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The Cleggan Bay Disaster, which occurred on 27 October 1927, was a strong gale that resulted in the deaths of 45 fishermen off the coast of County Galway. [1] [2]
The Remembrance Day bombing (also known as the Enniskillen bombing or Poppy Day massacre) [1] [2] took place on 8 November 1987 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. A Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb exploded near the town's war memorial ( cenotaph ) during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony, which was being held to ...
The following table and map show the areas in Ireland, previously designated as Cities, Boroughs, or Towns in the Local Government Act 2001. Under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, Ireland had a two-tier system of local authorities. The first tier consisted of administrative counties and county boroughs.
Various locations have claimed in the past to be the geographical centre of Ireland using various methodologies (though sometimes without any updated references or supporting academic methodology). OSI have determined that the most appropriate methodology to use currently is the one published in February 2022 and which determined the location ...
Ireland Dutch businessman who ran a factory in Limerick, Ireland, who was abducted by the Provisional IRA near his home in Castletroy on October 3, 1975. He was held in a house in Monasterevin during a two-week standoff between his kidnappers and the police, but was eventually released without incident. [210] Found alive 2 weeks 1975
A Vatican City letter to bishop Alan McGuckian said Pope Francis "implores the divine blessings of consolation and healing upon the injured, the displaced and the families coping with pain of loss". [44] [45] King Charles III sent a message expressing "heartfelt sympathy and deepest condolences" to the President of Ireland on 10 October. [46 ...
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.
20 February – The emergency Scientific Research Bureau was set up to seek alternatives to raw materials in short supply. [1]21 February – The first flight by a British Royal Air Force (RAF) flying boat took place through the "Donegal Corridor", Irish airspace between its base in Northern Ireland and the Atlantic Ocean, a concession secretly agreed by Éamon de Valera.