On A Clare Day Down Through History - August 16-22

Features - On A Clare Day

Sunday, 15 August 2010 19:57

August 16, 1793 - The Convention Act bans representative bodies set up to campaign for a change in the law, i.e. putative rivals to the parliament August 16, 1832 - An Act is passed which allows for tithe payments to be commuted
August 16, 2007 - County Clare is the central theme of the Milwaukee Irish Fest in Wisconsin
August 17, 1999 - Junior doctors threaten a period of industrial action
August 17, 1996 - Cocaine found on a Colombian ship which docked in Kilrush is proved yo be about 75 per cent pure
August 18, 2000 - Thousands flock to Kilrush for the 40th anniversary of Ireland's only concertina-based festival which is held every year in memory of Elizabeth Crotty
August 19, 1839 - Act passed for the "improvement of navigation on the Shannon"
August 20, 2003 - US group SPS Technologies, which employs 550 people in Shannon, is sold to the American multinational, Precision Castparts Corporation (PCC).

August 20, 1882 – Ennis man Francis Hynes, charged with murdering John Doolaghty, goes on trial at the Commission Court, Dublin
August 21, 2003 - It is announced that Fr Tommy Flynn, a Colomban missionary who was murdered in the Philippines over 50 years ago is to be reburied in his native Co Clare
August 22, 2002 - Homeless Travellers in Ennis step up their dispute with the local authorities and establish an illegal halting site on the grounds of Clare County Council's proposed new €33 million headquarters.