Willie john MC bride, ireland and lions rugby captain, is born in toomebridge, co. antrim

June 6th, 1940

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Caitlin Maude, Irish language activist dies.

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Birth of Dame Ninette de Valois, Wicklow, born founder of the Royal Ballet

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In Liverpool, Mayo native-son and hero, Michael Davitt, advocates land nationalization in preference to peasant proprietorship

June 06, 1882

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Birth of William Thomas Cosgrave , Irish statesman and father of Liam Cosgrave*. A member of Sinn Féin, he fought in the Easter Rebellion and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Freed a year later, he was elected to the British Parliament in 1918 but pro

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Joseph Shanahan, missionary bishop in Africa, is born near Templederry, Co. Tipperary

June 06, 1871

calendar 1821

F. an Uhel, Breton writer and ethnologist was born

June 06, 1821

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Ordination of the first priests at St Patricks College, Maynooth. The college was founded in 1795 as the National Seminary for Ireland

June 06, 1800

calendar 1798

General Needham reaches Arklow in Co. Wexford and immediately begins digging trenches

June 06, 1798

calendar 1798

Rebellion breaks out in Ulster - Henry Joy McCracken issues proclamation calling United Irishmen in Ulster to arms

June 06, 1798

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Edmund Butler, 11th Viscount Mountgarret and former MP for Co. Kilkenny, fights a duel with a Counsellor Bushe during which Bushe is seriously injured in the stomach

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William Simms, a founder and secretary of the United Irishmen, is born

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