1930 Edna O’Brien, novelist, most famous for her first, The country girls (1960), born in Tuamgraney, Co. Clare, the daughter of a farmer. 1920 Canon Thomas Magner and a local man, Tadhg Crowley, were shot dead by an Auxiliary officer in Dunmanway, West Cork. 1994 John Bruton, leader of Fine Gael, was elected taoiseach in succession ... Read more
