First issue of The Nation published

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calendar 1969

The, 50 pence decimal coin was first issued, replacing the ten shilling note.

October 14, 1969

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calendar 1939

German submarine sank HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow, Orkney, with the loss of, 810 lives.

October 14, 1939

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calendar 1932

Strikes, marches and protests are held in Belfast against low unemployment payments, temporarily uniting Catholic and Protestant unemployed

October 14, 1932

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calendar 1920

Tipperary IRA man, Sean Treacy, is killed in a gun battle in Talbot Street, Dublin

October 14, 1920

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calendar 1882

Eamon de Valera, nationalist campaigner, Fianna Fáil leader, Taoiseach and president of Ireland, is born in Brooklyn, NY of a Spanish father and an Irish mother

October 14, 1882

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calendar 1881

Eyemouth Fishing Disaster, nearly, 20 boats and, 129 men (1 in, 3 of the towns male population) lost their lives in a storm.

October 14, 1881

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calendar 1880

Nationalist and Gaelic League activist, Mary Ellen Spring-Rice is born

October 14, 1880

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calendar 1814

Birth of author and patriot, Thomas Osborne Davis in Mallow, Co. Cork

October 14, 1814

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calendar 1791

Wolfe Tone visits Belfast for the first time

October 14, 1791

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calendar 1788

First steamboat tested on Dalswinton Loch by Patrick Miller and William Symington.

October 14, 1788

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calendar 1783

Edmond Sexton Pery is unanimously re-elected as Speaker of the Irish parliament

October 14, 1783

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calendar 1767

George Townshend, 4th Viscount Townshend, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

October 14, 1767