January 15

Section: January 15

January 15, 1973

Neil M. Gunn, author, died

January 15, 1961

Dave MacAuley, boxer, born

January 15, 1939

IRA Army Council declare war on England

January 15, 1920

Sinn Féin takes control of most borough and urban councils in local elections

January 15, 1861

Terence MacManus, the Young Irelander, dies in San Francisco

January 15, 1860

Eleanor Hull, Irish Celtic Scholar is born

January 15, 1835

Patrick Robert Guiney, soldier and politician, born in Parkstown, Co. Tipperary

January 15, 1800

Last session of the Irish Parliament begins

January 15, 1798

Thomas Crofton Croker, antiquarian and folklorist, is born in Cork

January 15, 1775

Thomas Dermody, classical scholar and poet is born