january 28th

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History

The Emergency Powers Act provides for the censorship of press messages to places outside the Free State

January 28, 1941

History

William Butler Yeats, Irish poet, dies

January 28, 1939

History

Jimmy Shand, Scottish country dance band leader, born

January, 28 1908

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David Mary Tidmarsh , WWI Ace, born in Limerick

January 28, 1892

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George Fitzmaurice, Irish Renaissance playwright, is born

January 28, 1877

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Patrick Malley is killed by his son William Malley at Calla

January 28, 1873

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Louis Brennan, inventor, is born in Castlebar, Co. Mayo

January 28, 1852

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William Burke, murderer and body snatcher of Burke and Hare fame, executed

January 28, 1829

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The Iberno-Celtic Society is founded to preserve and publish the best ancient Irish literature

January 28, 1818

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Sir Robert McClure, polar explorer and discoverer of the North-West Passage, born in Co. Wexford

January 28, 1807

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By charter, the Irish Academy becomes the Royal Irish Academy

January 28, 1786

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Clotworthy Skeffington, 2nd Earl of Massereene, is born in Co. Antrim

January 28, 1742

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The City of London and the Irish Society of London are found guilty of mismanagement and neglect

January 28, 1635

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The crown and the Irish Society of London, agree to carry out the plantation of Derry, Coleraine and part of Tyrone

January 28, 1610