On A Clare Day Down Through History (Aug 23-29)

Features - On A Clare Day

Monday, 23 August 2010 16:24

August 23, 1887 - The Land Act gives courts the power to revise and fix rents
August 23, 1912 - Birth of Irish American actor Gene Kelly, whose grandparents hailed from Clare
August 23, 1999 - Bus Éireann announces a luxury Expressway coach hourly daily service from Limerick to Dublin
August 23, 1996 - An electrical storm over Shannon Airport temporarily knocks out primary and secondary radar and causes a blackout for a short time in pockets around the airport. Flight operations are not affected.
August 24, 2007 - Fianna Fáil TD Dara Calleary calls on the Government to buy the Aer Lingus slots at Heathrow airport which are currently on lease to other airlines, and to allocate them to west of Ireland airports
August 25, 1170 - Richard de Clare (Strongbow) marries MacMurrough's daughter Aoife, as part of an agreement made two years earlier
August 26, 1921 - Re-election of Éamon de Valera President of Dáil Éireann. He is proposed and seconded by Commandant Sean MacEoin and General Richard Mulcahy — both of whom later line up against him in the Civil War
August 27, 1914 – Newmarket-on-Fergus native Private John Cunneen, 2nd Bn., Royal Munster Fusiliers is killed in action at Etreux, France. Click here for more.
August 29, 1690 – The Williamite siege of Limerick lifted
August 29, 1975 - Death of Eamon de Valera