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From: Pat Connors <>
Subject: [NY IRISH] July 5, 2003
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 10:40:33 -0700


from the Irish Birthday book....

1790 First Irish mail coach service established
1936 Birth of Tony O'Reilly, rugby player and businessman

from the Irish Culture & Customs website....

1790 - The Irish mail coach makes its first run from Dublin to Waterford
1798 - Rebels break camp and march north. They collide with a government
force led by General Duff. They retreat south and turn to fight Duff at
Ballygullen, near Craanford. The battle is indecisive but with three
other Government columns converging on them, the rebels divide into two
columns and retreat south. The smaller column moves west and into the
hills near Carnew. It eventually makes its way to Glenmalure where it
joins up with a group of Wicklow rebels. The main column retreats south
to Carrigrew; that evening it marches north and camps in the Wicklow
Mountains
1812 - Frederick Maning, judge and writer among the Maori, is born in
Johnville, Co. Dublin
1828 - Daniel OConnell wins the Clare election
1838 - The Board of Trinity College decrees the establishment of a Chair
of Irish
1936 - Brendan Halligan, economist, Labour politician and Europhile, is
born in Dublin
1950 - Veronica Guerin, crime journalist, is born in Dublin
1993 - U2 releases "Zooropa" worldwide, except in North America which
will get the album a day later
1998 - All bus services in Belfast are suspended as riots spread across
the city
2000 - Storms cause tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage and
leave thousands of homes without power
2001 - A two-year project to transcribe the official records of Dáil
debates since 1919 is completed; the entire archive is available at
Ireland Gov <http://www.irlgov.ie/oireachtas>;.
2002 - A new EU survey shows that electricity costs for the Irish
consumer are among the cheapest in Europe, but gas users are paying some
of the highest rates
2002 - Over ¬2 billion is wiped off the value of companies on the Irish
stock exchange as markets around the world continue to see sharp falls
amid concerns about improper accounting standards.
http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com

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