dublin hotel. He was 85 and was born Richard Patrick Russ. He was writing his 21st novel set during the Napoleonic wars, the first of which was Master and Commander, which was published in 1970.

      Died

      1923

      Pte Michael Hogan, Free State Army. Killed in Silvermines village, Co. Tipperary.

      Adjt Michael Ryan, IRA. Died of wounds in Killenaule, Co. Tipperary.

      1993

      Sean Devereux, an Irish civilian, working with UNICEF, was killed in Somalia.
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      • Jan 3rd

        1521

        Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther from the Roman Catholic Church.

        1833

        Britain claimed the Falkland Islands for herself. Argentina claims them as hers but isn’t likely to do anything about it after the 1982 farce.

        1924

        Howard Carter found the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun.

        1940

        Emergency anti-IRA legislation was introduced in the Irish Free State.

        1967

        Jack Ruby , the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald, died in a Dallas hospital, age 55.

        1988

        Margaret Thatcher became the longest serving British PM of the 20th century.

        Died

        1918

        9208 CQMS David Carroll, 2nd Bn East Lancashire Regt. Died on the Western Front. He was from Cashel, Co. Tipperary.
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        • Jan 4th

          1642

          King Charles I attacked the English parliament with 400 soldiers. The monarch is excluded from the House of Commons ever since.

          1903

          Topsy the elephant was executed by electrocution on Coney Island, New York. She killed 3 keepers over a 2 year period.

          1921

          Martial law was extended to counties Clare, Kilkenny, Waterford and Wexford.

          1944

          The British Fifth Army attacked Monte Cassino.

          1944

          The Red Army crossed into Poland.

          1945

          The last German offensive on Bastogne ended.

          1961

          The longest strike in history came to an end. Danish barbers' assistants returned to work after 33 yrs.

          1969

          People's Democracy was attacked at Burntollet Bridge on a civil rights march from Derry to Belfast.

          2003

          A group of women began an anti-war protest at a roundabout at Shannon Airport.

          Died

          1921

          64741 Constable Francis Shortall, RIC. Born Co. Tipperary in 1882. He was killed in Cork City.
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          • Jan 5th

            1787

            John Burke, genealogist and compiler of Burke's Peerage, was born in Elm Hall, Co. Tipperary.

            1922

            Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Kildare-born Antarctic explorer, died on South Georgia.

            1981

            Peter Sutcliffe-“The Yorkshire Ripper” was arrested. He murdered 13 women.

            Died

            1915

            30213 Gnr Thomas Eustace, Royal Field Artillery. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Cashel, Co. Tipperary.

            1916

            12504 Pte Michael Meaney, 9th Bn Warwickshire Regt. Killed in action, Gallipoli. He was from Waterford City.
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            • Jan 6th

              1066

              Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex, was crowned King of England. He was the guy who was shot in the eye at Hastings.

              1412

              Joan of Arc was born in the French village of Domrémy.

              1540

              King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleeves.

              1558

              The English lost Calais to the French.

              1562

              Shane O'Neill submitted to Queen Elizabeth at Whitehall. He rebelled again a few months later.

              1838

              Samuel Morse demonstrated his telegraph in Morristown, New .Jersey.

              1839

              The Night Of The Big Wind or Oiche na Gaoithe Moire. Wind speeds in excess of 130 m.p.h were estimated.

              1898

              Colonel James Fitzmaurice was born in Dublin. He flew the Atlantic east to west.

              1967

              Operation Deckhouse V began. 16,000 U.S. and 14,000 South Vietnamese troops started an attack on the Iron Triangle, northwest of Saigon.

              Died

              1917

              34621 Pte Peter Batterson, 402nd Protection Coy, Royal Defence Force. Died in England. He was the son of Adam and Mary Ann Batterson from Waterford. He was also a veteran of the Sudan.

              1969

              Pte George Nagle from Clonme, Co. Tipperary was KIA in a landmine explosion in Vietnam. He was serving in the Australian Army. George was an ex-member of 12th Inf Bn.
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              • Jan 7th

                1914

                The first ship passed through the Panama Canal.

                1918

                The Germans moved 75,000 troops from the East Front to the Western Front.

                2004

                In Scotland Stephen Gough, aged 44, was convicted of breaching the peace and sentenced to three months in jail for trying to walk the length of Britain naked. Rather cold for that sort of thing.

                Died

                1916

                4710 Pte Christopher Nash, 7th Reserve Cavalry Regt. He died at home in Waterford.

                1921

                KIA in the Pickardstown Ambush near Tramore, Co. Waterford.


                Vol Michael McGrath. Waterford City.

                Vol Tom O’Brien. Dunhill, Co. Waterford.
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                • Jan 8th

                  1815

                  The final battle of the War of 1812 was fought at New Orleans. The Americans beat the British, killing 3 generals. The war had actually ended on Christmas Eve but nobody knew it.

                  1871

                  James Craig, PM of Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1940, was born in Belfast.

                  Meanwhile in France, the Prussians bombarded Paris.

                  1916

                  The evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula was completed. The eight-month campaign cost 100,000 men.

                  1922
                  Arthur Griffith was elected President of Ireland by Dáil Éireann.

                  1979

                  An oil tanker, the Betelgeuse exploded at Whiddy Island oil terminal in Bantry Bay, killing 50 people.

                  Died

                  1921

                  Vol Michael Kennedy, IRA. Killed by Security Forces at Toomeveara.
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                  • Jan 9th

                    1952

                    Danny Morrison, IRA terrorist and head of propaganda was born.

                    1962

                    Ray Houghton, the man who put the ball in the English and Italian nets, was born.
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                    • Jan 10th

                      1952

                      An Aer Lingus aeroplane, the St Kevin, crashed in Wales with the loss of 23 lives.

                      Died

                      1915

                      4774 Pte Jeremiah Lonergan, 1st Bn Irish Guards. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Fethard, Co. Tipperary.

                      1917

                      5533 Pte Patrick French, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Tallow, Co. Waterford.

                      1918

                      285301 Pte Walter McGee, 6th Bn Seaforth Highlanders. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.

                      1923

                      Comdt Martin Breen, IRA. From Tipperary Town, he was KIA by the Free State Army.

                      1987

                      Cpl Dermot McLoughlin was killed in Lebanon serving with 60th Irishbatt.
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                      • Jan 11th

                        49BC

                        Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, starting a Roman civil war.

                        1879

                        The Zulu war began.

                        1904

                        British troops massacred 1,000 dervishes in Somaliland.

                        1940

                        Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. became the U.S. Army's first black general.

                        1988

                        World War II flying ace Gregory "Pappy" Boyington died in Fresno, California, age 75. Anybody old enough will remember the television series, The Black Sheep based on his squadron’s exploits in the Pacific.

                        2002

                        The first planeload of Al-Queda prisoners from Afghanistan arrived Guantanamo Bay.

                        Died

                        1915

                        26577 Gunner Patrick Daly, Royal Garrison Artillery. Died in India. He was from Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford.

                        1916

                        7438 Pte Martin Flynn, 1st Bn Royal Irish Regt. Died in Salonika and buried in Lembet Road Military Cemetery. He was from Carrickbeg, Co. Waterford.

                        1917

                        15012 Pte John O'Donoghue, 2nd Bn Leinster Regt. Died at home, age 52. He is buried in the Rock of Cashel Graveyard, Co. Tipperary.

                        1944

                        916300 Flt Sgt Patrick O'Meara, 550 Sqdn, RAF. Died in Ireland and buried in St Michaels Cemetery, Tipperary town. A Tipperary man by birth, he was raised in Dublin. He died aged 28.
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                        • Jan 12th

                          1729

                          Edmund Burke was born in Dublin.

                          1765

                          The was a by-election in Kinsale caused by the death of John Folliott.It was contested by Agmondisham Vesey and Richard Meade, Vesey winning by 64 votes to 48. Among his election costs were; to William Dennis, vintner, £80 for entertainment. Three other innkeepers receive a total of £76 3s 6d for providing drink for Mr Vesey's health and a further £14 9s for beer to the populace. His election agent, James Dennis, spent £46 12s 2d to send a coach to Dublin to collect voters. Vesey spent a further £12 7s 10d on a notice to disqualify John O'Grady as a Papist from voting. Ben Hayes, fiddler, was paid £5 13s 9d. Vesey's election breakages bill amounted to £7 8s, exclusive of fines for a crowd of broke heads and crakt limbs. James Kearney (a future MP for Kinsale) spent £16 4s 3d to bring voters to Kinsale on Vesey's behalf. This included transport and hospitality on the four-day journey.

                          1879

                          British troops under Chelmsford invaded Zululand, crossing the Buffalo River from Natal, not far from an unheard of mission station named Rorke’s Drift.

                          1885

                          Thomas Ashe was born in Co. Kerry. He died on hunger strike in 1917.

                          1893

                          Hermann Goring was born.

                          2003

                          Leopoldo Galtieri died, age 76. He was the leader of the military Junta that led Argentina into the Falkland War in 1982.

                          Died

                          1917

                          10874 Pte Patrick Flynn, 6th Bn Loyal North Lancashire Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Fethard, Co. Tipperary.
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                          • Jan 13th

                            1695

                            Jonathan Swift became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral.

                            1800

                            Daniel O'Connell made his first public speech, opposing Union with England.

                            1842

                            In the First Afghan War British troops retreating from Kabul were ambushed and nearly all slaughtered in the Khyber Pass. Dr. William Brydon was the only survivor of the 16,000 person retreat from Kabul to reach Jallalabad.

                            1863

                            Thomas Crapper unveiled a flushing toilet.

                            1929

                            Wyatt Earp died in Los Angeles. He was born in Illinois in 1848 and served as a lawman in Tombstone, Arizona with his brothers Morgan and Virgil. There most famous exploit was the Gunfight at the OK Corral along with Doc Holliday.

                            1941

                            James Joyce, died in Zurich.

                            2000

                            A tour guide, cleaning up litter from a Co Kilkenny cave discovered a priceless Viking-age silver treasure-trove.
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                            • Jan 14th

                              1775

                              John Hely-Hutchinson, Provost of Trinity College, fought a duel with William Doyle over a libellous newspaper article. Doyle was sick and had to lean on a crutch to fire his shot. Neither man was injured.

                              1871

                              Alexander Sullivan was born in Dublin. He was the last King's Serjeant of Ireland.

                              Died

                              1916

                              9143 Cpl Patrick Goss. Died of wounds in Mesopotamia, serving with 1st Bn Royal Irish Regt. He was from Killenaule, Co. Tipperary.

                              1951

                              Died in Korea, PFC William Scully from Co. Limerick, serving in 7th Inf Div.
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                              • Jan 15th

                                1535

                                Henry VIII declared himself head of English Church.

                                1559

                                His younger daughter was crowned Queen Elizabeth I in Westminster Abbey.

                                1800

                                The last session of the Irish parliament began.

                                1835

                                Patrick Guiney, soldier and politician, was born in Parkstown, Co. Tipperary.

                                1861

                                Terence Bellew MacManus died in San Francisco. He was one of the 1848 rebels.

                                1923

                                On this date two Free State Army officers, Lieuts Cruise and Kennedy left Clonmel barracks, travelling to Templemore in a motor car. They disappeared on route. In mid April their bodies were found buried in a ditch in a cemetery near Knocklofty, Co. Tipperary. Both had been shot in the head.

                                1929

                                Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He won the Nobel Peace prize in 1964 and was assassinated in 1968.

                                1939

                                The IRA declared war on England.

                                1944

                                The U.S. Fifth Army broke through the German Winter Line in Italy with the capture of Mount Trocchio.

                                1947

                                Actress Elizabeth Short, age 22, was found murdered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. Her body was severed at the waist and drained of blood. Nicknamed the Black Dahlia, her murder remains unsolved despite the fact that 500 hundred men have confessed to the killing.

                                1988

                                Sean McBride died.

                                Died

                                1916

                                Captain Charles Palmer of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Died and was buried in Tramore, Co. Waterford.

                                1923

                                Executed in Roscrea, Co. Tipperary by the Free State Army


                                Volunteer Patrick McNamara. Thurles, Co. Tipperary.
                                Volunteer Martin O'Shea. Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
                                Volunteer Patrick Russell. Summerhill, Co. Tipperary.
                                Volunteer Fred Burke, Co. Tipperary.
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