* 1995 – U. S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.

* 1798 – French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.

* 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland.

* 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

* 1971 – The Troubles: The British security forces in Northern Ireland launch Operation Demetrius.

* 1879 – John Ireland, English composer ( d. 1962 )

* 1922 – Six Irish Catholic civilians are shot and beaten-to-death by a gang of policemen in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

* 1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

* 1980 – Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in the Republic of Ireland

* 1980 – The Central Hotel Fire occurs in Bundoran, Ireland.

* 1916 – Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.

* 1969 – Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.

* 1998 – Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles

* 1969 – Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.

* 1504 – In Ireland, the Hiberno-Norman de Burghs ( Burkes ) and Anglo-Norman Fitzgeralds fight in the Battle of Knockdoe.

* 1879 – The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears at Knock Shrine in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.

* 1882 – Seán T. O ' Kelly, Irish politician, 2nd President of Ireland ( d. 1966 )

* 1742 – George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.

* 1984 – Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer

* 1661 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.

Anne's father, Patrick Brontë ( 1777 – 1861 ), was born in a two-room cottage in Emdale, Loughbrickland, County Down, Ireland.

During the turn of the 20th century British Israelites carried out some excavations of the Hill of Tara in Ireland looking for the Ark of the Covenant – the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland campaigned successfully to have them stopped before they destroyed the hill.

* 1958 – Denis O ' Brien, Irish businessman, founded BT Ireland

Another controversy typical of the war between the Englishman and the Examiner centered on Robert ( later Viscount ) Molesworth, a Whig leader in Ireland and a member of the Irish Privy Council.

* 19 801-Calls to other parts of the Republic of Ireland, Irish mobile numbers and to landlines in Northern Ireland.

The Irish Free State, whose consent to the Abdication Act was also required, neither gave it nor allowed the British legislation to take effect in the Free State's jurisdiction ; instead, the Irish parliament passed its own Act — the Executive Authority ( External Relations ) Act — the day after the Declaration of Abdication Act took force elsewhere, meaning Edward VIII, for one day, remained King of Ireland while George VI was king of all the other realms.

However, the presence of a vigorous population of Celtic lineage, principally of Irish origin, has supported the creation of other celebrations of beer, often for marketing purposes, such as Saint Patrick's Day ( Día de San Patricio ), patron of Ireland, which is celebrated with abundant libations.

* 1916 – Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.

* 1951 – Enda Kenny, Irish politician, Taoiseach of Ireland

In Ireland the oath was imposed of state office holders, teachers and lawyers, and on clergy of the established church in from 1703, the following year it was on all Irish voters and from 1709 it can be demanded from any adult male by a magistrate.

* Atheist Ireland, an association of Irish atheists

The British and Irish Lions ( formerly known as the British Isles and the British Lions ) is a rugby union team made up of players from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

To avoid the ambiguity of the term British, and to more emphatically associate the team's identity with both the United Kingdom and Ireland, from the 2001 tour of Australia the name British and Irish Lions has been used.

On the 1930 tour a delegation led by the Irish lock George Beamish expressed their displeasure at the fact that whilst the blue of Scotland, white of England and red of Wales were represented in the strip there was no green for Ireland.

Regarding Ireland the major Liberal achievements were land reform, where he ended centuries of landlord oppression ), the disestablishment of the ( Anglican ) Church of Ireland through the Irish Church Act 1869.

Among the consequences of the Third Reform Act ( 1884 – 85 ) was the giving of the vote to the Catholic peasants in Ireland, and the consequent creation of an Irish Parliamentary Party led by Charles Stewart Parnell.

There are records of several prophets believed to be incarnate banshees attending the great houses of Ireland and the courts of local Irish kings.

This comb detail is also related to the centuries-old traditional romantic Irish story that, if you ever see a comb lying on the ground in Ireland, you must never pick it up, or the banshees ( or mermaids — stories vary ), having placed it there to lure unsuspecting humans, will spirit such gullible humans away.

While the crew spent six weeks shooting on location in Scotland, the major battle scenes were shot in the Republic of Ireland using members of the Irish Army Reserve as extras.

Disraeli's proposal to extend the tax to Ireland gained him further enemies, and he was also hampered by an unexpected increase in defence expenditure, which was forced on him by Derby and Sir John Pakington ( Secretary of State for War and the Colonies ) ( leading to his celebrated remark to John Bright about the " damned defences ").

* Prime Minister Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland )

* Golden Fleece-won 1982 Epsom Derby, undefeated Champion Three-Year-Old Colt in England & Ireland

The Earl of Derby was executed, while the other English prisoners were conscripted into the New Model Army and sent to Ireland.

He was created a Peer of Ireland as Baron Curzon of Kedleston, in the County of Derby, on his appointment.

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Tyrnavos

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Troy

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Shirley Heights

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Malacate

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Grundy

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by English Prince

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes – Weaver's Hall

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Steel Pulse

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Irish Ball

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Nijinsky II

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Grey Swallow

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Shergar

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Galileo

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by High Chaparral

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Montjeu

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes – Dream Well

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Desert King

* Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Zagreb