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January 20th

Mon 20 Jan 1964

Alfred Chester Beatty, Irish library and art patron, died

Tue 20 Jan 1920

IRA attacks Drombrane barracks, Co. Tipperary

Thu 20 Jan 1916

Secret negotiations result in alliance of the Irish Citizen Army with the Irish Republican Brotherhood

Mon 20 Jan 1902

Kevin Barry, medical student and nationalist revolutionary, is born

Mon 20 Jan 1902

John Redmond criticizes the use of concentration camps by the British in South Africa

Wed 20 Jan 1841

James Armour, Presbyterian minister and political activist, is born

Thu 20 Jan 1746

Bonnie Prince Charlie’s troops occupy Stirling

Wed 20 Jan 1621

Patents are granted for plantations in parts of Leitrim, Kings County, Queens County and Westmeath