#OTD in 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British retired admiral Lord Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday off the coast in Co Sligo.

27/08/2019.Reading time 1 minute.

An IRA bomb kills the Queen’s cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten in Co Sligo. Mountbatten regularly holidayed in the West of Ireland. The bomb exploded on his boat some minutes after he and family friends had departed the little port of Mullaghmore. Mountbatten’s grandson Nicholas, 14, and fifteen year old local, Paul Maxwell, 15, employed as […]

#OTD in 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British retired admiral Lord Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday off the coast in Co Sligo.

27/08/2018.Reading time 1 minute.

#OTD in 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British retired admiral Lord Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday off the coast in Co Sligo.

27/08/2017.Reading time 1 minute.

Stop thinking of what could go wrong and start thinking of what could go right. #quote

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Maidin mhaith agaibh. Good morning from Stair na hÉireann. Sunrise at the beautiful, and unusually calm coastline of Mullaghmore, Co Sligo, Hibernia Landscapes by Stephen Wallace

#OTD in Irish History – 19 February:

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1366 – Statutes of Kilkenny promulgated. 1887 – Ireland wins its first ever game in international soccer beating Wales 4-1 in Belfast. Prior to 1921 and the partition of the country, Ireland was represented by one national team. 1904 – Birth of writer, Muiris Ó Suilleabhain, on the Great Blasket Island, Co Kerry. Best known […]

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. –Marcel Proust #quote

18/02/2017.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Dia daoibh ar maidin. Good morning from Stair na hÉireann. ‘Classiebawn Colour’ – Pre-dawn colour in the sky at Classiebawn Castle on the Mullaghmore peninsula, Co Sligo, Hibernia Landscapes by Stephen Wallace

1979 – Assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten off the coast of Co Sligo.

27/08/2016.Reading time 1 minute.

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

Tag: Mullaghmore

#OTD in 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British retired admiral Lord Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday off the coast in Co Sligo.

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#OTD in Irish History – 19 February:

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1979 – Assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten off the coast of Co Sligo.

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