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From: Pat Connors <>
Subject: [NY IRISH] November 9
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 07:48:14 -0800

from the Irish Birthday Book....

1976 Patrick Hillery becomes the 6th President of the Republic of Ireland

from the Irish Culture and Customs website...

November 9
1711 - The first Irish parliament of Queen Anne is dissolved
1791 - Napper Tandy convenes the first meeting of Dublin's United Irishmen
1875 - Sir Hugh Lane, art collector and critic, is born in Ballybrack,
Co. Cork
1926 - Birth in Dublin of Hugh Leonard, pseudonym of John Keyes Byrne,
playwright
1935 - Nineteen Donegal islanders are drowned when their currach founders
1966 - Jack Lynch becomes leader of Fianna Fáil
1999 - Ireland’s most accomplished mountaineer, Pat Falvey, conquers Ama
Dablam in the Himalayas
2000 - The largest prison outside Dublin, the Midlands Prison in
Portlaoise, goes into operation. It was built at a cost of £43m and
boasts the most advanced technology and the highest standards of
prisoner accommodation in the State
2000 - Martin McGuinness accuses David Trimble and Ulster Unionist
cabinet colleagues of jeopardising the Good Friday Agreement’s political
institutions with their ban in a bid to force progress on IRA disarmament.

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