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1837 In Ireland
Events from the year 1837 in Ireland. Events * Shaw's Bank merges with the Royal Bank of Ireland (later to become one of the Allied Irish Banks). * 8 April - Low-water mark datum measured at Poolbeg Lighthouse by the Ordnance Survey. * August – following a very cold summer there is widespread failure of the potato crop, as in 1836, leading to famine later in the year. * 18 August – the Roman Catholic Tuam Cathedral is dedicated. * 4 September – , badly damaged during an Arctic expedition, is beached at Lough Swilly to save her. Arts and literature * February – Charles Lever begins publishing his fictional ''The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer'' in ''Dublin University Magazine''. * Thomas Crofton Croker publishes ''Popular Songs of Ireland''. * Tyrone Power stages and acts in the Irish-themed plays ''St. Patrick's Eve'' (written by himself) and ''Rory O'More'' (adapted from Samuel Lover's novel). Births *16 March – Frederick Wolseley, inventor of the sheep shearing machi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Bank Of Ireland
Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. is one of the so-called Big Four commercial banks in Ireland. AIB offers a full range of personal, business and corporate banking services. The bank also offers a range of general insurance products such as home, travel and car. It offers life assurance and pensions through its tied agency with Irish Life Assurance plc. In December 2010 the Irish government took a majority stake in the bank, which eventually grew to 99.8%. AIB's shares are currently traded on the Irish Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange, but its shares were delisted from these exchanges between 2011 and 2017, following its effective nationalisation. The remainder of its publicly traded shares were listed on the Enterprise Securities Market of the Irish Stock Exchange until 23 June 2017. AIB also owns Allied Irish Bank (GB) in Great Britain and AIB (NI) in Northern Ireland. In November 2010, it sold its 22.5% stake in M&T Bank in the United States. At the beginning of 2008 A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1899 In The United Kingdom
Events from the year 1899 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents * Monarch – Victoria * Prime Minister – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury ( Coalition) * Parliament – 26th '1899 Events * 6 January – Lord Curzon becomes Viceroy of India. * 12–13 January – the Lynmouth life-boat ''Louisa'' is launched from Porlock Weir, entailing being hauled overland for with a climb of across Exmoor, to save the crew of the ''Forrest Hall'' in the Bristol Channel. * 25 February – in an accident at Grove Hill, Harrow, Edwin Sewell becomes the world's first driver of a petrol-driven vehicle to be killed; his passenger, Maj. James Richer, dies of injuries three days later. * 9 March – Charles C. Wakefield begins the lubricating oil company which will become Castrol. * 17 March – the world's first wireless distress signal is sent to the East Goodwin light vessel when German cargo ship ''Elbe'' runs aground in fog on Goodwin Sands off the Kent coast, bringing assis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Brenan
James Brenan (1837 – 7 August 1907) was an Irish artist. Career Brenan was among the most popular painters of nineteenth-century Ireland. He travelled to London where he studied decorative arts under Ownen Jones and Matthew Digby Wyatt. He became headmaster of the Cork School of Art in 1860 and began working with the Royal Hibernian Academy a year later. Brenan was appointed headmaster of the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in 1889. Among those he taught were Henry Jones Thaddeus and William Orpen Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, (27 November 1878 – 29 September 1931) was an Irish artist who worked mainly in London. Orpen was a fine draughtsman and a popular, commercially successful painter of portraits for the well-to-do in .... Brenan also introduced design classes to develop and advance the lace-making industry and other crafts. Brenan at Artsedge Ireland. Oct. 02, 2007. External linksBrenan at Arts Edge Ireland References 1808 births 1895 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AFL–CIO
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) is the largest federation of unions in the United States. It is made up of 56 national and international unions, together representing more than 12 million active and retired workers. The AFL–CIO engages in substantial political spending and activism, typically in support of progressive and pro-labor policies. The AFL–CIO was formed in 1955 when the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged after a long estrangement. Union membership in the US peaked in 1979, when the AFL–CIO's affiliated unions had nearly twenty million members. From 1955 until 2005, the AFL–CIO's member unions represented nearly all unionized workers in the United States. Several large unions split away from AFL–CIO and formed the rival Change to Win Federation in 2005, although a number of those unions have since re-affiliated, and many locals of Change to Win are either part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930 In The United States
Events from the year 1930 in the United States. Incumbents Federal Government * President: Herbert Hoover ( R-California) * Vice President: Charles Curtis ( R-Kansas) * Chief Justice: William Howard Taft (Ohio) (until February 3), Charles Evans Hughes ( New York) (starting February 13) * Speaker of the House of Representatives: Nicholas Longworth ( R-Ohio) * Senate Majority Leader: James Eli Watson ( R-Indiana) * Congress: 71st Events January–March * January 6 **The first diesel engine automobile trip is completed ( Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City). **The first literary character licensing agreement is signed by A. A. Milne, granting Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works. * January 13 – The ''Mickey Mouse'' comic strip makes its first appearance. * January 19–23 – Watsonville riots * February ** Bacterol Products Company located in New York City is incorporated. * February 18 **Elm Farm Ollie becomes th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mother Jones
Mary G. Harris Jones (1837 (baptized) – November 30, 1930), known as Mother Jones from 1897 onwards, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World. After Jones's husband and four children all died of yellow fever in 1867 and her dress shop was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, she became an organizer for the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers union. In 1902, she was called "the most dangerous woman in America" for her success in organizing mine workers and their families against the mine owners. In 1903, to protest the lax enforcement of the child labor laws in the Pennsylvania mines and silk mills, she organized a children's march from Philadelphia to the home of President Theodore Roosevelt in New York. Early life Mary G. Harris was born on the north side of Cork, the daughter o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1921 In Ireland
Events from the year 1921 in Ireland. Events *1 February **Captain Con Murphy from near Millstreet, County Cork is executed by British authorities, the first man to be executed in front of a firing squad since the 1916 Rising. **The Irish White Cross is established to distribute funds raised by the American Committee for Relief in Ireland. *4 February – Irish War of Independence: Irish Republican Army sets fire to Summerhill House in County Meath, destroying it. *5 February – in Brighton, England, the widow of Charles Stewart Parnell, Katherine Parnell, dies aged 76. *5 March – Irish War of Independence: Clonbanin Ambush: Irish Republican Army kills Brigadier General Cumming. *16–17 March – Irish War of Independence: Irish Republican Army kills two Royal Irish Constabulary constables in Clifden; Black and Tans, called in, kill one civilian, seriously injure another, burn 14 houses and damage several others. *19 March – Irish War of Independence: Crossbarry Ambush: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ashlin
George Coppinger Ashlin (28 May 1837 – 10 December 1921) was an Irish architect, particularly noted for his work on churches and cathedrals, and who became President of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Biography Ashlin was born in Ireland on 28 May 1837, the son of J. M. Ashlin, J.P. He was educated at St Mary's College, Oscott; and subsequently was a pupil of Edward Welby Pugin, whose partner he became in Ireland from 1860 to 1868. He was the architect of Queenstown Cathedral in Cobh, County Cork, and of fifty other churches dotted about Ireland. He also built Portrane Asylum at a cost of £300,000. He was a Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy and Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. In 1867 he married Mary Pugin (1844-1933), daughter of Augustus Welby Pugin, the Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic revivalist. Work *The Church of the Assumption, Gowran, County Kilkenny *Adelaide Memorial Church, Myshall *Saints Peter and Paul's Church, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 In The United States
Events from the year 1917 in the United States Incumbents Federal Government * President: Woodrow Wilson ( D-New Jersey) * Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall ( D-Indiana) * Chief Justice: Edward Douglass White (Louisiana) * Speaker of the House of Representatives: Champ Clark ( D-Missouri) * Congress: 64th (until March 4), 65th (starting March 4) Events January–March * January 1 – The University of Oregon defeats the University of Pennsylvania 14–0 in college football's 3rd Annual Rose Bowl. * January 10 – The Silent Sentinels begin their protest in favor of women's suffrage in front of the White House. * January 11 – German saboteurs set off the Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland, New Jersey (modern-day Lyndhurst), one of the events leading to U.S. involvement in World War I. * January 22 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe. * January 25 **The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McDonald (Maryland Politician)
John McDonald (May 24, 1837 – January 30, 1917) was an American soldier and politician. Born in Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland, McDonald attended local schools. He immigrated to the United States and enlisted in the United States Army at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1857. He joined his regiment in Arizona, and served in the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac throughout the American Civil War. After the war, McDonald was ordered to the West, where he again took part in several campaigns against Native Americans. He retired as a captain of Cavalry on July 1, 1868, for disabilities incurred in the line of service. After his retirement from the military, McDonald settled in Maryland and was elected as a Republican to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1881. He was later elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, and served from March 4, 1897, to March 3, 1899. He engaged in agricultural pursuits near Potomac, Maryland, and died in Rockville, Maryland Rockville is a city that serves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 In The United States
Events from the year 1903 in the United States. Incumbents Federal Government * President: Theodore Roosevelt ( R-New York) * Vice President: ''vacant'' * Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (Illinois) * Speaker of the House of Representatives: David B. Henderson ( R-Iowa) (until March 4), Joseph Gurney Cannon ( R-Illinois) (starting November 9) * Congress: 57th (until March 4), 58th (starting March 4) Events January–March * January 19 – The first west-east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east-west broadcast having been made in December 1901). * January 21 – Section of Militia Affairs within the Adjutant General's office. * February 11 – The Oxnard Strike of 1903 becomes the first time in U.S. history that a labor union is formed from members of different races. * February 14 **Census Board within the Department of Commerce and Labor ( Census Bureau). ** Department of Commerce and Labor founded **U.S. Coast and G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York (state)
New York, officially the State of New York, is a state in the Northeastern United States. It is often called New York State to distinguish it from its largest city, New York City. With a total area of , New York is the 27th-largest U.S. state by area. With 20.2 million people, it is the fourth-most-populous state in the United States as of 2021, with approximately 44% living in New York City, including 25% of the state's population within Brooklyn and Queens, and another 15% on the remainder of Long Island, the most populous island in the United States. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east; it has a maritime border with Rhode Island, east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the north and Ontario to the northwest. New York City (NYC) is the most populous city in the United States, and around two-thirds of the state's popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
