February 23

1821 John Keats (25), English Romantic poet, died from tuberculosis in Rome. 1943 Thirty-six orphan girls in the care of the nuns of the Poor Clare Order died in a fire at St Joseph’s Orphanage in Cavan town. None of the nuns lost their lives. A subsequent tribunal blamed inadequate fire drill, too many locked ... Read more

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