1996 Mícheal Ó Hehir (76), sports commentator, journalist and ‘the voice of Gaelic games’, died. 1940 James Craig, Lord Craigavon, prime minister of Northern Ireland since 1921 and the architect of the Orange state, died. 1926 The first Fianna Fáil Árd Fheis was held. 1922 Erskine Childers (52), anti-Treaty republican, arrested a fortnight earlier and ... Read more
