#OTD in 1872 – The first horse drawn tram cars enter service in Belfast.

28/08/2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

Belfast’s first trams operated in 1872 and were horse-drawn. Initially, the system was owned and operated by the Belfast Street Tramways Company. It was purchased by the Belfast Corporation on 1 January 1905 and electrified, using overhead wires, in 1905. Belfast’s electric trams were originally painted red and white. Some older, unmodernised trams retained this livery until the […]

#OTD in Irish History | 28 August:

28/08/2023.Reading time 5 minutes.

1710 – A board of trustees for linen manufacture is established. 1788 – Birth of poet, Sir Aubrey de Vere, in Adare, Co Limerick. 1788 – Birth of banker and philanthropist, James Digges La Touche, in Dublin. 1798 – Cornwallis reaches Athlone; Humbert entrenches in Castlebar. 1814 – Birth of novelist and journalist, Joseph Sheridan […]

#OTD in Irish History | 27 August:

27/08/2023.Reading time 13 minutes.

1695 – The second Irish parliament of William III is called in Dublin; Robert Rochfort is unanimously elected Speaker. 1798 – General Humbert appears outside Castlebar. The Government forces are deployed to cover the direct route and Humbert unexpectedly appears on their flank. Humbert attacks. French advance causes Militia to run. Government defence collapses and […]

#OTD in 1725 – Five Dublin children receive the first recorded smallpox inoculations in Ireland.

26/08/2023.Reading time 3 minutes.

Smallpox is an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus, a member of the orthopoxvirus family. It was one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity and caused millions of deaths before it was eradicated. It is believed to have existed for at least 3000 years. The name ‘smallpox’ was coined in […]

#OTD in Irish History | 26 August:

26/08/2023.Reading time 9 minutes.

1725 – Five Dublin children receive the first recorded smallpox inoculations in Ireland. 1798 – General Humbert leaves Ballina bound for Castlebar. He takes an indirect route through the mountains. 1811 – Death of Thomas Fitzsimons. He was an American merchant and statesman of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress, the Constitutional […]

#OTD in 1764 – Birth of United Irishmen Leader, James Hope, in Templepatrick, Co Antrim.

25/08/2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

James “Jemmy” Hope fought in the 1798 and 1803 rebellions against British rule in Ireland and born to a Presbyterian family originally of Covenanter stock. He was apprenticed as a linen weaver but attended night school in his spare time. Influenced by the American Revolution, he joined the Irish Volunteers, but upon the demise of […]

#OTD in Irish History | 25 August:

25/08/2023.Reading time 8 minutes.

1645 – Edward Worcester, Earl of Glamorgan; aristocrat and inventor, is sent to Ireland to raise troops for the king, and makes two secret treaties with the confederates on this date and on 20 December. 1764 – Birth of James Hope. He was a United Irishmen leader who fought in the 1798 and 1803 rebellions […]

#OTD in 1210 – King John sails from Dublin for England.

24/08/2023.Reading time 3 minutes.

He had landed at Waterford in June and campaigned in Leinster; after a short siege, he captures Carrickfergus, where the de Lacys have made a stand. On 28 July he captures William de Braose and confiscates his lands. Hugh and Walter de Lacy, lords of Ulster and Meath, forfeit their lands but escape to Scotland. […]

#OTD in Irish History | 24 August:

24/08/2023.Reading time 9 minutes.

In the Liturgical calendar it is the Feast Day of Abbán moccu Corbmaic, also Eibbán or Moabba, a saint in Irish tradition. He was associated, first and foremost, with Mag Arnaide (Moyarney or Adamstown, near New Ross, Co Wexford) and with Cell Abbáin (Killabban, Co Laois). His cult was, however, also connected to other churches […]

#OTD in 1170 – Richard de Clare (Strongbow), a henchman of Henry II, arrives in Waterford at the behest of Dermot McMurrough, an event described in the Annals of Ulster as “the beginning of the woes of Ireland”.

23/08/2023.Reading time 5 minutes.

Richard, the son of Gilbert de Clare, was born in about 1130. His mother was Elizabeth, the daughter of Robert de Beaumont, the Earl of Leicester. In 1138 King Stephen created Gilbert the first Earl of Pembroke. On the death of his father in 1148, Richard became the 2nd Earl of Pembroke. In 1169, Dermot MacMurrough, the […]

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#OTD in 1764 – Birth of United Irishmen Leader, James Hope, in Templepatrick, Co Antrim.

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#OTD in 1210 – King John sails from Dublin for England.

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