june 6th

Total results: 17

History

Caitlin Maude, Irish language activist dies.

June 06, 1982

History

Willie John McBride, Ireland and Lions rugby captain, is born in Toomebridge, Co. Antrim

June 06, 1940

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Birth in Dublin of Patrick Campbell, author and broadcaster; he wrote sixteen books, including Life in Thin Slices, Rough Husbandry and How to Become a Scratch Golfer (he was one himself)

June 06, 1913

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

June 06, 1898

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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

June 06, 1880

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

June 06, 1871

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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

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

June 06, 1798

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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

June 06, 1790

History

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

June 06, 1763

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John Scott, Earl of Clonmel; Copper-Faced Jack; Chief Justice, is born in Co. Tipperary

June 06, 1739

History

Red Hugh ODonnell, son of the Earl of Tyrconnell makes a dramatic escape from the Record Tower and returns to Co. Donegal and the leadership of his Clan

June 06, 1592

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Treaty of Edinburgh between France and England, recognizing sovereignty of Mary Queen of Scots and her first husband Francis II.

June 06, 1560

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William de Burgh, Earl of Ulster -the Brown Earl-is assassinated by his own knights, John de Logan and two of the de Mandevilles, at Le Ford, Belfast. The background is one of intrigue among Norman-Irish lords

June 06, 1333