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December 8th

Fri 08 Dec 1939

Four senior IRA men executed by the Provisional Government are executed without trial

Fri 08 Dec 1939

Sir James Galway, born in Belfast

Fri 08 Dec 1939

Sinéad O'Connor, Irish Singer, born

Tue 08 Dec 1896

Isabella Maria Susan Tod, suffragette, died in Belfast

Thu 08 Dec 1881

Padraic Colum playwright, poet and novelist, born

Thu 08 Dec 1831

James Hoban, the Kilkenny architect who designed the White House, died

Tue 08 Dec 1542

Mary Stuart Queen of Scots born