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Jan 22, 1632– in Donegal, work began on ‘THE ANNALS of the FOUR MASTERS’ which is a chronicle of the history of the Irish from the earliest days.

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Jan 21, 1919 – the first shots of the Irish Civil War were fired at Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary.

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Trinity College, Ireland’s first university, opened Jan 9, 1594.

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Sean Mac Bride is the only person to have been awarded both the Nobel Peace Prize and the Lenin Peace Prize.  MacBride served in the IRA during the War of Independence (1919-21) after which he became a barrister, specializing in defending former IRA associates.  He entered Parliament in 1946 but lost his seat after opposing […]

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Nov 24, 1865- The Manchester Martyrs Larkin, O’Brien, and Allen are hanged in Manchester for their part in rescuing fellow Fenians from a police van during which a policeman was shot.  There is a monument in Tipperary to the three called “Maid of Erin.”

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Nov 23- Feast of St. Columban- a great missionary abbot who founded monastic centers in France, Switzerland and Italy.  He attacked the immoral court of the Merovingian kings, the lax local clergy and introduced to the continent the Irish penitential system, which became the basis for private confession.

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Nov 16, 1688- Ann Goody Glover was hanged as a witch by the Pilgrims in Boston.  Glover had been sent to Barbados by Cromwell as a slave.  She later went to Boston with her daughter and worked as a laundress in a wealthy home.  The fear of Catholicism led to her being branded as a […]

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Nov 5, 1922- The Irish Civil War begins following the establishment of the Irish Free State. The Free State forces, who supported the Anglo-Irish treaty, fought and defeated the republican opposition who saw the treaty as a betrayal of the Irish Republic for which they all had fought.

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Nov 2, 1920- JJ Daley was shot by a British firing squad in India for his participation in a mutiny .  Members of the Connaught Rangers decided they did not want to fight for the British because of the actions of the Black and Tans in their homeland.  These men were court-martialed and Daley was […]

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Oct 11, 1922- The Irish Constitution for the Free State is adopted.

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