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#OTD in 1922 – De Valera and Collins agree to a pact whereby a national coalition panel of candidates will represent the pro- and anti-Treaty wings of Sinn Féin throughout Ireland in the forthcoming general election.
#OTD in 1922 – De Valera and Collins agree to a pact whereby a national coalition panel of candidates will represent the pro- and anti-Treaty wings of Sinn Féin throughout Ireland in the forthcoming general election.
As in the Irish elections, 1921 in the south, Sinn Féin stood one candidate for every seat, except those for the University of Dublin and one other; the treaty had divided the party between 65 pro-treaty candidates, 57 anti-treaty and 1 nominally on both sides. Unlike the elections a year earlier, other parties stood in most constituencies forcing single transferable vote elections, with Sinn…
#OTD in Irish History | 20 May:
#OTD in Irish History | 20 May:
1311 – The war of the O’Briens of Thomond escalates as the Norman-Irish become involved on both sides: the de Burghs support Dermot O’Brien and Richard de Clare supports Donough O’Brien. There is a pitched battle at Bunratty on this date, with heavy losses on both sides; de Burgh and others are imprisoned.
1648 – Truce between the confederates and Inchiquin; its adherents are excommunicated by…
#OTD in Irish History | 19 May:
#OTD in Irish History | 19 May:
1660 – An Act by the British Parliament forbids the export of Irish wool.
1710 – John Forster is unanimously elected Speaker of the House of Commons, replacing Alan Brodrick.
1769 – Just ten years after Guinness is first brewed in St. James Gate, Dublin, the beautiful magic brew is first exported from Ireland. Six and a half barrels left for England.
1798 – Lord Edward Fitzgerald, a leader of the…
#OTD in Irish History | 18 May:
#OTD in Irish History | 18 May:
1401 – John de Stanley is told that he is to be replaced as lieutenant by Thomas of Lancaster (duke of Clarence and second son of Henry IV), who is 12 or 13 years old. Lancaster’s deputy, Sir Stephen le Scrope, will effectively govern Ireland for the next few years.
1613 – James I’s Irish parliament opens in Dublin.
1798 – The 2nd Earl of Kingston is tried amid great pomp by the Irish House of…
#OTD in 1923 – Frank Aiken orders the Anti-Treaty fighters to “dump their arms” and return home.
#OTD in 1923 – Frank Aiken orders the Anti-Treaty fighters to “dump their arms” and return home.
After General Liam Lynch was shot by Free State soldiers in the Knockmealdown Mountains and died later that evening in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, many historians see his death as the effective end of the Civil War, as the new IRA chief of staff Frank Aiken declared a ceasefire on 30 April and on 24 May ordered IRA Volunteers to dump their arms and return to their homes. Coincidentally the Good Friday…
#OTD in Irish History | 24 May:
#OTD in Irish History | 24 May:
1487 – Lambert Simnel (aged 10), the Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is brought to Ireland. It is claimed that he is Edward, Earl of Warwick (Clarence’s son), but in fact, he is a baker’s son – the real Warwick is a prisoner in the Tower of London and will be executed in 1499. Most of the Anglo-Irish believe that Simnel’s claim is genuine and support him (exceptions are the Butlers,…
#OTD in Irish History | 22 May:
#OTD in Irish History | 22 May:
1748 – Birth of landscape painter, Thomas Roberts in Co Waterford.
1805 – Michael Doheny, poet and Young Irelander, is born near Fethard, Co Tipperary.
1849 – Novelist, Maria Edgeworth, dies in Mostrim, Co Longford. She is laid to rest in a vault at Edgeworthstown Church. Even though in her late seventies, she worked strenuously for the relief of the stricken peasants at the height of An Gorta…
