#OTD in 1941 – Death of painter, Sir John Lavery, in Kilkenny.

10/01/2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

John Lavery was born in Belfast, the son of a wine and spirit merchant, but was orphaned at the age of three and for a number of unsettled years wandered between Moira, Magheralin, Saltcoats, Ayrshire and Glasgow. Finally he started working by touching up photographic negatives in Glasgow and attended evening classes at the Haldane […]

#OTD in 1856 – Birth of Sir John Lavery, an Irish painter best known for his portraits, in Belfast.

20/03/2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

#OTD in 1941 – Death of painter, Sir John Lavery, in Kilkenny.

10/01/2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

#OTD in 1856 – Birth of painter, Sir John Lavery, in Belfast.

20/03/2017.Reading time 3 minutes.

1941 – Death of painter, Sir John Lavery, in Kilkenny.

10/01/2017.Reading time 3 minutes.

1941 – Death of Belfast-born, Sir John Lavery in Kilkenny. He was an Irish painter best known for his portraits.

10/01/2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

1922 – A British intelligence report states that the Free State intelligence unit, the Crime Investigation Department or CID has, “murdered a number of prominent republicans” in Dublin.

09/09/2015.Reading time 6 minutes.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in the Irish Free State was an armed, plain-clothed counter-insurgency police unit that operated during the Irish Civil War. It was organised separately from the unarmed Civic Guard police force. The unit was formed shortly after the truce with the British (11 July 1921) and disbanded in October 1923. The […]

1922 – An IRA anti-treaty army convention announces it will no longer accept the authority of Free State Minister for Defense Richard Mulcahy.

26/03/2014.Reading time 1 minute.

Further movement to Civil War. An IRA convention is held in the Mansion House in defiance of a March 15 Dail Eireann decree. Rory O’Connor days earlier had indicated open defiance against President Arthur Griffith. At this convention the convention passed a resolution saying that the IRA “shall be maintained as the Army of the […]

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#OTD in 1941 – Death of painter, Sir John Lavery, in Kilkenny.

#OTD in 1856 – Birth of Sir John Lavery, an Irish painter best known for his portraits, in Belfast.

#OTD in 1941 – Death of painter, Sir John Lavery, in Kilkenny.

#OTD in 1856 – Birth of painter, Sir John Lavery, in Belfast.

1941 – Death of painter, Sir John Lavery, in Kilkenny.

1941 – Death of Belfast-born, Sir John Lavery in Kilkenny. He was an Irish painter best known for his portraits.

1922 – A British intelligence report states that the Free State intelligence unit, the Crime Investigation Department or CID has, “murdered a number of prominent republicans” in Dublin.

1922 – An IRA anti-treaty army convention announces it will no longer accept the authority of Free State Minister for Defense Richard Mulcahy.