June

Dáil Éireann introduces internment

June 23, 1939

Salvador Dalis painting Christ of St John of the Cross went on display in Glasgows Kelvingrove Art Gallery. There was a public outcry when Dr Tom Honeyman, the then director of Glasgows museums and art galleries, spent the citys entire annual purcha

June 23, 1952

Mass protest in West of Scotland against closure of John Browns shipyard.

June 23, 1971

Robert the Bruce defeated Edward II at Battle of Bannockburn.

June 24, 1314

Bannockburn is a village immediately south of the city of Stirling in Scotland.

Death of Robin Downes. Thomas Waite writes - ‘Yesterday morning Robin Downes, member for Kildare, was found in his parlour in his house in Dawson Street with a sword run through his body. There are hopes of his recovery. He himself says ... that he receive

June 24, 1754

Rebel southern column captures Castlecomber, Co Kilkenny and camp at Slatt, in Co Laois

June 24, 1798

Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum; soldier and statesman, is born in Ballylongford, Co. Kerry

June 24, 1850

Birth of Úna Ní Fhaircheallaigh, Irish author, feminist and language activist

June 24, 1874

Birth of Forrest Reid in Belfast. He was a novelist, critic, and autobiographer. He became a distinguished book and print collector, eventually writing a definitive work on the book of illustrators of the 1860s

June 24, 1876

Crofters Holding Act passed providing limited security of tenure.

June 24, 1886

The Dublin Society for Improving Husbandry, (later to become the Royal Dublin Society on June 19, 1820), is founded on this date

June 25, 1731

Among Napoleon?s many enemies, one of the most persistent and implacable was the Breton rebel Georges Kadoudal.

The Bank of Ireland is established in Dublin, by Royal charter. It issues its first notes, and opens to the public on this date; the Irish pound is worth £12-13 sterling

June 25, 1783