Tuesday, February 05, 1811 Maurice Lenihan, journalist and historian, is born in Waterford
Saturday, February 05, 1820 Death of William Drennan; physician, poet, educator and political radical, he was one of the chief architects of the Society of United Irishmen. He is also known as the first to refer in print to Ireland as "the Emerald Isle". Burial takes place in Clifton Street burial-ground in Belfast and, according to his will and with deliberate symbolism, his coffin is borne to the grave by three Catholics and three Protestants
Thursday, February 05, 1880 The Irish Rugby Football Union is founded in Dublin
Saturday, February 05, 1921 Speaking to American journalists, De Valera says that “The so-called Ulster difficulty is purely artificial as far as Ireland itself is concerned. It is an accident arising out of the British connection and will disappear with it. If it arose from a genuine desire of the people of the North East for autonomy, the solution proposed would be the obvious one. But it is not due to such a desire – it has arisen purely as a product of British Party manoeuvring.”
Saturday, February 05, 1921 James 'Skankers' Ryan is executed by the IRA in Dublin - he is believed by then to have informed on McKee and Clancy on the eve of Bloody Sunday.
Saturday, February 05, 1921 De Valera and Devlin meet to discuss possible co-operation between Sin Fein and the nationalists on the forthcoming elections to the Northern parliament. Various options were discussed but no decisions arrived at. Negotiations were continued between both parties.
Friday, February 05, 1960 The Gael-Linn film Mise Éire - I am Ireland - with music by Seán Ó Reada, has its first public showing
Sunday, February 05, 1961 The Sunday Telegraph begins publication
Sunday, February 05, 1967 The Musicians' Union bans the Rolling Stones's Let's Spend The Night Together from Eamonn Andrews' television show
Monday, February 05, 1968 It is announced that the Ulster Democratic Party, which was suspended from the Northern talks in the wake of Ulster Freedom Fighters-orchestrated sectarian killings, will not be granted a reprieve in time for the upcoming Dublin Castle negotiations
Thursday, February 05, 1981 In a statement Republican prisoners warned that there could be further hunger strikes if they were not granted special category status
Wednesday, February 05, 1992 Five Catholic civilians killed by Protestant terrorists in betting shop, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Monday, February 05, 2001 Extra British troops are deployed in an attempt to prevent further loyalist pipe bomb attacks on Catholic homes in north Belfast
Wednesday, February 05, 2003 A 120-strong 12th Infantry Battalion from Sarsfield Barracks is sent to Shannon to beef up security at the airport. The troops will remain until the threat of further attacks on military planes abates
Wednesday, February 05, 2003 The trial of three Irishmen charged with training members of the FARC guerilla movement resumes in Bogota, Columbia.
Sunday, February 05, 2006 Former Bishop of Galway Eamonn Casey returns to Ireland after 14 years in exile. The cleric fled the country after he admitted to fathering his son, Peter.
 

 


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