On 26 June 1991 the convictions of the ‘Maguire Seven’ were quashed by the Court of Appeal in London. The seven had been convicted of supplying the bombs that were used in Guildford and Woolwich. This was the latest in a series of high profile cases of miscarriage of justice involving Irish people living in England. Patrick Maguire, one of the seven, was just 13 when he was arrested.
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#IrishHistory Podcast: Banned: The Hidden History of Contraception in #Ireland (Listener Favourite)
https://shows.acast.com/irishhistory/episodes/banned-the-hidden-history-of-contraception-in-ireland-listen
Ernest Walton died on 25 June 1995 in Belfast. Born in Dungarvan, Co Waterford, he was a physicist and Nobel laureate for his work with John Cockcroft with “atom-smashing” experiments done at Cambridge University in the early 1930s, and so became the first person in history to artificially split the atom.
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Tone died in 1798 in advance of his scheduled execution, probably, as modern scholars generally believe, by his own hand. 2/2
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The #IrishHistory Show: 111 Clear Hold Build
https://irishhistoryshow.ie/111-clear-hold-bold/
Another fascinating Free State podcast from Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning. This time with historian Padraic X Scanlan from University of Toronto about the Great Hunger/An Gorta Mór. Well worth a listen for anyone interested in Irish/Imperialist history.
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On 13 June 1988 the Molly Malone statue on Grafton Street was unveiled by then-Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alderman Ben Briscoe during the 1988 Dublin Millennium celebrations. The mayor declared 13 June as Molly Malone Day. The statue became known by Dubliners as "The tart with the cart".
On 13 June 1912 Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and a group of suffragettes smashed windows in Dublin Castle to highlight the cause of women’s right to vote. It was an offence for which she would spent a month in prison.
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William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount in County Dublin on 13 June 1865. He was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer. One of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, he was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. In December 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation".
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Frank Ryan (Proinsias Ó Riain), who was born in Elton, County Limerick, died in Dresden, Germany. He fought in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side. He was imprisoned by the Spanish but then he was handed over to the Germans in 1940. His spent the next four years in Germany where his actions and motivations remain murky.
A very interesting podcast by the Irish History Show on the economic war between Ireland and Britain between 1932 to 1938. The parallels with modern times are fascinating.
https://irishhistoryshow.ie/109-the-economic-war/
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Christy Brown was born on 5 June 1932 in Crumlin, Dublin. He had 22 siblings of whom 9 died in infancy. He was an Irish writer and painter who had cerebral palsy and was able to write or type only with the toes of one foot.
His most recognised work is an autobiography, My Left Foot (1954). It was later made into a 1989 film of the same name, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Brown.
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Following the defeat of the Easter Rising and the arrest of the majority of its leaders, he was taken to Kilmainham Gaol and executed by firing squad for his part in its proceedings. 2/2
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James Connolly (Séamas Ó Conghaile) was born on 5 June 1868 to Irish parents in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, Connolly left school for working life at the age of 11, and became involved in socialist politics in the 1880s.
He opposed British rule in Ireland, and was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916, commanding the Irish Citizen Army throughout.
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