Friday, February 07, 1873 |
Death in Dublin of Joseph Sheridan LeFanu. Journalist, novelist, and short story writer, he is often called the father of the modern ghost story. Although Le Fanu was one of the most popular writers of the Victorian era, he is not so widely read anymore. His best-known works include Uncle Silas (1864), a suspense story, and The House by the Churchyard (1863), a murder mystery. His vampire story 'Carmilla,' which influenced Bram Stoker's Dracula, has been filmed several times |
Sunday, February 07, 1875 |
Sir Alfred Chester Beatty, mining engineer, philanthropist, art collector and the first honorary citizen of Ireland, is born in New York |
Wednesday, February 07, 1877 |
John O'Mahony, founder of the Fenian Brotherhood in US, dies in New York |
Wednesday, February 07, 1940 |
Birth of Harold McCusker, unionist politician, in Lurgan, Co. Armagh |
Saturday, February 07, 1959 |
Birth of Mick McCarthy, Barnsley, Manchester City, Celtic, Olympic Lyonnais, Millwall and Republic of Ireland footballer; Millwall and Republic of Ireland manager |
Saturday, February 07, 1981 |
Commandeering a pilot launch, seven masked IRA members board a British coal ship Nelly M off the coast of Donegal and, forcing its crew into life rafts, set off several explosions with the purpose of submerging the ship. |
Thursday, February 07, 1991 |
The IRA fires at least three mortar bombs at 10 Downing Street; they fail to detonate |
Saturday, February 07, 1998 |
A burst of Dear Old Skibbereen shatters the stillness as GAA star Michael McCarthy is laid to rest in his West Cork hometown |
Sunday, February 07, 1999 |
Two Irish soldiers are hospitalized after being hit by shrapnel from a heavy 120 mm mortar explosion in crossfire between the Southern Lebanese Army and Hizbollah guerrillas |
Sunday, February 07, 1999 |
The British Government urges David Trimble and Gerry Adams to agree to some sort of compromise in a bid to end the paramilitary disarmament deadlock |
Wednesday, February 07, 2001 |
More than 3,500 passengers are affected by the cabin crew pay strike at Shannon Airport |
Thursday, February 07, 2002 |
One elderly woman, in line at St Patrick's Church in Ringsend, Dublin for a €1,000 cheque for flood damage, had all her possessions with her - in just one bag. She is just one of hundreds of homeowners who benefit after the Archdiocese of Dublin donates hundreds of €1,000 cheques to victims of the recent flooding in the city |
Thursday, February 07, 2002 |
Northern Secretary Paul Murphy says he is hopeful the Executive in the North will be up and running again by March 17 once a series of intense roundtable talks are completed. |
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