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1873 In Ireland
Events from the year 1873 in Ireland. Events *February – Irish Home Rule Movement: Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain founded in Manchester. *March – Gladstone's Irish University Bill defeated in the House of Commons. *May 4 – the Roman Catholic St Eugene's Cathedral, Derry, is dedicated. *November 18–21 – Irish Home Rule Movement: The Home Government Association reconstitutes itself as the Home Rule League. Arts and literature Sport * October – foundation of County Carlow Football Club, Rugby Union Club Births *9 January – John Flanagan, three-time Olympic gold medalist in the hammer throw (died 1938). *17 January – T. C. Murray, dramatist (died 1959). *27 January – Alexander Young, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 at Ruiterskraal, South Africa, killed in action (died 1916). *1 February – John Barry, soldier, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 at Monument Hill, South Africa (died 1901). * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Home Rule Movement
The Irish Home Rule movement was a movement that campaigned for self-government (or "home rule") for Ireland within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It was the dominant political movement of Irish nationalism from 1870 to the end of World War I. Isaac Butt founded the Home Government Association in 1870. This was succeeded in 1873 by the Home Rule League, and in 1882 by the Irish Parliamentary Party. These organisations campaigned for home rule in the British House of Commons. Under the leadership of Charles Stewart Parnell, the movement came close to success when the Liberal government of William Ewart Gladstone introduced the First Home Rule Bill in 1886, but the bill was defeated in the House of Commons after a split in the Liberal Party. After Parnell's death, Gladstone introduced the Second Home Rule Bill in 1893; it passed the Commons but was defeated in the House of Lords. After the removal of the Lords' veto in 1911, the Third Home Rule Bill was introd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Barry (VC)
John Barry, VC (1 February 1873 – 8 January 1901) born St Mary's parish, Kilkenny, Ireland, was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Barry was 27 years old, and a private in the 1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment, British Army during the Second Boer War when the following deed took place on 7/8 January 1901 at Monument Hill, South Africa, for which he was (posthumously) awarded the VC: His VC is on display at the Lord Ashcroft Gallery in the Imperial War Museum, London. References Listed in order of publication year *The Register of the Victoria Cross (1981, 1988 and 1997) * *Ireland's VCs (Dept of Economic Development 1995) *Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999) *Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross List of Irish Victoria Cross recipients lists all recipients of the Victoria Cross (post-nominal letters "VC") born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood, Los Angeles
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the Central Los Angeles, central region of Los Angeles, California. Its name has come to be a metonymy, shorthand reference for the Cinema of the United States, U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios, such as Columbia Pictures, Walt Disney Studios (division), Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures, are located near or in Hollywood. Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was Merger (politics), consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910. Soon thereafter a prominent film industry emerged, having developed first on the East Coast. Eventually it became the most recognizable in the world. History Initial development H.J. Whitley, a real estate developer, arranged to buy the E.C. Hurd ranch. They agreed on a price and shook hands on the deal. Whitley shared his plans for the new town with General Harrison Gray Otis (publisher), Harrison Gray Otis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1902 In Ireland
Events in the year 1902 in Ireland. Events * 2 January – The South Irish Horse cavalry was formed as the South of Ireland Imperial Yeomanry. * 7 January – Waterford Corporation passed a motion to confer the freedom of the city on John Redmond. * 8 January – The Great National Convention took place in the Round Room of the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin. Motions were passed regarding coercion, the Irish language and evicted tenants. * 2 April – John Redmond was awarded the freedom of the City of Dublin. * Spring to autumn – The Cork International Exhibition (1902) was held. * 22 May – The White Star Liner SS ''Ionic'' was launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast. * 2 June – The centenary of the Congregation of Christian Brothers was celebrated with High Mass in the Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago. * 22 July – Thomas Croke died at the age of 78 in Thurles. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel since 1875, he was the first patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association and a sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucius Gwynn
Lucius Henry Gwynn (5 May 1873 – 23 December 1902) was an Irish academic and sportsman who was noted for his prowess in both rugby union football and cricket. Life Lucius Gwynn was one member of a family well known in the Dublin of his time for its academic and sporting achievements. He was the fourth son of the Very Rev John Gwynn, Regius Professor of Divinity at Dublin University, and Lucy Josephine, daughter of the Irish patriot William Smith O'Brien. He and his three immediate younger brothers Arthur, Robin and Jack all in turn captained their school and university cricket teams and played the game at first class level. Lucius was also a talented rugby player. Lucius Gwynn's academic career outshone even his sporting achievements. He entered Trinity College Dublin as a foundation Scholar and achieved a double first in his degree finals. In 1899 he was elected a Fellow of Trinity College and commenced what promised to be a distinguished academic career. In 1901 he marri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 In Ireland
Events from the year 1923 in Ireland. Incumbents * Governor-General: Tim Healy * President of the Executive Council: W. T. Cosgrave ( CnaG) Events *10 January – an order is signed creating the Revenue Commissioners. *13 January – Beechpark, the residence of President W. T. Cosgrave in Dublin, is set on fire. *16 January – Provisional Government of Ireland takes office. *22 January – the Minister for Education, Eoin MacNeill, announces that Irish is to become a subject for examination in the Civil Service. *18 February – an amnesty for IRA Irregulars expires on this day. It was introduced by the Minister for Home Affairs, Kevin O'Higgins. *1 April – the Provisional Government establishes customs posts on the border with Northern Ireland. *11 April – Liam Lynch, Chief of Staff of the Irregulars, is wounded and captured by the Free State's National Army in the Knockmealdown Mountains. His subsequent death in Clonmel is also announced by the army. *14 April – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Crean
Major Dr. Thomas Joseph Crean, (19 April 1873 – 25 March 1923) was an Irish rugby union player, British Army soldier and physician, doctor. During the Second Boer War, while serving with the Imperial Light Horse, he was awarded the Victoria Cross. In 1902, he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Royal College of Surgeons. During the First World War he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. Crean played rugby for Leinster Rugby, Leinster, Ireland national rugby union team, Ireland and the British and Irish Lions, British Isles. In 1894 Home Nations Championship, 1894, he was a member of the first Ireland team to win both a Six Nations Championship, Home Nations Championship and a Triple Crown (rugby union), Triple Crown. Then in 1896 Home Nations Championship, 1896 he helped Ireland win their second Home Nations title. He is one of three Ireland rugby union internationals to have been awarde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949 In Northern Ireland
Events during the year 1949 in Northern Ireland. Incumbents * Governor - Earl Granville * Prime Minister - Basil Brooke Events *17 April – At midnight 26 counties officially leave the British Commonwealth under terms of the Republic of Ireland Act 1948. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland. *3 May – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Ireland Act guaranteeing the position of Northern Ireland as part of the United Kingdom as long as a majority of its citizens want it to be. The government also recognises the existence of the Republic of Ireland. *10 May – An Oireachtas motion calls a "Protest Against Partition" because of the UK's Ireland Act provisions. *13 May – John A. Costello, Éamon de Valera, William Norton and Seán MacBride share a platform to protest the British government's attitude to the constitutional status of Northern Ireland. *25 May – The Princess Elizabeth and The Duke of Edinburgh receiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lyle
William Lyle (30 March 1871 – 2 August 1949) was a Northern Irish medical doctor and Ulster Unionist Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland for a few years in his 70s. Career Lyle was a graduate of Queen's University Belfast who became a medical Officer for Newtownstewart in County Tyrone. A member of Tyrone County Council, he stood as the Ulster Unionist candidate at a by-election on 19 October 1942 for the Queen's University of Belfast constituency, and was elected unopposed. He was sworn in on 27 October 1942. On 15 December 1942, the Commons debated a motion proposed by Lyle for the creation of a dedicated Ministry of Health, in view of the sweeping changes needed to implement the recently-published Beveridge Report. He used the debate to attack the Minister of Home Affairs, Dawson Bates, whose brief included health. Bates had held the office since the foundation of Northern Ireland 21 years earlier, but Northern Ireland had seen no new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 In Ireland
Events from the year 1958 in Ireland. Incumbents * President: Seán T. O'Kelly * Taoiseach: Éamon de Valera ( FF) * Tánaiste: Seán Lemass ( FF) * Minister for Finance: James Ryan ( FF) * Chief Justice: Conor Maguire * Dáil: 16th * Seanad: 9th Events *6 February – Billy Whelan, a 22-year-old forward who played four times for the Irish national football team, was among 21 people killed in the Munich air disaster involving English football league champions Manchester United. He had played nearly 100 times for United in the space of three years, scoring 52 goals and winning two league titles. *18 March – Taoiseach Éamon de Valera said he would be willing to have talks with the government of Northern Ireland on wider economic co-operation. *20 March – Work began on the £80,000 restoration of the State Rooms at Dublin Castle. *10 May – The Independent TD, Jack Murphy, resigned in protest at the indifference of the main political parties to the plight of the un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seanchaí
A seanchaí ( or – plural: ) is a traditional Gaelic storyteller/historian. In Scottish Gaelic the word is (; plural ). The word is often anglicised as shanachie ( ). The word ''seanchaí'', which was spelled ''seanchaidhe'' (plural ''seanchaidhthe'') before the Irish-language spelling reform of 1948, means a bearer of "old lore" (''seanchas''). In the Gaelic culture, long lyric poems which were recited by bards (''filí''; ''filidhe'' in the original pre-1948 spelling) in a tradition echoed by the ''seanchaithe''. Traditional art ''Seanchaithe'' were servants to the heads of the lineages and kept track of important information for them: laws, genealogies, annals, literature, etc. After the destruction of Gaelic civilization in the 1600s as a result of the English conquests, these more formal roles ceased to exist and the term ''seanchaí'' came to be associated instead with traditional storytellers from the lower classes. The ''seanchaithe'' made use of a range of story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peig Sayers
Máiréad "Peig" Sayers (; 29 March 18738 December 1958) was an Irish author and seanchaí ( or – plural: ) born in Dún Chaoin, County Kerry, Ireland. Seán Ó Súilleabháin, the former Chief archivist for the Irish Folklore Commission, described her as "one of the greatest woman storytellers of recent times".Sean O'Sullivan, "Folktales of Ireland," pages 270–271: "The narrator, Peig Sayers, who died on 8 December 1958, was one of the greatest storytellers of recent times. Some of her tales were recorded on the Ediphone in the late 'twenties by Dr. Robin Flower, Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, and again by Seosamh Ó Dálaigh twenty years later." Biography She was born Máiréad Sayers in the townland of Vicarstown, Dunquin, County Kerry, the youngest child of the family. She was called Peig after her mother, Margaret "Peig" Brosnan, from Castleisland. Her father Tomás Sayers was a renowned storyteller who passed on many of his tales to Peig. At the age o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
