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The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR) was established by treaty between the United Kingdom Government and the Government of Ireland, made on 27 April 1999 in connection with the affairs of Northern Ireland, in order to locate 16 missing Irish and British people presumed murdered during The Troubles. [1]
15 May – Irish Oak (Irish Shipping) torpedoed and sunk by U-607, 700 miles west of Ireland: crew rescued by Irish Plane eight hours later. 2 June – S.S. City of Bremen (Saorstat & Continental Steam Ship Company) bombed by a Junkers Ju 88 and sunk in the Bay of Biscay: all eleven crew rescued by a Spanish fishing trawler.
Groblersdal is a farming town situated 32 km north of the 178 million m³ Loskop Dam in the Sekhukhune District of Limpopo. The town is South Africa 's second largest irrigation settlement.
Between Lough Melvin in County Leitrim and the River Erne in County Donegal, County Donegal narrows and separates the Northern Irish County Fermanagh from Donegal Bay and the Atlantic. The 7-mile (11 km) long Corridor was between Belleek and the coast beyond Ballyshannon, along the course of the River Erne. [ 1 ]
The Dutch mapmakers Petrus Plancius and C. Claesz , show an island called Rookol northwest of Ireland on their Map of New France and the Northern Atlantic Ocean (Amsterdam, c. 1594). The first literary reference to the island, which is called Rokol , is found in Martin Martin 's A Late Voyage to St. Kilda , published in 1698.
Dungarvan (Irish: Dún Garbhán, meaning 'Garbhann's Fort') is a coastal town and harbour in County Waterford, on the south-east coast of Ireland.Prior to the merger of Waterford County Council with Waterford City Council in 2014, Dungarvan was the county town and administrative centre of County Waterford.
Islandmagee is the home of the Ballylumford Dolmen.Known locally as the "Druid's Altar", this megalithic monument could date to 2500 BC (The Early Bronze Age), or be the remains of an earlier Neolithic simple passage tomb dating to c. 4000 BC.
The Spanish Armada in Ireland refers to the landfall made upon the coast of Ireland in September 1588 of a large portion of the 130-strong fleet sent by Philip II to invade England. Following its defeat at the naval battle of Gravelines , the Armada had attempted to return home through the North Atlantic , when it was driven from its course by ...