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From: Pat Connors <>
Subject: [NY IRISH] June 6, 2003
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 07:21:11 -0700

from the Irish Birthday Book....

1913 Birth of Patrick Campbell, author and broadcaster, in Dublin
1800 First priests ordained at Maynooth College

(yesterday I mistakenly put Patrick Campbell 1868...should have been
Birth of James Connolly, trade unionist and patriot, in Edinburgh, sorry)

from the Irish Culture & Customs website ....

1333 - William de Burgh, earl of Ulster -'the Brown Earl'-is
assassinated by his own knights, John de Logan and two of the de
Mandevilles, at Le Ford, Belfast. The background is one of intrigue
among Norman-Irish lords: William has driven de Mandeville out of Ulster
and has starved his own kinsman, Walter de Burgh, to death at Northburgh
Castle. His death is followed by a rising of the de Mandevilles and de
Logans, allied with the Gaelic Irish of Ulster
1763 - William Simms, a founder and secretary of the United Irishmen, is
born
1790 - Edmund Butler, 11th Viscount Mountgarret and former MP for Co.
Kilkenny, fights a duel with a Counsellor Bushe during which Bushe is
seriously injured in the stomach
1798 - General Needham reaches Arklow in Co. Wexford and immediately
begins digging trenches
1798 - Rebellion breaks out in Ulster: Henry Joy McCracken issues
proclamation calling United Irishmen in Ulster to arms
1800 - Ordination of the first priests at St Patrick's College,
Maynooth. The college was founded in 1795 as the National Seminary for
Ireland
1872 - Joseph Shanahan, missionary bishop in Africa, is born near
Templederry, Co. Tipperary
1880 - Birth of William Thomas Cosgrave - Irish statesman and father of
Liam Cosgrave*. A member of Sinn Féin, he fought in the Easter Rebellion
and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Freed a year later, he was
elected to the British Parliament in 1918 but protested British rule by
refusing to take his seat. He helped organize an independent Irish
Assembly, the Dáil Éireann in 1919. Minister for local government in the
revolutionary cabinet, Cosgrave supported the 1921 treaty with Great
Britain that set up the Irish Free State. After the deaths of Arthur
Griffith and Michael Collins, he was elected president and served from
1922 to 1932. He was opposition leader of his Fine Gael, or United
Ireland Party from 1932 until his resignation in 1944
1882 - In Liverpool, Mayo native-son and hero, Michael Davitt, advocates
land nationalization in preference to peasant proprietorship
1898 - Birth of Dame Ninette de Valois, Wicklow-born founder of the
Royal Ballet
1913 - Birth in Dublin of Patrick Campbell, author and broadcaster; he
wrote sixteen books, including Life in Thin Slices, Rough Husbandry and
How to Become a Scratch Golfer (he was one himself.)
1940 - Willie John McBride, Ireland and Lions rugby captain, is born in
Toomebridge, Co. Antrim
1982 - Caitlin Maude, Irish language activist dies
In the liturgical calendar, today is the feast day of St. Jarlath, first
Abbot-Bishop of Tuam.

*Liam Cosgrave was Taoiseach from 1973 to 1977

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