On A Clare Day Down Through History (Sept 13-19)

Features - On A Clare Day

Monday, 13 September 2010 11:41

13 Sept, 2005 – Ennis wins the National Tidy Towns Competition
14 Sept, 1647 - Lord Inchiquin, a royalist turned Parliamentarian, sacks the Irish Catholic Confederate garrison at the Rock of Cashel
15 Sept, 2001 - Aer Lingus, Delta and Continental Airlines resume services to and from Shannon following the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center
16 Sept, 1897 – Battling Siki, the man Kilnamona native Mike McTigue beat to become world boxing Champion, is born in Senegal
17 Sept, 1999 - A British Secret Intelligence Service file, released in London, sheds new light on two of Ireland's least successful German agents, who were arrested and interned shortly after they parachuted into fields in Clare in December 1943
18 Sept, 2008 - A County Clare man disrupts a Ryanair press conference. The protestor, who referred to himself as 'Rob Mac' from Lahinch, Co Clare, said that people with genuine concerns about the environment were being laughed at by Ryanair.
19 Sept, 1880 - Parnell delivers his famous speech at Ennis in which he introduces the term for non-violent protest - boycotting. Parnell asked his audience, 'What are you to do with a tenant who bids for a farm from which another has been evicted?' Several voices replied, 'shoot him!' Parnell answered: "I wish to point out a better way, a more Christian way which will give the lost man an opportunity of repenting. When a man takes a farm from which another has been evicted, you must shun him on the roadside, on the streets, in the shop and even in the place of worship by putting him in a "moral Coventry." You must show him your detestation of the crime he has committed"