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1877 In Ireland
Events from the year 1877 in Ireland. Events * May – Sophia Jex-Blake qualifies as a Licentiate of the King’s and Queen’s College of Physicians of Ireland (LKQCPI). * 1 September – the narrow gauge Ballymena and Larne Railway starts operations in County Antrim, from Larne to Ballyclare for goods traffic. * 14 August – National Museum of Ireland established in Dublin. Arts and literature * Percy French, at this time a student at Trinity College Dublin, composes the song "Abdul Abulbul Amir". Sport Births *20 February – T. C. Hammond, Anglican clergyman, Principal of Moore Theological College, Sydney (died 1961). *12 March – Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (died 1927). *17 March – George Gardiner, boxer (died 1954). *2 April – Gus Kelly, cricketer (died 1951). *2 April – Richard Rowley, poet and writer (died 1947). *26 April – Robert Gwynn, cricketer (died 1962). *26 May – Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, feminist, suffragette and writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophia Jex-Blake
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake (21 January 1840 – 7 January 1912) was an English physician, teacher and feminist. She led the campaign to secure women access to a University education when she and six other women, collectively known as the Edinburgh Seven, began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869. She was the first practising female doctor in Scotland, and one of the first in the wider United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; a leading campaigner for medical education for women and was involved in founding two medical schools for women, in London and Edinburgh at a time when no other medical schools were training women. Early life Sophia Jex-Blake was born at 3 Croft Place Hastings, England on 21 January 1840, daughter of retired lawyer Thomas Jex-Blake, a proctor of Doctors' Commons, and Mary Jex-Blake (née Cubitt).Shirley Roberts‘Blake, Sophia Louisa Jex- (1840–1912)’ ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 In Ireland
Events from the year 1927 in Ireland. Incumbents * Governor-General: Tim Healy * President of the Executive Council: W. T. Cosgrave ( CnaG) Events *6 April – Dan Breen proposes a Bill in the Dáil that Article 17 of the Irish Free State Constitution be removed. President W. T. Cosgrave opposes the removal of the Oath of Allegiance to the British Crown. *13 April – delegates at the annual conference of the Farmers' Party reject proposals to merge with Cumann na nGaedheal. *18 April – Celtic Park in Belfast is opened. It is the first greyhound track in Ireland. *20 May – the Intoxicating Liquor Act requires bars to be closed all day on Christmas Day and Good Friday. *4 June – the results of the general election are a hung Dáil, with Fianna Fáil entering the Dáil for the first time and removing Cumann na nGaedheal's majority. *20 June – in a radio broadcast, the leader of Fianna Fáil, Éamon de Valera, says that the results of the general election prove that t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Crean (explorer)
Thomas Crean ( ga, Tomás Ó Cuirín; 16 February 1877 – 27 July 1938) was an Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer who was awarded the Albert Medal for Lifesaving (AM). Crean was a member of three major expeditions to Antarctica during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, including Robert Falcon Scott's 1911–1913 Terra Nova Expedition. This saw the race to reach the South Pole lost to Roald Amundsen and ended in the deaths of Scott and his party. During the expedition, Crean's solo walk across the Ross Ice Shelf to save the life of Edward Evans led to him receiving the Albert Medal. Crean left the family farm near Annascaul, in County Kerry, to enlist in the Royal Navy at age 16. In 1901, while serving on ''Ringarooma'' in New Zealand, he volunteered to join Scott's 1901–1904 Discovery Expedition to Antarctica, thus beginning his exploring career. After his experience on the ''Terra Nova'', Crean's third and final Antarctic venture was as second officer on Ernest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 In Ireland
Events from the year 1950 in Ireland. Incumbents * President: Seán T. O'Kelly * Taoiseach: John A. Costello ( FG) * Tánaiste: William Norton ( Lab) * Minister for Finance: Patrick McGilligan ( FG) * Chief Justice: Conor Maguire * Dáil: 13th * Seanad: 6th Events * March – ESB's turf-fired power station at Portarlington officially opened. * 12 March – Llandow air disaster: 83 people died when a plane carrying Welsh rugby fans home from Belfast crashed in South Wales. * 12 May – Nationalist Senators and Members of Parliament in Northern Ireland asked the government of Ireland to give Northern-elected representatives seats in Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann. * 1 July – Sir Gilbert Laithwaite, hitherto British Representative to Ireland, became the first British Ambassador to Ireland. (Frederick Boland was the first Irish ambassador to the United Kingdom.) * August – Jacqueline Bouvier paid her first visit to Ireland with her step-brother Hugh D. Auchincloss fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Godley, 2nd Baron Kilbracken
Hugh John Godley, 2nd Baron Kilbracken (12 June 1877 – 13 October 1950) was an Irish barrister and nobleman from County Leitrim. Godley was educated as a lawyer, and was appointed a King's Counsel in January 1924. He became counsel to the Lord Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords. Godley succeeded his father as the 2nd Baron Kilbracken in 1932, and he was married to Elizabeth Helen Monteith Hamilton. As a lover of music and good friend of the pianist and composer Donald Tovey he was also a committee member in the London ''Classical Concert Society'' around 1913. He was succeeded by his son John John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Secon ... to the barony upon his death in 1950. References Kilbracken Kilbracken Kilbracken, Hugh Godley, 2nd Baron Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1946 In Ireland
Events from the year 1946 in Ireland. Incumbents * President: Seán T. O'Kelly * Taoiseach: Éamon de Valera ( FF) * Tánaiste: Seán Lemass ( FF) * Minister for Finance: Frank Aiken ( FF) * Chief Justice: ** Timothy Sullivan (until 1 June 1946) ** Conor Maguire (from 1 June 1946) * Dáil: 12th * Seanad: 5th Events *3 January – William Joyce, alias Lord Haw Haw, is hanged in Wandsworth Prison for treason. *7 January – the Minister for Education, Thomas Derrig, announces that because refugee children who arrived in Ireland during the war do not have a sufficient knowledge of the Irish language they cannot obtain the Leaving Certificate. *21 January – work starts on a comprehensive Irish-English dictionary. *4 February – it is announced that George Bernard Shaw is to be awarded the freedom of Dublin. *17 June – Aer Lingus inaugurates a Dublin-Paris air service. *6 July – a new republican political party, Clann na Poblachta, is formed in Dublin. *25 July – Éam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington
Johanna Mary Sheehy Skeffington (née Sheehy; 24 May 1877 – 20 April 1946) was a suffragette and Irish nationalist. Along with her husband Francis Sheehy Skeffington, Margaret Cousins and James Cousins, she founded the Irish Women's Franchise League in 1908 with the aim of obtaining women's voting rights. She was later a founding member of the Irish Women Workers' Union. Her son Owen Sheehy-Skeffington became a politician and Irish senator. Early life Hanna Sheehy was born in Kanturk, County Cork, Ireland, the daughter of Elizabeth "Bessie" McCoy and David Sheehy, an ex-Fenian and an MP for the Irish Parliamentary Party, representing South Galway. Hanna spent her earliest years in a millhouse which her father also grew up in. When Hanna was three years old the family relocated to Loughmore, Tipperary. Hanna had six siblings, one of whom died at an unknown age; there is very little written about this child. Her siblings were Margaret, born 1875; Eugene, born 1882; Richar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 In Ireland
Events in the year 1962 in Ireland. Incumbents * President: Éamon de Valera * Taoiseach: Seán Lemass ( FF) * Tánaiste: Seán MacEntee ( FF) * Minister for Finance: James Ryan ( FF) * Chief Justice: Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh * Dáil: 17th * Seanad: 10th Events * 26 February – The Irish Republican Army officially called off its Border Campaign in Northern Ireland.''The United Irishman'' March 1962 p. 1. * 13 March – Irish artists left Dublin Airport for the Congo to entertain United Nations troops there. * 17 March – President Éamon de Valera and Mrs. Sinéad de Valera had a private audience with Pope John XXIII in Rome. * 5 April – A final train ran on the west Cork railway. * 8 May – Irish troops left for a peace-keeping mission in the Congo. * 6 July – Gay Byrne presented the first edition of '' The Late Late Show'' television programme on RTÉ. Byrne went on to present the show for 37 years, the longest period through which anyone hosted a televised ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Gwynn
Robert Malcolm Gwynn (26 April 1877 – 25 June 1962) was a Church of Ireland clergyman and academic whose entire working life was spent at Trinity College Dublin. In his youth he was also an outstanding cricketer. Several of Robin Gwynn's close kin were also noted cricketers. His brother John played first-class cricket in India, whilst two further brothers (Lucius and Arthur Arthur is a common male given name of Brythonic origin. Its popularity derives from it being the name of the legendary hero King Arthur. The etymology is disputed. It may derive from the Celtic ''Artos'' meaning “Bear”. Another theory, more wi ...) also represented Ireland, as did his cousin Donough O'Brien. His nephew John David Gwynn also played for Dublin University. Photographs D U XI 1895.jpg, The 1895 team showing Lucius Gwynn (captain, seated centre), Arthur Gwynn (back row centre), Robin Gwynn (back row right) D U XI 1898.jpg, The 1898 team with Robin Gwynn (centre) as captain Rev Rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1947 In Northern Ireland
Events during the year 1947 in Northern Ireland. Incumbents * Governor - Earl Granville * Prime Minister - Basil Brooke Events *22 April – British Royal Navy aircraft carrier (laid down 1944) is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. *11 August – The Enterprise express train service commences from Belfast to Dublin. *The "bad winter" seen snow reach heights of 30 feet, lasting until May-June from the winter period. Arts and literature Sport Football * Irish League ::Winners: Belfast Celtic *Irish Cup ::Winners: Belfast Celtic 1 – 0 Glentoran GAA * Cavan defeat Antrim 3-04 to 1–06 to win the Ulster Senior Football Championship. * Cavan subsequently defeat Kerry 2–11 to 2–07 in New York City to win the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. Golf *Fred Daly wins The Open Championship at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake. *Fred Daly plays in the Ryder Cup. Swimming *27–28 July – English endurance swimmer Tom Blower becomes the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Rowley (writer)
Richard Rowley was the pseudonym of Richard Valentine Williams (2 April 1877 – 25 April 1947), born at 79 Dublin Road, Belfast, Ireland, who wrote poetry, plays and stories. Early life At the age of 16 he entered the family firm, McBride and Williams, which manufactured cotton handkerchiefs and eventually became its managing director. After the collapse of the company in 1931 he was Chairman of the Northern Ireland Unemployment Assistance Board. His early poems, in ''The City of Refuge'' (1917), were rhetorical celebrations of industry. His next volume, ''City Songs and Others'' (1918), included his most quoted poem ''The Islandmen'', and is regarded as containing his most original work: " Browning-like monologues straight from the mouths of Belfast's working-class." Later life He moved to Newcastle, County Down. He also wrote short stories: ''Tales of Mourne'' (1937), as well as at least one highly successful play, ''Apollo In Mourne'' (1926). During World War II, Rowley foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 In Ireland
Events from the year 1951 in Ireland. Incumbents * President: Seán T. O'Kelly * Taoiseach: ** John A. Costello ( FG) (until 13 June 1951) ** Éamon de Valera ( FF) (from 13 June 1951) * Tánaiste: ** William Norton ( Lab) (until 13 June 1951) ** Seán Lemass ( FF) (from 13 June 1951) * Minister for Finance: ** Patrick McGilligan ( FG) (until 13 June 1951) ** Seán MacEntee ( FF) (from 13 June 1951) * Chief Justice: Conor Maguire * Dáil: ** 13th (until 7 May 1951) ** 14th (from 13 June 1951) * Seanad: ** 6th (until 25 July 1951) ** 7th (from 14 August 1951) Events *2 February – Éamon de Valera visited Newry for the first time since his arrest there in 1924. *11 April – Minister for Health Noel Browne resigned and his Mother and Child Scheme was overturned. *19 April – The Attorney General for Northern Ireland, Ed Warnock, referring to the Noel Browne's resignation, said that ''Ireland is really ruled by Maynooth.'' *24 May – Gardaí exchanged shots with two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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